This is gonna be a long winded post but hear me out. Over the past year I have got the urge to finally get off my ass and try to do some kind of video work. As most might know I went to college and finish my degree in communications with emphasis on video production. After graduating the plan in the back of my mind was to get some small job and hopefully save up and get equipment to help further my portfolio of work. Well things were Rocky after college and to be honest before do to having to deal with my mother and fathers divorce. Losing two grandparents in that time etc.
Things were looking up once I moved to pittsburgh in 2010. I had just landed a decent job at Agh(where I still am to this day). Well as soon as things look up they can come crashing down because in October of that year I lost everything. My house burned to the ground and everything I owned burned to ash. Not only what I owned but my ambition. Any video work I had done up to that point was lost in the fire and so was the backups. Mind you it wasn;t fantastic work but still showed I had a grasp on the medium.
Now I have been brainstorming and have that fire in me again. I want to start a youtube channel around gaming which has been my passion ever since I was younger. I still game to this day and surround myself in the news related to it and feel my opinions and knowledge are valid. I feel like if I wanna build up and practice video work again. No better way then to make content I am passionate about and build a new portfolio that way and hopefully attract a few jobs here and there.
The real kicker in all this is the equipment I would need to make the videos I would want. I would want a decent camera,good mics, lighting, editing program, maybe newer cpu. This would all be a few 1000 dollars at least. I really don't have that much dispensable income do to accrued credit card debt and other bills. I have had a friend suggest starting a go fund me to help make my dream a reality.
I have reservations of coarse. To be blunt I'm to proud to ever ask for help. I'm sure my mother and father can attest while growing up I didn't come asking for alot and kept to myself. Its hard to humble myself. Even when I had nothing after the house burned I would tell people they don't have to help but they would anyway telling me I needed it.
What do you think? Should I try to find some way to raise money for my video making dream. Should I just give up this lil dream of mine?
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7 years, 1 month ago
03 Feb 2017 05:15 CET
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