About two years ago we put together a little ad for the Doritos Crash The Super Bowl competition. It involved a pair of special underwear adorned with many resplendent orange chips, which you can see Kellie Penna handling with care in the gif above. Be sure to check out the video if you haven’t seen it!
One of Moth to Flame’s favorite things to do is create content for startups. Why? When you are a startup, most companies want to stand out and be different. That is exactly what we strive to do at Moth to Flame, be raw, unique, and edgy. The most common request we get from our startup clients, in regards to their crowdfunding campaign or commercial is… we want to go viral. We have helped many Austin companies raise over $200K worth of funding. Some products are definitely challenging, but we are not afraid to make fun of ourselves. Some of our…
In this video you’ll get an idea of the kind of work we do for our wedding clients to make sure that their important moments are captured on video. You’ll notice in the video that we’ve filmed traditional weddings and modern festivities. Not looking for a wedding video? We also film other events like bar mitzvahs and quinceaneras with as much care and detail to get you the video experience you desire.
Chasing a dream and capitalizing on it is hard. The biggest lesson I learned in 2014 is that there comes a time when the business takes over the craft. It takes extra effort on your part to let go of the business and trust the people you work with, so you can carry out your craft. Every step of growing a business has its own set of problems. In the beginning I ran Moth to Flame pretty much on my own. As we grew in size and added more and more people, processes had to be put into place, quality…
This was taken at the fabled Peter Pan Mini Golf course in Austin when pirate love was in the air on the set of Funemployment.
On the first day of arriving in Shreveport to film A Bird’s Nest the crew went out into a wooded area where we would be filming a good portion of the film. We started by checking out the more accessible areas, then moved on to an area that we had to walk a good distance to the actual area we shot at. This sequence of photos was taken during that walk.
Here are Kellie Penna’s Resolutions for the New Year 1 Watch more Independent movies. I’ve never had a problem with going to the movies. Do it all the time, and my husband is always game. But we always see “mainstream” movies. Nothing wrong with that, I quite enjoy it. It’s harder to convince my other half to see a film that may be foreign-made, has a bleak outlook, and a possibly depressing end. Not that every independent movie is like that, but my point is they’re more of a gamble when it comes to emotions. If you go see a…
Today’s throwback image was created on the set of Funemployment, after Adam Duncan took a fall while helping Christine Chen film some b-roll that left him a bit immobile. Lucky for him Joe Brostowicz was there to carry him around set.
On the set of the Blackbox Trainer Crowdfunding video The shoot for the Blackbox Trainer app went quite smoothly compared to previous shoots I’d been involved with in the past. We had everything pretty much set up before any of the talent had showed up, and the shot list all planned out from beginning to end. Once we got everything set up, Christine and myself went about making sure I could pull her around while she worked the camera on the dolly, while Kellie Penna went about contacting the talent and Kenny Horton went about learning how to run the…
Director of Photography, Alex Walker talks about filming A Bird’s Nest They say film crews are the ultimate problem solvers. Shortly after Katrina hit NOLA back in 04 I was working on a production when the Key Grip remarked that filmmakers should have been sent instead of FEMA. After the experiences we had shooting A Bird’s Nest, I tend to agree. The script paints a picture of a troubled child who turns to the macabre for his outlet in life. The challenge was to create a sense of understanding between the audience and the anti-hero of the story without betraying…