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Between Takes with 1413
The two creatives spearheading 1413 Visuals are talking about all things studio life -- work, music, love etc.
Between Takes with 1413
Welcome Back - A New Studio and a New Year
This episode dives into the transformative journey of a new creative studio designed for aspiring podcasters, emphasizing the studio’s capabilities and the importance of community connections. The hosts share their personal experiences, discuss barriers to podcasting, and highlight their goals for the future, inspiring listeners to take their first steps into content creation.
• Discovering the new studio's creative capabilities
• Overcoming fears that prevent podcasting
• The importance of high-quality production values
• Engaging the community through educational classes
• Learning from personal experiences on tour
• Setting ambitious goals for future growth
Song of the Week Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lDyWnUnAmvuUkf8wj7ilK?si=df11343db17c4df0
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Alright.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:Welcome back Welcome back. It's been actually technically. I think it's been almost a year since we posted a podcast episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think we stopped in. March. Yeah, a few things have changed. Only a couple, just a couple, but we're in a studio now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was gonna say, besides our setup, a lot of things, only a couple things have changed. Yeah, besides our setup, a lot of things, Only a couple things have changed, yeah, so catch us up. You have the new studio, we're in the new studio, I guess.
Speaker 2:What have you been doing in the studio since you? So I took over the studio and I did a lot of upgrades to it from the previous owner. I added a bunch of lights and stuff. It has a psych wall in there which is kind of like an infinity white wall, which you already know that. But I've just been trying to put as many cool features as I possibly can in here, because clients rent this out and I want them to have a unique experience, like, yeah, you could do your mini sessions in here if you want just the white look, or you could go crazy and do some really experimental lighting with some of the stuff that I've put in here. And along with the wall I've got this podcast studio, which I'm doing my best because I'm switching this from the stream deck.
Speaker 1:But anyway, we are videographers. We cut our own podcast, yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's kind of a customizable set so people if they want to try their hand at podcasting, they can do that and not have the limitations of equipment, knowledge, the stuff that that holds people back. That was like.
Speaker 1:The vision is that you walk into your thing and you walk out with a product, so I've actually that's the thing I've been using to like, I guess, promote in a way this studio, so much as I try to explain to people in the best way I possibly can that this is a studio that, if you know nothing other than which button to push on your camera, you can come into this studio and all the different spots and create things like you never even knew were possible because you weren't confident in your other abilities that go into creating.
Speaker 1:You know, taking photos and making videos or podcast. Um, I get hit up we've talked about this so many times. I get hit up I'm sure you do. Um, I know you do about like people wanting to start a podcast because everybody has a podcast and they want to do video too, because so they can promote on social media and stuff. But they don't know anything about cameras or taking video or editing video or anything. And I try to explain how simple it is to use this space to come in and just sit down, yap for a little bit and then get out of here with a file ready to go and all of a sudden you're a professional podcaster, like yeah with high quality video as well as high quality audio, because we can all buy a cheap microphone on amazon and record in our house.
Speaker 1:that's all you really need to do a podcast. But if you want that elevated multi-cam video for your podcast, there's there's literally no like less expensive place You're going to get that done than here there's. There's literally no better spot, and that even goes for where the psych wall is. I know a lot of people. I know I have a lot of photographer friends of all different skill levels and there's not anywhere else around here that you can go and just walk in with your camera and make these high level um perfectly lit and even then like getting into you know special effects style stuff with no equipment of your own.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, like you, you nailed it. Mean people when, when people know that I do video and stuff, they're like, oh, I want to do podcasts and I think, okay, just audio, like 400. You got a nice mixer, three microphones, you're good to go like, no, no, I want to do, I want to do camera stuff, I want video and I want multiple cameras. That is not easy, that is not normal. People do not have the three good cameras and all the stuff to combine it. And then do you know how to edit or you don't? Well, you got to learn.
Speaker 2:So I totally eliminated that with the podcast stuff and I'll be honest right now. So it's $75 an hour, that that that's a pretty good deal, you know. And I have people using the studio for podcasts but also to get content for social. They'll sit down and, in a podcast style, they'll talk with experts in the field that they they're interested in and then they'll cut that up for social. So so it's like it's, it's, it's a really good value. And then on the other side, where, where I have the white wall, I've kind of realized that you touched on, there's people of different levels of what they're you know where they're at in their journey.
