Our crew members have held quite an assortment of jobs, in many different fields, before coming to Windsong — a manager at a rock climbing gym, a delivery driver for a cookie company, a shoe maker at a flip-flop factory, an IRS mail clerk, an usher at an events center, a gate operator (seriously, someone who opened and closed a gate). So it’s really no surprise that we all have our own unique reasons and motivations for wanting to work in the field of production. We asked our team to share the story of their individual paths to the wonderful world of Windsong.
Byron:
My friends and I used to always make movies on old VHS cameras. We would edit in-camera, which meant we had to shoot in order, changing costumes and locations with every cut. It wasn’t until the first iMac was released with iMovie that I felt like making videos was a viable career option. We would hang out in a dark corner of the church I attended as a kid and use their iMac and Canon GL2 to make shorts. I remember the first time we were putting a song underneath a short we were cutting and it just synced up PERFECTLY to the beat. We lost it. Screaming. High fives. Chills. That was it for me. I found I had a knack for putting stuff together out of order. It just made sense. That was the first time I realized you could do this for a living.
Sara:
I never planned to get into production. I just kinda fell into it. During my years in college, I changed my major from Political Science to International Business, before finally settling on Marketing. It was the first program I felt like I could actually make my career out of without getting tired of it. I knew I didn’t want to stay in my college job any longer than I absolutely had to, so I begged, and interviewed, and got turned down many times before finally landing an entry level position at an advertising agency. I was fortunate enough to gain a lot of experience and try a lot of avenues at that agency, but video production and producing was what I found most interesting, and what I felt I was best at. That’s what ultimately led me to Windsong.
Tony:
A long time ago in a faraway land known as Minneapolis, there were a couple of local sports columnists who dabbled in radio. Their weekly show was loosely based on sports while heavy on the offbeat, weird and humorous, and it had an emphasis on callers-in. The two hosts had a particular weakness for those callers who would impersonate other people. This show became a must listen in our section of the dorm, and after a dare by a fellow dorm-mate, I found myself on the phone. Several weeks and a half dozen phone calls later — doing various bits with different voices — the radio bug bit and at the end of the semester I quit college and went to a broadcast school. The rest, as they say, has been a bumbling downward spiral.
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