Where did your vision come from?
So the long story is,
the short story is I fell in love with being behind a screen
and being the one to make the calls on each camera
and pick out that perfect shot,
make sure nobody misses that moment that I could capture.
The long story starts in high school
when I got kicked out of marching band.
Oh, cool.
I got kicked out of marching band.
Yeah, that's not something that happens,
is you get kicked out of an elective in high school.
So my teacher, my band director sat me down and said,
Peyton, I don't think you like band.
I was like, no, I love band.
I love playing, I'm percussionist.
I love banging on stuff and making music.
And they're like, well, I think you're mostly here
to hang out with your friends
because you don't really practice
and you play just enough to get a chair
that's not last place.
And you're just kind of middle of the road
in everything that I see you doing.
I'm like, well, I guess you kind of are right
that I'm only here to really hang out with friends,
but I do enjoy music.
And they're like, well, then maybe band isn't for you.
And so I had to find a new elective
and I found the AV club and we had just gotten a new teacher
and they said, okay, we're changing up
how everything is going.
And we're gonna start off with,
we need a director, a camera director.
And nobody raised their hand.
And I was like, I don't know what it is,
but it's high school, I'll figure it out.
So I raised my hand and I fell in love with it.
It's just being behind the screen
with all of the cameras in front of me,
talking with a headset on the 13 different people,
or at the time it was probably closer to five.
It was a smaller high school.
So I'm talking to three camera people, a replay,
and then a talent, whoever my announcer is.
And I'm just coordinating everything live on them.
As things are happening, it's switching to that camera
and then that camera, get ready for replay,
get your graphics ready.
And it's just an ever-changing story
that the flow is just unmatched.
And that's what I've always loved.
Fell in love with it in high school
and I've been chasing after that position ever since.
And so once I graduated college with a broadcasting degree,
played around in other companies and then found out
that nobody was really gonna open up
that dream position that I loved.
And so I'm gonna forge my own path
and make that position that I love a thing.
I know some people say that whenever you create a business,
it's either you're creating a business
or you're creating a job for yourself.
And right now, my vision is to create a job
for myself that I enjoy.
I know it's not exactly creating a business,
but I'm gonna follow the passion,
follow my vision, which is directing
and crafting that story live.