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Issue #81
by L. Swift and Jeff McQ
Taylor Giddens
When he graduated from the program, already having some prior business experience, it seemed a natural next step for Taylor to take his newfound skills and start his own production company. Today, he stays busy with a variety of projects, ranging from commercial, corporate and wedding videos to creative projects. “If it has anything to do with a camera, I’m ready to go,” he says.
Along with the corporate and commercial projects which keep the bills paid, Taylor continues to create a number of short films while raising money for a feature-length film. Since launching his company, Taylor now has several high-quality shorts to his credit—the latest of which, a fan film called Breakfast With Clark, placed second in the Superman Fan Film Festival. “We’re really proud of that one,” he says. “We had a lot of fun with that.”
As he continues to build his career, Taylor looks forward to a day when creative films can take up his whole schedule. “I’d love to be producing films 100% of the time, but that’s a very lengthy process,” he says. In the meantime, however, he’s finding the intersection of business and creativity by taking a more creative approach to the projects he does for clients—a tactic which is also helping him compete in the growing Atlanta film industry. “We’re trying to establish ourselves as not just, ‘Hey, we’re not just gonna show up and shoot it,’” he says. “We’re like, ‘Hey, we’re gonna do a training video, but how can we do it in a creative, fun, cinematic film way?’ And that’s helped us out a lot.”
As for his wife, Kelly, who first prompted him to pursue a career in film—Taylor says she continues to be a huge support, and the company is named after her.
“She’s kind of like the mother of the production company,” he says. “She cooks all the food, and she likes having people over, so we’ve shot some films at our house and on our property, our neighbor’s house, or have used our house for the base of the shoot, for base camp. She’s been very supportive, and sometimes she’s more supportive of me than I am of myself.”
A few years ago, Taylor Giddens had only a dream. Today, thanks to the hands-on training he received with the Film Connection—not to mention the support of his wife—Taylor is establishing a successful film career. Not bad for a guy with no previous experience.
“In a few short years,” he says, “…Yeah, I believe that I’ve come a far way.”
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