Speaker 2:Right, I've kind of figured out that I think that the studio should be kind of a hub for the community to learn and to grow, and I did that absolutely. We had the, we had a lighting class.
Speaker 1:You came and it was super fun. Oh, thanks, it was really fun. I think everybody enjoyed that. That was like super fun. I even learning a lot. But then also we were all chatting with each other, introducing ourselves to people we didn't know and like um, we even like all followed each other. It was super cute, led by me um, and yeah, I, I think everybody, I don't think there was anybody there that didn't a enjoy it and b learn something yeah, and and that's, that's what like.
Speaker 2:So, teaching the class, that's my first time ever teaching anything and honestly, my favorite part like the teaching was great but it was seeing everybody, you know, having conversations about stuff, trying things out. One of the points that I made in the class is I had a bunch of like add-on creative filters that the way that I like to learn is hands-on. So I was like, hey, y'all guys, we got this model, miss Winterville Raven, she did an excellent job and she hung out there with the lights owner and while they were able to and you were even able to play around with all these add-ons that I have at the studio and I've kind of figured out like people they want to touch things, they want to get their hands on stuff and try it in the real world, and I'm down to have classes, have whatever to get people in here to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I feel like it really got. It gave you the opportunity to really showcase, because and we've talked about this so many times where we know the awesome, like the crazy things you're doing in here, we like we see it and like we can envision what you can do with it, whatever, um, where there's a lot of people in the community that a like didn't really know about the space and then b don't know the extent of what you're doing and maybe even, because they're not familiar with their or have the same skill level, they can't even really picture what they could do with the stuff here.
Speaker 1:So I feel like the lighting class also give you a chance to show people like get their ideas and their creativity moving, like, oh, I could do this with that, I could like.
Speaker 2:It works that way and I think it got people excited to want to come back for their own creative stuff, and that's what I wanted is like people ask about the studio, I tell them, like just come by, just come by, let me show you what this is, what it can do, what you can create in here, because I'm just showing you what I'm able to create. I want people to take my little bit that I show them and do their own thing and make their, and that's that's probably the most rewarding part to me is seeing people do their own thing in here. Um, I'm just in here a lot because I own it and I want to start giving people ideas, a different lighting technique, so they could take it and run.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have. I mean, I have we make a lot of cool. I don't think we've ever made something here that's not cool. And then even I see on the social media just like so many more people tagging, like so the story posts on 1413 are always just a bunch of different people doing completely different things. Posts on 1413 are always just a bunch of different people doing completely different things and I think that's a real testament to show, like all the ends of the spectrum of like what can be done in there and that this is just like just the beginning of it you know there's so much um more coming, I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's exciting. I think that's the most exciting thing that's happened in the last, since our last podcast it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know what, what else could happen. That would be a bigger deal I can't think of anything.
Speaker 1:I think this has like been the biggest thing. It's crazy, too, just to think I remember the conversation of like it being a possibility and kind of like, hinting like and weighing the pros and cons, to like now where it's full, not only fully functioning, but it's really coming to life as what you wanted it to be. And then now we're at the stage where you're seeing people use the things that you had a vision for, which is pretty cool, pretty awesome.
Speaker 2:Well, thanks, sam, you're welcome. All right, what have you been up to?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the same old stuff. What was I doing the last time we um, I don't remember, I did tour, oh, how long was the?
Speaker 1:tour. Two weeks I did a two-week stint um on tour um around in this eastern area and it was awesome. I really really enjoyed it. I to my friends, it kind of pulled me out of reality. It's so on the go and, like you especially traveling to different places. So you're the shows are usually at night, right, and then you're and that's when I'm capturing all the content and then you have to edit it to be ready to post like the next, ready for a post the next morning. You have to edit it to be ready to post like the next, ready for a post the next morning. So you're trying to like sleep and get everything edited just a little bit so you can get up in the morning to drive to the next place, um, just long enough to either nap before the show or like get some food before the show?
Speaker 2:were you um? Were you like sleeping in hotels or in a car, or what were you doing?
Speaker 1:uh, a mixture of both, because I actually, um, had some weird stuff going on with my house at the time, so I was in hotels for certain places, um, I stayed at home a couple nights, if for the ones that were within two hours of where I lived, and then, um, I did sleep at a rest stop one night, edited all content at that same rest stop.
