Today we’d like to introduce you to Sachiko Jayaratne.
Hi Sachiko, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story. It all started with a camera and tripod back in College. I was responsible for covering most of the events that were held in my campus. I fell in love with how you could tell a simply story yet so creatively in just a frame.
Fast forward to my final year in college, I met a friend who was photographing couples for a living. Her sense of style and passion caught my eye and I was immediately drawn into the system f documenting couples. Throughout the past six years, I’ve been lucky enough to find a real passion through videography and I started off documenting amazing couples around Texas. Since then, I believe that there is as much meaning in the subtle as the grand and is dedicated to capturing anything so meaningfully and artistically. Film making is a process of a lot of heart and thought, in the end you want to create something you wish existed.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road? I struggled with building a team for a while. Finding the same amount of passion for videography was definitely a challenge. But slowly, the process got better because I came across some amazing videographers who understood my work. I think it’s very important that you team knows what your style is and why it matters to have a specific mood.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others? I started off as a video journalist for my college media group, but later, when I got more experience with videography, I wanted to expand my horizons not only with wedding videography but also experimenting every visual style element that’s out there in the video world.
Later after four years of videography experience, I collaborated with one of the most talented musicians from Dallas for a music video for her single “Movie Scene” – That being my first ever music video project I was over the moon and that made me realize how much I love documenting not just weddings or music videos but the fact that I have an interest in working with other artists such as dancers, instrumentalists and anything that’s related to the creative arts.
I think I’m most proud of the fact that I continued to make videos even though I had to move back home(Sri Lanka) due to COVID-19 restrictions. As soon as the restrictions were lifted off in Colombo, Sri lanka, I Collaborated with a local artist and wrote down a concept for his artistic style and made a music video for his single. The concept was a one-take of a 3-minute music video which will be released by the end June 2021.
What do you like and dislike about the city? I mostly like the small coffee shops around Fort Worth and Dallas who have been kind enough to share there space with me. Huge shout out to Craftwork coffee and Houndstooth Coffee.
What I like the least would be the highway traffic and the heat in the summer.
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