Summer 2021 vibez: Part I. 🍹🏝🎞🎥
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✨ Introduction post for my newest followers on this page. ✨
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My name is Candace and I am a female identitying filmmaker based in the Pacific Northwest. I've been passionate about image making since the tender age of 16. I started out with whatever digital camera I could get my hands on, since affording a new DSLR was not an option for my family. Once I finally got my first DSLR at 18, I took up portrait photography, did some weddings, shot photos of my friends' bands in SF, etc. It wasn't until community college that I took my first film class and realized that moving pictures was it for me. 🎞
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I moved to Seattle to complete my degree in Film Studies in 2012. I found my way onto many sets as a stills photographer and then a PA for the first few years. I finished school while working two jobs and fitting any film gigs I could into my schedule (even if it meant I didn't sleep). I wanted to get my foot in the door that bad and sadly, it was the only option for someone like me who had no connections at first and no financial support to work for free as a PA the first few years on set. Eventually, I got into the camera department with the help of some wonderful womxn. And now I work as a 1st AC/camera op on a variety of different sets. 💪
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The goal is to be a full time cinematographer but there are many steps between now and then. I don't know what I'd do if it weren't for film and I'm so excited to share my progress here on this platform with y'all. To add, I will always strive for an egalitarian workplace and for Womxn/BIPOC to have the same opportunities as any of my male colleagues. 🖤🎥✊
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It was 6AM on Friday & I was in Longview, Washington. My lengthy drive home was made forty minutes longer due to a detour needed go get footage for a video. The same video that I had to write, memorize, shoot, assemble, & upload as soon as I got home. I was pretty wiped already.
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But, as my fellow creators know, in youtube consistency is important. Or as we say in the 🎭, the show must go on…
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I got the footage. Did the drive. And while it was 2:30AM when the 🎬 was done, it got done…& I finally got to sleep…
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Those 💤 were important because I’d be waking up again at 6AM. 🌅
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And I did, because last Saturday morning, I joined a crew of filmmakers in creating #48HourFilmProject history; our two teams, with two scripts & one shared story would create two films in 48 hours amid a connected universe. 🎥
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I arrived sleep deprived & nervous. I knew no one. 🥺
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And while I was plenty 🥱 when we wrapped, I couldn’t be happier to now be part of this talented, creative, & kind filmmaking community.
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The On Set
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It was probably back in high school theater that I first imagined being on a film set.
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And it was a tour of euescreengemsstudios in Wilmington, NC that first made filmmaking real to me.
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And years later, when the wild world of my youtube adventures locked down my passion for how art on the screen can bring people together, I started to imagine being on a set again in a whole new way ~ as part of the creative team.
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And now, well over 48 hours ago, for the first time but not the last, I joined a team of local filmmakers by doing just that…
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And it was better than I imagined! 💫
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Now please excuse me, I have some scripts to attend to. 😁
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