Freddie Wong
Frederick " Freddie " Wong (born 13 September 1985) is a Sino- American filmmakers, VFX Artist and e -Sports player, who lives in Los Angeles. He leads together with Brandon Laatsch known freddiew YouTube channels and freddiew2.
Life
Freddie Wong grew up in Seattle with his younger brother, the YouTuber and actor Jimmy Wong, on and graduated from the Lakeside School. From 2004 to 2008 he attended the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema Production.
Wong took in 2007 at the World Series of Video Games Competition in Dallas part. He won first place in the Guitar Hero 2 competition with the song "Less Talk More Rokk " by Freezepop.
From 2008 to 2009 Wong worked as a production coordinator at 20th Century Fox. He also worked as a freelance VFX Artist, editor and film producer.
Freddie Wong founded in 2009 together with his brother Jimmy Wong overcrank Media, a media production company that specializes in the production of feature films and Internet videos and located in Los Angeles. 2010 Freddie Wong produced with overcrank Media the movie Bear, who mostly received negative reviews.
Since 2010, Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch publish on the YouTube channel freddiew regularly Youtube videos, the same year the canal was for YouTube partners.
Founded in 2012 Freddie Wong Brandon Laatsch, among others, the site Rocket Jump. This is his financed through Kickstarter.com webseries Video Game High School ( short VGHS ) as well as on YouTube published. Overall, the series has over 55 million views. The web series was well received by audiences and the press. Currently, the second season of the series is published. On Rocket Jump not only videos of Wong are shown, but also video from multiple content creators.
Wong had several appearances on television, he appeared together with Brandon Laatsch, 2011 in the late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! on. 2011 Freddie Wong had a cameo as a computer expert Freddie in an episode of the television series Chuck.
YouTube Career
Freddie Wong released since 2010 along with Brandon Laatsch regular videos on the YouTube channel freddiew, which has over 900 million views, and over 6.9 million subscribers one of the most subscribed YouTube channels. Were Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch known by YouTube movies that allude to video games and action-heavy short film with special effects that are of high quality despite the relatively small time and financial resources. Since 2010, Wong is a YouTube partner. Also, the existing since 2010 Second Channel freddiew2 which usually includes making-of, has over one million subscribers and over 140 million views.
Several Hollywood stars had cameo appearances in the films of Freddie Wong: Andy Whitfield appeared in a Time Crisis tribute video, Kevin Pollak in a hypnosis video, Shenae Grimes in a romantic firearms scene, Ray William Johnson in a Trollpest video and Eliza Dushku in an action scene. Jon Favreau was presented in his video that was filmed on the basis of Cowboys & Aliens, and the glam metal band Steel Panther appeared in his video, which is based on the Crossfire board game. Several companies, especially from the computer games industry, sponsored his videos or commissioned him with commercials. In 2011 he turned about a Battlefield 3 TV commercial on behalf of Electronic Arts. Furthermore, YouTube videos were filmed on behalf of 20th Century Fox and Universal.