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Will Joseph
Focus on what YOU want and follow every opportunity to attain it! Sit yourself down, look in the mirror or meditate, do whatever you need to do and tell yourself you really want to achieve THIS! You’ll feel good as soon as you say it; close your eyes and visualize it and you’ll feel good straight away. Then just hold onto that feeling! Ask yourself, ‘If this is what I want, how do I go and get it?’ Then listen to yourself and go and get it: follow the path which feels best! If it turns out badly, you’ll have learnt something and you’ll bounce back stronger. I know I’ve felt good before going into projects which have failed, but I know exactly how it’s going to fail if I see that again. So the lesson you learn from failure is invaluable! If you don’t take a shot, you won’t make it so …
Where do you see things leading for you?
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Great question! Ideally, I want to be a cinematographer and shoot feature films. I’d love to have directing control, like a ‘director of photography (aka DOP)’, set it up and do it. I love the visual aspect. I live for it! ISHIKI is very heavily centred on live and music videos and I think it’s a great stepping stone. I don’t see ISHIKI as being the be-all and end-all of my film career. I think it’s a great start and something I’ll always hold close to my heart. In terms of long-term projects, you probably won’t see ISHIKI as the DOP; you’ll probably see ‘Will Joseph’. That’s my long-term goal.
Which mentors do you look to for inspiration?
I get a lot of inspiration from Instagram; there’s a lot of great DOPs on Instagram and a lot of accounts for cinematography. A lot of equipment too, which is a big thing. If I can go to a set and there’s a 40 foot crane or massive sky box, I’m just like, ‘Wow, that’s great!’, so I’ll follow all the rigging accounts on Instagram to see what other creative things people are doing to achieve shots that are super inspiring!
If you’d like to follow Will on social media lookup @Videoishki on Instagram and follow https://www.facebook.com/videoishiki/.
Shout out to Will’s friends @IcarusCreative on Facebook and Instagram too!
