 So what do you do when you run out of excuses? Do you actually make up some more or you stay and fight or do the thing that you said you want to do so bad? Well such is the case that has brought me here today. If you're watching this video my name is Kwame and I do make videos like this as well as sometimes having conversations with my wife or traveling and other videos that may come up in the lifestyle realm of YouTube and that's what I do. So if you're new here you're welcome to my channel and I hope you enjoy this conversation that we're about to have today Sunday evening. I have run out of excuses and I'll tell you why or I'll tell you how that happened. So a couple of months ago or should I say over a year ago a little over a year ago I decided to embark on this journey of freelance filmmaking, voiceover and being you know an all-round freelance creative and I've made several, several excuses about not having the things that I need and everything that I've wanted to do is tied to acquiring something else to be able to achieve it or make it better and sometimes I do go through a lot with trying to convince especially my wife that yes I do need these things and it's what will make my work much, much better you know I want to become a better filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker for that matter and I need this, I need that. So I started my journey with a Canon 80D and that's what I've been making. I've made my videos all the way up until October 2020 when I changed to the Canon RP and all this while I've just been you know making excuses about you know not starting certain documentary projects because they were too big to be done with the Canon 80D or the Canon RP. I have done client jobs with those cameras and those cameras have been amazing for that particular time or the job that I did clients were super satisfied with it and all that but I have some personal projects that I've been thinking of making and I just don't want to make them with certain cameras or yeah I just didn't want to do it until I had what I wanted and here we are recording a video with what I've always wanted an entry-level cinema camera which I currently have now and what I'm here today to talk about this Sunday before we go into the new week is yes I am terrible at this particular thing that I'm talking about and at the moment well as a creative if you are creative like me and you suffer from perfectionism you want things to be a certain way before you even do it all the excuses you can make in this world what do you do when you've run out of those excuses now that you have what you want and you know that when you get what you want it doesn't automatically mean that everything falls into place and you're all of a sudden the best filmmaker or the best photographer or the best dancer or the best music creator ever so what happens then and have to tell you one thing that yes indeed there's always going to be the argument that's you know there's always that gear doesn't matter or this doesn't matter whatever it is there's always going to be that argument but for some level of work yes it means that you need certain things to make it easier and when you get those things trust me the feeling does fade very quickly and then now you're left with you standing between you and all the things that you said you would do are you going to do it are you going to push through or are you going to keep making excuses about other things before you start anything so yeah that's where we are today filming on the black magic cinema pocket 4k and I have run out of excuses so until I catch you again in another video do it with what you have while you wait don't sit and wait for what you need before you begin I hope it works out for you and I'm rooting for you I hope you have an amazing week and if you like this video give it a thumbs up don't forget to also subscribe to my channel and I'll catch you in the next one I've run out peace