Speaker 1:It was definitely a mixture. I just remember this is crazy. It was in, I think, july, and the two weeks were so insane that the week that it came back to my regular life, for some reason, I got trapped in this thing, thinking it was February and I don't know how like I didn't come out of it until I don't. I don't know, but I remember thinking for like days, thinking about how like rent was, I don't know, it was something to do with, like paying something, and I was like I kept telling myself, like February is a shorter month, february is a shorter month. And then I remember I was going to lessons and I was like, and I had an epiphany and realized like it's July that's what I was about to say.
Speaker 2:I was like you're leaving out that this wasn't like a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1:No, it was July and I was like I all of a sudden like in my car on the drive, was like why do I keep? Why am I thinking it's February? It's like July. And I was like I all of a sudden like in my car on the drive, was like why do I? Why am I thinking it's February?
Speaker 1:It's like July and I got to lessons. I talked to my friends about it. I was like I just realized today that it were it's July and not February and it was because, like, when you're doing stuff like that, like little tour stints like that, and you're just all of your energy is everything, your whole brain and everything is just on getting the to the next show and the turnaround is so fast and you have to be where you need to be. It just pulled, I think it pulls you out of your regular life and so then in my brain it kind of skewed my whole reality there for um a few days. But, um, all the love in the game I was was it was like super fun, I had a great time. Um, I'm hoping to work more with that band this year, but we'll see. Yeah, I'm basically the same stuff as always.
Speaker 2:Nice. So the tour thing was probably the big, the big change up when you were doing the tour stuff, like how I guess you were editing stuff for them to post immediately after, like well, what was kind of that schedule like?
Speaker 1:um, and obviously I tell these people, um, when other people and other videographers and photographers ask me on instagram and stuff it, obviously it's gonna go by like your agreement with the artist, this specific artist.
Speaker 1:They consistently would post every morning and so they wanted content from the the show the night before for that post. So I was doing a real and a small amount of edited photos ready for them to post as they wanted every morning in that morning post. They were your regular shows, so they were starting at like 8, 9 pm and some of them most of them had an opener, so they weren't going into all hours of the morning like some of the regular gigs I do, but they were late and then, you know, I had to get back to wherever I was staying. Editing photos isn't difficult, but taking a few hundred photos or a couple hundred photos and then picking seven to ten to edit and send, that's what kind of takes the time, and then I would say I'm pretty quick at making recap videos, but it's still the time that it takes to go through and kind of pick what you're going to, use way more time than it takes to actually like edit it together.
Speaker 1:So you kind of learn to be selective about what you're shooting.
Speaker 2:So you don't like overshoot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, which is my downfall I always overshoot, but yeah, I had to. I had to turn around pretty quick and then get to the next venue, but I don't mind.
Speaker 2:You can kind of treat it like a game, like, okay, here we go, let's see if it shows ended. Let me get back to the place, get the files off of the card find the good stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of Okay, it's a new year. Do you have any goals for 2025?
Speaker 2:Goals for 2025?. Ever since picking up the studio, which I've been in here for about six months.
Speaker 1:Has it been six months already.
Speaker 2:It's been six months, yeah, almost seven. It's kind of changed my whole mindset to what I do for a living. My goal now is to make this as awesome as I possibly can Like that. Really, it sounds like a cop out of a thing. Is that me?
Speaker 1:No, it's mine Sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it sounds like my goal is to make this.
Speaker 1:Like as prolific.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of like a staple in the creative community. I'm learning stuff that I never thought I would learn and trying to implement it into this space. It's not a solid just. I mean not like a straight up like oh, I want to make a lot of money. No, I want this to be successful, but I want it to have purpose, and so that's kind of my goal for 2025.
Speaker 1:All right. So last year you acquired the studio and this year you're trying to make it into something bigger than just a studio.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I feel like we're on the right track. Um, like, having the class was an eye-opener, because that's something that I was just like. Let me try this and see what happens say, um, told you.
Speaker 1:So, what told you? So, on the class I told you you should do a class. I told you you should do many classes. Okay, I? I just want to say that that was my idea and you executed it flawlessly.
Speaker 1:However, oh my god, you're welcome anything else, anything else that's all I need to say about that okay great I do think the class was a great idea. I'm so glad that you did it. I think it it accomplished exactly everything that you wanted it to, we wanted it to, and it was just like the perfect first step, like it.
