For my personal profile video/slideshow project, I decided to shadow Robert Chen - – a 22-year-old, Asian-American Disc Jockey. Rob’s been DJ-ing for about 1-2 years. And while that may seem like quite a long period of time, in the DJ-ing world it is not. However, after seeing Rob at his gig, he seemed like a veteran who’s been doing it for decades. He performs at various nightclubs/restaurants/lounges/bars in San Francisco.
Why did I decide to profile Rob? The DJ industry is a huge part of society I feel like people, usually, oversee. Within the industry, there are so many different categories of music that the dj chooses to play. The job isn’t just to click a song on a laptop or setting down that vinyl and letting it play. You have to know your era, the artist, what mixes well with what, timing, etc. Basically, if you can’t multitask, it’s over. First off, Rob is one of the few young people I’ve found that DJ’s big time in the bay area. Secondly, this is rare, but he can play hip-hop, house, oldies, you name it. Rob plays a wide range of music from an eclectic amount of choices. Whatever the place wants, he can play it. This really intrigued and inspired me to highlight his life and how he does what he does.
I plan to include an article, audio slideshow, and video for this project. I feel like my viewers should also view this project in the order of what I just stated. The article will give sufficient detail and background information while the audio slideshow will give images with some sort of “pleasing to the ear” audio. Lastly, the video will highlight what Rob does and give interview answers of what he thinks of the industry. (this is the part where I’ll have to follow him around!)
My first task was to follow him to a small, Indie lounge in Hayes Valley called Triple Crown. When walking in, Rob mentioned how he was a little nervous because the scene/music is not what he is used to stepping into, which is usually hip-hop. (I was nervous….the pressure of highlighting Rob’s life in a 3 minute video?!) I was curious to see what I would hold in my FlipCam by the end of the night.
*to be continued…
