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Where did your vision come from?

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So the long story is,

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the short story is I fell in love with being behind a screen

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and being the one to make the calls on each camera

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and pick out that perfect shot,

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make sure nobody misses that moment that I could capture.

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The long story starts in high school

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when I got kicked out of marching band.

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Oh, cool.

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I got kicked out of marching band.

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Yeah, that's not something that happens,

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is you get kicked out of an elective in high school.

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So my teacher, my band director sat me down and said,

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Peyton, I don't think you like band.

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I was like, no, I love band.

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I love playing, I'm percussionist.

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I love banging on stuff and making music.

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And they're like, well, I think you're mostly here

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to hang out with your friends

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because you don't really practice

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and you play just enough to get a chair

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that's not last place.

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And you're just kind of middle of the road

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in everything that I see you doing.

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I'm like, well, I guess you kind of are right

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that I'm only here to really hang out with friends,

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but I do enjoy music.

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And they're like, well, then maybe band isn't for you.

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And so I had to find a new elective

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and I found the AV club and we had just gotten a new teacher

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and they said, okay, we're changing up

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how everything is going.

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And we're gonna start off with,

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we need a director, a camera director.

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And nobody raised their hand.

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And I was like, I don't know what it is,

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but it's high school, I'll figure it out.

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So I raised my hand and I fell in love with it.

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It's just being behind the screen

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with all of the cameras in front of me,

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talking with a headset on the 13 different people,

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or at the time it was probably closer to five.

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It was a smaller high school.

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So I'm talking to three camera people, a replay,

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and then a talent, whoever my announcer is.

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And I'm just coordinating everything live on them.

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As things are happening, it's switching to that camera

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and then that camera, get ready for replay,

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get your graphics ready.

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And it's just an ever-changing story

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that the flow is just unmatched.

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And that's what I've always loved.

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Fell in love with it in high school

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and I've been chasing after that position ever since.

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And so once I graduated college with a broadcasting degree,

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played around in other companies and then found out

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that nobody was really gonna open up

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that dream position that I loved.

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And so I'm gonna forge my own path

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and make that position that I love a thing.

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I know some people say that whenever you create a business,

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it's either you're creating a business

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or you're creating a job for yourself.

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And right now, my vision is to create a job

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for myself that I enjoy.

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I know it's not exactly creating a business,

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but I'm gonna follow the passion,

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follow my vision, which is directing

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and crafting that story live.