Ben hagarty: absolutely. With moosa [tiffith], for example, he told me I was going on tour when I was at SXSW and I thought it was going to happen that month.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning then, I wouldn’t hear back from him. When I did talk to him he said they were working on it and he’d let me know, but eventually, I had a feeling the tour wasn’t happening.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning you never saw anything about it on the internet, and nothing was being promoted. I was just a sitting duck back in iowa and it was crucial for me to get there and be in his face.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

When I got to LA, moosa would always be at the house I was staying at—my friend craig let me sleep on the floor at his house—and when he was there, they would work on other projects not focused on the tour.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning I decided to lowkey be working on other stuff in the background that was irrelevant to the tour. When I picked up steam, people would be bragging about me to moosa at the house, so he was always paying attention.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning by the time schoolboy Q’s tour came along, which was a year and a half later, he called me and was like, “yo, now is the time! I am putting you on this tour and we gotta go.” it ended up happening, [it] just took way longer than I anticipated.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning he continued to see me working on chris brown’s music videos and working with different artists, like mary J. Blige. That all played a role, but it's about being in people’s faces in a nonchalant way.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

Offer anything you can of your value without any expectation of getting something in return. That’s probably my best piece of advice. I came in and sat down with andrew [sandler] for days on end without ever asking for a dime.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning all I knew was that I was in a position to empower andrew to make sure that he makes the best film possible. I did everything I could on my end as an editor and as a creator to uplift him as a director and make him look really good.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning if he looks good, then in the next project they’ll want to bring me in on it. I ended up cutting a lot of chris brown’s documentary and that worked itself out to get me that credit, but I didn’t plan or expect that credit.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

Did you see the video I made that recapped the last three years in my life? There was so much I couldn’t include in that because there wasn’t enough time.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning watching that video I was like, “holy shit!” I’ve done so much just in these three years alone, not even counting the last ten years of proactively being involved as a creator, but it all happened so fast.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning you get into one thing and then it moves into the next and all of a sudden it levels up and it feels like a game.

Yes, absolutely. Things come and go very quickly.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning things are always promised to you and then no one hits you back or the project gets dumped. Especially on the corporate side, which is obviously where the money is at.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning there was a company that basically needed someone internal that they could have on a retainer for editing content; minimal work but they’re a multimillion dollar company.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning they said they wanted me to come in on three different projects and each project was like one hundred and fifty thousand for the year. It sounded like a layup to get all three of them.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning I was sitting there, barely paying my $1,200 a month rent in LA, and all of a sudden they’re talking about paying me almost a half a million dollars a year to do something easy.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

I am immediately looking at a BMW i8 online. I’ve never cared about an i8 in my life but I was like, “what’s it [cost] to lease an i8?” I felt like I could finally get a new apartment and it was going to be amazing!Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning then, all of a sudden, that person that was in that department got moved to a different department and that budget was completely gone. It was that easy.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning maybe if we just pulled the trigger two days before... You feel those hits but you have to train yourself that nothing is real until it’s either released or a check is in your bank.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning nothing ever is real out here until contracts are signed.

I think the biggest mistakes are when you realize you could have charged more money.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning that’s why I always try to change the way I do rates. I don’t have a rate for myself because every project is different and every project has a different budget.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning if you say you cost five dollars a day to do the job and you realize they had one hundred dollars for you, they still got you for five. You’ve got to find different ways to get them to tell you how much money they have.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning it definitely sucks when you realize you should have made way more money for a job but you live and you learn.

They should find someone that understands that same value of video.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning A lot of videographers and photographers that are on tour with artists just want to be in the mix and get a quick photograph of someone cool walking by because they’re at an event.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning some dope artist comes through and they think that they’re killing it because they’re getting all these rappers in their photos.

There’s got to be another level to it in the sense of marketing.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning how can you create content that the artist can share that is going to help elevate their brand? Same thing with me helping andrew with his documentary.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning I wanted to help elevate his brand with the hopes that it would turn key for me. By doing that same thing for an artist, you have to think about how you can make their experience better.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning how can you help add value to what their mission is as an artist? What’s their story? How can you tell their story? Then try to be original and create something that is interesting to watch.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning

Your producer is going to get his percentage of a record that he works on in most cases, songwriters are getting points on their records, and then they’re going to try to get videographers to bite $100 a week or even less.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning I’ve heard horror stories. I would never go out anymore for a job that is that cheap per week. Then they expect them to shoot nonstop and edit nonstop, do photos, do everything.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning that’s so fucked up to me, especially when that content affects the way your brand moves, the way you build, grow fans, sell merch, ticket and album sales.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning that should be the number one thing you put money into. That should be the first person you support nonstop.

A lot of [people] will shoot for an artist full-time—like I’ve been doing for JAY-Z and bey for the last year or with schoolboy Q for six months—and when they go home, they’re sleeping in some grimy four-bedroom [apartment] with a buncha people.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning they should be able to be in a nice condo. They should be able to invest in their 401K and retirement and all that, too. They’re working their ass off for you to be able to do the same thing.Behavioral and cognitive approaches to learning