cinematographer a producer and director
and I’ve been working in the film
industry for over eight years now I’ve
been fortunate enough to basically work
in the film industry shooting ads music
videos documentaries all kinds of things
and basically the number one thing
that’s always bothered me in through our
odd me growing up and whatever is this
school I hated school I sucked at school
and school was wasn’t the thing that I
would look up to every day and you know
say I want to go to school and you know
got an education basically for me school
was waking up I hated waking up in the
morning alright number one number two
school was my courses I hated all my
courses I didn’t like math I sucked a
mouse who sucks a mouse all of you look
at that so many of you brilliant
okay I’m not alone I sucked the math
right I sucked at history geography
everything I was pretty terrible right I
didn’t make any sport team I was it was
too like grade nine or something where
I’d serving a goalkeeper for my soccer
team in back in Canada so yeah I I
wasn’t good at a lot of things but there
was one thing I was good at when I was
nine years old I was I was on an
airplane watching a movie and the first
thing that came to my mind was man I
want to make this I want to make
something like this I want to do this I
want to keep doing this and I never want
to stop that was when I was nine years
old
Here I am today right and I have a
question for all of you right how many
of you actually want to pursue a career
no many how many of you have considered
it how many of you actually play music
or you know do something or the other in
arts okay that’s
love you why don’t you want to pursue a
career are you scared of something is
there is there a mic what why don’t some
of you want to pursue a career in the
arts I mean I mean let me get that
somebody because even as I want to
eventually I would rather have the
ability to make the money first and then
go into something I want to enjoy okay
so that’s that’s a common mentality that
people have being an artist being a
filmmaker being a musician whatever
you’re going to be broke all your life
you’re going to be miserable
you’re going to be basically left alone
dying on your own without any money
right no that’s not true I am now broke
number one I am not dying alone number
two number two and I’m not scared of
going into anything right and I feel a
lot of a lot of young people need to be
need to be told that you need to be
willing to achieve anything that you
want your passion as one of the fellow
speakers discuss your passion never stop
pursuing your passion because number one
your passion is what makes you go
further if you’re great at something if
you know you’re great at something
that’s that’s better that way you will
be able to go further number two keep
educating yourself the school system
will never tell you how to be a
filmmaker will never tell you how to
basically be an artist or be something
or the other but what what what you can
do is you can learn on your own you have
the Internet you have people that are
out there that are willing to teach you
how to do something self education is
key so that’s that’s that’s where I put
it if you want to be an artist forget
the school system do one thing study on
your own right and a lot of a lot of you
are scared of something or the other
pursuing your passion because somebody
told you you need a university
degree or you need this and that and
that let me be honest with you a
university degree will only catch you
somewhere in the arts I personally have
university degree in film and nobody has
ever asked me what degree I have or why
I’m shooting something or whatever
correct so here here’s how I’m going to
put it if you want to be an artist
number one never give up on yourself
never stop believing in yourself number
three we need more education out there
schools need to pursue a path that
basically teaches kids on how to be an
artist you know and like you you need to
do something about it correct number
three don’t give up that’s the moral of the story thank you very much and yeah