>> 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.