Steven Gladstone is a New York-based filmmaker who has worked in the industry for more than 20 years as an animation/motion control cameraman, gaffer, camera assistant, D.P., and director. He spent a year and a half videotaping Holocaust survivors for the Survivors of the Shoah project and has a Master of Communication Arts degree. When he isn't working at B&H, he pursues personal filmmaking projects and spends time with his children. His personal website is www.gladstonefilms.com.
Steven Gladstone
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You’ve shot, edited, and finished your film. You’ve sent it off to the festival circuit, and you’ve been getting accepted. Congratulations. And yet, each festival is asking you for promotional material, on-set stills or behind the scenes (BTS) video. Sadly, all you have is a picture or two from just before you started shooting, and one that the crew sent around—of you, passed out from exhaustion…
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If you are gearing up to shoot your film, video, webisode, or pretty much any production, don’t forget to take on-set photographs and BTS video. This is something I’m sure you have heard before, but it is one of those things everyone knows, but doesn’t do. In the following two articles, I ask about the value of on-set photos and BTS video, from the perspective of a producer, and then from the…
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In this segment of Show Us Your Shot, Michael Epstein and Sophia Cacciola share with us their technique for creating a dreamlike driving shot with a stationary car, shooting high speed on the film, Clickbait.
“Clickbait is a modern, giallo-inspired horror, dark comedy film about the costs of seeking notoriety. A college student who will do just about anything for Internet fame is kidnapped by a…
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Lifting someone by the neck may look easy in the movies—you just need an actor who is ridiculously strong. But in the real world, where you don’t want to hurt the actor who is being lifted, it takes some smart camerawork and nifty editing to make it look convincing. In this segment of Show Us Your Shot, PJ Woodside and Steve Hudgins of Big Biting…
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The Pro Video Team at B&H would like to announce the CINEGEARS Ghost-Eye Wireless HDMI & SDI Video Transmission Kit 500M. CINEGEARS is known for professional-level equipment designed to stand up to the rigors of production life, and its Ghost-Eye Wireless HDMI & SDI Video…
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Monitors are flawed. They display limited color space, usually sRGB (although newer ones can display a wider color gamut), they age and change over time, and different backlight technologies will affect how the images are displayed. Let us not forget that the viewing conditions make a big difference in how we perceive, and need to be considered. For text, this isn't important, but for the visual…
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Roland has packaged its well-known V-02HD video mixer with two different BOSS foot pedals, creating bundles that expand its functionality, and makes live production with two cameras and only one operator a possibility. The mixer allows you to switch seamlessly from two different HDMI sources. Designed and built to be a portable switching solution, the built-in scalers provide professional results…
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I recently had the opportunity to work with the SmallHD 5.5" FOCUS OLED On-Camera Monitor for HDMI. What you need to know is swipe left, swipe right, swipe up, and swipe down. It takes a little time to figure it out—at first I was swiping too fast, but the touchscreen…
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In Part 1 of this article, I discussed my experience using the RED GEMINI camera brain with 5K S35 sensor and I mentioned that this was really my…
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If you are reading this, you probably have two main questions, so I'm going to cut right to the chase and address them both. First, the RED DSMC2 GEMINI 5K S35, which has a 5K Super35mm sensor, is a great camera; I enjoyed working with it and would do so again with no reservations. Second, since…
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The Pro Video Department at B&H is pleased to announce Canon's newest update for the C300 Mark II, the EOS C300 Mark II Touch Focus Kit. This kit replaces the clamshell monitor that comes with the…
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The holidays are upon us; who is going to turn down an ARRI Alexa LF? I know I won’t, so if any long-lost relative is reading this and is unsure how to make a good impression, feel free to give me an ARRI Alexa LF or, for that matter, any of these…
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That special season is upon us, and if you are looking for something different this year, instead of just rewrapping that same fruit cake that you’ve been shuttling back and forth for the last decade, might I recommend a camcorder? The beauty of camcorders is that, despite the camcorders themselves being highly technical items, operating a camcorder is so simple that any confirmed Luddite can…
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Padcaster has released several new products: the Parrot™ Teleprompter Kit, a Fluid Head Tripod/Monopod, and the Verse-X. The Parrot™ Teleprompter V2 Kit is a lightweight arrangement that features an ABS plastic hood and 70/30 beam splitter.…
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Let us face facts: where once the cost of entry to edit and finish a piece professionally was so high that it discouraged many from even trying, and it supported expensive “On-Line” finishing rooms containing millions of dollars of gear that required you to pay an hourly fee for the room and the operator, now you can download an edit system for little cost, and edit and finish your piece on a…