Indie Film Director and Editor Justin Connors Proves You Can Do It
“ If you can teach yourself Photoshop and Illustrator, you can pretty much learn any program. -Justin Connors
It’s a simple as that, according to Connors.
Don’t think you can do it? Someone tell you can’t? Here’s some motivation for you to keep going.
Full Sail University Film alumnus Justin Connors has trained himself into a beast, learning the entire Final Cut Studio software suite, Shake, After Effects, and Photoshop; and since 2010, he’s been creating the remarkable content produced by one of the nation’s premier entertainment media universities by doing what he taught himself to do: editing.
Full Sail’s in-house creative agency, Platinum Creative, shoots and edits all of the school’s events, guest lectures, concerts and promotional videos, and is also the creative force behind their award winning graphics and websites. If it needs to be seen or read by anyone, Platinum Creative does the branding.
As a Platinum Creative editor, Connors directed the unreleased footage of Tim Tebow’s campus appearance in promotion of Tebow's documentary Tim Tebow: Everything In Between, and was even on location in Aspen to capture and edit footage of the Winter 2012 Xgames on behalf of Full Sail. You can see all of his other work here.
Sound miraculous? It’s not.
Connors’ journey, like yours, started small – and one step at a time.
I held a phone interview with the super-busy Connors to get into his head and find out how he did it all.
