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Summary
TLDRこのビデオでは、ロサンゼルスのコンサートビジュアルデザイナー、ショーン・ボーズがVJ業界に入るための貴重なアドバイスを共有しています。業界で友達を作ること、無料で仕事を引き受けること、そして自信を持って挑戦することの重要性に焦点を当てています。具体的な例と個人的な経験を通じて、これらの戦略がどのように彼と他のプロのVJたちのキャリアに役立ったかを紹介しています。このビデオは、VJとしての最初のギグを獲得しようとしている人々に実用的なアドバイスとインスピレーションを提供します。
Takeaways
- 😀業界に友達を作ることがVJとしてのキャリアをスタートさせる大きな一歩になる。
- 🎶実際のプロジェクトやギグに参加することで、実践的なスキルと経験を積むことができる。
- 🌟初めてのギグを獲得するためには、無料で働くことも有効な戦略となり得る。
- 👥業界の人々とのネットワーキングは、新しい機会への扉を開く。
- 📈「やれるかどうかわからないけれど、チャレンジしてみる」という姿勢が成功につながることがある。
- 💡特定のソフトウェアやツール(例えばResolume)を学ぶことが、VJとしての技術を磨く上で重要。
- 🔍自分の作品やスキルを展示するポートフォリオを持つことが、将来のギグを獲得するために役立つ。
- 🎉実際のイベントやフェスティバルでの経験が、自信と能力を向上させる。
- 🚀「偽りから入る」(fake it till you make it)戦略が、未知のチャレンジに対処するための自信を与えることがある。
- ✨初めての公演に向けて徹底的に準備をすることが、成功への鍵。
Q & A
VJとの友情が業界に入るための鍵となる理由は何ですか?
-VJとの友情が重要なのは、彼らが基本を教え、成功への道を示し、初めの数回の仕事の機会を開くことができるからです。業界の経験豊富な人々とのネットワークは、新人VJにとって非常に有益です。
VJとしての最初のギグを得るために無料で作業することはなぜ有効ですか?
-ポートフォリオがなく、自分の技能を証明できない場合、無料で作業することは、スキルを実演し、ポートフォリオを構築する機会を提供します。これは、プロモーターにとってリスクがなく、新人VJにとって経験を積む良い機会になります。
「偽るまで成る」戦略がVJとしての最初の仕事を獲得する際にどのように役立つのですか?
-「偽るまで成る」とは、準備が整っていないと感じる機会にも「はい」と言うことです。この戦略は、逞しさと臨機応変さを要求し、それが最初のギグの扉を開くかもしれません。自分を押し出し、成功すれば、更なる機会へとつながります。
VJ業界でのSean Boseの経験に基づく主要な成功の秘訣は何ですか?
-Sean Boseは、業界での友情を築き、無料で作業を提供し、自信を持って機会をつかむことを推奨しています。これらは、彼と他の多くのプロフェッショナルVJにとって成功への鍵でした。
VJとしてのキャリアを始めるための最初のステップは何ですか?
-VJとしてのキャリアを始める最初のステップは、業界内での友人を作り、基本的なスキルと知識を学ぶことです。これにより、初めてのギグへの道が開かれる可能性があります。
VJ業界でのネットワーキングが重要なのはなぜですか?
-VJ業界でのネットワーキングは重要で、仕事の機会、技術的な知識、業界の洞察を提供し、キャリアの成長を促進します。他のVJとのつながりは、新しいプロジェクトやギグへの道を開くことができます。
VJとして無料で作業する際のリスクは何ですか?
-無料で作業するリスクには、時間と労力が報われないこと、プロとしての価値が認識されないこと、または長期的に無料作業が期待されるようになることが含まれます。しかし、初期段階での経験と露出を得るためには有効な戦略です。
VJとしての自己学習はキャリアにどのように影響しますか?
-自己学習はVJとしてのキャリアに大きな影響を与え、新しい技術やクリエイティブなアイデアを開発する能力を高めます。独学は、業界のトレンドや技術に迅速に適応するための柔軟性を提供します。
VJコンペティションが新人VJにとってどのような機会を提供するのですか?
