Blog - Barbershop Films

FEATURED

Producing a Heritage Minute on a Canadian Icon

Mary ‘Bonnie’ Baker didn’t just smash baseballs, she smashed barriers. Barbershop Films is honoured to have helped share her story.

Project

A Smart Story – Barbershop’s Short Doc on Using Smartphones to Save Lives

By Nathan Raine

Project

Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner: Producing Video Content for Community Difference Makers

By Nathan Raine

Company

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sets* (But Were Afraid to Ask): A Beginner’s Guide to Good Form on a Film Production

By Nathan Raine

LATEST

Creative Production Project

Producing a Heritage Minute on a Canadian Icon

Mary ‘Bonnie’ Baker didn’t just smash baseballs, she smashed barriers. Barbershop Films is honoured to have helped share her story.

Project

A Smart Story – Barbershop’s Short Doc on Using Smartphones to Save Lives

A BC Children’s Hospital initiative, funded by Mining4Life, has enabled normal smartphones to become critical healthcare tools in Uganda and Kenya. Barbershop was fortunate to help tell the story.

Project

Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner: Producing Video Content for Community Difference Makers

Tight timelines, multiple videos, day-of shoots, and large in-person audiences: the Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner is one of our most demanding annual events – and most rewarding.

Company

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sets* (But Were Afraid to Ask): A Beginner’s Guide to Good Form on a Film Production

You’re new to a film shoot? Well, we’re thrilled to have you. You’re a bit nervous about the experience? Well, we’re also thrilled about your nerves. Because we have a guide to make them disappear.

Company

The Birth of a Lovechild

A major player in Western Canadian film production has defied the post-pandemic landscape by emerging as a stronger and more resourceful company.

Technology Production

Camera to Cloud is Rewriting the Rules

After each take, a proxy file is almost instantaneously created and uploaded to a cloud server, which is accessible to both the client, crew, and editor.

Creative

Creating an Epic Advertisement (and result) from The Littlest Hobo

We worked with FCL on a special Canada Day commercial, utilizing one of our nation's most recognizable songs, ‘Maybe Tomorrow’. The results shattered all realistic expectations.

Production

Amplifying to the Perfect Volume for Live Events

Understanding the audience, the client, and the tone of the event is essential in creating experiences that resonate.

Creative

The Art of Cutting Your Teeth at Country Thunder

Country Thunder music festival has been one of the most instrumental (no pun intended) and consequential opportunities in our company's history, forcing us to sink or swim.

Technology

With Drone and Aerial Cinematography, Sky is no Longer the Limit

From helicopters to drones to FPVs, Barbershop Films has the experience, the expertise, and the desire to add that 'wow-factor' to any level of production.

PRODUCTION

Creative Production Project

Producing a Heritage Minute on a Canadian Icon

Mary ‘Bonnie’ Baker didn’t just smash baseballs, she smashed barriers. Barbershop Films is honoured to have helped share her story.

Technology Production

Camera to Cloud is Rewriting the Rules

After each take, a proxy file is almost instantaneously created and uploaded to a cloud server, which is accessible to both the client, crew, and editor.

Production

Amplifying to the Perfect Volume for Live Events

Understanding the audience, the client, and the tone of the event is essential in creating experiences that resonate.

Technology

With Drone and Aerial Cinematography, Sky is no Longer the Limit

From helicopters to drones to FPVs, Barbershop Films has the experience, the expertise, and the desire to add that 'wow-factor' to any level of production.

Technology

Cinematic Oomph with the U-Crane and Gorilla Camera Truck

Cinema has a deep well of tools that leave viewers asking, 'how did they do that?' We dive into our work with the U-Crane (Russian Arm), Gorilla Camera Truck, and Ronin stabilizing systems to show how to make the impossible possible.

Production

Reshaping Around the Impacts of COVID (And a Renewed Love of Hand Sanitizer)

COVID made us rethink, adapt, and innovate along with the ever-changing world. Many of these changes turned out to be blessings in disguise.

CREATIVE

Creative Production Project

Producing a Heritage Minute on a Canadian Icon

Mary ‘Bonnie’ Baker didn’t just smash baseballs, she smashed barriers. Barbershop Films is honoured to have helped share her story.

Creative

Creating an Epic Advertisement (and result) from The Littlest Hobo

We worked with FCL on a special Canada Day commercial, utilizing one of our nation's most recognizable songs, ‘Maybe Tomorrow’. The results shattered all realistic expectations.

Creative

The Art of Cutting Your Teeth at Country Thunder

Country Thunder music festival has been one of the most instrumental (no pun intended) and consequential opportunities in our company's history, forcing us to sink or swim.