November 17, 2023 • 43 mins
People do some weird things in front of the camera, myself included 🤭 And Brennan knows this best, as he's been weaving visual stories for years! Not only can you trust him, but you’ll relish in seeing your adventures come to life through his lens 🎥
Our time here is short, but some footage is forever…when it comes to the most important moments in people’s lives, does he ever feel pressure? How does one even get into this profession? And once they do, how do they set themselves apart in unique and authentic ways⁉️
Join us to hear the remarkable tale of how Brennan taught himself to transform his passion into a thriving career - his expertise now spanning a myriad of contexts and genres.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey everyone, it's Tiff, and welcome back to
another episode.
I have been under the weatherthis past week so I'm finally
starting to feel better back tomy old usual self.
But man, oh man, there issomething going around right now
that is nasty.
She's nasty folks.
So I don't know.
Hopefully you don't get it, butif you do, take good care and
(00:32):
maybe hopefully this podcastwill keep you entertained.
So this week we have on Brennan.
He is a videographer, he is aphotographer, he is an editor.
He has all things talented andkind and truly easy to work with
.
I have known him now forseveral years.
He shot our wedding into amusic video and I've always
(00:52):
wanted to interview him and kindof learn more about his craft,
the way he approaches things, ifhe ever gets nervous, just all
these questions, and so that'swhat we dive into today.
I hope you enjoy.
Let's get to it.
Hey everyone, it's Tiff and I'mhere with my videographer from
(01:15):
my wedding, brennan.
Hi guys, but you've honestlydone much more than that.
I'm sorry for like saying thatas your disclaiming piece,
that's the only thing I do,right?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, yeah, that's all he's ever done.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's all he'll ever do.
You're welcome.
No, I was seriously looking atyour website.
You have done so much.
You're a pro.
I feel like I'm honored to evenhave you sitting here Like, can
I touch you?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You can touch me.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, seriously, how are you?
How have you been?
I've actually known him for awhile before we ever worked
together.
I knew you because he workedwith Julie, who you guys know,
and you worked with her severaltimes on both of her wedding
receptions, right?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, so Julie and I actually went to high school
together, dude.
I don't remember that, probablyover a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, damn, no way.
So you've known each othersince then.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, we haven't kept in touch between high school
and now, but she remembered meand she invited me to film her
wedding.
Yes, this was well before thepandemic.
Yes, oh my gosh, we had thisbig plan, but then it went to
something smaller scale 100%,yes, it did.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And then I still feel like I saw you at stuff.
Like didn't I see you at asorority thing?
Potentially, yeah, I feel likeI've seen you at other things.
You're kind of like verypopular in this community.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, some people know me in Sonoma County.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Not a big deal, but everyone knows me, but I just
remember we had Julie's weddingbeing so fun and I was like when
I, if I ever get married,you're going to do mine cut to.
I remember that moment.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, it was at her reception.
Yes, in the backyard, andeveryone was having a good time.
You were having a good time.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you've seen me turn a lot.
Yeah, is it weird to see mehere just not now?
No, okay, sorry, weird question.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You're still Tiff.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, I'm still exactly folks, I'm still Tiff,
but yeah, so welcome.
How long have you been in thisbusiness?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's hard to kind of pick like an actual starting
point because you always startsmall, but I would say around
2014, 2015.
Okay Is when I started kind ofmaybe earning a little money
from it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, and before that , how did you originally get
into it?
Did you always have a cameraLike, where was your start?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
It was back shortly after high school.
Okay, I started a YouTubechannel called Brennan's Tech
Fight Upsass.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is it still up there?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's still up there, but I haven't made a video in
maybe five years or so.
So I was really into, I guess,technology and at that time
YouTube was.
You could make content and youcould earn money.
I thought that was exciting, soI was really into Apple
products Got it.
Like ever since Steve Jobsannounced first iPhone, I'm like
wow, this piece of technology.
What was that 2006, 2000,.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Somewhere around there.
I don't remember the exact date.
No, no, no, sorry to put you onthe spot.
I'm just wondering if it was90s or that was too far.
No, not the 90s, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But, yeah, I got myself a small digital camera
yeah, not even a DSLR, oh, okay,and I just recorded myself
filming tutorials, unboxings,product reviews.
Back in the day, you would haveto get a YouTube partnership,
okay, and that's when you couldstart earning money, gotcha, and
I probably grew the channel toabout a thousand subscribers.
(04:19):
Dude, I applied for the programand they accepted my channel.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Legend.
Yeah, editing Tiff here, justwanted to jump in and say that I
went and looked at this YouTubepage.
Some of his videos havemillions of views.
Folks, he really is crushing itand I just what would it be
like to have a video withmillions of views?
Will I ever know, who knows?
But great job, brennan.
Okay, back to the show.
So what do you think about thevideo you post?
(04:44):
Something happens.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What do you mean by something?
Happens, people watch and leavecomments and things happen and
based on that does the monetarything depend.
Yeah, if you have a smallerchannel, you don't make much on
YouTube.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, that's what they say about YouTube and
TikTok.
I've heard too.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, so because I was filming on YouTube and I had
this small little point andshoot camera, of course I wanted
to improve the quality of myvideos, so I bought a DSLR.
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's the first time you sent it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, it was a Canon T3i and that camera could shoot
really good quality video.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So I improved my video quality and I self taught
myself pretty much everythingWith YouTube.
It's cool because you cansearch for anything and learn to
do anything.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Not just video.
It's pretty much how we got apodcast yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, how to podcast, how to build something in your
house?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
How to change something in your car.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, fix a tire.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Literally Makeup tutorial.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, anything, it's amazing yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And even though, like knowing what camera to get and
being self taught like I'vetried to figure that out, it
must be a lot of research.
There's so many options Likehow do you know what you're even
doing, or how to get into thespace.
Did it feel intimidating atfirst to breach in there?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, just like you can learn anything on YouTube,
you can research anything onYouTube as well, true.
True, so I would watch a lot ofproduct reviews on different
cameras and try to see which onewas best, that's smart.
And then I landed on that CanonT3i.
Okay, so I've startedeverything.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Really, yeah, the camera that changed it all.
Do you still have that camera?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, I sold it.
I had to sell it so I couldupgrade to another camera.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh damn, how to do what you had to do following
those dreams.
Okay, so from there, what wasit about this camera that kind
of showed you?
Oh no, we could take this tothe next level.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I self taught myself how to use the camera,
how to record video, and becausethat camera could also shoot
photos, I'm like well, I'm notlearning how to take photos as
well.
So one summer I just watched aton of tutorials on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And so there do you start, kind of building a little
bit of a portfolio, askingfriends to do shoots.
How does it become a businessand ramp itself up?
I have so many questions, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So it was mainly just like for YouTube and a passion
project, okay, okay.
And then friends would see myYouTube channel and they're like
can you film this, can youphotograph these engagement
photos?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And you just kind of build it little by little.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Organically, yeah, yeah, like a snowball, like
photography and videography,different skills inherently that
you have to hone in their ownlanes, or is it something that
kind of goes hand in hand witheach other?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
They're similar in terms of changing settings on
the camera, but as far as thestrategy of shooting photos and
video, it's different, becausephotos you're trying to capture
still frames of people or candidmoments, where video you're
capturing more of the motion,the flow.
And sometimes the audio.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, so this time you're starting to take pictures
of friends, family.
They're seeing that you aretalented and starting to ask you
to do things for them.
Are you also working separatelyfrom this in another space?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
At that time I was probably just a full-time
student.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, okay.
And so what changes?
Where we have Brennan Sparkphotography.
What is it officially called?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's yeah, brennan, spark Brennan.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Spark.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And then I say in the subtitle Videography,
videography and photography,yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, okay, so you've officially become, I guess, an
established business.
Did you have to get a businesslicense?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, the business license probably didn't come
until maybe 2018.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, got it Got, it Got it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So if you want to say when it was official, official.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It would be then Okay 2018.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Got it, but, like in 2014, 2015, I started building
it even more Got it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's when things ramped up.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, and during that time were you honing kind of
your own style, like I noticed,photographers and videographers
this is just from Instagram.
Being a lay person, I noticedthey seemed to have different
like vibes I don't know how elseto describe it.
How were you kind of findingyour own during that?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
time.
Yeah, yeah, I know there's likesome photographers or
videographers.
They have their own look totheir photos or videos.
Yeah, I also try to create myown look.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, I think you do too.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
When I capture things , whether it's for their videos,
I like to capture kind of likethe natural candid moment, yes.
Or to show interactions amongpeople or people having a good
time at an event, or a wedding,or at a music festival.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So what are your favoriteevents to do?
Like, when you see this onecoming up on your calendar,
you're like yes, I'm jacked.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I always enjoy shooting music.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's cool because normally when you go to a show
you sit in the 20th row.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, if you're lucky , nosebleed Right, right, who
knows?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And you have to pay a few hundred bucks for the
ticket.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Right, you're seeing a tiny human.
You can't see their face.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, it's like okay.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, but when you shoot music, sometimes you can
go all the way up to the front,move around and get your shot.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, you get to like go backstage, behind, up front.
What is that called, thatlittle strip it's called the pit
.
The pit.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, that's where they put the photographers and
videographers, that's freakingsick dude.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And now, how do you get connected with that?
