What's In Our Name

Jason, Jacob and I were thinking about possible names.  I knew I did not want something too difficult, with case variation or anything too out of the ordinary.  We wanted a name with meaning and pizzaz that defined us.

After a certain point we knew we wanted something with motion.  We started thinking of variations of physics words that describe motion- energy, kinetic, velocity... But then once we started thinking of names, we realized they were too long, and just didn't have that "Apple" factor.

We wanted a name that could stick and was short.  The new Apple, Microsoft or McDonalds.  We realized we needed one single word that said anything and everything about us.  I guess we then decided we had to frankenstein a bunch of different things to get the effect that we wanted.

Even in the beginning days we were editing, editing our name.

One day it just clicked - Cinetic. It was a combination between CINEma and kinETIC.  Motion within film.  Perfect! We had our one word.  The only thing left was deciding what the stereotypical studio ending word would be.  You know, like studio, production, house, entertainment, films, etc. The debate was on.

After tossing around all of the stereotypical words we settled on studio. But then Jason and I went back and forth between making the word plural or singular.

Finally it was settled - Cinetic Studios.

-Posted by Jessica

How It All Started

Jason and I were watching tv one night and started skipping through the commercials.  As we were skipping over we heard two seconds of this beat that sounded interesting.  Instead of passing through the commercial, we stopped and watched.  Then, we watched it again. And again. And again.

I cannot tell you what we were watching at the time but I remember the Dr. Pepper commercial.  It was a collage of different YouTube videos linked together by a catchy beat.

After watching it several times we started researching various clips and watched other videos in the channels we liked.  Our tv show was put on hold and all of a sudden we found ourselves hours into a YouTube binging spree.  We found the professional end of YouTube and realized there is a whole different side of the internet.

That night Jason and I watched videos of DevinSuperTramp.  Later that week, Jason and I found RocketJump Studios and Corridor Digital.  We totally binged through VGHS in two days and realized this was something we wanted to be a part of.

Jacob came over during the week and Jason filled him in too.  And then our journey began.  We binged YouTube even more, Jason started watching tutorials and all our hangouts were based on what we had learned since the last meet-up.  And then, Cinetic Studios was formed.

-Posted by Jessica