Interning from 1/18/2008-3/24/2008

I have been interning at Community Access Television for a little over two months now. Here, I work on editing footage, coming up with intros and new ideas, shooting footage, participating in TNT (Tuesday Night Television), learning how to produce, and coming up with ideas for my project aimed at giving back to my school.

Towards the beginning of my intern experience, I learned how to capture video clips from a tape to the iMac computers. We work with Final Cut Pro software. I took a Producer's class on January 23rd and on January 30th, I learned how to make a tape log of video shots I would use for editing later on.

During our live shows each Tuesday night from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, we have a studio shoot called Tuesday Night Television (TNT). There, I have learned how to run the cameras, learning the technical terms such as pan, truck, tilt, frame shots, and so on. I have helped to film "Eye on Salina" and learn how to "switch" for "The Flower Man" and "Health Watch." Switching simply means transitioning from one angled shot to another when the director cues you to. I will learn other operations such as interviewing people, directing, running audio and so on as the months progress.

Other events I have helped in have been capturing footage from the Aaron Peck tapes and putting them onto Final Cut Pro, shooting raw footage of the Library for an advertising campaign, filming a "Question and Answer" forum for a Legislation meeting on February 23rd, reviewing shots, and learning different parts that make up the Editing Bay.

I have covered much during the short two months that I have been at Access Television. Currently, on top of learning "tricks" of the trade, I am also working on a project to give back to the school, since they helped set up my intern experience. I am doing a promotion for our school's Orchestra program and it is aimed at young children and their parents to get them interested in the program and seeing what all goes into being in the school orchestra.

I will try to stay updated as much as I can, as I usually meet at my interning place every Wednesday and Friday and sometimes Tuesday nights for TNT. This will continue until about the middle of May.

Thanks for checking out my blog.

-Amy