https://josephcarey.com/journal/ Practical notes on shooting, editing, colour and media libraries by Joseph Carey. en-gb Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://josephcarey.com/journal/457-strangers-eight-cities/ https://josephcarey.com/journal/457-strangers-eight-cities/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Joseph Carey What I learned walking up to strangers on high streets across the UK and asking for a portrait, around 457 times. https://josephcarey.com/journal/thirty-six-frames/ https://josephcarey.com/journal/thirty-six-frames/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Joseph Carey Digital gives you thousands of frames a day. A roll of film gives you thirty-six. What that limit teaches the rest of the work. https://josephcarey.com/journal/what-a-fintech-taught-me-about-social-media/ https://josephcarey.com/journal/what-a-fintech-taught-me-about-social-media/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Joseph Carey Two years running content for a crypto and payments company, and what the numbers said: live beats polished, people beat product, and the audience you have isn’t the one you think. https://josephcarey.com/journal/log-footage-explained/ https://josephcarey.com/journal/log-footage-explained/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Joseph Carey Log footage comes off the camera grey and washed out. Here’s why that’s the point, and how it gets turned back into a finished image. https://josephcarey.com/journal/815-clips-90-seconds/ https://josephcarey.com/journal/815-clips-90-seconds/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Joseph Carey Two days of filming came to 5 hours 16 minutes of footage. The brief was 90 seconds. Notes on cutting that much down to that little. https://josephcarey.com/journal/file-names-people-can-find/ https://josephcarey.com/journal/file-names-people-can-find/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Joseph Carey Lessons from a brand library of 65,000+ files and 20TB+: date-first names, a taxonomy people use, and permissions that make sense.