Vans Warped Tour was known for putting on unforgettable shows, but the tour’s 2016 Orlando stop was downright momentous for Christian Jeric Trono. The 媒体通信 grad talked his way into the festival to sharpen his video production skills by filming bands 就像 Sleeping with Sirens and Coldrain for free. 他当时并不知道, but the final version of his video would kickstart his career as a videographer. 今天, Christian is pursuing music-related videography and working on video content at Vayner媒体, an international social media digital agency.

Christian started filming and editing videos when he was growing up in Thailand. He found out about 满帆 from a United States-focused college event and decided to head to Florida and earn his 媒体传播学士学位. 一旦他来到校园, Christian made the most of his time in the United States by creating as many videos as he could and networking as much as possible.

“我的时间有限. So, every opportunity that came with 满帆, 就像 meeting speakers or the founders of certain things, I knew that was probably the only time I would meet them. I tried to introduce myself and I think I owe a lot to that mindset. And I think 满帆 really drilled that in me to go for it and network,” he says.

His experience with Vans Warped Tour is a perfect example of how his passion and tenacity helped Christian get ahead. Towards the end of his time at 满帆, Christian found out that the tour’s founder, 凯文·莱曼, 在校园里走来走去. 克里斯蒂安找到了凯文, 自我介绍, and asked for an opportunity to help out while the festival was in town. Kevin rewarded Christian with a media pass, and Christian shot as many clips as he could. 他把定稿稿寄给了凯文, who posted it on the tour’s official 脸谱网 page and tagged Christian.

“It was really surreal,” Christian recalls. “I used that as a stepping stone to the Okeechobee 音乐 & 艺术节. I told them, ‘Hey look, Vans Warped Tour let me do this.他们给了我一个媒体通行证. I found the official people there who were hired to do what I was doing for free, 我认识了杰伊·桑松, 人类传媒的创始人, 又做了一个视频上传了, and I asked him to give me some editing jobs. My first paycheck after graduating from 满帆 was editing a two-hour video of concert footage for around $1,200.”

Christian’s portfolio from the music festivals helped him land video internships at companies in New York, 就像 广告牌 和复杂网络. 当他回到亚洲, he pursued freelance projects and worked at Mixmag Asia as a Digital Content Executive before landing a role as a content creator in Vayner媒体’s new Asia-Pacific branch in 2021. The full-time position is helping Christian gain valuable experience at a major ad agency as he continues to pursue passion projects on the side.

“I think it really has to come from the heart,” Christian says of his success. “You’ve got to really 就像 what you do in the process and the satisfaction that you get from it. I get fulfilled after being part of a big project that I couldn't do on my own or just impressing myself, doing things that I didn't think I could do or manifesting things and making them happen. If you're the type of person that has that in the first place, 别担心，因为它已经在你体内了.”