The Back Story…
So, this is how it all began…
I wanted to start this blog to document my story about becoming a drone cinematographer, videographer, photographer, graphic designer, editor, and digital artist. I remember being six years old. We had just gotten our very first computer in 1993 and I was playing in a 3D drawing program and I was completely enamored with what I could do. And I had absolutely no clue what to do with this new found computing power. I vividly remember making all sorts of weird shapes and designs and loving it but having no direction whatsoever
Fast forward to 2016 and I’m in the middle of a career change. I have no clue what I want to do with my life at this point, but I know that I have always loved photos and videos. I am watching YouTube videos of all these digital creators all over the planet. Some of the bigger creators are paying videographers to make videos for them. We have entrepreneurs with camera men following them around to document and create. And I thought… I need to get a piece of this pie. If I want to travel the world and make videos, I need to learn how to do this. At this point I had some amateur photo editing experience and I had made random videos in the sports and fitness world for personal use, but I had never thought I would want to actually do photo and video work. In fact, when I had purchased the computer I was using four years prior I had said, “Yeah, I don’t need any more computing power. I’ll never do photo or video work” and boy was I wrong
Anyways, I went to Best Buy and bought a little “creator kit” for my phone that included a tiny tripod, a clip on lens, a microphone, and some other random things. It was trash. I had no idea what I was doing. I started to record myself doing random things and making videos to learn how to use the editing software. I put myself through what I called “YouTube University” by watching any and every video that I could watch and trying to replicate those things. I made a bunch of really cringy videos that I will probably never let anybody see again. I spent about a year doing this until I bought a budget stabilizer and monopod for my phone and made some videos with that. The footage from the stabilizer on the monopod looked like a drone and I had my first video go viral of a sunset near my hometown. A friend said, “Looks like you need to start a business” and I did. Matt Brinker Productions was the first name I operated under and I made a bunch of other small videos that people took a liking to. They were also trash and will never be seen again, but everybody starts somewhere, I guess
That’s where I will stop on this first post. I plan on posting a couple times a week about what I’m doing and how I’m dealing with it, as I have now become a full time freelance creative. More soon… Stay tuned…