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- Hey everyone, it's me Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere as always.
I never sleep well before shoot,
ever,
because as the producer,
it's my job to freak out,
you know, it's my job to like
actively play to Murfew's law
and think about every possible scenario,
you know, that can go wrong,
you know, you plan for the worst, hope for the best.
You know at this point I could try to go back to sleep
for 30 minutes, 45 minutes or I could just,
you know, just live in it, just live in
prepping, you know, just live in that world,
that's usually do, kinda doing.
This is what it's like being a producer.
You're just charging everything all the time.
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- [Cameraman] Open hand, there you go.
- So at the end of last year,
my production company got the amazing opportunity
to produce a show for PBS Digital Studios
and since then, I've been working on that.
It's called Say It Loud and it premiered here on Youtube
for Black History Month.
It's been really great to
flex my production company in this way,
utilizing all the resources and relationships I've built
over the years to do it
and to partner with new entities like KLRU in Austin.
Okay so it's the next day,
you know the shoot went really well
and now later that day I ended up
editing the whole teaser
and got it approved and whatnot
so now I am in post with graphics and all of that,
I'm working with an amazing graphic designer,
she also is the one that helped me design
my BA chaotic good logo for the merch
so she's doing her part right now
and, you know, we're just in communication,
going back and forth, and it's looking really good
and so I think by the time this vlog comes out,
y'all will like know what's happening fully.
In my journal, I wrote down, I think it was
middle of the year in 2018,
I said I wanna produce something for PBS or Netflix
or something like that.
But the thing about hitting goals, you know,
like this that you manifest for yourself
is a lot of times you don't just
hit the goal and revel in that.
Usually it's you hit an achievement
and now the real work begins you know.
And so this show I'm just really excited
to be working on it
and be really vested in the show in that way.
And I really hope it goes well.
(laughs)
You know it's all you can do is hope it goes well.
I'm definitely being challenged on this show in a way
that I have never been challenged before
but in a good way, in a very constructive way.
And I'm learning so much about just the creative process,
collaboration, working with an entity like this.
So you know it's high key stressful
but in the best kind of way and it's a process.
So I feel like a lot of people
will have goals for themselves
or have things they're trying to strive for
but the thing is like once you hit it,
the real work starts you know.
So it's like yeah, I'm working on the show
and there's certain accolades
that I guess everyone feels about that,
but I'm working now,
(laughs) you know,
and it's work, it's great work,
so great work, but it's work.
So keep that in mind as you're moving into your resolutions,
what you're trying to gain for yourself,
whether it be a better job, better opportunities,
whatever it is, remember that like
to a certain degree you gotta earn it,
because we all know you gotta be twice as good.
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I think the best thing about being a video producer
and what I do, is the continued opportunities
I get to collaborate with so many different kinds of people.
The credits that you see at the end of a narrative
only tell part of the story,
there so many others involved at different capacities,
each of them having their own unique influences
on the finished product,
and as the producer,
I get to see it all unfold in every detail.
Nobody makes it there alone, it takes a team
and I'm really loving the team I'm on.
If you haven't already checked it out,
the first two episodes of Say It Loud are here on YouTube,
I'll link to the channel in the Eye of Sauron and below.
If you're new here consider subscribing,
I make videos here about my chaotic good life
as a full time creative and video producer.
I'll see you when I see you.
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