Quite some time ago.
I got message from some guy called men's opposing the interesting question of should I spend all my money on university education or spunk all?
Of them gear instead, but the thing is I went to university a long long time ago
I was still using something called film not full frame but frame so I thought would be best to get some insight from someone
Who'd spent all his money on education, but also gear a lot more recently than me
also
This is sponsored by Skillshare an online sharing community with thousands of classes where you can learn more about photography videography or other creative skills
All right, we've had enough of doolittle let's get on with the video
Tim the man let's come back with my graduation
It looks like it came from Hogwarts him hand failed in film
Did you get I got up a second class. So to one component c1 it's not bad. Welcome. Congratulations Tim, which is
In case you've never seen him before who is Tim Pam, let's rewind and introduce you to why we met yeah
How do we meet we're not like that?
Here he is
That's how we met. I was pies burnt as a normal fan
But I was really interested by pie style and I really wanted to learn from him. Hi is like such a
Shit. Yeah, I mean I mean like
Like now I can plug 4 into the clock. Okay. Now Tim talk shit boy in Mandarin
Yea fuck shading meandering now multi also exists and iPhones
Like how to shoot wildlife
Anyway tea pan graduated last year and was my wingman for some CVB vid started and we also hung out and asked about in videos
You might call him a look. I mean some of you actually met him in called a block Tim was getting mistaken for you
we were
Unworried Tim even Asians can tell difference one key key Asian work last is from another. Thanks
The other one should you spend all your money on education you studied film right? Yes
or use that money on
a camera
It with me I would definitely
throw this shit away and buy a
bio-rad camera
seriously
Though a uni I really didn't to them that much fun
Good advert for University of Kenwright at brew - don't feel sorry for Tim's academic misfortunes, though
He's got red gem, and I know anyway here is being panned by a poltergeist. He can even afford to chuck some batteries around
You've bought yourself a nice camera. What you doing? How did you learn assuming?
You don't know anything about cameras or about taking video was that you shouldn't buy camera. Just go to uni, right?
If you don't know what you see stop spending so much money on camera
If you think he's doing to sharpen your skills and meet people I think people's it's the most important thing
Did you meet any useful contacts? Yeah did like
three people
Here are this one? Yeah. Hi feed me a pie buy me food. I kept him alive when he's in university it is
Well ec learn how to catch a hat in uni, unfortunately, those catching skills weren't transferable to batteries
I don't look back at my time in uni anymore. Funny to be honest
I didn't think one of my tutors taught me that much either as grim as displaces in some parts
I love this place. The place is literally dripping with culture order
I think that's actually a tram pissing from the first floor window
my photography teacher was a bit of a shitty teacher mainly because of the fact that
He didn't actually teach us anything at the start term
He would have a 15-minute session with us saying you've got creative Fotolia project and then send us away for the rest of term
Zero lessons didn't teach us anything at all? So you should sack uni and buy load of cool toys, right? No
Don't just fingers. I already know my actors and shutter speeds and I says I don't need to go to uni
There are some more useful things that you get from going down that academic route
Number one you work on projects to a deadline and you're creating that work to be
Evaluated and possibly shat on by your tutor
Not literally if you want to take it up as a profession
You're going to be doing work - a deadline for your client to evaluate and possibly shit on
Similarly number two working towards a goal. You can learn how to take photos elsewhere
But to have a goal a finish line in achievement it can make you more driven
otherwise
What is their?
Likes on insta likes make you feel like but it's not necessarily a good indication of the quality of work
And that won't help you to prepare you for professional work, but great if you need attention
Oh, and by the way, please follow me on Instagram and love me. It gives me a big head
Social media lights ROI stuff like that should not be the yardstick for success when it comes to your images your work
And why your images will always be in a shadow of Kim Kardashian's ass
I mean not literally unless you've got printer and you're walking behind her like ah
However, one thing that you must realize if you're even thinking of the gear route if you buy a 5d Mark for okay
Why would you buy that? No, okay, if you bought a sony a7s 2 was already out there
Okay, any boy Sony a7 read today? Yeah, it would be outdated in two years time
It will be worth fraction of what it is
He's gone red camera boy, what a red camera and it dropped by was it 500 it dropped
You dropped a know what you lose all its value
I think I think the more expensive camera gets the more money you're going to lose especially for rare
It's like up the bottom only for two months. It dropped five thousand dollars
That's like to a SMS to right there cool toys for adults if it makes you happy
Get what you want doesn't matter what someone on the internet says
It's your money
But do you know if you buy high-end bit of kit and you're only able to use a small?
