Eric Thayne started filming super hero videos as a kid with his friends in his backyard using Hi8 tapes.  He has always loved filming and producing beautiful looking images.

He continued pursuing his passion and love of filming and turned it into a business where he started off shooting anything people would pay him to do.  But he had this passion and desire to get better and produce more cinematic pieces.

Eventually he was ready to take the next big step and spent about $10K on a Canon C100mkii and the original Ronin gimbal.  He went out with the camera, expecting it to look great, but was quickly disappointed.

The images didn’t look particularly cinematic.  He even sent the camera back to Canon, because he thought it was broken.  Canon sent it back saying it was fine.

It was then that he realized that it’s not just the camera that makes something look cinematic, it’s how you light everything you are filming that matters most.

He learned how to improve his skill set by learning from other producers and DPs who were doing the kind of work that he aspired to be doing.

Then he realized that other people were struggling to produce cinematic images as well.  Plenty of people had good cameras, but weren’t getting the look they wanted.

That’s where Cinema Mastery was born.  However mastering cameras and light are one thing, but managing SEO, email sequences and marketing a business is another.

At that point Eric brought on a mentor who had done what he wanted to do to help him grow his business.  And over the years that is what he credits with his success.  It’s the thousands of dollars he has spent on courses, business mentors and coaches that has led to having over 13,000 people take his online courses or sign up for some type of coaching from him.

Check his story out!

Referenced Links

www.cinemamastery.com

Eric Thayne on Instagram @ericthayne