Are you just, in this area,connected to different
auditoriums, music stadiums Idon't even know what they're
called.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, so I guess if we kind of backtrack.
So I eventually went to SonomaState, go Sea Lions.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Sea Wolves, sea Wolves, that's what it is.
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yep.
And then from there, one of myfriends invited me to be on a
school newspaper because he knewI was doing photography,
videography, and at the time heasked if I could help them
redesign their website.
Love From there, naturally, Imoved into taking photos and
being the photo editor for theschool newspaper.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Sick.
What was the newspaper called?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It was called the Sonoma State Star.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I knew it had a fun name.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Side note did you go at the same time as my sister?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I finished around 2018.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So yeah, you were there at the same time.
So that's why I think I saw youat a sorority thing, because
she would take me to things.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I did shoot a couple of those events.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, it was called Rush, Rush Formals.
Well, I didn't get to go to.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Rush, I did a Formal, and did you ever do lip jam?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I did go to lip jam.
You did, I wasn't in it.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But I got to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Okay, yeah, what year was that?
The one where they did Orangeis the New Black.
Okay.
I don't quite remember I didphotograph in a couple of times
so we've kind of always beenrotating around each other like
the sun and Saturn or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But anyway, sorry, okay.
So through that I got to takepictures around campus.
I was still doing video for funas well.
Yeah, one year at Sonoma Statethey had this I guess, spirit
rally I think it was calledMidnight Madness or something
like that where they have abasketball game but they have
everyone there, like thecheerleaders, the dance team,
(11:28):
lobo, the mascot, they inviteall the students, they pass out
swag and Swag merch.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We love merch folks yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's just a fun time.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So I decided to capture that for fun.
I made like a 30 second video,yes, and I shared it on my
social media.
Yes and I kind of tagged SonomaState and some other people
associated with Sonoma State.
That video kind of went viral.
Oh Like a lot of people in thecampus community saw it Damn,
and that kind of further kickedthings off for me at Sonoma
(11:59):
State.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, first of all, that is so fun.
What's it like to go viral?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It didn't get like millions of views.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But still to wake up and be like everyone's seeing my
stuff yeah, that's a dream?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, just like in the comments, like people said
like oh, this video is reallyamazing.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
At the time.
I don't think anyone has reallycreated anything like that for
Sonoma State.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, different people around campus reached out
to me At the time.
I think the provost asked me tofilm something for the
president, which was pretty cool.
I do Kind of leading into how Ishot music.
Yes Is, on campus.
We have a performance venuecalled the Green Music Center.
Beautiful venue, have you beenStunning?
Yeah, yeah, it's great,especially during summer, where
(12:39):
you can go out on the lawn andoh, I haven't done that.
Yeah, and enjoy a picnic dance.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I've only been there in the dark, Like I don't.
I haven't seen it in the light.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Uh-huh, oh, I need to do that.
Yeah, come back.
Yeah, During the fall or duringthe summer, and yeah, there's
some great shows.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But anyways, because I posted that video on my social
media and it kind of spread itthroughout the Sonoma State
community In addition to, Iguess, campus administration
seeing it, the marketing team atthe Green Music Center saw that
video.
They found me, or they had myemail address and they invited
me for a meeting to see what wecould do together.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Hell yeah.
Oh my God, what'd you wear tothis meeting?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Probably just jeans and a shirt.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I wasn't in suit and tie or anything.
Yeah, yeah, that's my firstpicture, super casual, sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So you went to this meeting and what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
This meeting was in the spring and coming up was
their summer season, so I thinkfirst was 4th of July and then
they had a variety of indooroutdoor concerts.
So they essentially asked if Icould create a similar highlight
video for them for 4th of Julyand some other things for the
summer as well.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
They can promo it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, Just capture the excitement and get people
fired up.
Yeah to come to shows.
Yeah.
And then, because they knew Idid photography, they're like
yeah, can you take some photosfor us as well?
That was my first gig at SonomaState and my first time
shooting music.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
What was it like?
Were you immediately into it,or was it scary?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh no, it was definitely fun because now I
could shoot something differentand bigger.
So it was exciting From theGreen Music Center, from being
able to film and photographperformance.
It led to filming a couplemusic festivals, as well as
filming with the TranscendenceTheater Company.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh my God, holy shit.
Okay, so what were you studyingat Sonoma State?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, so actually I was studying biology.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with it, but
with biology you can do avariety of things, whether it's
research.
Go into the medical field,teach, seems hard.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You have to take like OK and shit.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, not only do you have to take biology, but you
have to take physics, calculusand chemistry.
I understand chemistry, but whyphysics and calculus?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I don't understand any of it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, I know 100% that's hard.
So you're smart, yeah, and thatprobably helps with like
videography and photography,like are you doing like physics?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, no, it's a complete different thing.
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I was like maybe you're like calculating the map
of like this tree from that tree, Nope Dividing the light by the
tree.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
No math, no size involved.
Okay, got it, got it, got it,got it, cool, cool, cool, cool
Cool.
I don't even capture plants oranimals.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You don't?
Oh yeah, I've never thought ofthat.
Okay, so just people for you,yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, as a joke, because of biology, humans are
technically animals, right?
So I guess we do.
I do capture animals all thetime.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You kind of capture the most feral of them, all you
know.
And then, when did weddingscome into this?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, I forgot the actual time point, but people
see that you're able to creategreat videos.
Totally Capture the moment.
When I was at Sonoma State, oneof my friends knew I could take
photos.
Yeah, they asked if I couldtake photos for their brother's
wedding.
They didn't have much of abudget and at the same time that
was my first wedding.
(15:55):
So he said, oh, can you do itfor a little less but at the
same time you can use thesephotos for your portfolio.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So that was my first wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And do you like weddings like compared to music
festivals?
I'm assuming they're verydifferent.
Yeah, definitely Do you evenlike them.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, being there, capturing the moment, capturing
all the fun of the reception andeverything, that's a great time
, but the other side is it'svery stressful.
Yeah, because you have toalways be thinking ahead of
where you need to be and whatyou need to capture, and you
also want to make sure that youget all the moments and
everything like that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Right, because they're not going to happen
again.
Yeah, technically, hopefully,whatever.
So, music festivals, do youfeel the same Like I got to get
everything in because do youhave more time?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, I'll say for anything I shoot, whether it's
as something as simple asportraits, music or wedding or
some type of event, at thebeginning of all gigs there's
some type of stress ornervousness.
Are you going to get the shot,even though I've done it 10
million times?
Are you going to get the shotBecause?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
you're just a human.
Yeah, and you guys are alsopaying me to do that Right Right
and you want to do a good job.
Like you, care about the workyou do.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, but after you kind of get some of the shots
going, you kind of settle down.
And it's all good yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Have you ever had a nightmare situation happen on a
job?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
A nightmare situation .
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, like a funny story now, but at the time you
were like, oh my God, I can'tbelieve this has happened, like
you deleted all the footage froma wedding.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That would be terrifying, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I can't rate, pinpoint a specific moment, but
there would have to be somepoint during one gig where maybe
I had multiple cameras goingand one camera wasn't recording
or the audio wasn't perfect.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, that type situation, but I was able to
work through it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So, nothing catastrophic.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah.
At the moment, which is thismight be a crazy and you
couldn't tell me to f right off,but have you ever had someone
like flash you and you have tolike turn the camera off, Like
at a crazy wedding, or like at amusic festival.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, it's happened at a music festival.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Okay, yeah, I can see that, or unintentionally at
like a sorority thing.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah things Too much, side boop yay.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So you just don't include those things.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, so things happen Like funny.
Do you ever see like hilariousmoments on camera that like are
in the background or somethingthat were caught accidentally,
that you can't put in the finalvideo, obviously, but like
they're hilarious for you to see?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, just like you have this great shot of these
people, and somewhere in thebackground these people are
making a funny face or somewhere.
Yeah, yeah it just kills thephoto or the video shot.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Totally, and in that case, do you like Photoshop?
Is that a part of it, or is itnot a thing?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, for video it's hard to remove things.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, for photos.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Sometimes you can crop them out or do a little
Photoshop, but most of the timeyou messed up my shot.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now is lighting or sound moreimportant, or both?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Technically they're both important, okay, but for
video I would say sound is moreimportant.
Why?
Because if you're listening toit and there's a bunch of weird
background noise, the audio isjust like screaming in your ear
or breaking up.
It could look really good, likethe video quality is perfect,
right, like oh, this was shotwith a cinema camera.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But then if the audio is terrible, the viewer they
can't listen to it because theycan't hear it.
It's distracting, it's hurtingtheir ears.
So make sure your audio is goodfirst Okay, okay, and then
video.
Use your phone If you can'tobtain like a high quality
camera.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's what I heard, too, when I came to podcasting.
They were like, if you're notgoing to buy this camera, which
was $900 or above- use yourphone.
And I try to do not that, andthey were right.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And if you know how to actually use the phone, it
can be very powerful and you canget content just as good as
like a regular camera.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Really, yeah, okay, good to know.
Side question what are allthese straps you guys are
wearing at?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
events.
These straps?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, what are these straps called?
