We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Shawn Barner. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Shawn below.

Hi Shawn, thanks for joining us today. So, let’s imagine that you were advising someone who wanted to start something similar to you and they asked you what you would do differently in the startup-process knowing what you know now. How would you respond?

From the years of work I have put in, I’ve learned that this is a team-based industry. You have to put together a collective group of people to have long term success in content creation. That would be my main focus starting over instead of trying to wear a lot of hats. Sometimes, you may have to do that but don’t make it a habit.

Shawn, 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?

I was first introduced to multimedia work as a teenager. I used to run live sound for my youth church, so I was heavy into audio. I took a video production class my senior year in high school which really turned me over to video production as a career choice. I enrolled in Art Institute of Atlanta and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor’s in Digital Media Production. My career has taking me to some wonderful experiences. I have worked in TV broadcasting for over 10 years, worked other productions such as live events, film and sports. I also provide client work under Phuzion Media Group, which allows people needing the expertise and resources to help the with creating digital video content for their branding. What people notice about my work is the effort and dedication I put into making sure it is something I’m proud to stand by.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

Usually when people come up to me inquiring about a video concept or idea, they get overwhelmed with the information of how much back-end work goes into putting together a video project that actually has quality. Sure, you can pull out you iPhone or Android to shoot video for your social media, but it takes more than that to get the commercial quality you want. What is your budget? Who will get your crew and equipment together? Things like that you would be surprised go over people’s heads.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Long story short, I did an edit for a short film project where the audio was completely messed up. We had to pick the good takes from the raw clips then dub them with ADR that tried to match what we thought the actors were saying. We got it edited but why I didn’t just hand back the hard drive instead of agreeing to this? That I’m still trying to figure out LOL.

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