I am an internet datacenter technician, primarily working on more advanced systems and networks. Several virtualization technologies, Cisco Nexus devices, IBM blade servers, etc etc. I also do small time site development in my spare time.

Holy this thread is like 10 years old!!! Is that a record?? I work as a Full Time cameraman for The Weather Network in Oakville, Ont. Canada. I am actually moving to Calgary in September where we are opening a new office!!!

I'm an in-house media producer for a design and manufacturing company in San Diego, CA. My primary responsibilities are product photography and creating training and promotional videos for our line of diagnostic products. In my free time I produce personal history videos and web promos for non-profits on a pro-bono basis. My pre-video background is photography and sales.

I’m adding my two cents worth to this thread as I am kind of excited, and need to share! I started my working life with a tool-making apprenticeship, and went on to spend 37½ years at Ford’s Product Development Center in the UK. Most of that time as a design engineer, working with a small team designing test instrumentation, but I always had access to a machine shop to prove out the mechanical aspects of our designs.

During that time I did three years of night school learning photography and film production, and later joined a local amateur film and video club making two international award winning dramas — the second as assistant director. I eventually left the club when the some of the crew’s egos became bigger than the talent’s. Hard to believe, I know 

Westcliff Film & Video Club (http://www.wfvc.org.uk/)

Now I am retired, living in New Zealand, and taking stills commercial jobs when they interest me, but my focus is switching more and more to video production. I am loving the learning curve, and NLEs are light years ahead of the linear editing suites I used to use. I have an extensive stills kit, and am now carefully building up a video kit — going slowly, trying not to waste dollars on bad choices, but here’s the thing…

Grip equipment is either serious money, or cheap, and frankly, not up to the job. I thought back longingly to the facilities I used to have available, and decided to do something about it. An email to the secretary of a local model club (boats, steam trains, sort of thing) was forwarded to someone I actually used know, and who has a machine shop any hobby engineer would die for. Earlier this evening he phoned me, and offered me full use of his equipment in return for helping him out with my skill set. I am so excited I had to write to this thread.

Sliders, cranes, camera cage/rig, dolly, skater etc. etc. all for the price of the materials, and my time, (plus anodising the aluminium components). I will also need to find my old copy of Autocad, and hope it will run on 64 bit Windows 7.

Of course, the biggest problem is diverting time and effort from core function — i.e. making movies.

I'm the producer of Driving Sports TV, a show broadcast on a few domestic channels (USA) and the Ignition Channel in South Africa. The series also has a large online following.

When I'm not working on Driving Sports, I produce action sports videos for the likes of Ford Racing, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Mazda and others.

http://www.drivingsports.com

Well, I'm living my dream.

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to fly airplanes and make movies.

I work as a pilot for an ophthalmology group in the Pacific Northwest, and I run my production company Reel Inspirations as well.

My flying job offers me a lot of free time to edit and work on my MBP while waiting for the surgeons to finish. It also helps that my flying job is part-time, roughly 2.5 days per week.

I fly a Citation CJ3 Jet which is loads of fun.

Hoping to save up enough for the new Sony F5 some day.

I can't complain.

Hi,

My name is Juan. I work for the local government in LA in the IT department at helpdesk (lawa). I started to love filming when i got involved at my church. My work has a small filming studio which someday might able to use. For my church i am using a mac pro 8 core 32gb rams 4tb hdd. My little camera i use is a sony hxr mc50u. All the equipment i paid for them from money in my pocket. That's all what i do.

Hi. My husband and I have had a footage company for 12 years. Coming from a FX and filmmaking backgrounds, we create all our stock and custom footage ourselves. Most of the footage clips are royalty-free and we've been fortunate enough to have done custom work for as varied clients as American Idol and Terrence Malick. We are considering moving more into narrative filmmaking... we'll see.

Best of luck to you!


A Luna Blue
Stock Video - Stock Footage - Stock Video Backgrounds - A Luna Blue (http://www.alunablue.com)
Creative imagery for your imagination.

I should probably introduce myself here.

I am a 20 something Canadian film maker who has recently started working in Documentaries and Video Journalism with a nonprofit organization called PhotogenX (photogenX.net (http://www.photogenX.net)). I am working on a project of my own called "A [Hope] Film" which will be a series of documentaries that tell the stories of individuals bringing hope to their communities. I am basically a missionary who makes films, but I still try to produce entertaining and enjoyable content that is not necessarily slanted to a religious viewpoint.

I am currently in Central Germany, and looking to stay in the area. I just recieved a brand new JVC GY HM600 Camera plus all of the gear I need to start up my own productions. It is a very exciting time for me and I'm excited to put some content out as I can!

Hello from Las Vegas,

I am currently heading the video department for MGM Grand Hotel & Casino for all on property shoots.
Top Rank, UFC, Iheartradio, Billboard awards, Comedy Central, National Rodeo Finals, Professional Bull Riders to name a tiny bit of what I've directed. Currently working on MGM TV which is on pre-prod.

When I have time I like to work on narratives with locals from Las Vegas of all skill levels.

currently unemployed but looking for job if possible in the U.S or any other country related to video

Here's me.

Duane Adam at Sotheby's (http://duaneadam.com/)

Video production helped put me at the top of my field in 2014. Learned a ton on this website.

Hey Duane. Followed the link and have to say I'm jealous.

Laguna Seca? Seriously! A dream/bucket-list item.

Yup. THAT is what I'm jealous of.

Thanks for sharing!

I'm a fulltime student, studying Economics and Business Administration.

I am currently unemployed, but have worked in business administration for nearly 10 years and hate it with a passion!

I would like to be self-employed as a videographer someday.

I'm a self-employed videographer who does primarily corporate video and occasional local TV.

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NORTH END MEDIA (http://www.northendmedia.com)
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I'm a Quality Inspector for a global bath and body products, cosmetics and beauty gifts business.

Camera history is I started shooting with film on my fathers Pentax ME Super when I was 14 but and shot pretty much every stile of film camera 35mm, medium format and large format (5x4) ) before digital came along.
I've shot stills and video with Canon gear until 2015
Still Canon 300D, 20D ,40D, 7D ,7D mark II as a part and full time photographer.
Video Canon XM1, XL1 ,XL1S and XL2 part time and personal work.

This year I move to a GH4 and sold all my Canon gear (the video gear had gone a while back) these days it's more personal projects both commercial (hopefully) and none commercial and also friends bands etc.

I used to be into 3D graphics until I came across a project that seemed easier to do shooting for real with a RC helicopter so got into fly cameras on various RC platforms, which I have done for over 8 years on and off and finally just got myself a Phantom 3 Pro which has blown my mind how easy it is to get a shot straight out of the box from flying all the big helis I used to fly which were very difficult.