Meet Kyle Licocci | Videographer/Photographer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Kyle Licocci and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Kyle, why did you pursue a creative career?
I grew up in a very creative household where everyone in my family played an instrument. So I picked up the trumpet like my dad and my grandpa and played through college where I got a degree in trumpet performance. However, due to a lip injury I was no longer able to continue down that path. After college I worked a 9-5pm job for 6 months, hated every minute of it, and then got into real estate. I was a real estate agent for 5 years in Chicago and although I wasn’t bad at it, I don’t think my heart was fully in it. So once we moved to Colorado in early 2020 and it was really tough to start real estate over in a new city right when covid was starting, I started picking up photo and video on the side for real estate. By the end of that year I switched to doing it full time because I found that I really enjoyed it and allowed me to express my creativity which I haven’t since I was playing music. I also found that in my free time I was always looking up tutorials and teaching myself how to keep getting better. So photography and videography is now my creative outlet now and my full time job. I mainly focus or real estate but have done weddings and other types of jobs as well. So in summary, since my music days as a kid I’ve always been doing something creative and my camera now allows me to continue that.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I think the thing that sets me apart right now is that I am my business. I’m the only person working for my company. I like to work with and talk with people directly, I like knowing who I’m working with, and I like to know that I can make decisions based on what’s best for me and my business. Of course there are bottlenecks that can happen when running all aspects of my own business, however being in a creative field there is a lot of quality control that has to happen since my clients are expecting a product similar to what they’re used to seeing me produce.

I’m proud of the fact that every year I can look back and know that I’ve been improving. It’s hard for me to be stagnant and I’m always looking for ways to keep getting better. And I think because the quality of my work, people hear about me or find me on social media and want to work with me because of that. It’s those types of things that reaffirm that I must be doing something right and on a right path.

Getting to where I am today was again because of my strive to always get better and keep the quality improving. I also think really simple small things go along way like being very responsive, showing up on time, turning the product around in a reasonable time, and trying to be a kind person. It’s those things that if people don’t have any issues with you they will continue working with you.

I think one thing that I’ve learned along the way is that yes it’s fun to make money and we all want to make as much as we can, however as a creative, if I’m not doing something every so often that is fun for me or creatively fulfilling then it’s easy to start getting burnt out. That’s one of the reasons I started a youtube channel, which is Licocci Films, on youtube, because everything on their is my own creation for me and my audience and nobody is paying me to do those (yet…).

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
First thing that comes to mind is Mac Nation which is an amazing mac and cheese spot in the foothills. They have probably 30 different types of mac and cheese and other things and it’s buried in the mountains a little bit so visitors get some good food and a taste of the mountains while we’re there.

And then as far as drinks go, since I live in Littleton, a great speak easy type place downtown Littleton is called the Lazy Greyhound. They have amazing drinks and cocktails and is easy to pass by if you don’t know it’s there. It’s nice because it’s a little quieter and somewhere where you can have a conversation with someone while drinking delicious cocktails.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
First, I’d like to do a shoutout to my wife for supporting me in going full time when I had know idea how it would all turn out. I knew I could do ok but didn’t realize how quickly it would take off when I started going full time. So without her support and not hesitating when I said I wanted to go full time I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Secondly, shout out to Parker Walbeck with Full Time Filmmaker and their amazing courses. I took two courses initially with them on real estate videography and learning how to edit. My abilities improved so quickly with those courses and I would have struggled a lot more in the beginning without those.

Thirdly, shoutout to all the other photography and videographer creatives out there especially on youtube like: Peter McKinnon, Chris Hau, Matti Happoja, and many many others for continuing to push the creative limits, tech reviews, and educational content they’re providing for free on youtube.

Website: https://licoccifilms.com/

Instagram: @licoccifilms

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH3R–23gORpvy6dhTNckfg

Image Credits
All images I took and edited myself. The photo with our little family is me, my wife Adrianna, and our dogs Cece and Luna (Cece is the white one and Luna is the white and brown one).