-VJコンペティションは、新人VJにとって自分の作品を公に展示し、業界のプロフェッショナルとネットワーキングをする機会を提供します。また、才能を認められ、新しいギグやプロジェクトにつながる可能性があります。
VJとして成功するためにはどのようなスキルが必要ですか?
-VJとして成功するためには、クリエイティブなビジュアルデザインのスキル、技術的な知識、ネットワーキング能力、臨機応変さ、そして機会をつかむための積極性が必要です。これらのスキルは、効果的なパフォーマンスとキャリアの成長に不可欠です。
Outlines
🌟 VJ業界への入り方
ショーン・ボーズは、ロサンゼルスのコンサートビジュアルデザイナーとして、VJ業界に初めて足を踏み入れる方法についてのアドバイスを共有しています。彼は、業界内で友人を作ることの重要性を強調し、友人が基本を教え、成功への道を示し、最初のいくつかのドアを開くのを手伝ってくれると説明しています。彼は自身と他のプロフェッショナルVJの経験を基に、サンディエゴとロサンゼルス間を週末ごとに往復し、クラブでのレジデントVJとしての地位を確立した自身の物語を含め、具体的な事例を交えてこれを説明しています。また、ウィスコンシンで初めてスクリーンタイムを得る機会についても触れ、最終的にはインターンシップを経てAvalon Hollywoodでの仕事に就いた経験を共有しています。
🚀 キャリア構築のためのアドバイス
VJとしてのキャリアを築くためには、無料で仕事を引き受けることの価値と、自信を持ってチャンスをつかむことが重要です。ショーンは、ポートフォリオがない場合に仕事を無料で提供することが、スキルを示し、経験を積むための有効な手段であることを述べています。彼はまた、自分自身を挑戦し、準備不足に感じるかもしれないチャンスにも「はい」と言う勇気についても語っています。これらのアプローチを通じて、初めての公演機会を得た経験や、経験不足を感じながらも成功を収めた他のVJからの事例を共有しています。
🔑 成功への鍵
ショーンは、VJとして成功するためには、自分の技術を磨き、業界の人々と積極的に関わり、機会が来た時にはそれを掴む準備ができていることが重要であると結論付けています。彼は、自身が参加したVJコンペティションでの勝利が、最初の本格的なギグへの扉を開いた経験を共有し、それが市内でのさらなるギグへとつながった方法を説明しています。このエピソードは、前向きな態度、練習への献身、そして新しいチャレンジに対する開かれた心が、VJとしてのキャリアを築く上での鍵であることを示しています。
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Keywords
💡VJ
💡業界へのブレイクイン
💡ネットワーキング
💡無償の仕事
💡ポートフォリオ
💡自己啓発
💡レゾリューム
💡ギグ
💡モーショングラフィックス
💡テナシティ
Highlights
Make friends with VJs to get guidance and open doors
Offer to work for free to build portfolio and get experience
Say yes to opportunities even if not fully ready yet
The author won a VJ competition which led to first paid gig
Transcripts
I'm Sean Bose concert visual designer in
Los Angeles California today I'm going
to share with you a few tips on how you
can get your first VJ gigs and break
into the industry these tips come from
my own experience as well as the
experiences of other professional VJs
that I know and some of which I have
interviewed on this channel alright tip
number one make friends with VJ so many
VJ origin stories start with making a
friend in the industry someone who can
show you the basics show you the path to
success and help open those first few
doors let's see this in action there was
not many people to talk to there it was
so hard to find information about what
to do but I met a couple BJs in the
industry at the time and
they just kind of guided me and just
through there met more people and it
just grew and grew my friend Whoopi I
don't know how I met Whoopi but um he
was working with v squared and uh also
at the nightclub called Create Nightclub
right now it's called Academy but it
used to be called a create in Hollywood
and he was going to do some other
festival and they needed a VJ and
everyone's busy so I got to go up there
and I just tried my hardest and everyone
everyone enjoyed working with me so I
eventually became the backup Vijay for
whenever Whoopi was gone I would drive
up
um on the weekends from San Diego on
Friday after my graphic design job I'd
sit through traffic to get there Friday
night uh luckily my dad was still living
in La at the time so I could just stay
at his house and then work two nights
and drive back down Sunday go back to
work
um so I did that for a long time then I
became the resident there and every
weekend I was just driving back and
forth San Diego to LA
um and that was when I really really got
to learn resolume how to Vijay learned
all of my content what works what
doesn't work color matching brightness
working with an LD you know that all
those nights in the club just really
really
got me to where I am
today I think I went to a show in
I can't remember what the show even was
it's just so long ago but I went to a
show and I met a Vijay there and I was
kind of just running around the show
trying to learn what everybody did so um
I wanted to know what the tour manager
did what the lighting designer did what
and and had landed on this Vijay who was
very enthusiastic in showing me resolume
and wanted to show me how visuals work
so the VJ that I met that initially got
me excited into uh learning how to do
resolume
um invited me to drive to Wisconsin
Miller Wisconsin
to get some screen time for the first
time and what he did was basically like
he had this little mixer he would be
vijaying and then he would wait to see
on my like we had another secondary
display uh we look at that he would just
look at that and when he thought I was
doing something cool then he would
