{"id":532,"date":"2007-11-25T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediaforsocialchange.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/25\/my-gear"},"modified":"2016-06-20T03:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T03:17:50","slug":"my-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/25\/my-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"My Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I would take commercial production and post production jobs. It was a way for me to build upon the knowledge that I gathered in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csf.edu\/academics\/moving_image_arts\/overview\">film school<\/a>, but my real motive was to hustle for the equipment. I would work on a Nickelodeon job at the office until about 6:00 PM and then use the tape decks and computers for my own projects until 10 PM. That was exhausting so I&#8217;m very happy to have come to a point where I actually own a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videomaker.com\/article\/12315\/\">camera<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\">laptop<\/a> with Final Cut. I&#8217;m still tinkering with some encoding issues, but I&#8217;ve been posting my work on YouTube and Google Video. So now I can work and distribute my stuff independently without really having to rely on the industry.<\/p>\n<p>My next step is to get my camera and computer out into the field. They are light enough weight that I can potentially travel with them into remote places.  Instead of tromping around in the jungle, mountains, desert, or savannah with the entourage of a film crew, I&#8217;ll be able to travel by myself with a low profile. I&#8217;m hoping that this will make the films that I shoot more candid and personal.<\/p>\n<p>However, if I&#8217;m going to go this route I&#8217;m going to have to invest in protection and power. Cameras and computers are fragile so I&#8217;m going to need a <a href=\"http:\/\/pelican.com\/media\/videos\/index.php\">good case<\/a> to keep them from getting beat up in the field. The case also has to be low profile. I don&#8217;t want to draw attention that I&#8217;m travelling with thousands of dollars worth of valuables. There is a good chance that there won&#8217;t be electricity where I end up so I&#8217;ve started doing some research into lightweight, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaiam.com\/retail\/product\/53-0112_MSTR\">portable solar panels<\/a> that I would use to charge my batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I would take commercial production and post production jobs. It was a way for me to build upon the knowledge that I gathered in film school, but my real motive was to hustle for the equipment. I would work on a Nickelodeon job at the office until about 6:00 PM and then &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,53,59,85,107,112,124,125,158],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-college-of-santa-fe","tag-final-cut-pro","tag-google-video","tag-macbook-pro","tag-pelican-case","tag-real-goods","tag-solar-panels","tag-sony-hvr-a1u","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}