How To Avoid Burnout in 3 Practical Steps 📚

YOUTUBE
How To Film A Temple Wedding

We always have students ask in our Facebook group about how to film certain religious ceremonies that are different than traditional weddings. In our most recent YouTube video, we break down how to film a temple wedding that takes place in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

But aside from the specifics of the temple wedding, we also cover techniques that apply to any wedding you shoot. Techniques that are covered include:

1. How to film details on tablescapes that are social-media worthy. Our tips and tricks to capturing better details that not only the planner will love, but that will look beautiful in your films.

2. How to balance your gimbal when you are using a zoom lens. If you are using a zoom lens, the process for balancing the gimbal is different than the usual approach, and if you do it incorrectly, your gimbal will have a shorter lifespan.

3. Directing a bridal session in under 30 minuets. Many times you are pressed for time, and you need to get those money shots for your film. Check out some inspiration on how to do this quickly and efficiently.

As always, reply to this email and let us know the type of YouTube content that YOU would like to see on our channel in the near future!

INSPIRATION
Our Favorite Post Of The Week

We just got back from shooting a wedding in Italy with Will Sarmiento. The stage was set to film a beautiful wedding at Villa Balbiano on Monday, with a pre-wedding dinner party on Sunday, and a pool party on Tuesday.

Will flew into Milan a few days before us and got to work. With only his Canon R6 and a 70-200mm lens, he walked around town for a few hours and began capturing shots. And before the night was over, he had produced a reel from it that blew our minds with how good it turned out. Almost no camera movement, just clean compositions and subjects telling the story of the city.

Watch closely, and you can see how intentional the use of the bird shots were as they transitioned from one scene to another. Easily our favorite part of the reel. After watching this, we set down our gimbals and focused more on composition instead of movement.

PRODUCTIVITY
Why You Need To Tune Others Out

As a creator, you are never off the clock. And crazy enough, that’s the only way we want it. Think back to when you first started creating content, to when you had 0 followers. At this snapshot in time, you were creating for the ART of it all.

Then at some point, whether you slowly grew to a few hundred followers, or tens of thousands of followers, there came a point when you stopped creating just for creations sake.

Outside voices started to pop into your inbox, asking for new content. Clients started asking for videos to be done by certain deadlines.

It became a job.

Perhaps now more than ever, we are seeing lots of creatives experience burnout by trying to keep up with The Jones’, and experiencing no satisfaction from it at all.

So here are some tips to avoid getting burned out:

1. Set a time each week where you turn off all distractions and respect it like it’s holy. I did this during my time in college and it allowed me to completely separate my studies from creativity. On Thursdays from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m, I would just “get creative”. No projects, no goals, just creating things that didn’t exist before. Some of my best ideas later came from these sessions.

2. Create instead of consume on social media. As cliché as it is, try it out. Only allow yourself to doom scroll on social media if you have also created some sort of content and posted it. It can be something as simple as a story, or commenting on 5 posts. You create your boundaries, but something beautiful starts to happen when you start putting more work into the aether instead of only consuming it.

3. Learn something new every day. It can be anything. Ideally not related to anything that is considered work. If you enjoy books, try to read something that is challenging. If you enjoy podcasts, try listening to one on your morning commute.

The answer to avoiding burnout and ignoring outside voices is not more work. It’s play. As the maxim goes: work hard, play hard.

That’s our challenge for the week. Switch up your routine and get back to creating art just for the art itself. Don’t worry about likes or comments, do it for yourself.