Nathan is a Partner and Videographer with Midnight Hour Studios, a video production company located in Southern California. Their business specializes in wedding videography and the production of campus footage and videos for area universities. Check out Nathan’s interview to see how someone who likes “a little bit of everything” in production can turn their passion into a successful career!
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>> My name is Nathan Carter. I'm currently working as partner in a company called Midnight Hours Studios which I started with a friend of mine last year. We do primarily communications films as we work with a lot of universities, USC, Mount St. Mary's, Occidental College, UC Irvine just doing a lot of those smiling student studying on the lawn, playing Frisbee, making the campus look inviting, covering events that kind of thing. I shoot a lot of videos for websites and that kind of thing as well as wedding films. That's our other bread and butter. One of the interesting things about the company where we are right now is there are no typical days. It tends to be shooting days and all other days and on a shooting day we wake up bright and early. We try and get there, get that nice, soft morning light at 7 or 8 in the morning and we run ourselves ragged running around the campus covering events, interviewing students, just doing whatever the shoot calls for. We generally have two cameras between us. We have a variety of equipment we switch between during the day and then we'll finish up with that about 7 or 8 during the summer and then 5 during the winter when the lights go out. And then most days when we're not shooting I roll out of bed at 9 a.m. I fix myself a nice breakfast. I sit down, search the web for a while, catch up on the news and then around 10:30 I just sit down and start editing whatever material we have on our plate. I work until I'm ready to be done for the day and then I go socialize or if there's a project that's due shortly, I keep working until midnight.
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