switch it to mine and bring it up so he
was like you know that was my first uh
like time vijaying and um I was really
grateful that he like kind of led me
along the way in that way
um and then that kind of led into like
my first time getting to learn how to
put a show together because
um I went to programming for
um a show that he was putting together
and we did a really similar thing when
in the first couple of shows where I
would make content or I had certain
songs that I would I would do visuals
for and he would flip it to me during
the the set during that time and then
flip it back to him and do some of the
other songs and then flip it back to me
so that was kind of how I started to
learn how to
um VJ and about timing of the show and
um about
um yeah like lighting calls and things
like that but one day uh imminent
surprisingly followed man on Instagram
and I saw it today and I was like oh
this is dope so I started
slid into their DMS asked them if they
were looking for an intern but I think I
still have the message in my history
and so they gave me against the ship got
to meet Drew was interning with them for
about a year and then went on graduated
and started working at Avalon Hollywood
so one day Drew gives me a ring asking
if I wanted a TM for 12 Planet I was
like shocked I was like hell yeah man I
want to do it it's like cool he also is
going to start we were in the process of
creating this like time-coded audio
visual experience for 1200 now but yeah
no that was sort of the Gateway into
what I'm doing now for imminent and for
Drew just that's sort of how it all kind
of started so as you can see making
friends with a VJ is a great way to
break into the industry
you can do it in person or even online
start genuine conversations demonstrate
curiosity and interest in your new VJ
friend might be your ticket to your
first gig
tip number two do it for free
this is a controversial one but when you
don't have a portfolio to demonstrate
your skills it's difficult to convince
somebody to pay you to do the task
so you need to find another way a lot of
vga's got their start by offering to do
the gig for free or as being a secondary
installation as part of an event let's
listen to a few stories of how people
have used this technique to get their
foot in the door my first show I mean I
beg the promoter to let me show up with
a projector that I put I was not doing
the visuals for the show I was literally
doing visuals on a wall in the back of
the venue I just wanted to be there and
just do my visuals and the promoter was
really cool he was like yes do your
thing we love creativity like flow
artists are doing their things I was
doing my thing and then I met a lot of
people that way too it was a good way to
get my foot in the door uh so that was
one of my first shows
uh yeah so that was my intro to the more
underground scene in Chicago
uh and it worked out because the next
time uh they had a show the VJ couldn't
make it so I was the first person that
they called
so that worked out pretty well and I
talked to people too I would talk to The
BJs after shows uh like go out to be
like I want to do what you do and then
ask them how they got involved and then
I would stay in contact with them
um and they sort of helped me through
setting up my resolume for shows things
like that so that was really nice both I
remember my first the first time I ever
played for anyone was it was a Beyond
Wonderland after party at this hotel and
the promoter had hired already hired and
was paying a different BJ but he said oh
you could just set up your projector in
the corner and just do whatever you want
so what I had done is I cut up the
Disney version of Alice in Wonderland
into all these little clips and I got
some other like 3D looking videos and
mixed the two and so I just set up my
projector on the back corner of the wall
and by the end of the night I just had a
whole group of people just sitting in
front of my projector watching and
nobody was paying attention to the stage
and it was just yeah
that was the first time I ever played
for anyone
so offering your services for free can
be an effective way of breaking into the
industry
this takes the pressure off the promoter
while giving you an opportunity to
demonstrate your skills and document it
