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The Press-Dispatch Join the new 812-354-8500 | www.pressdispatch.net *By enrolling in the Birthday Club, you agree to have your name, town and birth- day, or the person's name and town and birthday of whom you are enrolling, printed in e Press-Dispatch on the week in which the birthday occurs. Joining is easy! Send your: Full name, address, city, state, zip code, phone number and birthdate to birthdayclub@pressdispatch.net.* One winner is drawn at the end of each month. Each week, a list of birthdays will be published in the paper! You could win a FREE PRIZE from area businesses and a three-month subscription to e Press-Dispatch. See CANNON on 12 Cody Cannon: Not your typical path By Andy Heuring Petersburg native Cody Cannon is a videographer for Country music perform- er Chase Rice, which is what his dream has been since he was a teen riding his BMX bike all over Petersburg and filming his buddies. But he didn't get there on a tradi- tional path. He blazed an unusual trail of hard work and making opportunities for himself. "I used to ride BMX when I was a kid. We would ride all over town. At some point I picked up a camera and started videotaping it. I would take video to school. Mom worked there, she had nicer computers," said Can- non. He was like most other teens. "I never wanted to go to school. When I got my camera and started editing video in morning I wanted to get there." Cannon said he started getting his mom Kena to go to school early. He kept pushing for 30 minutes earli- er, then an hour and then 90 minutes. "Eventually Mom was like, 'I'm not going to school at 4 a.m.'" While in high school at Pike Central he went to a ca- reer day event. "We got on a bus and went to the Du- bois County Fairgrounds." He walked around and didn't see anything that in- terested him until he ran into a graphic designer. "I was goofing off until I saw that booth. There is some- one I can talk to," said Can- non. The person was giving a lecture on graphic design. "I asked so many questions he kind of bypassed his lec- ture. He gave me a connec- tion in Los Angeles. "It was to a friend of his, who was a good mentor." During his senior year in high school Cannon, his mother, and Pike Central teacher Middy Burns went to tour a Los Angeles film school in September 2005, which was his senior year. "I was such a smart aleck, who sounded like I was from Al- abama. I had afro hair and wore steel-toed boots." The tour was three hours long. At the end of it they took him to the editing studio. "That is my strongest field. They didn't have Mac computers. I said, 'You don't use Macs here? '" He was told, "We use industry standards here." "I just stood up an said I don't need to see anymore. I'm not coming here." Can- non said, "I was all excited about it, then it was such a letdown." He eventually found an- other film school. But while he was in Los Angeles he made connections with the mentor he got from the ca- reer day. Cannon came back to Pike County and graduated from Pike Central in 2006. He was conflicted about going to school or just go- ing to work. He had some- one telling him, "Just come to L A and go to work. You will find out more about yourself that way than go- ing to school." He also had his parents telling him go to school. So he enrolled in Colum- bia College in Hollywood to Learn the Art of Filmmak- ing. Cannon packed his bags and went to Los Angeles in December of 2006. He and his father, John, made the drive together. He said they stopped in Casa Grande, Ari- zona and he got food poison- ing. He was violently ill in the hotel as he watched the ball drop in Times Square on television. While attending film school he worked on the side making about $50 a day. He said it was through the con- nection he made in Dubois County. "He would use us to get cheap work and give us experience," said Cannon. While he was going to school he was still conflicted about paying to go to school. Then he had an eye-open- ing experience. A fter a few months of school, he went to a new part-time job on the set of Murder by the Book. He was surprised to learn his film professor was working on the same set. But to his surprise, Cannon was a cou- ple of levels above his pro- fessor. "I thought, why am I paying $100,000 a year when the person instructing me is lower on the rank than I am? I just stopped going to class. I got it in my head it was no good. I was there for three months in film school and got about $ 85,000 in debt. So I knew I had to come back and pay that off so I could move on to a career in mu- sic videos." Cannon moved back to Pike County. "I had all this debt. We live in a great part of the coun- try where there are a lot of good jobs. I wanted to work in a coal mine. I had my cam- era and I was $130,000 away from being able to go into a video career." He didn't get a job at a coal mine, but he did land a good job at GPC in Washington. "It is a big part of my life. I built a ton of character and made good money and bought a lot of equipment," said Cannon of working at GPC. He worked there for a lit- tle more than three years. Most of the time he was there he was actively seek- ing work as a videographer. Cannon said he would con- stantly view new videos and then he would go into deep research on each music vid- eo's copyright and look for contacts. He would then send his contact information and offer to work for free to everyone just to show them what he could do. He typi- cally sent about 100 emails a month. Cannon said he got an email back from Chase Rice's manager, acknowl- edging him but keeping him at arm's length. Fol- low-ups were really just ac- knowledgments. "I felt like they were avoiding me. I didn't have any confidence. I wasn't sure what I could do and I was scared to leave this good job close to home." A fter a little more than three years at GPC he had an offer to work as head of production for hunting and fishing shows on the Out- door Channel. He decided to go for it. He quit his job at GPC and moved to Boston. "I loved it because it was video. But it wasn't exactly what I wanted. I felt guilty about not appreciating what I had." He continued to use his cellphone technique of get- ting information from copy- rights. But he said it just wasn't working. He was on a trip to Mon- tana filming an Outdoor Channel show. "It was the coldest day of my life. My camera was freezing up. There was four feet of snow. We were staying in this crappy motel with cigarette burns and stains on the bed. I was thinking maybe I should have stayed at GPC. He said during the shoot, he had to ride a horse and it banged him off tree limbs, threw him and dragged him. But one night on that trip he was in the crappy motel thinking he wished he was back in Pike County the phone rang. It was Chase Rice's man- ager. "He said, 'I know we haven't talked in years.'" But then he asked Cannon if he would be interested in work- ing on a trial basis. "He said, 'We needed you two days ago. How quick can you be here? '" "I hurried up and got the shot down and flew back to Petersburg. I had been in the mountains for two months. Mom grabbed me at the airport and took me home. I grabbed a shower, literally washed a few socks and pants and went back on the road for 28 days with Cody Cannon in Middy Burns' class at Pike Cen- tral with his afro hair. Cody Cannon shoots pictures of Chase Rice on-stage during a performance. Cody Cannon checks his settings during a shoot.