Our lives as photographers and videographers can be tough, but let's be honest - it's fun to be creative! We get to work with amazing gear and produce compelling visual content for the world to enjoy. However hard we work in our creative fields, I feel it's best to never really take ourselves too seriously. If we do, let's hope that one of our peers will put together a parody response like the one Adam Khamis created above to help check our egos and bring us back down to Earth.
A few months back EFTI School of Photography originally posted a painfully pretentious video about what it is to be a cinematographer. Although it's beautifully filmed, it's pretty much just a two-minute video filled with fixed-gear bicycles, second-hand embarrassment and unbearable self-importance. I had a really tough time watching the whole video because I was constantly wondering if this guy was for real. You be the judge...
Adam reminds us in his response parody "I Am #Onset" to not take ourselves too seriously. It's perhaps the only silver lining to EFTI's over-indulged plight of a bearded and creatively-tortured soul. Granted, being a cinematographer is a complex job. I just hope you take away some laughs from what Adam created and remember to check your ego from time to time.
[via No Film School]
I seriously cant stop laughing! very well done!
That RED product placement tho. That was a great voiceover parody.
I always try to remember what was said by someone I cannot recall at the moment: "We're not curing cancer with our cameras."
I don't know why photographers have to justify their own existence all the time with some pseudo-existential BS on their website, or even just in hashtags on Instagram.
I know a few photographers who take probably 15-20 BTS selfies holding their fancy DSLR every month, and it always has some cheesy 8th grade level song lyrics/Eleanor Roosevelt quote followed by hashtags like #imaphotographer #photographerlife.
It reminds me of children who keep saying "Did you see it? Did you? Look, look" after they did a kickflip on their skateboard or something. And the rest of people who aren't self-congratulating (that's now my favorite word) photographers look at it and think, "That's nice dear."
Like, do you really need to feel like you're doing God's work every time you take a photo? Just shoot and stop worrying about whether or not everyone else thinks you're a badass.
I hate seeing fellow photographers posing with models ... do you really need that to feel as if your life has meaning? I don;t have a single photo of myself with a model or client, I find those kind of shots in poor taste.
On the other hand, I know one wedding photographer who does selfie stalkies ... those are cute. :)
HAHA! LOL!
The video has merit, I know what is holding me back from becoming a full fledged cinematographer is my absolute inability to grow a cool beard or look good in a muscle shirt.
So you own a fixed speed bike and sneak whiskey in your morning coffee?
bwahahaha!!! So good!
haha light meters are for P****ies..hahahahahahahahahaa
Wow ... the real video is really pretentious ... "like the world before god conceived it" ...
I'm ... ah ... at a loss for words.
I'll just go back and finish editing my simple corporate headshots ... seems kind of ... pointless compared to what a cinematographer does.
Maybe I'll watch a small video while I edit.
"Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
...
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth"