Author: Gethin Moreau

Nearly every problem people try to solve with a purchase is a problem of light, distance or patience. I write about where to put the camera and why, how to cover a scene so it can actually be cut, what a colourist can and cannot rescue, and which piece of equipment genuinely changes the work — a short list. I will name gear when it matters, with the caveat that I have shot better material on worse cameras than the one you are saving up for.

Why 24 Frames Looks Like Film and 60 Looks Like News

January 8, 2026August 26, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent three hours last Tuesday watching a kid on YouTube argue that a 120fps sensor was the “secret sauce” for cinematic storytelling. It’s the same old song: people treat frame rates like a magic button you press to buy emotion, when in reality, they’re just looking at a spec sheet to avoid making a…

Video

Planning a Shoot Around the Hours You Actually Have

January 7, 2026August 26, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent three hours last Tuesday watching a kid on a YouTube tutorial explain how to plan a shoot by walking through a checklist of the latest $40,000 sensor upgrades and wireless follow-focus systems. It was exhausting. He made it sound like if you just buy enough glass and high-bitrate codecs, the story will somehow…

Filmmaking

Shooting 4k for a Video Nobody Watches Above 1080

January 6, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent three hours last Tuesday watching a kid in a rental house argue with a technician about whether an 8K sensor would “fix” the muddy, underexposed footage he’d shot the week before. It’s the same song and dance every year: people treat resolution like a magic wand that can scrub away bad decisions. They…

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The Stages of an Edit and Why Skipping One Hurts

January 5, 2026August 26, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent three weeks on a documentary in the Hebrides once, shivering in a damp van, only to realize that the “perfect” sequence wasn’t hidden in some fancy plugin or a complex rhythmic montage technique. It was hidden in the way I’d failed to think about the space between the shots while I was still…

Editing

The Complete Guide to Planning a Shoot

January 3, 2026September 2, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I once spent four hours on a documentary set in a damp basement in Leeds, watching a kid half my age stare at a $50,000 sensor readout like it was going to tell him how to fix a muddy, flat image. He had the most expensive kit in the county, but he hadn’t even looked…

Guides

Choosing a Camera by What You Shoot, Not What You Read

January 1, 2026August 26, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent three weeks on a documentary in the Highlands last year, working with a kit that had half the dynamic range of the latest flagship sensor, and I still walked away with better images than the kid I saw last month using a $50,000 rig in a studio with nothing but overhead fluorescent lights….

Cameras