There are camera straps and noware they like attached to your
waist, Like?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, so the one I have, I think it's actually
called the money maker, which isfunny.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Dude, no pun intended , or not, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So the camera strap that goes across your back and
around your shoulders, mine canhold two cameras, so when I'm
shooting I have like one camerathat has a zoom lens so I can
get things further away from me.
Okay, they have another camerathat has a more wide angle lens,
so I can get things closer.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Are there ones that can hold more?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, potentially you could hold a third camera.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is that necessary?
Do you need one?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't Okay.
But some professionals theyhave like a zoom lens, a really
wide angle lens, and thenanother camera for kind of a
medium.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Where does the third one go?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It kind of just dangles down the middle.
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And now, when you buy , those are those like niche in
your community, like so they'rejust camera straps or harnesses
but like, do you buy highquality ones?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll say you get what you pay for.
Okay, that's true for mostlyanything.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, I've always wondered that when I go to
weddings I'm like, oh, that onelooks like a nice set.
Yeah, that one looks differentit's like whoa, I wonder where
they get those.
Oh, you don't have a moneymaker, bro.
Like, what do you even do it?
Because, like, if you don't, isit hard to work without one of
those.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, you always need a camera strap, especially if
you have two cameras.
You can't hold both of them,you simply cannot.
Or if you just have one camera,you need to kind of reposition
things.
You can't just, you're not justgoing to put your camera down.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You need your hands, yeah, and now what's the deal
with a second shooter?
Are there situations where youhave to hire someone?
Is there a situation where theyput you with other
photographers, like at musicfestivals?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So typically for music there's a team, okay,
hired by someone runningmarketing or someone who's
managing that?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Because one's not enough to get all the things
going on.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, it's a lot, because music festivals are
large and you have to walkthroughout the venue.
Multiple things at once Fromthe front of the stage to the
back of the stage, so there theyhire a team.
Most of the time you don'tassemble your team, but smaller
music festivals yeah, you canmake your own team, Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And when you are on a team, are you like I'm going to
get Kelsey Ballerini, Do youlike split it up?
Or are you guys like nudgingeach other out of the way to get
the best shot?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No, it's all organized.
We're deciding who's going tocapture what.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Got it.
But for weddings do you everhave to have a second shooter.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Like for your wedding .
You were just looking for amusic video where I captured.
Music video yes, I love it, Icaptured all the fun moments,
but I didn't record any audio.
No, I didn't need that.
But for wedding films that'swhat I call it where we record
the same things, all thehighlights of the day, from
getting ready to the send off,right, but we're also recording
(22:16):
the audio of the speeches andthe ceremony.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Layed over the top instead of a song, or like is
there still a song?
Kind of quietly.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, so there's still background music and it's
like a movie.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yes, yes, like a movie.
And you've seen those videos,Cherries, of like I'll love you
forever.
I'll love you forever, Always.
Shot to her and her mom.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
So for that, whenever we incorporate audio, I need a
second shooter, because we alsohave multiple cameras running
during the ceremony and we havemultiple cameras running during
the speeches and we record audio, and by also having that second
videographer or assistant we'realso able to get more unique
shots.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Totally Okay.
When they're talking, do theyhave a microphone that you're
hooked up to?
You have that audio track.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Most of the time the couple will hire a DJ and we
plug in our audio recorder intothe DJ's equipment so we can get
a clean feed of the speeches.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
the vows the ceremony Right, not the people
background wooing on top of it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
But sometimes for backup or maybe for the first
look, when the DJ isn't there,we'll put a clip on mic onto the
groom.
Yeah, sometimes for the brideit's hard to put on a mic onto a
wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, like excuse me.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, and it's just, logistically it's hard to find a
place to clip it in.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Got it, got it, got it right.
There might not even be a place, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So we mic the groom for like the first look, and
when they come together his micwill still pick up.
It'll be close enough.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
The bride's audio Ooh , little nips and tricks folks.
That's very exciting.
And do you pick that secondshooter like someone you like?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, so the second shooter is actually one of my
friends.
Okay, we shoot all of theweddings together.
Love that.
He helps me out at Sonoma Statesometimes as well as some other
gigs.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Very cool.
So it's someone you know,someone you like.
You're not just going to hire arando to come with you to a
wedding.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No, hell, no, that would be bad.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Have you ever had one person at an event just
continually ruin your shot Likepurposefully, like they're
coming around like trying tofuck with you.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
No, okay, not necessarily.
What a weird thing to do Wellsometimes well, not continually,
but sometimes when I'm tryingto get this nice candid moment
or shot like People would comein front of the camera, wave,
make faces be, obnoxious and I'mlike, yeah, I know you want to
be on camera, but hey, I'mtrying.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There's something about the camera being pointed
at people that makes them doweird shit.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It makes them either very, very shy or very uh what
you call me.
Lively.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And they're like.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I want to be on this highlight reel 100.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So I'm just going to be obnoxious.
Dude, I was so annoying.
You're so right.
They did a cocktail competitionbetween different restaurants
in Sonoma County and there was avideographer there and he was
just filming the food.
I'm so annoying.
I was trying to like wanderaround where he was to like be
picking up foods when he wasfilming them, because I wanted
to be in the video and heprobably hated the fuck out of
me.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I was like, oh, there's a camera, but it's not
about you.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, it's about the food.
I mean sometimes like if theyget a nice fun shot of you guys
waving or yeah with the camera.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
that's cool, but it's like if you're if he's a
stalker if he's like focused onthe shot and you're just like my
head's just popping in so he'sprobably a little annoying.
Yeah, no, I promise it wasn'tthat bad.
Do you ever want to like filmmovies when it like?
Do you want to be like?
I don't even know who's a,who's a film that's famous.
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The evil one, the evil one, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The one that did um pulp fiction.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I don't know.
Are we talking about directorsor cinematographers?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh no, what's his name?
Oh no, he does like the reallygraphic ones.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I don't know, sorry.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It'll come to me.
Someone in their car is likescreaming it.
Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Is he a video?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He's a director.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So are you like a James Cameron, like a director?
That's what he is too, Ibelieve so yeah.
So what?
How come you guys aren't famous, the people who actually film
the movie?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The director gets most of the credit.
That's a hard job In the titlesequences I'm sure it lists all
the videographers.
There's more than just one,there's probably a whole team of
them.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Would you like to be in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I've actually never really thought about it,
probably because of that it'snot really a desire, or goal.
I'm happy doing what.
I'm doing currently.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Okay, love that.
I just have Hollywood dreams.
Maybe you can follow me toHollywood sometime and film it.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, I'll film your.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Film my live shows.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I'll film your live shows, your vlogs.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yes, yes, my like launches all these things I'm
going to do.
Also, is this the first podcastyou've ever been on.
It is Welcome.
Thanks, do you listen topodcasts?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Not too much.
Okay, I listen to a lot ofmusic, like when I edit photos
or videos, but RightOccasionally I would listen to a
podcast and I'm like, oh yeah,this is it's nice.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's just not something you think to do.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Totally.
I feel like people are eitherlike that or they're like die
hard, like oh, it's in the thirdof your day.
You know, like me, no, no no,I'm kind of intense, so are you
from this area originally?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yes, born and raised Nice, did my education here.
All of my clients are here.
Yep, I love it here.
Yes, the weather is great, it'sgorgeous, it's done.
Then I always tell people youcan do so much within like 45
minutes, whether it's the ocean,the redwoods.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You probably know all the spots too.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, there's a lot of great spots.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
How do you know what clips to post on your social
media?
Owning your own business, Likethat's another piece.
You have to publish your workon your feed.
You have to think about peoplefinding you and reaching out to
you.
Your website, all of that.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Well, part of it is just putting quality content out
there.
You definitely want to beunique, differentiating yourself
from others.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Even like I'm thinking about for someone like
you, do you ever feel like, okay, I should do a post about me?
That's like hey, here's mebehind the lens, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah.
Like do you have to think likethat kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean, I would like to do that, but I don't get the
opportunity.
You're so busy.
Yeah, like it'll be cool ifsomeone could film behind the
scenes.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Teach me, I'll do it for you.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, hell yeah, even if it's just iPhone content oh
my God, I would love to help you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yes, that would be sick.
Yeah, it's just interesting.
Some people it's like all them,all their face.
Some people you I don't evenknow who the person behind the
camera is.
Other people, they use thesepresets that, like all their
pictures, have this like orangetint to them.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know, yeah, it has some type of style to it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Uh-huh yeah.
And so I was just wonderingabout that, like how do you put
yourself out there and how doyou know what clips to put on
your website and stuff?
How do you pick?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So on my website it's all my best work.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
All your best work Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So I have to pick the best of the best Of the best,
whether they're photos or videos.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And sometimes when you shoot the photo or video,
you know that's the shot LikeI've got, that that's the shot
that the couple's gonna love, orthat's the shot the client will
love and that shot is going onthe website.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Ha yeah, so you know when you know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, Because your website is highlighting you and
you want to show your work tofuture clients.
You have to show your beststuff.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yep, do you usually just have a plethora to choose
from because you have so manylike events and things going on?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, so each year, like in December and January
when I actually have time, Ikind of go through the stuff I
shot the previous year and picksome of my favorite stuff and
put those items onto the websiteand take out the old stuff.
Update, so each year thewebsite evolves.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Refresh.
