A Year in Review: Protecting, Planning, and Collaborating
Reflect on a year of insights with our 2024 blog recap, featuring essential strategies to help you prepare for what's next.
A Simple Guide to Vetting and Choosing Production Partners
Tips for navigating the vetting process to ensure you connect with the right production partners.
Are You In The Clear? Understanding Clearances in Media Production
Why media clearances matter in production, and how a better understanding can protect your work.
Seeing Double: Tips for Shooting Photo and Video Together
Navigate the challenges of hybrid production with key insights on shooting photo and video together.
Blurred Lines: Clearing Up Common Crew Overlaps
Understanding who’s who on set by breaking down common crew overlaps.
Protecting Your IP During Client Proposals
Effective ways to protect your IP during the early stages of client interaction and bidding.
Festival or Award Competition: Which Is Right For Your Work?
How to know if a festival or award competition is your film's ideal stage.
Quick Tips to Boost Your Business in the New Year
Self-promotion strategies to level up your video production game in 2024.
Tech & Tools to Make Video Production Easier
Production tech and tools recommended to help make video production easier.
3 Ways to Improve Disability Representation on Set
How fostering an inclusive environment improves disability representation and encourages more authentic filmmaking.
5 Tips to Tackle that Passion Project
Learn what defines a passion project and how you can ensure yours makes it across the finish line.
5 Things to Keep in Mind When Dressing a Set
Why set dressing is critical to your production and which elements should guide your efforts.
Getting the Docustyle Look is Harder Than you Think
Unpacking some of the challenges when filming documentary-style videos.
The Importance of Being Evergreen
Keep footage feeling fresh long past its creation date with this simple guide to evergreen video content.
Top Video Production Studios in the Bay Area
Need some space? Kraken Cove rounds up four of its favorite video production studios in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“What Should Clients Know About Video Production?”
Learn how explaining the complexities of video production can help manage client expectations and create more positive working relationships.
“Say Something! Building a Strong Brand Identity”
Why getting back to basics can be the key to unlocking a stronger brand identity.
“Talent tips: Casting and Licensing 101”
Three talent agents and one casting director share the important steps producers and filmmakers should take when casting and licensing talent.
“Fix It In Post” vs “Fix It Now”
Four video editors weigh in on what “fix it in post” means to them, and offer some feedback on how planning ahead can improve post-production workflow.
Voices from the Cove: Jason Joseffer
Jason discusses the pros and cons of handheld shooting, and describes his experience using the new ZeeGee stabilizer.