Ryan Freng

Update: The video is now on their website! Neat. My wife is amazing. She makes wedding gowns. Beautiful gowns that people love. She was recently invited to provide the gowns for a few photo shoots. Commonly wedding photographers, planners, caterers, florists, etc. come together to put on a wedding photo shoot to advertise their services. […]

Backflip Films second generation (Ryan’s daughters and John’s son) were in a photoshoot for Three Cheers Creative. We couldn’t pass up the opportunity so we brought our camera along and filmed it. We ended up with just enough footage to fit into a short video.

  We purchased a Wacom tablet this afternoon to streamline our storyboarding process a bit more. I was really excited to test it out but ended up having to scrap a half hour of work because I made a few mistakes. Here they are, learn from them: read the script – i thought i had […]

Backflip Films’ second generation (Ryan’s daughters and John’s son) were in a photoshoot for Three Cheers Creative. We couldn’t pass up the opportunity so we brought our camera along and filmed it. We ended up with just enough footage to fit into a short video. You can also read more details over at Ryan’s website.

I was notified by Twitter just before 7:00pm that Steve Jobs had passed away. Whether Apple Fanboy, or Google Gearhead, Steve Jobs has touched each and every one of our lives. He brought computing into the home and made it fashionable. Computers and mobile devices, whether they’re from Microsoft, Google, Apple, or elsewhere are what […]

This video was produced for St. Paul’s University Catholic Center on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus. It shares the personal stories of students past and present in order to tell an emotional story. This was shot entirely in downtown Madison, at St. Paul’s and around the campus.

We’re getting around to renewing old accounts and signing up for new things. One of these new things we signed up for was The Wisconsin Production Guide aka badgerguide. It’s a great centralized location to find freelancers and production companies for whatever your working on. The best part is (because we had the foresight to […]

With a DSLR or any other digital video camera you can lose a lot of the detail in a shot if you are not careful.  By default some cameras, like the Canon XH A1, have an image that is a bit washed out.  The Canon 5D Mark II, on the other hand, has a default […]

We followed our own advice and bought a new Canon 5D Mark II.  It was hard to get our hands on a new one because of the electronics shortage (due to the earthquake in Japan).  I finally found one on ebay at the right price and was able to get it in time for a […]

This is our freshly minted demo reel. When assessing our marketing and advertising we realized our demo was in desperate need of an update.

Everything on our demo was shot and edited by us. We’ve had so many great projects to include but we wanted to keep it short. If a company can’t hook you in the first minute of their reel then maybe they’re not a company you want to work with 😉

This is actually a shorter version. We’ll have a longer version once the music is reworked. Scenes from: 1934, Missing, Haiti Music Video, Wide Awake Conference Videos, Flatt Cola spot.