Thursday, November 22, 2007

The Start of BTL...

What has started to be a hobby/pastime had now become a part of him.

His life is now revolving around BTL (BeyondTheLens).

BTL started as an idea by Yim (Law's buddy) and Himself.

They were in the army as a media/design team for the division, doing event coverage, corporate videos, work-plan videos, magazines, poster designs, calendar designs, blah blah blah...

When Law was attending some weddings of relatives & friends, he find himself seated watching the organizers running about and camera crew all over the place. He thought that it was nice not to be the part of the working crew for a while.

Some videos were shown during these wedding receptions, normally photo-montage of photos since young. He thought to himself, he could have easily done better than any of those. The urge to do the video was intensified after friends told him the charges... These videos could easily fetch a few hundred bucks to 1k! And he was doing millions of those for the army for 500 bucks per month~!

Soon Ivan (Ex-Colleague of Law's) introduced them to their 1st “wedding customer”. They tried to make the video unique, not juz a photo-montage of some animated cartoons of the couple, but they were asked to act. They have to re-enact what actually happened, how they met, how they got together, and finally how he proposed... It turned out so well that it brought attention to many during the dinner itself.

Customers after customers and deals after deals, from a puny little camera to what BTL has today; We had build confidence, gained experiences, skills & will overcome whatever challenges that lies ahead…

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