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.
Blurred Lines: Clearing Up Common Crew Overlaps
Understanding who’s who on set by breaking down common crew overlaps.
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.
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.
Preparing for on-location shoots
Check out this helpful checklist of scouting questions and must-have items to ensure your on-location shoot goes as smoothly as possible.
An Introverted Entrepreneur’s Guide to Community Building
Traditional networking can be daunting for introverts, but it’s not the only way to make professional connections or build a community.
how to calculate film pay hours
Production payroll can be confusing. Learn how to accurately calculate film pay hours and protect yourself with helpful resources.
Four tips for working with children on set
Working with children on set can be challenging. Before you jump in, here are some practical tips to keep production moving.
Five Ways to Make Sets More Environmentally-Friendly
Explaining five things we do on every set to help try and be more sustainable.
Three Things I've Learned During COVID
Discussing some of the wild times in early COVID and a few lessons I will carry forward in years to come.
Kraken Cove Productions: What's in a Name?
Sit back for a moment, sip your coffee, and enjoy my origin story.