Musings

A great article here describes the danger of customer engagement on your website if your video buffers. The important part: A new study by Ramesh Sitaraman, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Shunmuga Krishnan, of Akamai finds that the exact amount of time before viewers begin to abandon online video as a result […]

I’ve been in and out of the office this week with a cold. Naturally part of resting and recovering at home is watching movies. This time around I only watched one: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, and I had a blast. Perhaps it was my cough-medicine-induced haze, but i thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Here’s why I […]

In 2003, Shia LaBeouf landed himself in a desert juvenile detention center for stealing some sneakers. (Holes) Nine years later, the law is after him again for bootlegging. (Lawless) Has he learned nothing? Kidding aside, what are your thoughts on the direction he has taken his acting career? Is the lawless transformer wrangler more appealing […]

The New Year and the new developments on the horizon for Backflip Films inspired me to dig through some of our old logo designs this afternoon. I suppose the nostalgia that I feel won’t be shared by those of you that haven’t known our company as long, but I hope you enjoy this glimpse back […]

  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 […]

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 […]

You’ve heard it said that “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Well at 24 frames per second, a 4 minute video contains 5760 pictures. Multiply THAT by one thousand! Really, what I mean to say is this: All of that beauty, emotion, and extra meaning that can be captured in a picture can also […]

UPDATE Petey Boy’s viral video was played this morning on the Today Show as part of their “Webtastic” video segment. Well done yet again! Our friend Peter “Petey Boy” Simon created this great reverse stop motion of his friend Tom shaving off his beard and hair. Trim from Petey Boy on Vimeo. If the video […]

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 […]

Update 12/12/12: We bought a 5d and equipment in July of 2011. We love it and have been shooting exclusively with it for a year and a half. Occasionally we’ll bring along a 7D or the XHA1. Check out our portfolio to see what the camera can do. The purpose of this guide is TO […]