We were lucky to catch up with Paul Ormsby recently and have shared our conversation below.
Paul, we’re so excited for our community to get to know you and learn from your journey and the wisdom you’ve acquired over time. Let’s kick things off with a discussion on self-confidence and self-esteem. How did you develop yours?
I developed my confidence and self-esteem by constantly practicing and always looking to learn. Is there a new editing technique that I think would be really cool? How do I film a certain project that I want to start offering to clients? What are the current trends in the video world? It’s so important to keep the momentum going.
I think by staying active in a creative mindset, you start automatically picking up on so many details you didn’t before. You also don’t get discouraged as easily from taking a leap and trying something new. A technique is always at its most rough the first time you do it. It only gets more polished from there.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I’ve been providing freelance video and editing services on and off for the last nine years. I’ve worked on projects from business promos and product videos to weddings and live performances. I even passed my Part 107 certification exam last year so I’m able to offer drone work now.
My goal for 2024 is really push the variety and consistency of my work. I already have a couple concerts on my calendar as well as a drone shoot and just finished up editing a band’s promo video. I’m hoping this year is a big one for music related projects as that’s a huge love of mine, but I find any creative project extremely fun to work on.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Three qualities that helped my journey have definitely been tenacity, communication, and organization. If I wasn’t so dang stubborn, I would’ve let the speed bumps of my early years get the better of me. I’m glad I kept pushing. Communication is one of the most important skills in just about every field of work, but especially when it comes to working on video projects, be it with just you and a client or a full team of people. Along with communication, organization is SO crucial to maintaining a consistent and clean workflow.
Advice I would give folks early in their journey is view mistakes as learning opportunities. You have to start somewhere, whether it’s learning a new technique or working on a project you’ve never done before. I know from experience that it can be easy to want to throw in the towel, say “it is what it is”, and give up. Nothing feels better than working at something long enough to see yourself nail it.
Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?
They definitely didn’t know it at the time, honestly neither did I, that a simple behind-the-scenes movie of Star Wars: A New Hope would send me on a journey of wanting to learn about filmmaking, editing, and production in general. It wasn’t until I was part way through college that I realized that visual media was what I was interested in pursuing as a career. Now I’ve worked in the commercial marketing world, helped on the set of a short film production, been the creative producer for a music festival company, and worked on so many fun projects through my freelance business. So… Thanks, Mom and Dad!
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