Film Courage: Your message to artists: don’t quit your day job?
Jason Park, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, and Cinematographer: Yes, it’s important because it goes back to what we were saying about having your A goal and your B goal and by having a day job it gave me the stability to create my own films. I was able to procure locations, feed casts, take care of them, do films, do projects because I had a day job. If I only worried about booking jobs to live, I would be struggling because I haven’t booked a job in this field in like five or six years. Then that means I would go five or six years without any income looking to work as a PA on set or having to do background work or having to do oddball jobs. Whereas when you get that skill you’re able to just build the foundation and without the foundation you can’t do anything but with the foundation of financial security, it doesn’t matter how much you make, thirty thousand, fifty thousand, eighty thousand, how much you’re bringing in, you can mold your life around it then you’re able to create. You’re able to know I’m off Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I’m going to film Fridays and Saturday nights or Saturdays and Sunday however you’re going to do it and I’m just going to do that slowly.
Consistency for a creator is more important than anything so if you’re a writer, I have a goal that I live by if I’m planning on writing a script because I like to do a minimum of three pages a day and that minimum means if I can get three pages a day then in a month I have a script. If you do one page a day and you hold yourself to that one page, in three months you’ll have a script. If you’re not disciplined enough to hold yourself to that one page or three pages then you’ll never have anything. That story will stay stuck in your head. When you have discipline, you have your goal A, goal B, it becomes so important because you’re able to get a lot further. Think about it, if you go to the gym and you’re disciplined to work out every day you’re going to get stronger. If you’re a filmmaker and you’re disciplined to shoot every weekend discipline…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Jason Park is an accomplished Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, and Cinematographer. Living in Atlanta, GA with a background in both acting and narrative filmmaking. Jason was raised on the Big Island of Hawai’i. After finishing high school, he moved to Los Angeles California, where he found his passion for videography, acting, and filmmaking. He began booking commercials and print work for companies like Apple, Samsung, McDonald’s, Subway, and the list goes on. He’s been in films with actors such as Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect), Ross Butler (Shazam) Christian Serratos (Selena), David Oyelowo (Gringo), and Evan Ross (The Hunger Games). After appearing in films, commercials, and print campaigns. The actor decided to passionately work on breaking barriers for Asian-American actors, directors, writers, and creators in American Cinema. Leading him to create films with Asian leads in non Asian stereotypical roles.
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