When I first started as a video producer at First Methodist, I was paired with a junior video producer named Keith. Keith was the first employee I ever had, and fortunately for me Keith was both very good at his job and very easy to manage. The best possible way to start figuring out how to be a manager, I think, is to be almost entirely extraneous to the whole process. I would recommend it to anyone.
One of the habits I got into that first year was doing lighting setups with Keith as my subject, snapping a test frame with the cameras, then talking the look over with Keith before the subject arrived. Just for fun, I started saving the frames in a collection on my computer with the idea of making an Instagram post at some point.
After about a year, I got promoted to creative director and had less time to spend directing videos, so I never finished the project. But today I stumbled across the folder I was saving all of the photos in and decided to post some of them here for posterity.
