Welcome and About

Welcome to my brand new Video Blog. As the URL suggests, my name is Jason Buckley. By day, I'm an office manager and a graphic artist for a small window treatment subcontractor. In my free time, I'm a filmmaker and videographer. While my educational background is in broadcasting, I had never explored that field professionally. Instead, I followed a career of political activism and graphic arts. It was activism that led me back to video. During the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, I got to see the birth of the Independent Media movement, reading reports and watching videos from these protests as they were going on, told from the point of view of those protesting and without the sensationalist pro-corporate spin of the mainstream media. A year later, the anti-globalization movement came to Washington, DC where I was living at the time, this time to protest the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. I got to see these citizen reporters in action. Shortly thereafter, I bought my first camera and got my hands on a copy of Adobe Premiere. My first videos pretty much all were coverage of protests and other political events. I also shot a few concerts. In 2002, I decided to make a movie. It was a trashy, no budget political comedy called Washington Interns Gone Bad. Everything I know about filmmaking I learned from the mistakes I made making that film. Since then, I've moved to San Francisco, got married, got a job outside of politics, made a couple of short comedies, and captured lots of footage of various events and places. The aim of this blog is to share some of that footage with my friends, family, and anyone else interested enough to tune in.