All language subtitles for 3 - MY STORY

Welcome to the episode that is called
My Story.

Theoretically, I started in 2016
when I bought my first Canon 700 D.

I was filming and editing game plays
and stuff like that on the computer.

Since I was a little kid,
I always had a passion for business

and at the age of 13

I was organizing offline game competitions
at the Internet cafe.

So back to the story

I was telling you in 2016,
I was thinking about buying a camera

because I thought
I can make money with it.

I was thinking that girls would pay me €10
to take some pictures of them

on the street, and that's my business plan
that's going to make me rich.

Well, it wasn't like that at all.

I asked my dad to help me with the money
to buy the camera, and that's what I did.

I went out with my girlfriend

and took some pictures of people
having the fun of their lives.

It was winter at that time,
so I learned all I could about my camera

and took a picture of a mother
and her child.

I guess it was her.

So it was them on the sledge
and somehow the focus was on point.

And I don't really have the conversation
or what's up with the guy.

I convinced to shoot
his 18th birthday party to show you.

But he was impressed that
I took that shit picture.

So don't think that much about the work
you do because people don't

always know the difference
between a pro picture and a bad one.

So people from Romania
celebrate their 18th birthday

at the restaurant
or a shop and have lots of fun together.

They also hire a photographer
that goes there for 50

or €100 as a beginner
and 200 to 300 as a pro.

We don't talk about the pussies
that charge more than 300 or 500

just because they think they deserve more.

I don't know why I call them pussies
because I do the same.

If I don't really want to shoot something
instead of saying no, I will charge them

more than I usually do.

And if they say yes, it's okay for me
because I already charge

more than I would do. Back to the subject.

So rich kids also hire a videographer,
and this was one of the chances

I had to move from photography
to videography.

I didn't mention it, but I started
with photography, not videography.

When I bought my first camera
and had the age around 18.

So that's why it was easier for me
to grow with these 18 year

old parties had like more than 100 of them
in the next two years.

But things changed and somehow
I wasn't lending parties anymore.

I was doing better
and better at photography at that time.

But something happened and people didn't
call me anymore, so I switched to video.

I was doing my best trying to film vlogs

and things in my garden,
but the videos were a total mess.

In the same time, I was texting people
from Romania that were in videography

and some of them replied back,
And we are friends today.

This is called networking.

If you do this, it will help you land
more jobs than you'll ever think.

At some point at one of my parties,
I met a guy.

He was a deejay and he had an agency
that had all the services

photography, videography, music,
lights, stuff like that.

And at that time I thought I met the God.

He hired me to shoot a wedding for €50
and he was charging like 500 in total.

So he was keeping 450
and I was doing the job for him.

Of course, it was good just like that
because because that way I was learning

how to shoot the wedding properly
and I was even getting paid to learn.

It's a hard and long process
to fully succeed in this business

and become financially independent,
but in the end is going to worth it.

I shot more and more weddings.

My first commercial,

which was an Airbnb cleaning service,
charged like €8 for that.

Also, I don't usually think like
I don't usually charge like €1,000

because people think 1000
is bigger than 1100.

And I don't know how it works,
but 1100 works better than 1009 hundred

also works better than 1000 because that
if you want to, for me it's working.

This is also a good tip I can give.

You have more and more parties
and weddings until COVID came.

At the time

I thought it going to be a good year
and they will make some good money.

COVID fucked everything up and it
said, Nope, you're going to be broke, bro.

I was hanging out with two of my friends
on the streets every night.

Don't ask me how I did some shit
with the papers and I was allowed

to go out and do what they want
because I was smart.

One of these two had the nice BMW five
series and he made it look like an M5.

So I thought, Hmm,
why don't we should a video?

We did because all we need is a camera,
a car with someone to drive

with me in the trunk to film the five
and the M5.

At that time I had the Sony A7 s Mach one.

I still have it
and they still shooting weddings.

We did as a second show.

The camera shot that video in two nights,
a few hours and edited it in third night.

At that time I bought a drone.

I'm having parole for it
and they still use it today

because they hacked it and they can fly it
anywhere I want, whatever I want.

