CHUANG FILM & VIDEO
Telling Stories
Growing up, my family had a Kodak Super 8 camera for shooting home movies, but my Dad would never let me touch it. One day, he finally let me shoot a family vacation and I let all my imaginatively half baked ideas loose in that one short roll. I think Fellini would have approved. However, my dad didn't ... creative differences, you could say. In the years since then and now, I took a long route before finding myself again behind a camera. Fortunately it was a path full of creativity. I've been an illustrator, a mural painter, a computer multimedia artist, an art director at an ad firm, a creative director. And finally now I'm back to the place that I feel I belong ... behind a camera, creating film and video. Things have changed since that last gig on the Super 8. There's now a world of powerful cameras and tools to be had, with tremendous creative options literally at one's fingertips. The technology is mind boggling. Beautiful high quality 4K video? No problem. With good lighting skills, even your phone can manage that. However, despite all these amazing advances, technology still cannot buy you creativity, ideas, and “the eye”. That will always take work, experience, and the willingness to trust yourself as an artist. Sure, of course I get excited about what some of the latest cameras and software can do ... but I get even more excited about each new opportunity to craft another story, just like I did when I was 10 - and for me that's still the best reason ever for doing this.
