http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Forums Topic: Looking for video work (non-paid) in the Glenview area, northsuburb of Chicago en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:24:20 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/looking-for-video-work-non-paid-in-the-glenview-area-northsuburb-of-chicago#post-34741 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:19:39 +0000 CloudProductions 34741@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am a retired electronics and software engineer who is looking for a position in the video industry.  Pay is not a consideration.  Recently I worked as a volunteer (non-paid) for our local village television station, GVTV cable channel 6 and 17.  During the past 3 years I have worked as director, producer, editor and cameraman.  I produced a series of 3 restaurant review programs called Great Eating In Glenview.  These programs were about 45 minutes long.  My last program was a Civil War re-enactment about 55 minutes long.  I was the producer, director, and editor, one of cameramen and wrote the script for a good portion of the program.  The actors who had volunteered were participants in the re-enactment.  This program was videographed and edited from a very unique viewpoint.  I spend approximately 175 hours of my time producing this program.</p> <p>As a teenager I started with still photography and then moved to 8 and super 8 movies.  At that time I was frustrated at not being able to produce the kind of movies that I wanted because of the technologies of the times.  But, now I can make the kind of movies that I want because of digital video cameras and computer editing software.</p> <p>At GVTV I used a Sony Digital Handycam DCR-VX2000 video camera and did editing on Final-Cut-Pro.  Since then I have installed Adobe Premiere Element on one of my computers so that I can do editing at my home office.</p> <p>Can you use my help?  I would like to work in the video industry not for pay but for fun.  Being an engineer I have worked with many different software programs and can easily adapt to all kinds of video software.  Likewise I can learn how to use different cameras and support electronics.</p>