180 is a ministry dedicated to breaking the chains of addiction in the lives of men. 180 is an effective and comprehensive Christian faith-based solution to life-controlling drug and alcohol …
Breaking Out, Denver
The Breaking Out Foundation is a 501(c) 3 corporation founded on Christian principles. It was created for the purpose of providing a program that will motivate and inspire at-risk youth …
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 …
Save Our Youth Commercial
Some of my favorite stories have come from working with Save Our Youth. They are a mentoring organization that does a brilliant job of matching their mentors with mentees. The …
Snowmass Balloon Festival 2011 Video
The Snowmass Balloon Festival. Totally cool experience in the stunning Colorado Rockies. I was privileged to go shoot this piece and absolutely loved the experience. Save the date next year, …
Sox Place, Denver Colorado
From SoxPlace.com, “SOX PLACE is for you… the gutter punk, the train rider, the homeless youth, you who just need something to eat, you who just need a safe place …
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II – I love it, I hate it
Cheap lenses… I’m all about them. I bought a set of cheap old Pentax lenses that I used to shoot Play Her Song. But as you’ll see from the test …
Accellos Client Case Study
Accellos has fantastic Warehouse Management Software that helps large warehouses management a vast number of SKU’s and varying product. They wanted a video to show off some of their hard …
5 MUST READ books for the Modern Day Filmmaker
The internet popularizes brevity and immediacy. Books almost always have more time and energy invested into their content. There’s no “update” feature to strikeout and rewrite. In a book, writers …
Subaru STI
A short production shot in and around beautiful Colorado (though this piece doesn’t showcase the land much!). My buddy owns a nicely upgraded Subaru STI. We realized that it was …
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 …
Up close with the AG-AF100 at VidExpo in Denver
VidExpo in Denver has been great. Denver has never been the biggest Video Production town on the market, but it certainly has a sizable passionate group of video and film …