James Etue

JAMES ETUE

jamesetue@earthlink.net

Personal Profile

I grew up in a theatrical family with 10 other children in Seattle and studied broadcast journalism and theater at the University of Washington, followed by a successful career in professional theater. I was recruited by the award winning team of Trifilm producions to develop hundreds of performances, videos and presentations for Microsoft in both America and Europe in venues from Hawaii to Paris.

Currently based out of Los Angeles, I am hired for projects around the world as a narrator when companies need to generate audiences and sales leads at tradeshows.  Clients also hire the team of  E2tv to develop high quality, hig definition video productions. Our team travels globally, shoots, creates,writes  and produce material in a short turn around time time within limited budget

With my Hollywood based creative and production team, we write, produce and deliver both multiedia and video productions for corporate and broadcast.

E2tv team  includes

Mathew St Parick     International HBO television star from the most popular show on HBO “SIX FEET Under” Mathew St Patrick, currently signed for  the next series to be produced in Hollywood by J.J. Abrams (Lost and Star TRECK)
Mathew and Jame are developing seeral new projects. Mathew is extremely well connected in Hollywood and is ready to assist in arranging celebrities and production experts for E@TV projects
Microsoft saw a 300% increase in visitor traffic in Las Vegas trade fair after retaining James and his team of narrators. Net Optics increased sales leads by 500% in New York after hiring James to write and narrate their presentations.

Average budget $100K

Video director/ Producer - corporate
Years of experience in front of the camera evolved into dozens of  corporate video projects working behind the camera to write, direct and oversee productions for narrowcast and webcast. Projects include the Microsoft Window launch, several Bill Gates Introduction videos and several comedy segments for executives including Microsoft president Steve Balmer

Average budget $200k
Video director/ Producer - broadcast

PROJECT SAMPLING

CLIENT    Discovery Channel

SHOW        UFO’s Over Earth
JOB        2nd Unit director

CLIENT REQUIREMENTS

Net optics The bottom line for this client was to increase leads a Net optics The bottom line was build credibility Niksun Bottom line was to get big name customers to talk about them on camera. They are always reluctant. James overcame these obstacles
Microsoft bottom line is maintain their brand and advantage Bottom line was make Bill Gates more accessible to his sales team – our solution make him more huan by making him funny

Discovery Channel hired James to find and film, conduct  and uncover the truth behind  several  mysterious UFO sightings. This project demanded a great deal of 2nd unit directing of  a video production team and producing by James to oversee the crew, locations and delivering the needed footage in difficult locations across Mexico.

Average budget $250k per episode

CLIENT     History Channel

SHOW        Mega Disasters  episode: Mega Drought

JOB        Assistant director

History Channel hired James as second unit director for this award wining series. James led a camera crew into dangerous wildfires and remote desert locations to direct and shoot hard to capture HD camera footage. James also oversaw production design and locations for several  segments of the episode “Mega drought”

Science Channel

Popular Science “The future of…” James ran second camera for the Science Channel’s new hit series. This included shooting all across Tokyo.  Responsibilites included directing second unit camera crew, interviews and producing footage for several episodes.

Microsoft

Live with Bill Gates

James wrote and performed several live comic sketches over several years and across the U.S. for the software genius as part of a Microsoft goal  to  show Gates funy, more human side.

Niksun

Science Channel

History Channel

Skill Set

• Public seaking
• Persuasive writing
• Video prodction on several broadcast formats
• Video post production editng and
• Native English speaker with Spanish and French as second languages
• Education
• University of Washington
• Broadcast journalism and Theater
• With a strong performance and production emphasis
• Seattle University
• Political Science with a strong writing emphasis on  English
• James has been writng
• Microsoft
• Netoptics
• Niksun
• Science Channel
• History Channel