Meet Casey Wieber | Cinematographer, Editor, VFX Artist, Audio Engineer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Casey Wieber and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Casey, how do you think about risk?
Risk is a dirty word that shouldn’t been seen as such in my opinion. We are typically conditioned to view risk as dangerous, reckless, irresponsible, etc. But I think the opposite is true. It’s more-so dangerous, reckless, and irresponsible to stay stagnant in your comfort zone. I think about it it terms of energy, which has motion and polarity to it. Sometimes the wave is positive, sometimes it’s negative, but it’s always forward moving. If there is no motion or polarity then there is no energy; there is nothing. So risk to me is a necessity of growth, otherwise nothing progresses. In my life and career, so far, I’ve taken a lot of risks to explore where I’m supposed to be focused. There have been plenty of scenarios where I lost time, money, certain opportunities for the sake of exploring other opportunities, saying yes too many times, saying no not enough times, etc. But those decisions continue to allow me to pivot and pave my path and to learn from the mistakes and successes.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I’ve been a technical but creative person ever since my days of playing with Legos on the living room floor. I would beg my Mom to get me the newest really expensive Lego set, build it, then tear it down and use all the pieces along with other pieces to create my own worlds thereafter. I hyper fixate on needing to understand how something works before moving on to the imaginative side. Sometimes even to my own detriment, haha. But, for me, that’s part of the process and I love exploring that technical understanding of art only to then throw the rules out. Blank canvases scare me, but once I really get down in the weeds I obsess until the work is done. Throughout the years I’ve become best described as a multidisciplinary media professional with work spanning all across the spectrum, from being in bands and audio engineering, to photographing national parks and abandoned areas across the US as well as photographing theater productions and studio works, to 2D and 3D graphics and animations, to cinematography, vfx, and editing for music videos, films, and social media. I’ve done quite a bit of everything. It hasn’t been easy, and still isn’t. Everyday there are new challenges to face and overcome. Especially now in the days of AI there’s a whole new aspect of modern digital production to traverse and understand. However, there is nothing new under the sun. New advances in technology and the need to pivot (or sometimes not pivot) have always existed throughout history. This is no different. My brand and story is simple… I’m not trying to reinvent any wheel. I see myself more as a craftsman than an “artist”, though those definitions are completely subjective and open to interpretation. I just work on projects in styles and genres that I like at any given time. Always working on furthering my technical skills and broadening my mind and tastes while remembering to enjoy the process of creating something from nothing.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I’ve lived in the Atlanta area for 5 years now, and I have to admit, I spend so much of my time working that I really don’t get out hardly ever. But some areas I have enjoyed are Midtown, Marietta, and Alpharetta.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
This might be a little cliche to say, but truly the ones I need to shoutout are my close friends and family. At times I like to tell myself that it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks. I’m just doing my own thing and that’s all that matters. But that’s not always true. I do actually care how my work is translated to an audience. More-so though in the form of feedback, whether they be positive, negative, or indifferent receptions of it rather than trying to make everyone like it, because that’s never going to be reality. My friends and family have always been cheerleaders of mine, but are always equally brutally honest with their feedback of my productions. And I always do my best to reciprocate that brutal honesty back when it’s my turn to critique something of theirs. I really take pride in these types of relationships, because if you only tell someone what their ego wants to hear they will never grow. In fact, they often become somewhat narcissistic in my observations. This is counterproductive and I welcome truthful feedback from my most trusted confidants. Shoutout and thank you all for always telling me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear. You know who you are.

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