So it's a good drone by now.

You can see you don't need the best gear
to shoot something cool.

You only need your brain
and the mid even a low budget camera

to shoot with attention.
This was a free video.

Let me show you the video real quick.

Oh, the first thing

you like bit more,

you know, using this

going on with your mobile,

that's.

So this video brought me
two car videos to shoot.

One of them was for €200
and one of them was for a friend

and they only charged him €50.

This is the €200 video.

They gave when you take control of it.

And if you know the to.

The to the low.

The screen

like you knew if you just keep in love
and it's just always a

little thing you can lose sense mean

you could be that to that type.

And. I'm

I'm I'm

I'm I'm.

More or less

or the Lord God it was all these are

these are all of those

little moves

I would all do for all of you all German.

You know, they were the members or

whether or not it

was all these, you know,
everybody's got all those.

I would be all over

the world over there.

It's almost all different music.

Although you all German user

I know there was a

do what a lot of your dog

was or is or you go overboard
He's a lot older.

Those are global

league or black

lives or more dog of

all you all

and it was a world.

And this is the 50 or video.

And I got.

Is make him look look.

I like what this

yellow light skinned yellow

I so hello I'm the king
and we up to mellow for black humor

hello I surroundings snow

I love you but you know

all that stuff yellow

light skinned yellow I stop Hello.

I'm the king in New York.

Mellow black butter. We just. Hello?

That's around snow.

I'm with you. But you know,

it's Astro, not

what you know about.

Rolling down and.

You got a mental freeze on

the snow

like it happened on an ocean

mountain town in the.

You touch my chest?

Yeah.

I feel like I said, you say that.

I'm like. Yeah, that's true.

I believe in GOP.

Don't believe in teenage
LGBTQ Brady Bunch of level fun on Mensa.

Let me give you the kitchen extension now
and then no fly rain

with a bowling down to that
was I'll my mom this time to the lounge.

Didn't know which which way to turn
so was cool but I still feel my energy up.

You can feel my shirt
I'm a cool everything.

Like this but you know ball rolling
down in the day when your brain goes numb.

You got a mental free one so too much.

Put that shit in slow motion. Yet I feel.

Like an astronaut, an ocean
or snowboarding down in the deep.

When you bring those numb
you got a mental freeze.

When these people try to munch
when they get in slow motion.

Yeah I feel like it left or.

Not, in the ocean.

The 50

year old video brought me a client
with the detailing garage.

I was charging him with €50 per video and
was doing like 4 to 6 videos per month.

So do the math.

It was the highest paying client
I ever had.

And this is just the first year
of pandemic.

After two years of working with him
that saw my videos from the garage

and came in my hometown,
which is not the capital of Romania.

He lives in Bucharest, which is
the capital just to shoot a video with me.

He liked the video and from that time
one year, I went to Bucharest

every single week to help him
should videos and vlogs with his cars.

Here's the video
we shot together in my hometown.

Also, I had no idea.

He just came and called me.

He's in my hometown.
He wants to shoot a video.

So I didn't lose the opportunity
and went out with him.

When on social media, people who saw

I was working with Z were impressed
and they landed another client.

And the single one that I'm still working
with nowadays, it's about a girl

that organizes parties
and the first job for her was the shoot

the party on a yacht,
which was in Constanza, a city in Romania

that is 600 kilometers away
from my hometown.

Also, I was lending
some more detailing garages to shoot,

and I also shot a hyperlapse video
of my hometown at night

that landed me another job in the capital.

I'm not even bothering to tell you
how many times I got

scammed until this point of the story.

Even this claim that I learned it
from the Hyperlapse video.

It was a it was a scam.

You will probably have the same bad times
just like me and everyone else.

But that's okay because you learn
from making mistakes and getting scammed.

But for today I shoot weddings.

I won prizes with them.

I was nominally to the best
cameramen of Romania

with a few of my wedding videos
that I will show you and break

down in the next chapters
of the course I shoot commercials, music

videos, car videos and vlogs
with the influencers in Romania.

And not just that,
I also shoot festivals and basically

everything
you can shoot as a videographer in

the world.