Speaker 2:It definitely helped me because I needed to get kicked off the ledge of teaching. Um, I was afraid and I'm sure that you'll disagree with me, but I was afraid I was going to talk in circles and repeat myself, and I never do stuff like that fear.
Speaker 1:But you wrote like, you made your little outline and tracy wouldn't let me do that. So, tracy's, like you need, you need to like write out yeah and, and I knew I did- I knew I was like okay, I had to do that.
Speaker 2:That was a perfect move and I don't know. Like, the last time I was in front of people talking about something I was like in college and I hated doing it. I hated doing that. But the difference is I'm talking about something that I'm passionate about here. It's not that big of a deal, but that was my fun.
Speaker 1:But sometimes when you're talking about stuff you're passionate about, it's worse, really Like about stuff you're passionate about, it's worse, really Like, cause you, you start talking like so fast and I feel like for me at least my brain will kind of lose track about where I'm going or it'll get ahead of me and what I'm actually saying and then I lose track and repeat myself.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's say hypothetically you had to teach a class. What would you do to to if you had to do that, would you go out there and like practice, like once or twice, and then be like, okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 1:No, I wouldn't practice, because I'm a procrastinator, um, and I would be doing other things. But I would make an outline so that I didn't forget, cause that would be too I would go off on a tangent on one thing and then forget the next two things I had planned to talk about. So I would definitely do the outline. I think the outline was a great idea, um, and you only really had to look at it. One.
Speaker 2:I wrote down the key points. That was for the whole lighting class, which I still haven't memorized. It was like control the light and use the grid and get your subject off of the white, like that.
Speaker 1:The key points that you didn't share with the class. Okay, and then quizzed us about.
Speaker 2:No, I said them multiple times.
Speaker 1:But you didn't say them as like, you didn't mention them as key points.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't label them correctly.
Speaker 1:you didn't mention them as key points. Oh, I didn't label, I didn't label them correctly. Yeah, yeah, it was like you, you gotcha, you went down the thing.
Speaker 2:So they were key points in your brain, but you didn't say in my head it's like this thing, and then this thing, yeah, and then you asked us what the three key points, or key points, were and we're all like yeah color background. Yeah, people were doing good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, like they were doing good, kind of repeating back generally what you were like talking about, but they couldn't get the.
Speaker 2:They nobody knew the exact what I was looking for yeah yeah, you know I'll get better at it you were looking for verbiage you didn't even use. Yeah, People a little mind reading yeah.
Speaker 1:We'll all improve on the mind reading. Yeah, y'all got to get a little bit better at that. That was on us really actually.
Speaker 2:I think we're going to do more stuff like that. I think we're going to get more people to come in here and teach that are better at lighting than I am, and especially at lighting than I am, and especially like off-camera flash or fashion, or one of the ideas I was kind of like playing around with was unique music video looks.
Speaker 2:I think, I did like a little poll. I think you voted for that one. Yes, I did, because that's something that I think I'm pretty good at and they're very useful in the sense of music videos, but for everything else it's too artsy, artsy, fartsy. Yeah yeah, and then what's your goals for 2025?
Speaker 1:I want to run a marathon.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you've been working on this, so how did you get into wanting to do this?
Speaker 1:Well, it's just one of those things I've always thought about being a person who can say they ran a marathon. It's only like 1% of the population, or whatever, can say that they've completed a marathon. So I just wanted to do it and I feel like I'm getting to the age and anybody older than me can go somewhere but I feel like I need to do it now or I'm kind of losing. I'm getting past the time where it would be feasible for me to do it, not saying that there aren't people who older me who do do it, but I'm not. I I'm not a. I haven't always been a runner.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I ran growing up. I, you know, did. I played multiple sports. I ran track and field. That was fine. But then I didn't run again for like 15 years. So I was like, all right, I'm going to run a marathon because I'm running out of time where I'd be able to do it. And I knew that I kind of wanted to make a goal for this year or resolution for this year that was health related. And I knew that if I made the goal now and I picked one for like later in the year, if I had plenty of time, I could 100% do it and it would kind of turn, maybe turn into a healthy habit, like maybe running a few times a week would become normal for me after all the time I would be spending preparing. So I have registered for a marathon in October of this year and I've registered for a half marathon in May. So I will be running both and I'm excited.
