Well I’ve been hard at work saving up for my new desktop computer. I’m looking to save up about $700 and I’m almost at $200 after about 3 weeks of saving and selling a ton of stuff on ebay. I’ll probably end up selling a lot of my book collection to help pay for the computer. If I can sell 10 books a month and make about $50 profit, then add in my dog walking pay, and any video jobs I get and I’ll probably have my new computer in about 2 months. Then I’m going to save up and buy 2x 22 inch monitors. At some point down the road I’d like to update my mouse and keyboard and get a nice wireless set, but thats all extra.Speaking of video jobs, I’m hopefully going to be working with The Batavian and producing some video ads for them. It’ll look nice on my portfolio and will be a nice source of income.I’ve also been working on promoting and setting up a facebook profile picture competition with my friends. You can see the video ad I made for it below.

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Posted by Ethan - 10/02/10 - 0 comments

 

Hey guys! Sorry I haven’t posted in awhile. I’ve been busy doing a whole slew of different things. Earlier this month I filmed some political interviews for The Batavian. That was great learning experience and lots of fun to shoot. The first day of filming I only had my XL1, so every shot counted. Then the next day I took along my Canon ZR700 and set it on a shelf to get a continuos wide shot. That way I could get close ups and not have to worry about doing smooth pans or tilts with the XL1.Last week I spend some time redesigning JPT media’s website and I’m very happy with the way that turned out. I just took a cool theme and changed it up a bit and made it look more like a website then a blog. I’ll probably be adding some plugins to make that install of WordPress even more of a CMS.A couple days ago I was hired by The Batavian to film a football game. Filming was harder then I thought and I learned a lot. Howard Owens (the owner and publisher of The Batavian) gave me great feedback and advice. So next time my video will hopefully be much more polished and smooth. Editing took a couple of hours, and I ended up messing up a couple of the shots, but it was fun. Next time I’m going to make sure I watch the entire video twice before I render. And since the team we filmed won their game, I’m going to be filming them play again this Thursday.Well that’s it for now! I’ll hopefully keep the blog more updated next month.

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Posted by Ethan - 26/10/09 - 0 comments

 

Its the last week of camp here at Word of Life Ranch and TODAY IS MY DAY OFF!!! So I’ve been hanging out at a friends dorm all morning playing video games and fooling around with the new Ipod Touch Firmware (which is pretty sick). Right now were watching a skate video before we go hit up the skate park. That’s about it for now.Later!Ethan

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Posted by Ethan - 11/08/09 - 0 comments