We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Diego Rodrigues a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Diego, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?

Self-learning allows you to take ownership of your learning journey, which means that you can develop and progress at your own pace. You also improve as a person, not just at the skill you’re learning or knowledge you’re acquiring. You’ll start to know your habits and preferences better. Through trial and error, you’ll find out which methods and processes work and which don’t. Learning more means becoming a proficient learner.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

As a Commercial and corporate filmmaker, I perform a range of tasks aimed at creating compelling video content for commercial purposes in the realm of advertising, marketing, and branding. Exceling at capturing the energy and atmosphere of the event while ensuring that important moments are documented for promotional or archival purposes has been extremely rewarding and fulfilling.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

As a creative it’s important to understand that we’re being called upon to provide visual media to promote the client’s brand, which could be as simple as supplying the photography to illustrate a magazine article, a short film for a website or an image to feature on the cover of a brochure. I appreciate my clients only want to use the best visual media in their marketing so it’s important to me they get the quality they need and which they’re proud to use to promote their brand. It is indeed a privilege to be trusted with the job of creating it.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

As a creative, you’ve likely avoided focusing too much on the business side of things. You don’t want your creative energy spent on things like spreadsheets, rates,…. Pricing your gigs adequately to reflect what your time is worth, making business deals, and setting up revenue goals doesn’t feel very creative. But when you see them as simply tools that you can use to get your message out there, there isn’t really much difference at all between business work and creative work. YouTube has many channels like “The Futur” that will teach you how to be more proficient on this super important topic.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.dmrvideography.com
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diego-rodrigues-videoproduction/