Yeah, dude, it's banging.
It's banging right now.
And what's it like to shootcelebs?
Like do you talk to them?
Do you just shoot them?
Like give us the tape.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's pretty formal, like I've shot meeting Greeks,
sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I would not be normal in that situation.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You still stay professional.
Yeah, how do you do?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
that.
How do you do that?
Do you ever freak outinternally?
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I haven't yet.
So basically, they come in tothe room, you have your camera
set up, you have the backdropset up, you introduce yourself
to them.
They say, hi, talk about what'sgoing to happen and how these
photos are going to work.
Do?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
you ever sneak in like a.
I love your work.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I haven't said that.
Have they ever been rude?
You don't say who, but hasanyone ever been in stand-up and
off-ish or rude?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Not rude, but there's someone I met one time that I
thought he has this really greatlively stage presence, but then
when he came in he was verystiff.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Damn.
Okay, that's interesting toknow.
Is it just for you the same asshooting anyone else, kind of
yeah, or is there more pressure?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I wouldn't say there's more pressure, because I
know what I'm doing and I knowI'll be able to get their
meeting.
Greek shot.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, so you're not worried about it.
Okay, I just love celebs, Ilove all things celebs.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
So I mean, if it, maybe, if it was a big time
celebrity, I would get a littlepressure.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, tino shade.
Like who Like who is yourfavorite celeb?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Before he passed away , it was Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh yeah, rip.
Okay, fair enough, that's agood answer.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
If there is like a musician or actor or athlete
that I followed like my wholeentire life, then yeah, I would
probably.
Yeah, like a Jonas brother forme.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, have you ever shot the Junes brothers?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No, I haven't.
Okay, I'm not that big.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
If you ever do call me or don't you probably don't
want me there I'll run it foryou.
Just kidding, just kidding, Iwon't run anything for you.
Um, okay, okay.
So how do you manage work-lifebalance?
Like you're probably alwaysworking weekends, do you have
free time?
What does your life look likewhen you're not shooting?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
People ask me if I have a work-life balance.
Most of the time I say no yeah.
Yeah, I work all the time.
Literally, I could work 12hours a day between answering
emails, teaching, shooting.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You're still teaching .
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm still teaching.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Biology things.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, science.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh okay.
So sometimes, damn, you're busydude.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'll answer emails in the morning, do a little
editing, go to the teach in theafternoon, come back home and
then edit.
Sometimes I wish I had a team.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Ain't that the truth, brennan?
We will one day.
We will one day Now.
Do you have any siblings?
I don't.
Okay, only child Love that.
Do you plan to live hereforever?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I think so.
Actually, you don't know thisyet, but I just bought a house
here.
Oh my God, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yes, yay, thank you.
That's a huge, huge deal.
My God, what's your house like,like?
Is it like a bachelor pad?
You like wake up, walkdownstairs, answer emails, put
on your teaching outfit, goteach, come back open a window.
I don't know.
That pretty much sounds like it, okay.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, and I recently just bought this really nice
wood table.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I love Plot myself down there in the morning.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
There, give it to him .
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I don't have a dog, but I love dogs and you're busy,
you're a hell of a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, you need a dog that can like come with you.
That's like one of those dogsthat's like so chill.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, so well behaved .
That's just like stays with you.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Just like your buddy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I would love some type of like Labrador.
Yeah, yeah, and also mybackyard is currently just a
pile of dirt.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Got it, so you got to be.
You got to be right.
Fair enough, fair enough, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Do you feel overwhelmed in yourlife?
Do you feel the need for morefree time, or are you like this
works for me?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I would say both Okay , like sometimes because I work
so much, I'm just used to it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, and you probably booked out a while too.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah Well, especially kind of like May through
October.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, fall.
It's pretty wild, so are wejust coming out of it now for
you?
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's slowing down.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
But I currently have two wedding videos to edit and a
few other projects, so there'sstill a lot to do.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So there's stuff like once you shoot the event, you
still got a hell of work to do.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
You're not done.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
When a project is finally done and you send off
the final edits to people.
Are you like?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, that's the best part, just checking it off and
then hearing like their response.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, that's hearing the feedback I bet is the best
part.
When you do need like vacation,do you have to plan it so far
ahead because you are so bookedout?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, it has to be booked, maybe a year or 18
months in advance, like, forexample, one of my friends had
his wedding last year and fivemonths before his wedding he
told me oh, I'm getting married.
I'm like I already have awedding job booked that day.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Right, so I can't make it.
No.
So yeah, for like your personallife too.
And like what if you are in afriend's wedding but they also
want you to film it because younot do that?
Would you prefer like to justbe present with them on the day?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If one of my friends has a wedding, I would rather
just be a part of it and notworry about capturing all the
photos and videos.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I would rather just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
But I think at the same time they would probably
want me to video it, orphotograph it.
I know that's tricky.
When that comes up, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Right, okay, okay, you heard it here, folks.
Okay, and what are the pillarsthat keep you up?
Are there like self-care thingsthat you do, that like keep you
going?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
So, as you kind of heard, I don't get much downtime
, but I really enjoy listeningto music.
Oh, I like driving too.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
It's like driving.
That's a new time.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Listening to music?
Yeah.
So when I'm traveling to a gig,play some music?
Yeah.
Roll the windows down a littlebit and cruise.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, I see your dog next to you again.
Yeah, do you like getting paidto travel?
Is it fun to like go somewhereand like have a hotel?
Oh, yeah, that's, yeah, that'sthe best part.
That sounds so fun.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Like traveling gigs are fun because in most cases
they'll pay for gas, your hotelcombinations.
I don't go on many vacations,but that's kind of like a mini
vacation.
One example of that is when Ifilm Country in the Park.
It's a two-day music festival,they pay for hotel, they pay me
to shoot and it's also a greattime.
So I'm doing what I love 100%.
Do you ever shoot comedy?
(34:42):
I think I shot comedy once.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay, I'm just curious.
I go to see comedy shows a lotJimmy Taitrell I don't know who
that is.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh, that's amazing, though yeah, I wasn't that
familiar with him too, but he'sbeen in a couple of movies,
really Damn damn Editing Tiffhere, feel the need to say I'm
an idiot.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I do a 100% know who he is and had just literally
watched the movie he's inplaying Bert Kreischer, called
the Machine.
Here we go.
I'm thinking about startingstandup.
I don't want to do it prolonged, I just want to try it once.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Okay, just to say I did, I'll photograph your comedy
sketch.
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, I forgot, I also shot a.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Do you know Gabriel Iglesias?
Yes, fluffy, yeah, he was atthe Green Music Center.
Oh my God.
I photographed him a couple oftimes.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Frickin lit dude, you see stuff that people won't see
in their lifetime up close,yeah, you know, like your eyes
have seen things that, like,quite simply, I'll never see.
Yeah, just these differentexperiences Do you think there
will ever be a time where youslow down because this is all a
lot, or right now we're moving,we're grooving, we're shaking,
we're moving.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So right now it's working, yeah, but eventually,
yes, are you single Somethingwe'll have to give?
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
When you do have partners.
Is this hard for them, Like youbeing gone all the time?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, because these jobs are kind of like set in
stone and they can't come.
Yeah, both cases they can'tcome Right, so it's it's hard.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And then you're editing when you're home.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah and then.
Oh.
Sorry, I can't hang out becauseI have to get this edit done by
this time or this week.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's almost like maybe you need to date another
videographer.
That would be fun.
You guys can make like sexyedit time and like do it make it
or something.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Do you know any videographers?
I don't Just you.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
But hey, if you're listening, get us up folks.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
That would be fun, like another videographer or
photographer.
Yeah, then we have the shared,the lifestyle Interesting.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Uh-huh, you can like share ideas and tips.
It could be your second shooterif needed.
Yeah, sorry to kick out yourfriend.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
It's the ultimate partnership.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
The ultimate partnership.
I love it.
Well, we're just manifesting,we're planting seeds.
For my last question do youthink there are any
misconceptions that people haveLike?
Do people assume things aboutvideography or your work when
they message you?
Is there anything annoying thatyou constantly get Like as a
question, that you're like thisisn't a thing?
Stop asking me.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, I guess one would be the price as well, as
most people don't understand theamount of time it takes to edit
their photos or video.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Because they just see me shooting with them that day,
right, that's all they see.
I'm like oh, he had a good time.
He got some great photos.
We fed him.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
You should be happy yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Can we get our photos tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, right, right, right that to the expectation.
And it says upfront in yourcontract too.
Like you're not going to getthese for a while, folks.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, for like four weeks, eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I mean, that's fast yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And also it's not like I'm just editing their
stuff.
There's other people who camebefore you in the queue, so I
have to kind of go througheverything in order.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Are people ever rude about that or like about?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
your price.
They haven't been rude aboutthe price.
They just don't do business,right.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Right, right, right, right, right.
Okay, well, thank you for beinghere.
You've just been a light, ashining star.
Anything you want to say to thecherries?
Do you know the cherries?
Are you a cherry?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
You're not a cherry.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What are the cherries ?
The cherries are my listeners,okay.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I just started, naturally, I knew I needed a fan
name.
You know, like Selena has theSalonators or the Swifties Swift
.
Exactly, mine are the cherries.
