Today we’d like to introduce you to Parker Bridges
Hi Parker, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Absolutely! I mean, it was a long and meandering road, for sure. I started in the biochemical pathway at university. My need to break things down and figure out how they worked drew me to it and this trait definitely helps me to this day. I realized after a year, that the entire time I was studying, I had never stopped painting or exploring new media. After a push, I departed the sciences and dove head first into painting, shortly thereafter I got to participate in the Airy Knoll Arts Project alongside some incredibly talented individuals.
Painting ignited my curiosity, I realized that my passions were building into making comics and animations. The stories I wanted to tell were growing and the way I wanted to present them were as well. This led me to exploring light and how it affects how the viewer receives the information being portrayed.
Every facet of the visual medium can be considered when forming the essence of your story. Every frame of film or of a comic and every brush stroke comes together to create stories. Stories are what connect us, I believe.
Around this time, my grandfather passed away. He took with him many of his stories and truths. This forced me to take a long look at myself. I felt called to preserve history and the stories we tell. I distilled this process down into a Legacy program for capturing the stories of loved ones that were transitioning onward. I believe in the stories of people and, by extension, brands. At the end of the day, as a storyteller, I am in the business of people and the connections we all share.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Not even a little. I think that’s what builds you up in the long run, though. I think navigating business as a creative you have to unlearn a lot of the thinking that gives you your creative results. Scheduling, business back end, sales are things I was hopeless at starting out. There was a lot of training and youtube university nights, for sure.
For instance, creating an environment within myself where I could go to “turn on” the inspiration. With deadlines and clients on their own schedules, no one is waiting for me to find my spark, I’ve got to make sure I “have” it.
Finding the time to work on my craft and still work my 9-5 was killing me for a long time. You spend 12 hours of a day doing manual labor then try to go out, shoot then edit content, it definitely wears you down a bit. It’s bred in me, resilience, to never stop chasing the ‘why’ of this thing I am trying to build. No one will be up with you at 3 am after an 12 hour shift to make sure that video gets edited or those emails are prepped for the morning. Many folks stopped checking in and the work still had to get done. It always does.
Security in the 40 hr work week starts to look really appealing one year in and after many dry months but I kept at it. I keep at it everyday, it’s a practice for me now. I think the lesson of loving the work, the process of it, changed how I not only attacked my days but in how I cherished my moments. No matter the good or the bad, I’m grateful for every second. It makes the feeling of getting to put my expertise into practice that much sweeter.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Mote Media began with the idea of bridging gaps between us, the idea of connection. This ideology is what I connect with the services I offer to businesses. We aren’t selling people on your service or product, we are connecting who you are to your audience on as deep a level as possible. This key pillar of the process is something I hold close to my heart.
We specialize in documentary style work for companies that want to bolster their presence online. We also offer a wide range of services, from real estate video to corporate portraits to branded content. All of our services are tailored to fit most budgets but our priority is in telling your story well. We create with care and dedicated effort from start to finish.
As far as any concrete pricing goes – we start most branded content at around $1000 for half day shoots and around $1400 for a full day. We have drone packages that start at roughly $125, as well.
Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
I wouldn’t be here today without support from everyone around me. My mother, father, and brother have been the core of why I push so hard at this craft six out of my seven working days. It’s difficult to rationalize the moves I make, as a creative business owner, to them. As crazy as I sound, they hear the vision in how I speak and see it in the work that I do. It’s hard to argue with that, I guess.
My good friend, Jahis Pierre, has been instrumental in our weekly pow-wows. We kept each other on track even when the months were slow and when life was asking us to slow down.
As well, my clients over at Orlando Construction in Georgia and the folks over at Dream Factory that had me out to work with them. I learned a lot about business and filming with them.
Pricing:
- Branding Video : starts at $1,000
- Event Video : Starts at $900
- Drone Video : Starts at $250
- Half-Day Shoots : ~$1,000
- Full Day Shoots : ~$1,400
Contact Info:
- Website: https://motemediastudios.com
- Instagram: motemediastudios
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motemedia.studio
- Twitter: https://x.com/MoteMediaStudio
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@motemediastudios