Speaker 2:So how do you feel, because you've been running for a little while now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's been about seven weeks.
Speaker 2:Do you sleep better at night? Can you tell the difference since starting to run?
Speaker 1:Sleep not different, and that's not. I don't think that's because of the running isn't working or whatever. I just I've always had a little issue with proper sleep. I'm hungry all the time, so I really have to run to keep up with how hungry I am, but then I do. I have seen a huge improvement in my mood. It has helped with that and even just kind of like holding myself accountable, because there was even like there was a week I totally missed or I didn't do any running and I was like dang, I was in this slump, but then the next week I got myself to get back to it and I think that even then I felt proud of myself.
Speaker 1:I feel accomplished when I complete these runs and when I see improvement, like when I run faster, even though I feel like I'm doing all these slow runs all the time and then I'll do one where I'm actually just free, and just free running it and not doing a specific pace by my program, and it'll be faster. It's like every time I do that the time is better and I'm like, oh, okay, so I'm, I am getting cooler, okay, like. Or every time I do a run that's like longer than any other run I've done. I'm like, oh, like I did last week was my seven mile run, which is the first time I've done seven miles, which is halfway to my half marathon, and while I didn't do it, I'm not like the fastest runner ever, but I finished.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I finished and I was really like proud of myself for finishing and that's really all I'm looking for out of it is just to finish. Yeah, yeah, whatever comes with, that will be great.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to do it healthfully, not injure myself, but complete it and be someone who has ran a marathon well, you pick the worst time to be a runner with the weather, because I know that, I know some of those times that you've posted, because you post every day that you run. I was like, if that was me, there's no way, there's no way that I would have ran.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this was the first time really, since I've lived in North Carolina it's been almost eight years that there's been legitimate snow. It was a few inches that stuck on the ground and it's been pretty cold, like 20s, um, but I've been um, the coldest I've ran in, I think, was third, like right around 30 degrees, which is pretty cold, and it's been windy too during that. So, yeah, I've been. It's been a battle on some of these days that I'm running, but, um, it's been cool.
Speaker 1:I've met a couple people since I started training for it. Excuse me, um, I met a couple people since I started training for it, which is nice. Um, none of my friends are runners, so well, some people might be like oh, like that sucks. Nobody runs with you, sure it might. Except for that every single one of them is thoroughly impressed about no matter what it is or how slow I'm doing it. They're so proud of me for running because none of them run, so all I have to do is just like finish it, and they think it's the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 2:Good for you. Thanks, we're all proud of you, sam. Thank you.
Speaker 1:You're welcome. I think it's about that time for song of the week song of the week song of the week.
Speaker 2:You go first my song of the you can hear. The song of the week is a classic, so van halen ain't talking about love, you know that one probably off the top of my head. I don't sing it no, and because you know like when you hear a song you're like I want to do something.
Speaker 1:Video yes yes, we talk about this. I have that all the time. Yes, it's?
Speaker 2:it's a song that has been kind of used as like a meme video, like tough hype up part, and you'll probably recognize the riff right here. Let me pull this up real quick, exactly. Probably recognize the riff right here. Let me pull this up real quick, exactly, so you've heard this one, right? Yeah, let's get to the first verse and then we'll cut it copyright.
Speaker 1:Copyright oh where did it go? Your phone? Heard me say copyright and was like we're done alright, sam my song of the week is by Ol' 60 and we're gonna do honestly, every Ol' 60, every Ol' 60.
Speaker 1:And we're going to do honestly every Ol' 60 song is a good one, but I'm going to pick Next to you because it was on my Spotify wrap. Speaking of that again this year, because I love it that much, so good. I got to see them live last year actually them and Fox Veed in Texasas and it was great, fantastic show.
Speaker 2:Both bands amazing any any particular reason for that song, or just it's just great.
Speaker 1:I just love it. It's the only, it's probably the most love song song I'll ever love this much.
Speaker 2:Well, that was a tongue twister, but wow, a love song from Sam.
Speaker 1:Won't get very many, although I think half of the songs I've said for Song of the Week have been, ironically, love songs, and I think every time I say this is the only love song I've ever heard yeah, I never do this I hate love songs Lies.
Speaker 2:I'll do it for this episode. Huh, All right.
Speaker 1:Okay, bye.
Speaker 2:Don't put that shit in the podcast.