Awesome, yes, thank you forbeing here.
Bye, yay, that was so good.
Yeah, all right, I hope youenjoyed that as much as I did
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And if you're looking forsomeone to shoot your next event
, look no further.
Folks, here he is.
Thank you to Brennan for beingon and being so open with us.
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another episode.
I have been under the weatherthis past week so I'm finally
starting to feel better back tomy old usual self.
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maybe hopefully this podcastwill keep you entertained.
So this week we have on Brennan.
He is a videographer, he is aphotographer, he is an editor.
He has all things talented andkind and truly easy to work with
.
I have known him now forseveral years.
He shot our wedding into amusic video and I've always
(00:52):
wanted to interview him and kindof learn more about his craft,
the way he approaches things, ifhe ever gets nervous, just all
these questions, and so that'swhat we dive into today.
I hope you enjoy.
Let's get to it.
Hey everyone, it's Tiff and I'mhere with my videographer from
(01:15):
my wedding, brennan.
Hi guys, but you've honestlydone much more than that.
I'm sorry for like saying thatas your disclaiming piece,
that's the only thing I do,right?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, yeah, that's all he's ever done.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's all he'll ever do.
You're welcome.
No, I was seriously looking atyour website.
You have done so much.
You're a pro.
I feel like I'm honored to evenhave you sitting here Like, can
I touch you?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You can touch me.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, seriously, how are you?
How have you been?
I've actually known him for awhile before we ever worked
together.
I knew you because he workedwith Julie, who you guys know,
and you worked with her severaltimes on both of her wedding
receptions, right?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, so Julie and I actually went to high school
together, dude.
I don't remember that, probablyover a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, damn, no way.
So you've known each othersince then.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, we haven't kept in touch between high school
and now, but she remembered meand she invited me to film her
wedding.
Yes, this was well before thepandemic.
Yes, oh my gosh, we had thisbig plan, but then it went to
something smaller scale 100%,yes, it did.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And then I still feel like I saw you at stuff.
Like didn't I see you at asorority thing?
Potentially, yeah, I feel likeI've seen you at other things.
You're kind of like verypopular in this community.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, some people know me in Sonoma County.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Not a big deal, but everyone knows me, but I just
remember we had Julie's weddingbeing so fun and I was like when
I, if I ever get married,you're going to do mine cut to.
I remember that moment.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, it was at her reception.
Yes, in the backyard, andeveryone was having a good time.
You were having a good time.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you've seen me turn a lot.
Yeah, is it weird to see mehere just not now?
No, okay, sorry, weird question.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You're still Tiff.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, I'm still exactly folks, I'm still Tiff,
but yeah, so welcome.
How long have you been in thisbusiness?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's hard to kind of pick like an actual starting
point because you always startsmall, but I would say around
2014, 2015.
Okay Is when I started kind ofmaybe earning a little money
from it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, and before that , how did you originally get
into it?
Did you always have a cameraLike, where was your start?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
It was back shortly after high school.
Okay, I started a YouTubechannel called Brennan's Tech
Fight Upsass.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Is it still up there?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's still up there, but I haven't made a video in
maybe five years or so.
So I was really into, I guess,technology and at that time
YouTube was.
You could make content and youcould earn money.
I thought that was exciting, soI was really into Apple
products Got it.
Like ever since Steve Jobsannounced first iPhone, I'm like
wow, this piece of technology.
What was that 2006, 2000,.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Somewhere around there.
I don't remember the exact date.
No, no, no, sorry to put you onthe spot.
I'm just wondering if it was90s or that was too far.
No, not the 90s, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But, yeah, I got myself a small digital camera
yeah, not even a DSLR, oh, okay,and I just recorded myself
filming tutorials, unboxings,product reviews.
Back in the day, you would haveto get a YouTube partnership,
okay, and that's when you couldstart earning money, gotcha, and
I probably grew the channel toabout a thousand subscribers.
(04:19):
Dude, I applied for the programand they accepted my channel.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Legend.
Yeah, editing Tiff here, justwanted to jump in and say that I
went and looked at this YouTubepage.
Some of his videos havemillions of views.
Folks, he really is crushing itand I just what would it be
like to have a video withmillions of views?
Will I ever know, who knows?
But great job, brennan.
Okay, back to the show.
So what do you think about thevideo you post?
(04:44):
Something happens.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What do you mean by something?
Happens, people watch and leavecomments and things happen and
based on that does the monetarything depend.
Yeah, if you have a smallerchannel, you don't make much on
YouTube.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, that's what they say about YouTube and
TikTok.
I've heard too.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, so because I was filming on YouTube and I had
this small little point andshoot camera, of course I wanted
to improve the quality of myvideos, so I bought a DSLR.
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's the first time you sent it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, it was a Canon T3i and that camera could shoot
really good quality video.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So I improved my video quality and I self taught
myself pretty much everythingWith YouTube.
It's cool because you cansearch for anything and learn to
do anything.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Not just video.
It's pretty much how we got apodcast yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, how to podcast, how to build something in your
house?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
How to change something in your car.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, fix a tire.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Literally Makeup tutorial.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, anything, it's amazing yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And even though, like knowing what camera to get and
being self taught like I'vetried to figure that out, it
must be a lot of research.
There's so many options Likehow do you know what you're even
doing, or how to get into thespace.
Did it feel intimidating atfirst to breach in there?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, just like you can learn anything on YouTube,
you can research anything onYouTube as well, true.
True, so I would watch a lot ofproduct reviews on different
cameras and try to see which onewas best, that's smart.
And then I landed on that CanonT3i.
Okay, so I've startedeverything.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Really, yeah, the camera that changed it all.
Do you still have that camera?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No, I sold it.
I had to sell it so I couldupgrade to another camera.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh damn, how to do what you had to do following
those dreams.
Okay, so from there, what wasit about this camera that kind
of showed you?
Oh no, we could take this tothe next level.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I self taught myself how to use the camera,
how to record video, and becausethat camera could also shoot
photos, I'm like well, I'm notlearning how to take photos as
well.
So one summer I just watched aton of tutorials on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And so there do you start, kind of building a little
bit of a portfolio, askingfriends to do shoots.
How does it become a businessand ramp itself up?
I have so many questions, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So it was mainly just like for YouTube and a passion
project, okay, okay.
And then friends would see myYouTube channel and they're like
can you film this, can youphotograph these engagement
photos?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And you just kind of build it little by little.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Organically, yeah, yeah, like a snowball, like
photography and videography,different skills inherently that
you have to hone in their ownlanes, or is it something that
kind of goes hand in hand witheach other?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
They're similar in terms of changing settings on
the camera, but as far as thestrategy of shooting photos and
video, it's different, becausephotos you're trying to capture
still frames of people or candidmoments, where video you're
capturing more of the motion,the flow.
And sometimes the audio.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, so this time you're starting to take pictures
of friends, family.
They're seeing that you aretalented and starting to ask you
to do things for them.
Are you also working separatelyfrom this in another space?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
At that time I was probably just a full-time
student.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, okay.
And so what changes?
Where we have Brennan Sparkphotography.
What is it officially called?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's yeah, brennan, spark Brennan.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Spark.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And then I say in the subtitle Videography,
videography and photography,yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, okay, so you've officially become, I guess, an
established business.
Did you have to get a businesslicense?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, the business license probably didn't come
until maybe 2018.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, got it Got, it Got it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So if you want to say when it was official, official.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It would be then Okay 2018.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Got it, but, like in 2014, 2015, I started building
it even more Got it.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's when things ramped up.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, and during that time were you honing kind of
your own style, like I noticed,photographers and videographers
this is just from Instagram.
Being a lay person, I noticedthey seemed to have different
like vibes I don't know how elseto describe it.
How were you kind of findingyour own during that?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
time.
Yeah, yeah, I know there's likesome photographers or
videographers.
They have their own look totheir photos or videos.
Yeah, I also try to create myown look.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, I think you do too.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
When I capture things , whether it's for their videos,
I like to capture kind of likethe natural candid moment, yes.
Or to show interactions amongpeople or people having a good
time at an event, or a wedding,or at a music festival.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So what are your favoriteevents to do?
Like, when you see this onecoming up on your calendar,
you're like yes, I'm jacked.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I always enjoy shooting music.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's cool because normally when you go to a show
you sit in the 20th row.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, if you're lucky , nosebleed Right, right, who
knows?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And you have to pay a few hundred bucks for the
ticket.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Right, you're seeing a tiny human.
You can't see their face.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, it's like okay.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, but when you shoot music, sometimes you can
go all the way up to the front,move around and get your shot.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, you get to like go backstage, behind, up front.
What is that called, thatlittle strip it's called the pit
.
The pit.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, that's where they put the photographers and
videographers, that's freakingsick dude.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And now, how do you get connected with that?
Are you just, in this area,connected to different
auditoriums, music stadiums Idon't even know what they're
called.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, so I guess if we kind of backtrack.
So I eventually went to SonomaState, go Sea Lions.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Sea Wolves, sea Wolves, that's what it is.
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yep.
And then from there, one of myfriends invited me to be on a
school newspaper because he knewI was doing photography,
videography, and at the time heasked if I could help them
redesign their website.
Love From there, naturally, Imoved into taking photos and
being the photo editor for theschool newspaper.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Sick.
