Marcus Houston - Self Defense Expert

After the success of the first videos I did for Marcus of Combat Ready Gym and me spending more and more of my own time there training, Marcus and I talked about the idea of creating an internet presence for himself. We talked about the idea of celebrity and that you only need to convince people that you are famous  to actually become famous. 

 

I started filming Marcus doing instructional videos to not only help raise his profile and internet presence in the self defense field but also the presence of the gym. After a while the idea came about that we could make a proper 'History channel reality TV show' style intro for it, thus creating a high production value for what was really just Marcus doing demonstrations like he would do in a class. 

I wanted to mix footage of Marcus's skills with kinetic type. I needed to give it quite a dramatic feel so I used camera shake as well as my signature quick cuts.