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Nick Staniszewski

Nick Staniszewski

Filmmaker Tips: Deliverables, Project Scope, & Alignment

Filmmaker Tips: Deliverables, Project Scope, & Alignment

Let's talk about one of the most important things you need to do as a freelancer or commercial production company, before you begin shooting or editing. The wonderful world of aligning on the deliverables & project scope.

Kodak Ultramax 400 in the Florida Everglades

Kodak Ultramax 400 in the Florida Everglades

A fun mixture of harsh sunlight from mid-day to the soft palette of sunset, Kodak Ultramax continues to be a really versatile stock.

Brand Social Media Content - Gatorade

Capturing different social concepts with Julio Rodriguez & Fransisco Lindor. Operating as Director of Photography, we captured interview, action, and reactive content. With a timeline of 2 hours to capture 6 concepts, we developed a choreographed plan of action to ensure our coverage, utilizing 3 cameras to ensure we got

Drone Work - Capturing Porsche across the mountains of Switzerland

Drone Work - Capturing Porsche across the mountains of Switzerland

One of my more favorite projects from 2024 involved capturing a 992.1 Porsche Carrera 4 GTS throughout the mountains of Switzerland

Free Resource - Battery Run Time Calculator

Free Resource - Battery Run Time Calculator

A simple tool that let's you select your camera and the watt hours of your battery.

Free Resource - Union Meal Penalty Timer

Free Resource - Union Meal Penalty Timer

I got hungry on set one day and made this in retaliation. Simply input your call time, and it will spit out the time until the meal penalty, and also start a countdown until you hit the meal penalty.

Free Resource: "Can I afford to buy this piece of gear" tracker

Free Resource: "Can I afford to buy this piece of gear" tracker

Look. I like to buy new gear. But can I afford to? Maybe! With this simple excel sheet, we can track a piece of gear we want to buy, see how many rental days it would take to break even, and make an informed decision on top of our emotional