Media Services is hiring students to tackle various media projects.  The time commitment and schedule is flexible and they are all C-level “skilled” jobs which start at $9.70 per hour.  Please email me (ethanm@middlebury) if you are interested or have questions.

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Project 1: Digitization
Researching ways we can convert VHS (and potentially other media) to digital format (DVD and/or electronic files). Find the equipment and software needed for this. Write up a procedure. If still interested & we have approval, begin the conversion.
Perks:
Get paid to watch movies (or do whatever while the movies are converted).
Good stuff for resumes: “Designed and implemented a process for digitizing X-number of VHS tapes thereby enabling future generations to use these materials beyond the analog sunset”.
C-level wages.

Project 2: Format Conversion
Researching ways we can convert existing lectures in real format to something more standard. Find the equipment and software needed. Write up a procedure. If still interested, begin the conversion.
Perks:
Get paid to watch cool lectures (or do whatever while the lectures are converted).
Good stuff for resumes: “Designed and implemented a process for converting X-number of digital lectures from an obsolete format to an industry standard, thereby allowing future generations to benefit from these unique lectures”.
C-level wages.

Project 3: Videography
Documenting the lecture capture process and working with Media Services staff on streamlining this process. After that’s done, and if still interested, we can hire the student(s) permanently as videographers.
Perks: Good stuff for resumes:
“Streamlined & documented the lecture capture/recording process for the College’s LIS/Media Sevices department thereby saving time & money while allowing for increased number of high quality recordings”.
Real world experience in videography – practicing the video making process from beginning to end: Event setup, experience with using high-end video & audio equipment, video editing & publishing.
C-level wages.

Last year, Olivia French ’14 founded an event, Hike a Trail Save a Forest (http://hikeatrailsaveaforest.org/contact.html), to raise money to stop deforestation in the Atlantic Rainforest. She would like to make a short animated promotional video (about 1 min) for Hike a Trail Save a Forest and is looking for a student with experience or interest in animation to collaborate on the video over Christmas break and/or Jterm. This is a volunteer opportunity, but full credit will be given and the video should see widespread exposure, as Olivia is promoting her event at colleges and high schools across the country.  If interested contact Olivia directly.  ofrench@middlebury.edu

Media Services has a job opportunity for a few students to videotape lectures and deliver them on DVD format.  These recorded lectures will allow one of your fellow students to continue his/her studies while receiving treatment for an illness.  It is a C-level position with an hourly rate of $9.35.  The recordings will most likely take place during the last two weeks of the semester and the following classes need to be recorded.

GEOG 0213 A, 9:05-9:55AM, MWF, in BiHall 219 (with Peter Nelson),
MATH 0310 A, 10:10-11:00AM, MWF in Warner Hall 507 (with John Emerson),
MATH 0247 A, 11:15-12:05, MWF in Warner Hall (currently 208, but I will rearrange to make it) 507 (same as previous class) (with John Schmitt),
SOAN 0356 A, 7:30-8:45PM, MW in Munroe Hall 404 (with Chong Han).

Please get in touch with me if you are interested in this opportunity and can record at least one of the lectures above during the last two weeks of the semester.

-Ethan