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Archive for May, 2006

NYFA Purchases HVX-200 (12 of them!)

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 30th, 2006

The New York Film Academy has apparently just bought 12 Panasonic HVX-200s for their students to shoot their student films on. This really excites me because I really want to shoot my stuff on HD, and this camera is basically the DVX-100 made for HD (I already own a DVX-100 for my wedding videography, […]

Craigslist.com and Other Apartment Search Tools

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 29th, 2006

I have continued on my search for an apartment, and I’m still finding the same thing, that I am too early to be looking for a September start date. All the same I’m going to keep looking at apartments, more than anything so that I can get a sense for the market (prices, locations […]

Bryan Singer and I Have A Couple Things in Common

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 24th, 2006

I was reading a story on Wired.com today about Bryan Singer and his views on the upcoming Superman movie and it’s use of new technology, and I noticed him say that he used to do wedding videography (very briefly) just like me, and now he makes movies (something I hope to do too).
“…My $200 million […]

So today my mom went to the bank, transferred an unholy amount of cash into an account and had them write a letter certifying that amount so that NYFA will know that we can afford to send me there. Hopefully this will be enough to satisfy NYFA so that we can finalize my attendance […]

Finalizing My Application for Film School

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 22nd, 2006

I applied to NYFA quite a while ago, and was accepted (obviously, otherwise there wouldn’t be much point of this website). It isn’t hard to get into this school, I am pretty sure that if you can pay the tuition they will take almost anyone who shows genuine interest, but that doesn’t mean that […]

Forget About Wedding Videography

Posted by Emmet Gibney on May 5th, 2006

Over the past few months we have slowly closed out our remaining wedding clients from 2005 summer, but it’s been a painful process dealing with some of our clients. This is as a result of what I said in my previous post about restricting how long you give your clients to make decisions about […]