>>3241602Yeah sure, I love talking about myself. But there are a few things I wish I knew at film school which I'll try to list.
>Groundwork for video companyYeah everyone does that. Do you all have the same skills or will someone be Editor/DoP etc? DO THEY/YOU HAVE CURRENT CLIENTS? Make sure you all need each other and you benefit from working together otherwise problems will arise when in 6 months you realise that you can do the job with only 2/3 of the people in the 'team'. Make sure they have an excellent work ethic and self confidence. If they don't live and breathe the desire to work in the field with no plan B in life
then forget it.
>My workPrimarily corporate videos. Internal communication videos for insurance companies, event filming for accounting companies, social media videos for real estate developers, keynote videos to be shown at AGMs etc etc.
Got consistent sports filming with a bunch of lads that livestream tournaments, my interest in sports was more important than my camera skills.
I've worked on two feature films as BTS/EPK. (Pro tip: on a pro film set, keep your head down, shut the fuck up, don't talk about film school, do your job, no one gives a fuck about you (except like extras and makeup girls, they are usually cool, you can make friends, just do your job first)).
>Shoots a weekThis week is great, I'm booked for like 9 days straight with 11 separate gigs. But next week I have one booked. Get ready for ups and downs and then dark downs.
>GearHere we go. I do videography on a Gh4 that I bought when it first came out, it got me through film school and has paid for itself well over 10 times over.
I started a partnership with a guy from film school and we bought a BM Ursa Mini. We put that to work on clients that can afford it plus we get a fair amount of hires and rental from it once word got around that we owned it. DON'T BE ONE OF THOSE IDIOTS THAT BUYS CAMERAS OR GEAR IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE WORK AND CLIENTS TO JUSTIFY IT.
