Gadget Trish Does A Review On Michael Jackson's "This Is It" using her Canon HV30

A little rain was not going to keep me from seeing "This Is It' on October 28, 2009, I am truly one of Michael Jackson's biggest fans. Check out my review on the movie, and please feel free to rate and comment.

How I Pimped My Canon HV30 (Part 1) By Gadget Trish

I wanted to share with you the Rig that I designed for my Canon HV30 (This could be used for the HV20 and HV40 model as well.) Before making this purchase I went to a few forums and youtube reviews and found a great deal of wonderful feedback. On a side note, when making a gadget purchase, do as much research as possible. Ideally I wanted the Canon XH-A1, but due to financial limitation, I thought this camera be the way to go.

The rig consist of a BeachTek DXA-2S for XLR microphone inputs, a Rode NTG-2 Condenser Shotgun Microphone Kit, a Sennheiser EW100 wireless mic, the Irv manual focus ring, a Pearstone DVP wide angle lens, Canon extended battery, standard cold shoe video bracket to mount the microphone and lights, and a cam caddie. Out the box the Canon HV30 produces fair sound and picture, but the additions provides better focus control, cleaner sound, extended power, and stability while shooting.

If you are on a lower budget and cannot afford every item, I would suggest a wide-angle lens, an extended battery, and the Irv ring. The ring gives you the ability to manual focus quickly. Another must have item is a wide-angle lens. There are different lens for other companies in all sorts of price ranges. I encourage researching and checking out youTube videos.

With the exception of the Irv manual ring, all items can be purchased at the B&H store or website. If you only need to use one microphone at a time and don’t care to use XLR microphones, then the purchase of a BeachTek will not be necessary. When it comes to microphones, they drive up the price quite a bit, from my own personal experience, start with an on camera, or shotgun microphone kit. There are better microphones available then the two I purchased, but based on my budget, I went for these models because of feedback from other friends. Another advantage of the microphones that I purchased is that they could be used for future cameras both with XLR and line-in inputs.


This is my rig for shooting a moving subject for generally documentaries, but I have another rig for interviews and studio projects. I will have that on a future episode of G.T. media, but until then, I’m out.

Gadget Trish attends to get into the 2009 VMA without a ticket

If you dont know it by now, I love Michael Jackson and the Jackson Family. I knew MTV was doing a tribute to MJ, but when I found out Janet may be there; I went on a wild goose chase to get in. Look at this video to see the outcome.

Gadget Guideline:
Canon HV30 (Interior shots), Boom Rhode Microphone, One Smith Victor light with Orange and Frost Gels, Casio EX-Z9 (Exterior Shots), Software to edit with Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro. Titles were created with Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Kanye West Interview on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno! - 9/14/09

I lost my dad and became a very hurt person and the aftermath was causing pain to both myself and others. What is good about life and death, is when we take the time out to heal and surround ourselves with positive people we become stronger and wiser. We recognize that everyone and every moment in our life is precious and to avoid inflicting pain to one another. This will only happen for him and anyone in that situation if we recognize the purpose in the storm. I wish peace and clarity for Kanye West as he takes a long overdue vacation and confronts himself with the lost of the most important figure in his life. Good luck Mr. West it might be a long a painful journey, but you may find the best things in life are yet to come.

Kanye West Interrupts Taylor SwifTs Speech VMAs 2009 by Gadget Trish

It's so funny how the public turns on stars when something goes wrong. I remember they did Michael Jackson the same and we see what the outcome was. I love Kanye West music, but history has a way a repeating itself and the crowd needs a new "witch" at the stake. No matter what, I will always be a West fan, and recognize that his actions were wrong, but his statement was right. Does the public have the right to try to destroy a decade of work and contribution to music over a few words at an awkward moment?

To Taylor Swift, I am sorry that you experienced this at your first VMA win, you work hard and at least deserved to have finished your speech (at least Beyonce gave you time to speak.) To Kanye, your true fans will have your back, but I would hire a super PR power team, and take a long vacation until you get your mind straight and let another super star mess up next so they can focus on them instead.

Gadget Guide:
To create this Vlog I used a Macbook to record with one Victor Smith Light, an orange and frost gels, and title edit with iMovie.

Leave him alone!

On June 25, 2009, Michael Joseph Jackson died, leaving his fans devastated by the unexpected news. To make matters worse, the media has continued to slander his name in various ways, but his fans throughout the world have chose to ignore it by celebrating his music, humanitarian works, his parenting skills, and most important the sacrifice me made throughout his life to entertain the world. I posted a YouTube addressing GQ’s title “When Michael Was Cool. Please feel free to rate and comment.

Gadget Guide:

Canon HV30 camera, a boom, and a wireless microphone. For lighting I used two basic lighting kit from Victor Smith