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One of those friends is Emil, who was only there for a month or two, and we left at the same time. He was by far the most talented, having gone to film school. He went on to actually build his own production company, and made a lot of good work that he was really proud of.

He did that for 5 years and now he quit and ditched all his clients to start a YouTube channel. You can search Emil Agopian on YT if you wanna check it out. 

We’ve actually talked about doing an exposé style documentary about the experience because it’s such a crazy story. 

But yeah overall I learned a lot, both creatively and emotionally. Treating people right definitely gets you farther in life, and being able to recognize malevolence is definitely a skill I’m glad I obtained. 

Kinda crazy to think I spent 9 month of my life working there, but also glad I got out. Who knows what would have happened if I stayed. Now it’s dead and defunct and I’m pretty sure he has a car detailing business so… yeah thats basically it

Justin Porter hahah thanks!

yeah it was wild. Basically I was fresh out of high school, and eager to work in the field, and this guy in his mid 30’s had this ‘production company’ named k9 media, he was very charismatic, but manipulative. He managed to convince a lot of young people like me to work with him for free. We were all amateurs and wanna-be’s, there were rappers, musicians, artists, writers, comedians, producers, editors. Nobody with any real background or experience.

We filmed music videos, covered a few events, tried creating YouTube shows and original productions. It was fun but in hindsight there were so many red flags. 

It was weird cause nobody was really making money, not even him, occasionally a couple hundred bucks for filming an event or whatever. But he had this like visionary vibe to him that people gravitated to I guess. 

Overall it was a generally good experience, I learned a lot and I made a lot of connections with people who I’m still friends with today. 

My honest opinion is you can’t go wrong. Maybe rent them and see which suits you best, but those are all great options. 

Hey, I’m happy to give a crack at it. Send me some clips, I’ll cut up a preview and if you like what you see we can go from there.

tonywirthfilms@icloud.com

Only time I shot interviews was for a production cult I was a part of in 2019 (I say cult because it was very shady, and not really a company, it’s a long story.)

But I’ll share a frame, why not. It was a documentary that was never finished about the Cannabis Buyers Club in Victoria BC. Shot on a Canon m50, with some cheap lens I forget. Terrible lighting, terrible audio, but I had no money, and idea what I was doing at the time, just a dream to be a filmmaker.

I had the original Rode Wireless Go, and the range and battery life were not so great. I found the Neewer CM28 have good quality sound, and are very feature rich for the price. They’re usually on sale on Amazon, you get 2 in a charging case, they have stereo, mono, and multi signal recording. Good range, but also internal recording so if you get out of range you can just sync the recording in post. You could get 2 of them and you’ll have 4 wireless mics for less than $200. 

I have friends with the DJI mics, and the Hollyland mics, if you have the budget definitely pick up the hollyland, but the Neewer actually stack up pretty well considering the price. Also the audio quality is great. 

I just hate the name of that brand so much tho, like Neewer is basically unpronounceable, and I feel like they’re shooting themselves in the foot with that name, but they do make some decent budget friendly gear. 

Hope this helps!