Times like these make it awfully difficult to sleep at night… James Drake Films is proud to offer the Red Epic-M camera system. This camera is an unbeatable tool to …
Cinematic Democracy: We’ve Arrived.
Time to beat the dead horse for the last time. Every camera that will be released from here on out is just icing on the cake for cinematographers. Read on… …
The Best of NAB 2011
Wow what a year! So much great stuff, so little time to see it all. Below is a collection of images, some with captions, some without, but all of it …
Filmmaking: Fighting the Odds
Films don’t want to be made. And if they get made, films want to suck. Fight it. Don’t give in. Read on… The nature of things is chaos. Films (with …
Denver Video Production 2011 Reel, James Drake Films
2011 has been a busy year, tons of productions still in the works! It has been a pleasure working on all of them. Everything in the reel above I shot …
Canon t2i vs. RED: Codec, Color
I’m ecstatic that an $800 camera is being compared with a $40,000 RED setup (not Mysterium-X). It’s a tribute to how the DSLR cameras have really changed the game. But …
Working with the RED on “Prodigal”
Working with the RED is an exhilarating experience. Just a short time ago, film was the only option for incredible dynamic range and top image quality. With the new Mysterium …
Dreaming of America Trailer
A Film I DP’d on the RED One. “A young man struggles against his father who refuses to cope with the foreclosure of the family farm.” The American Dream. Developed and …
Mass Casualty Exercise Commercial
Commercial for Community College of Aurora Mass Casualty Exercise shot on four Sony EX 1’s, an EX 3 and a RED ONE on a 30 foot crane. I was on …