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.

Stop Looking for Beautiful Rooms and Start Mastering the Process of Location Scouting for Movies: How to Find the Light, the Distance, and the Coverage You Actually Need.

August 12, 2026August 25, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I once spent six hours in a drafty, derelict warehouse in South Wales, convinced I’d found the perfect “cinematic” location for a low-budget thriller. I was so enamored with the peeling paint and the grit that I completely ignored the fact that the only window was facing north and the electrical mains were held together…

Filmmaking

Stop Buying More Thesauruses and Learn How to Improve Sentence Structure and Flow by Mastering the Rhythm of the Read.

August 12, 2026September 22, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I remember sitting in a dimly lit edit suite back in ’98, staring at a sequence that felt technically perfect but was emotionally dead. I had the right focal lengths, the sharpest glass, and a lighting setup that would have made a textbook weep, but the rhythm was all wrong. It’s the same mistake people…

Editing

Stop Buying Features You Don’t Need: a Beginner Guide to Video Editing Software for People Who Actually Want to Tell Stories.

August 12, 2026September 1, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent a good chunk of the nineties sitting in dark suites, nursing lukewarm coffee and watching editors struggle with hardware that had less processing power than your current toaster. Back then, if you wanted to cut a sequence, you didn’t browse a curated list of “top ten” YouTube influencers; you learned the machine or…

Video

Stop Saving for a Better Sensor and Start Mastering These Essential Lighting Techniques for Indie Filmmakers.

August 12, 2026September 22, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent most of my twenties watching kids walk into a room with a brand-new camera and a massive credit card debt, thinking they could buy their way out of a bad setup. They’d spend three hours arguing over the dynamic range of a new sensor while the sun was literally setting outside the window….

Filmmaking

Wireless Audio and the Interference Nobody Predicts

August 11, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I remember standing in a damp, drafty warehouse in South Wales, watching a producer stare in horror at a waveform that looked like a flatline. We had spent three hours setting up a beautiful, high-contrast lighting scheme, only to have the entire take ruined because a cheap transmitter decided to lose its mind the moment…

Cameras

Cutting Music So It Ends Where You Need It

August 11, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I remember sitting in a dark edit suite ten years ago, watching a director try to “fix” a mediocre sequence by layering a massive, swelling orchestral score over shots that had absolutely no rhythmic soul. He thought the music would do the heavy lifting, but all it did was make the whole thing feel exhausting….

Editing

A Shot List Ordered by What You Cannot Lose

August 10, 2026September 2, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I remember a shoot in a cramped studio in South London, twenty years ago, where the producer spent three hours arguing about which high-speed sensor we were using, while I sat there staring at a blank piece of paper. We had the best gear money could buy, but because nobody had actually sat down to…

Filmmaking

The Complete Guide to Live Streaming

August 8, 2026August 19, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent three weeks on a documentary in the Highlands once, working with a lighting kit that weighed more than the crew, only to realize the sun had done 90% of the heavy lifting for free. Nowadays, when I see people searching for a complete guide to live streaming, they aren’t looking for advice on…

Guides

Syncing Without Timecode, Reliably

August 7, 2026August 19, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I remember sitting in a dark edit suite at three in the morning, staring at a timeline where the audio and video were drifting apart like two ships in a fog, and realizing I’d spent six hours trying to fix a disaster that could have been prevented with ten minutes of discipline. People love to…

Video

A Treatment That Sells Without Overpromising

August 5, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent a decade watching people mistake a pile of expensive adjectives for a coherent plan. I’ve sat in production meetings where someone spent forty minutes describing the “ethereal, cinematic quality” of a scene, only to realize they hadn’t a clue how to actually move the camera or where the light was coming from. If…

Filmmaking