Percentage of its abilities buy at a time. You have learnt how to get the best air of it
Something better might have come out by then. Yeah
Buy rare if they really want but experience you had with the rad discovery
What can be recreated?
Have a chicken nugget on that Congrats to our thanks. That was a nice speech
What a golden nugget of truth right there going to uni can be good to allow you to figure out your career game plan
Or to get inspiration from other creatives that you mean otherwise
You could get the decent-enough camera and spend some money on going traveling instead
Putting all that money on the camera will just get you a depreciating asset
Whereas traveling all university at least provide you experiences that you might not ever get the chance to do
Once you end the flow of full-time work, but just know that with creative careers, there isn't just one route. It's not like
medicine or
Lawyer, you're not going to just find you your knives off eBay and say you know what?
I just fencing coming up some arts today creative industries different
Yeah, I mean like degree is not that important in creative industry true
No one is going to stop you from being a photographer or filmmaker just because you don't have a degree
But I think Tim didn't really need uni
I could see early on he had lots of talent was incredibly ambitious and
self-motivated with creative work the limit of the abilities depends on yourself and I think Tim's work is
Immaculate and love the stuff alone was from the Internet's. I mean YouTube is look like the best University on planet Earth
Yes, like so much people teach you stuff
there are a lot of good channels and
Really in depth and really condensed information like video you've edited you can make like every sentence like as much
As possible totally that's really important
Yeah
a new complete failure and it's always fun and always with proper B rows and
motion graphics already some videos to explain everything really clearly if you want to just learn the basics of
techniques and all these
YouTube is more than enough for you to learn you the heart sing of being a youtuber heart you have filmmakers
To tell a good story
Storytelling is hard. It's really high
I'm not a ghost or intelligent yet. That's why I'm 22 in summary
Number one don't spend shit loads on give you don't know how to use a year number to upgrade gear when you upgrade your skills
number three digital gear depreciates quick
Experiences don't number four unique isn't essential for creative work
But it can help you develop
Number five know your ability your weaknesses getting guidance from someone with more experience is useful
I can't tell you what to do
but education and gear aren't really like for like even if you get a bloody expensive carer don't do this at the expense of
learning
And as it's summertime and some of you lot my beginning exam results very soon
I just want to say I hope you get the grades you want
despite some of the things that were said in this video and that Tim would rather have a read than the uni degree easy for
Him to say he's got both right. I enjoyed uni. I wouldn't change it
And if your results don't end up being what you wanted there are alternatives. There are other routes
There are Plan B's don't be too disheartened. It might feel like it but it isn't a dead end
No your goal and focus on that
Also, if you want to learn more as mentioned, there are lots of resources online including Skillshare
Which is not only a place for people to create their own tutorials
But also to learn stuff if you want to develop your photo or filmmaking skills
There's over 25,000 classes ranging from business to design and more including great classes from people
You might already follow
Such as Sarah DG with a tutorial on how to vlog and also John Olsen's to soils on how to take better photos
premium membership gives you unlimited access and cost less than $10 per month and
To get you started with a lovely Skillshare account. I've got this very lovely offer just for you guys
Anyway, thanks for watching. See you again
I
Hope everyone's different. I mean you got your family background
By weight tim has got a crapload of fans in China
Am I is like sex God in China, right and a safeguard got it a beginning because of which ties channel
I'm just a normal fan. I mean like I really want to
Learn bomb from Chi about how his shoe star and javi added and just a war. Javi pox cuz I have a
And as well, so I'm really trying to learn from him
But obviously I took gotta come back and make contact with him. So I try to harass him through different ways emails
Facebook later I wrote by my strands what I'm good at
and what how what I have what I could bring to the table like a Kansas sees your under mark -
Yeah II got interested. Then we just made comeback now we become friends
C300 Mark - that's that's the key word there. Yeah, that's c300 Mark didn't want to be friend of mr. Caesar on to my tune
So there we are
Don't go to school kiddies. Don't go to school. No no sing up for you before you do it every tear do something
This is rubbish. Please do it. My mom's got a key
Check out his channel by the way anything Chinese you've got him there's on memory
Yeah, well maybe you speak Mandarin ready, oh yeah and I will be posting some more English stuff probably
Heightened my accent I'll open learn all my bad bad words
You just saying that's the word you learn or you called me wanker
Monogatari muggins