What was the newspaper called?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It was called the Sonoma State Star.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I knew it had a fun name.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Side note did you go at the same time as my sister?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I finished around 2018.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So yeah, you were there at the same time.
So that's why I think I saw youat a sorority thing, because
she would take me to things.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I did shoot a couple of those events.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, it was called Rush, Rush Formals.
Well, I didn't get to go to.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Rush, I did a Formal, and did you ever do lip jam?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I did go to lip jam.
You did, I wasn't in it.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But I got to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Okay, yeah, what year was that?
The one where they did Orangeis the New Black.
Okay.
I don't quite remember I didphotograph in a couple of times
so we've kind of always beenrotating around each other like
the sun and Saturn or whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But anyway, sorry, okay.
So through that I got to takepictures around campus.
I was still doing video for funas well.
Yeah, one year at Sonoma Statethey had this I guess, spirit
rally I think it was calledMidnight Madness or something
like that where they have abasketball game but they have
everyone there, like thecheerleaders, the dance team,
(11:28):
lobo, the mascot, they inviteall the students, they pass out
swag and Swag merch.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We love merch folks yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's just a fun time.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So I decided to capture that for fun.
I made like a 30 second video,yes, and I shared it on my
social media.
Yes and I kind of tagged SonomaState and some other people
associated with Sonoma State.
That video kind of went viral.
Oh Like a lot of people in thecampus community saw it Damn,
and that kind of further kickedthings off for me at Sonoma
(11:59):
State.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, first of all, that is so fun.
What's it like to go viral?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It didn't get like millions of views.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But still to wake up and be like everyone's seeing my
stuff yeah, that's a dream?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, just like in the comments, like people said
like oh, this video is reallyamazing.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
At the time.
I don't think anyone has reallycreated anything like that for
Sonoma State.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, different people around campus reached out
to me At the time.
I think the provost asked me tofilm something for the
president, which was pretty cool.
I do Kind of leading into how Ishot music.
Yes Is, on campus.
We have a performance venuecalled the Green Music Center.
Beautiful venue, have you beenStunning?
Yeah, yeah, it's great,especially during summer, where
(12:39):
you can go out on the lawn andoh, I haven't done that.
Yeah, and enjoy a picnic dance.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I've only been there in the dark, Like I don't.
I haven't seen it in the light.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Uh-huh, oh, I need to do that.
Yeah, come back.
Yeah, During the fall or duringthe summer, and yeah, there's
some great shows.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But anyways, because I posted that video on my social
media and it kind of spread itthroughout the Sonoma State
community In addition to, Iguess, campus administration
seeing it, the marketing team atthe Green Music Center saw that
video.
They found me, or they had myemail address and they invited
me for a meeting to see what wecould do together.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Hell yeah.
Oh my God, what'd you wear tothis meeting?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Probably just jeans and a shirt.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I wasn't in suit and tie or anything.
Yeah, yeah, that's my firstpicture, super casual, sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So you went to this meeting and what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
This meeting was in the spring and coming up was
their summer season, so I thinkfirst was 4th of July and then
they had a variety of indooroutdoor concerts.
So they essentially asked if Icould create a similar highlight
video for them for 4th of Julyand some other things for the
summer as well.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
They can promo it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, Just capture the excitement and get people
fired up.
Yeah to come to shows.
Yeah.
And then, because they knew Idid photography, they're like
yeah, can you take some photosfor us as well?
That was my first gig at SonomaState and my first time
shooting music.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
What was it like?
Were you immediately into it,or was it scary?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh no, it was definitely fun because now I
could shoot something differentand bigger.
So it was exciting From theGreen Music Center, from being
able to film and photographperformance.
It led to filming a couplemusic festivals, as well as
filming with the TranscendenceTheater Company.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh my God, holy shit.
Okay, so what were you studyingat Sonoma State?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, so actually I was studying biology.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with it, but
with biology you can do avariety of things, whether it's
research.
Go into the medical field,teach, seems hard.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You have to take like OK and shit.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, not only do you have to take biology, but you
have to take physics, calculusand chemistry.
I understand chemistry, but whyphysics and calculus?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I don't understand any of it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, I know 100% that's hard.
So you're smart, yeah, and thatprobably helps with like
videography and photography,like are you doing like physics?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, no, it's a complete different thing.
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I was like maybe you're like calculating the map
of like this tree from that tree, Nope Dividing the light by the
tree.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
No math, no size involved.
Okay, got it, got it, got it,got it, cool, cool, cool, cool
Cool.
I don't even capture plants oranimals.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You don't?
Oh yeah, I've never thought ofthat.
Okay, so just people for you,yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, as a joke, because of biology, humans are
technically animals, right?
So I guess we do.
I do capture animals all thetime.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You kind of capture the most feral of them, all you
know.
And then, when did weddingscome into this?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, I forgot the actual time point, but people
see that you're able to creategreat videos.
Totally Capture the moment.
When I was at Sonoma State, oneof my friends knew I could take
photos.
Yeah, they asked if I couldtake photos for their brother's
wedding.
They didn't have much of abudget and at the same time that
was my first wedding.
(15:55):
So he said, oh, can you do itfor a little less but at the
same time you can use thesephotos for your portfolio.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So that was my first wedding.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And do you like weddings like compared to music
festivals?
I'm assuming they're verydifferent.
Yeah, definitely Do you evenlike them.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, being there, capturing the moment, capturing
all the fun of the reception andeverything, that's a great time
, but the other side is it'svery stressful.
Yeah, because you have toalways be thinking ahead of
where you need to be and whatyou need to capture, and you
also want to make sure that youget all the moments and
everything like that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Right, because they're not going to happen
again.
Yeah, technically, hopefully,whatever.
So, music festivals, do youfeel the same Like I got to get
everything in because do youhave more time?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, I'll say for anything I shoot, whether it's
as something as simple asportraits, music or wedding or
some type of event, at thebeginning of all gigs there's
some type of stress ornervousness.
Are you going to get the shot,even though I've done it 10
million times?
Are you going to get the shotBecause?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
you're just a human.
Yeah, and you guys are alsopaying me to do that Right Right
and you want to do a good job.
Like you, care about the workyou do.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, but after you kind of get some of the shots
going, you kind of settle down.
And it's all good yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Have you ever had a nightmare situation happen on a
job?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
A nightmare situation .
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, like a funny story now, but at the time you
were like, oh my God, I can'tbelieve this has happened, like
you deleted all the footage froma wedding.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That would be terrifying, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I can't rate, pinpoint a specific moment, but
there would have to be somepoint during one gig where maybe
I had multiple cameras goingand one camera wasn't recording
or the audio wasn't perfect.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, that type situation, but I was able to
work through it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So, nothing catastrophic.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah.
At the moment, which is thismight be a crazy and you
couldn't tell me to f right off,but have you ever had someone
like flash you and you have tolike turn the camera off, Like
at a crazy wedding, or like at amusic festival.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, it's happened at a music festival.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Okay, yeah, I can see that, or unintentionally at
like a sorority thing.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah things Too much, side boop yay.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So you just don't include those things.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, so things happen Like funny.
Do you ever see like hilariousmoments on camera that like are
in the background or somethingthat were caught accidentally,
that you can't put in the finalvideo, obviously, but like
they're hilarious for you to see?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, just like you have this great shot of these
people, and somewhere in thebackground these people are
making a funny face or somewhere.
Yeah, yeah it just kills thephoto or the video shot.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Totally, and in that case, do you like Photoshop?
Is that a part of it, or is itnot a thing?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, for video it's hard to remove things.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, for photos.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Sometimes you can crop them out or do a little
Photoshop, but most of the timeyou messed up my shot.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now is lighting or sound moreimportant, or both?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Technically they're both important, okay, but for
video I would say sound is moreimportant.
Why?
Because if you're listening toit and there's a bunch of weird
background noise, the audio isjust like screaming in your ear
or breaking up.
It could look really good, likethe video quality is perfect,
right, like oh, this was shotwith a cinema camera.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But then if the audio is terrible, the viewer they
can't listen to it because theycan't hear it.
It's distracting, it's hurtingtheir ears.
So make sure your audio is goodfirst Okay, okay, and then
video.
Use your phone If you can'tobtain like a high quality
camera.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's what I heard, too, when I came to podcasting.
They were like, if you're notgoing to buy this camera, which
was $900 or above- use yourphone.
And I try to do not that, andthey were right.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And if you know how to actually use the phone, it
can be very powerful and you canget content just as good as
like a regular camera.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Really, yeah, okay, good to know.
Side question what are allthese straps you guys are
wearing at?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
events.
These straps?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, what are these straps called?
There are camera straps and noware they like attached to your
waist, Like?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, so the one I have, I think it's actually
called the money maker, which isfunny.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Dude, no pun intended , or not, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So the camera strap that goes across your back and
around your shoulders, mine canhold two cameras, so when I'm
shooting I have like one camerathat has a zoom lens so I can
get things further away from me.
Okay, they have another camerathat has a more wide angle lens,
so I can get things closer.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Are there ones that can hold more?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, potentially you could hold a third camera.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is that necessary?
Do you need one?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't Okay.
