We were lucky to catch up with Aaron Watson recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Aaron, thanks for joining us today. Let’s talk legacy – what sort of legacy do you hope to build?

The kind of legacy I would want to leave behind is simply that I was someone who was able to make moments matter. I think people will say that my ability to take moments in time and put together a video that really encapsulated what it really meant to be for that fraction time. Something I really hope I’m remembered for though, is my dedication to my craft and how much effort/time I put in everything I did.

Aaron, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

let’s talk about me. Who am I you may be wondering? I’m Aaron better known as ace or acevizualz when it comes to my creative work. I’m a videographer at heart (aspiring to someday be a cinematographer or even director) who has a passion for making videos that make me smile. Silly as it sounds I found that understanding that creating for myself first helped me grow more than when I tried to always create for others and hope they like what I made. That’s a story for another time (or later in this about me if it’s necessary). Now, how exactly did little old me end up becoming a videographer? great question! really I’ve always been making videos since highschool, mainly meme stuff to make my friends and I laugh. But I began to take more interest in recapping my years with the adventures I had and just replaying it to see everything that I had done throughout the year. Let me tell you at a glance you may not know what you’ve really accomplished throughout the year since it seems like an endless cycle of work and completion. So having that kept me grounded and always gave me tangible evidence that I in fact made something of myself and wasn’t idly sitting by letting the days go by. But now we jump ahead a bit to college when I was a junior, often times I saw athletic videos as I ran track in college at George Mason and a lot of the times I was unsatisfied because my team never got anything of the sort so I decided I wanted to make a change in that. From there I started out doing photography as a way to ease myself into videography by learning basic concepts like composition, lighting, color theory, etc. My personal belief is once you can master a singular picture, working with moving pictures is no big deal. And I wasn’t that far off once I truly began to make actual videos with something other than a phone, I saw myself grow by leaps and bounds with every video by recognizing and adjusting how I approached each new idea. From there I decided to fully lean into videography and THUS I was born.

Now, as for what problems I solve for clients it’s really simple, I take what’s stuck up in their head and make it come alive on camera and post production. A lot of times clients come to me and they have grand ideas they just can’t seem to articulate well or they think it’s too hard so I’m the middle (and end) man that’s there to help guide and work with them in order to reach a product that we both can be satisfied with. So to any future clients or just people in general who may not know where to start, begin with just getting it all out there and I will help piece together the everything. This is a team effort I don’t want to be in control of someone else’s project and at the same time I want to leave enough of me in the project that I feel like I’ve created something unique to my “brand”.

Something I’m proud of? That’s a tough question because I’m proud of all my work! this isn’t meant to be hyperbolic, I truly enjoy all the pieces of work I do. The process is the fun but at the end of it all when I can sit back and turn off the lights and play the final product on a big screen that’s what makes everything worth it. So I can’t pinpoint a singular thing that I’m more proud of than another I just love it all and would want to keep it that way.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The most rewarding aspect of being a creative is the people I meet. I truly don’t think I would’ve built the network of people I know today if I never put myself out there to be vulnerable with my work and push myself to grow. I’m always learning from them and vice versa. So that’s is probably the #1 most rewarding aspect of being a creative.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

A lesson I had to unlearn and it’s something I touched on briefly from my about me is not creating for others. The backstory behind it is for me (and many others) when I first began this journey I would always look to others for validation when I created a new video, not that it’s wrong to do because who doesn’t like to show off finished products? but I started to realize the more I did that the more I was trying to hit some invisible checklist for what people may like in my video and as the saying goes: “You can’t please everyone”. At some point I realized that I had to stop creating for others and create for myself because at the end of the day If I don’t like what I created then what’s the point?

Contact Info:

• Website: https://acevizualz.com/
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