for your portfolio now obviously you
don't want to do this too many times and
you should start charging as soon as you
can but offering your art for free for
the first time might be your ticket to
Landing your first gig
tip number three
fake it till you make it tenacity and
the ability to think on your feet are
essential for success in this field and
it can also be what opens that first
door for you I've spoken to several VJs
who have told me that their first
opportunity came from saying yes to an
opportunity that they weren't quite
ready for but
their tenacity and resourcefulness
helped them nail it anyway
let's hear a few examples
I was making flyers for a lot of the
club events there
uh the guy I worked for ended up leaving
but then the rest of the club sort of
liked me and then decided uh you know
hey why don't you just work here for us
uh at that time the club was called
qutopia
and um the event manager at this club
was Pasquale Rotella from insomniac
um who you know founded EDC and you know
face rush and all these Mega brands that
you know were definitely part of but
back then he was working the club
and so the club that we were at was an
18 and up Club they sold Gatorade and it
was uh just a rave Club but they won a
lottery to reopen with a liquor license
so they closed everything down
and uh got a whole new video system
lighting system in that club and me
being a graphic designer at the club I
kind of was poking around with the video
gear and was like
who's using this stuff and everyone's
like no one knows how this thing works
learning how to DJ because I worked at
the club
yeah this is probably about 2005.
um started making some of my own DJ
Clips I just kind of became the VJ at
the club and did it until I kind of
found my place in Motion Graphics and
you know left the club to kind of do you
know a bit more commercial work with
this lawn venue called Rum Jungle in
Orlando it was like
we'd never really done anything that big
I guess and the venue had like an LED
wall full PA and no one knew how to use
it
and hey craze was playing and and they
were headlining it and this was in 2017
2018.
and I was like well I could probably
figure it out so I went and grabbed my
MacBook out of my car and like Google
how to do it and like ran the show on
the demo like Resolute Watermark up and
down the corners and just like strobing
my life away I was like dang this is
sick you know keyboard Warrior over here
and then and then from there I just like
a couple months later I started working
at one of the nightclubs there and then
was on tour in like five months wow and
then just learned from that from there
like I'm on the Bear Grylls freak Show
tour just like
halfway through their tour they came to
Florida and we're like you wanna just
like come on the bus and I was like sure
just went out and and just helped and
helped Justin their their Tech that was
vijaying at the time let him kind of
just build the wall and then I just kind
of DJ it
and and then I just learned from there
and then just kind of take off I guess
so prepare as much as you can so you can
be ready for any opportunity that comes
your way even if you feel it's a little
beyond your ability this could be the
ticket to your first gig and if you push
yourself and succeed it could be the
ticket to many more
my own story is a combination of these
three tips
I had been practicing on my own for a
few years and started chatting up vj's
at some local events that I attended
they let me know about a VJ competition
that was coming up as part of a local
Festival so I decided to enter this was
my first time vijaying in public and a
bunch of the local Boston area VJs were
going to be there so I practice like
crazy in the weeks leading up to the
event I ended up winning that
competition so later that week when one
of the local VJs needed a replacement
for one of their gigs they thought of me
I said yes of course even though that
would be my first real gig and I was
nervous but I did pretty well and ended
up getting hired back as a regular VJ at
that venue and getting more gigs around
the city over the years to come
all right so now you know a few tips for
how you can get your first gig if you've
already got your first gig or you use
one of these tips let us know in the
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