But some professionals theyhave like a zoom lens, a really
wide angle lens, and thenanother camera for kind of a
medium.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Where does the third one go?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
It kind of just dangles down the middle.
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And now, when you buy , those are those like niche in
your community, like so they'rejust camera straps or harnesses
but like, do you buy highquality ones?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll say you get what you pay for.
Okay, that's true for mostlyanything.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, I've always wondered that when I go to
weddings I'm like, oh, that onelooks like a nice set.
Yeah, that one looks differentit's like whoa, I wonder where
they get those.
Oh, you don't have a moneymaker, bro.
Like, what do you even do it?
Because, like, if you don't, isit hard to work without one of
those.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, you always need a camera strap, especially if
you have two cameras.
You can't hold both of them,you simply cannot.
Or if you just have one camera,you need to kind of reposition
things.
You can't just, you're not justgoing to put your camera down.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You need your hands, yeah, and now what's the deal
with a second shooter?
Are there situations where youhave to hire someone?
Is there a situation where theyput you with other
photographers, like at musicfestivals?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So typically for music there's a team, okay,
hired by someone runningmarketing or someone who's
managing that?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Because one's not enough to get all the things
going on.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, it's a lot, because music festivals are
large and you have to walkthroughout the venue.
Multiple things at once Fromthe front of the stage to the
back of the stage, so there theyhire a team.
Most of the time you don'tassemble your team, but smaller
music festivals yeah, you canmake your own team, Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And when you are on a team, are you like I'm going to
get Kelsey Ballerini, Do youlike split it up?
Or are you guys like nudgingeach other out of the way to get
the best shot?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No, it's all organized.
We're deciding who's going tocapture what.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Got it.
But for weddings do you everhave to have a second shooter.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Like for your wedding .
You were just looking for amusic video where I captured.
Music video yes, I love it, Icaptured all the fun moments,
but I didn't record any audio.
No, I didn't need that.
But for wedding films that'swhat I call it where we record
the same things, all thehighlights of the day, from
getting ready to the send off,right, but we're also recording
(22:16):
the audio of the speeches andthe ceremony.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Layed over the top instead of a song, or like is
there still a song?
Kind of quietly.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, so there's still background music and it's
like a movie.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yes, yes, like a movie.
And you've seen those videos,Cherries, of like I'll love you
forever.
I'll love you forever, Always.
Shot to her and her mom.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
So for that, whenever we incorporate audio, I need a
second shooter, because we alsohave multiple cameras running
during the ceremony and we havemultiple cameras running during
the speeches and we record audio, and by also having that second
videographer or assistant we'realso able to get more unique
shots.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Totally Okay.
When they're talking, do theyhave a microphone that you're
hooked up to?
You have that audio track.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Most of the time the couple will hire a DJ and we
plug in our audio recorder intothe DJ's equipment so we can get
a clean feed of the speeches.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
the vows the ceremony Right, not the people
background wooing on top of it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
But sometimes for backup or maybe for the first
look, when the DJ isn't there,we'll put a clip on mic onto the
groom.
Yeah, sometimes for the brideit's hard to put on a mic onto a
wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, like excuse me.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, and it's just, logistically it's hard to find a
place to clip it in.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Got it, got it, got it right.
There might not even be a place, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So we mic the groom for like the first look, and
when they come together his micwill still pick up.
It'll be close enough.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
The bride's audio Ooh , little nips and tricks folks.
That's very exciting.
And do you pick that secondshooter like someone you like?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, so the second shooter is actually one of my
friends.
Okay, we shoot all of theweddings together.
Love that.
He helps me out at Sonoma Statesometimes as well as some other
gigs.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Very cool.
So it's someone you know,someone you like.
You're not just going to hire arando to come with you to a
wedding.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No, hell, no, that would be bad.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Have you ever had one person at an event just
continually ruin your shot Likepurposefully, like they're
coming around like trying tofuck with you.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
No, okay, not necessarily.
What a weird thing to do Wellsometimes well, not continually,
but sometimes when I'm tryingto get this nice candid moment
or shot like People would comein front of the camera, wave,
make faces be, obnoxious and I'mlike, yeah, I know you want to
be on camera, but hey, I'mtrying.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There's something about the camera being pointed
at people that makes them doweird shit.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It makes them either very, very shy or very uh what
you call me.
Lively.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And they're like.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I want to be on this highlight reel 100.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
So I'm just going to be obnoxious.
Dude, I was so annoying.
You're so right.
They did a cocktail competitionbetween different restaurants
in Sonoma County and there was avideographer there and he was
just filming the food.
I'm so annoying.
I was trying to like wanderaround where he was to like be
picking up foods when he wasfilming them, because I wanted
to be in the video and heprobably hated the fuck out of
me.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I was like, oh, there's a camera, but it's not
about you.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, it's about the food.
I mean sometimes like if theyget a nice fun shot of you guys
waving or yeah with the camera.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
that's cool, but it's like if you're if he's a
stalker if he's like focused onthe shot and you're just like my
head's just popping in so he'sprobably a little annoying.
Yeah, no, I promise it wasn'tthat bad.
Do you ever want to like filmmovies when it like?
Do you want to be like?
I don't even know who's a,who's a film that's famous.
What's his name?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The evil one, the evil one, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The one that did um pulp fiction.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I don't know.
Are we talking about directorsor cinematographers?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh no, what's his name?
Oh no, he does like the reallygraphic ones.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I don't know, sorry.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It'll come to me.
Someone in their car is likescreaming it.
Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Is he a video?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
He's a director.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So are you like a James Cameron, like a director?
That's what he is too, Ibelieve so yeah.
So what?
How come you guys aren't famous, the people who actually film
the movie?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The director gets most of the credit.
That's a hard job In the titlesequences I'm sure it lists all
the videographers.
There's more than just one,there's probably a whole team of
them.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Would you like to be in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I've actually never really thought about it,
probably because of that it'snot really a desire, or goal.
I'm happy doing what.
I'm doing currently.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Okay, love that.
I just have Hollywood dreams.
Maybe you can follow me toHollywood sometime and film it.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, I'll film your.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Film my live shows.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I'll film your live shows, your vlogs.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yes, yes, my like launches all these things I'm
going to do.
Also, is this the first podcastyou've ever been on.
It is Welcome.
Thanks, do you listen topodcasts?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Not too much.
Okay, I listen to a lot ofmusic, like when I edit photos
or videos, but RightOccasionally I would listen to a
podcast and I'm like, oh yeah,this is it's nice.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's just not something you think to do.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Totally.
I feel like people are eitherlike that or they're like die
hard, like oh, it's in the thirdof your day.
You know, like me, no, no no,I'm kind of intense, so are you
from this area originally?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yes, born and raised Nice, did my education here.
All of my clients are here.
Yep, I love it here.
Yes, the weather is great, it'sgorgeous, it's done.
Then I always tell people youcan do so much within like 45
minutes, whether it's the ocean,the redwoods.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You probably know all the spots too.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, there's a lot of great spots.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
How do you know what clips to post on your social
media?
Owning your own business, Likethat's another piece.
You have to publish your workon your feed.
You have to think about peoplefinding you and reaching out to
you.
Your website, all of that.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Well, part of it is just putting quality content out
there.
You definitely want to beunique, differentiating yourself
from others.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Even like I'm thinking about for someone like
you, do you ever feel like, okay, I should do a post about me?
That's like hey, here's mebehind the lens, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah.
Like do you have to think likethat kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean, I would like to do that, but I don't get the
opportunity.
You're so busy.
Yeah, like it'll be cool ifsomeone could film behind the
scenes.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Teach me, I'll do it for you.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, hell yeah, even if it's just iPhone content oh
my God, I would love to help you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yes, that would be sick.
Yeah, it's just interesting.
Some people it's like all them,all their face.
Some people you I don't evenknow who the person behind the
camera is.
Other people, they use thesepresets that, like all their
pictures, have this like orangetint to them.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You know, yeah, it has some type of style to it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Uh-huh yeah.
And so I was just wonderingabout that, like how do you put
yourself out there and how doyou know what clips to put on
your website and stuff?
How do you pick?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So on my website it's all my best work.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
All your best work Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So I have to pick the best of the best Of the best,
whether they're photos or videos.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And sometimes when you shoot the photo or video,
you know that's the shot LikeI've got, that that's the shot
that the couple's gonna love, orthat's the shot the client will
love and that shot is going onthe website.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Ha yeah, so you know when you know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, Because your website is highlighting you and
you want to show your work tofuture clients.
You have to show your beststuff.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yep, do you usually just have a plethora to choose
from because you have so manylike events and things going on?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, so each year, like in December and January
when I actually have time, Ikind of go through the stuff I
shot the previous year and picksome of my favorite stuff and
put those items onto the websiteand take out the old stuff.
Update, so each year thewebsite evolves.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Refresh.
Yeah, dude, it's banging.
It's banging right now.
And what's it like to shootcelebs?
Like do you talk to them?
Do you just shoot them?
Like give us the tape.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's pretty formal, like I've shot meeting Greeks,
sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I would not be normal in that situation.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You still stay professional.
Yeah, how do you do?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
that.
How do you do that?
Do you ever freak outinternally?
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I haven't yet.
So basically, they come in tothe room, you have your camera
set up, you have the backdropset up, you introduce yourself
to them.
