You’d probably rather not be looking at this photo and reading these words.
The truth is I’d rather not be here as well - I’m far from a natural attention seeker - in fact, I’m introverted to the point of being a social liability.
I do believe I am a natural storyteller, whether it be through the written word, the spoken word or the visual word. Storytelling is my way of understanding myself and the world. Which is why I’m here right now talking to you - I want to tell more stories and I need your help.
I need stories to help me through this sometimes putrid, sometimes beautiful, sometimes completely mundane world in which we all live separately but together.
I’ve always been that way - when I was a kid I remember being so scared of going to bed at night that I’d always have to listen to a story via a tape or CD by my bed.
From then I wanted to tell my own stories - starting with short written stories from the wild imagination of an 8-year-old boy. Unwieldy tales of possessed underwear and dinner plates that could alter time and space.
From there, my mates and I would use any opportunity to write scripts and shoot short films about good vs evil - complete with Austin Powers level hilarity.
I knew this is what I was going to do with my life, I was going to tell stories.
As a way of dealing with my own insecurities and fears as much as anything else.
Flash forward around 15 years to 2014 and I’m working in a call center after finishing my Media Degree 2 years earlier.
I wasn’t telling stories.
Instead, I was selling raffle tickets to AFL Club members over the phone.
It was around this time that my father's parents both passed away, leaving a small inheritance to each of their grandchildren with one directive - put it towards something that will strengthen your future.
With that, I bought my first camera and AWS Productions was born. A vessel for me to tell stories was given life.
So here we are 5 years later and I want to tell more stories. More than ever before.
Here’s where I need your help - I want to tell your story.
I want to tell your neighbor's story, I want to tell his dog's story.
I ask this of you...if you’ve got a story you want told or you know of a story that should be told through video - drop me a line and let’s do it.