They say, hi, talk about what'sgoing to happen and how these
photos are going to work.
Do?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
you ever sneak in like a.
I love your work.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I haven't said that.
Have they ever been rude?
You don't say who, but hasanyone ever been in stand-up and
off-ish or rude?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Not rude, but there's someone I met one time that I
thought he has this really greatlively stage presence, but then
when he came in he was verystiff.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Damn.
Okay, that's interesting toknow.
Is it just for you the same asshooting anyone else, kind of
yeah, or is there more pressure?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I wouldn't say there's more pressure, because I
know what I'm doing and I knowI'll be able to get their
meeting.
Greek shot.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, so you're not worried about it.
Okay, I just love celebs, Ilove all things celebs.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
So I mean, if it, maybe, if it was a big time
celebrity, I would get a littlepressure.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, tino shade.
Like who Like who is yourfavorite celeb?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Before he passed away , it was Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh yeah, rip.
Okay, fair enough, that's agood answer.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
If there is like a musician or actor or athlete
that I followed like my wholeentire life, then yeah, I would
probably.
Yeah, like a Jonas brother forme.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, have you ever shot the Junes brothers?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No, I haven't.
Okay, I'm not that big.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
If you ever do call me or don't you probably don't
want me there I'll run it foryou.
Just kidding, just kidding, Iwon't run anything for you.
Um, okay, okay.
So how do you manage work-lifebalance?
Like you're probably alwaysworking weekends, do you have
free time?
What does your life look likewhen you're not shooting?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
People ask me if I have a work-life balance.
Most of the time I say no yeah.
Yeah, I work all the time.
Literally, I could work 12hours a day between answering
emails, teaching, shooting.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
You're still teaching .
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I'm still teaching.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Biology things.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, science.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh okay.
So sometimes, damn, you're busydude.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'll answer emails in the morning, do a little
editing, go to the teach in theafternoon, come back home and
then edit.
Sometimes I wish I had a team.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Ain't that the truth, brennan?
We will one day.
We will one day Now.
Do you have any siblings?
I don't.
Okay, only child Love that.
Do you plan to live hereforever?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I think so.
Actually, you don't know thisyet, but I just bought a house
here.
Oh my God, congratulations.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yes, yay, thank you.
That's a huge, huge deal.
My God, what's your house like,like?
Is it like a bachelor pad?
You like wake up, walkdownstairs, answer emails, put
on your teaching outfit, goteach, come back open a window.
I don't know.
That pretty much sounds like it, okay.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, and I recently just bought this really nice
wood table.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I love Plot myself down there in the morning.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
There, give it to him .
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I don't have a dog, but I love dogs and you're busy,
you're a hell of a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, you need a dog that can like come with you.
That's like one of those dogsthat's like so chill.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, so well behaved .
That's just like stays with you.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Just like your buddy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I would love some type of like Labrador.
Yeah, yeah, and also mybackyard is currently just a
pile of dirt.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Got it, so you got to be.
You got to be right.
Fair enough, fair enough, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Do you feel overwhelmed in yourlife?
Do you feel the need for morefree time, or are you like this
works for me?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I would say both Okay , like sometimes because I work
so much, I'm just used to it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, and you probably booked out a while too.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah Well, especially kind of like May through
October.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, fall.
It's pretty wild, so are wejust coming out of it now for
you?
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's slowing down.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
But I currently have two wedding videos to edit and a
few other projects, so there'sstill a lot to do.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So there's stuff like once you shoot the event, you
still got a hell of work to do.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
You're not done.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
When a project is finally done and you send off
the final edits to people.
Are you like?
Oh?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, that's the best part, just checking it off and
then hearing like their response.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, that's hearing the feedback I bet is the best
part.
When you do need like vacation,do you have to plan it so far
ahead because you are so bookedout?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, it has to be booked, maybe a year or 18
months in advance, like, forexample, one of my friends had
his wedding last year and fivemonths before his wedding he
told me oh, I'm getting married.
I'm like I already have awedding job booked that day.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Right, so I can't make it.
No.
So yeah, for like your personallife too.
And like what if you are in afriend's wedding but they also
want you to film it because younot do that?
Would you prefer like to justbe present with them on the day?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
If one of my friends has a wedding, I would rather
just be a part of it and notworry about capturing all the
photos and videos.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I would rather just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
But I think at the same time they would probably
want me to video it, orphotograph it.
I know that's tricky.
When that comes up, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Right, okay, okay, you heard it here, folks.
Okay, and what are the pillarsthat keep you up?
Are there like self-care thingsthat you do, that like keep you
going?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
So, as you kind of heard, I don't get much downtime
, but I really enjoy listeningto music.
Oh, I like driving too.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
It's like driving.
That's a new time.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Listening to music?
Yeah.
So when I'm traveling to a gig,play some music?
Yeah.
Roll the windows down a littlebit and cruise.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, I see your dog next to you again.
Yeah, do you like getting paidto travel?
Is it fun to like go somewhereand like have a hotel?
Oh, yeah, that's, yeah, that'sthe best part.
That sounds so fun.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Like traveling gigs are fun because in most cases
they'll pay for gas, your hotelcombinations.
I don't go on many vacations,but that's kind of like a mini
vacation.
One example of that is when Ifilm Country in the Park.
It's a two-day music festival,they pay for hotel, they pay me
to shoot and it's also a greattime.
So I'm doing what I love 100%.
Do you ever shoot comedy?
(34:42):
I think I shot comedy once.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay, I'm just curious.
I go to see comedy shows a lotJimmy Taitrell I don't know who
that is.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh, that's amazing, though yeah, I wasn't that
familiar with him too, but he'sbeen in a couple of movies,
really Damn damn Editing Tiffhere, feel the need to say I'm
an idiot.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I do a 100% know who he is and had just literally
watched the movie he's inplaying Bert Kreischer, called
the Machine.
Here we go.
I'm thinking about startingstandup.
I don't want to do it prolonged, I just want to try it once.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Okay, just to say I did, I'll photograph your comedy
sketch.
Oh God.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, I forgot, I also shot a.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Do you know Gabriel Iglesias?
Yes, fluffy, yeah, he was atthe Green Music Center.
Oh my God.
I photographed him a couple oftimes.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Frickin lit dude, you see stuff that people won't see
in their lifetime up close,yeah, you know, like your eyes
have seen things that, like,quite simply, I'll never see.
Yeah, just these differentexperiences Do you think there
will ever be a time where youslow down because this is all a
lot, or right now we're moving,we're grooving, we're shaking,
we're moving.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So right now it's working, yeah, but eventually,
yes, are you single Somethingwe'll have to give?
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
When you do have partners.
Is this hard for them, Like youbeing gone all the time?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, because these jobs are kind of like set in
stone and they can't come.
Yeah, both cases they can'tcome Right, so it's it's hard.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
And then you're editing when you're home.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah and then.
Oh.
Sorry, I can't hang out becauseI have to get this edit done by
this time or this week.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's almost like maybe you need to date another
videographer.
That would be fun.
You guys can make like sexyedit time and like do it make it
or something.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Do you know any videographers?
I don't Just you.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
But hey, if you're listening, get us up folks.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
That would be fun, like another videographer or
photographer.
Yeah, then we have the shared,the lifestyle Interesting.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Uh-huh, you can like share ideas and tips.
It could be your second shooterif needed.
Yeah, sorry to kick out yourfriend.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
It's the ultimate partnership.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
The ultimate partnership.
I love it.
Well, we're just manifesting,we're planting seeds.
For my last question do youthink there are any
misconceptions that people haveLike?
Do people assume things aboutvideography or your work when
they message you?
Is there anything annoying thatyou constantly get Like as a
question, that you're like thisisn't a thing?
Stop asking me.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, I guess one would be the price as well, as
most people don't understand theamount of time it takes to edit
their photos or video.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Because they just see me shooting with them that day,
right, that's all they see.
I'm like oh, he had a good time.
He got some great photos.
We fed him.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
You should be happy yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Can we get our photos tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, right, right, right that to the expectation.
And it says upfront in yourcontract too.
Like you're not going to getthese for a while, folks.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, for like four weeks, eight weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I mean, that's fast yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And also it's not like I'm just editing their
stuff.
There's other people who camebefore you in the queue, so I
have to kind of go througheverything in order.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Are people ever rude about that or like about?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
your price.
They haven't been rude aboutthe price.
They just don't do business,right.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Right, right, right, right, right.
Okay, well, thank you for beinghere.
You've just been a light, ashining star.
Anything you want to say to thecherries?
Do you know the cherries?
Are you a cherry?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
You're not a cherry.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What are the cherries ?
The cherries are my listeners,okay.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I just started, naturally, I knew I needed a fan
name.
You know, like Selena has theSalonators or the Swifties Swift
.
Exactly, mine are the cherries.
Awesome, yes, thank you forbeing here.
Bye, yay, that was so good.
Yeah, all right, I hope youenjoyed that as much as I did
(38:16):
Definitely one of my favoriteepisodes of all time.
And if you're looking forsomeone to shoot your next event
, look no further.
Folks, here he is.
Thank you to Brennan for beingon and being so open with us.
Now let's roll into Yoko.
How do we put it?
(38:43):
It's time.
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