The final reflection, to paraphrase a famed Star Trek novel, on my LINK internship and experience. Today, I wrapped up my project. It looks slick. I'm proud of it. I look forward to presenting at exhibition. I enjoyed my time here. Looking at the experiences I've had here, I'd love to come back, but I'm not thinking it's the career for me at this point in my life. Maybe later, I'll get the knack, the desire to make it work, but for now, I'm going to keep searching. The folks I interacted with in the course of my internship were all professional, and fun to be around. This has left me with a positive outlook on careers, and the future in general. Off of this premise, I would recommend the LINK experience. I was told at the outset that I would learn something from my internship. As my blog posts will attest, I learned a good many skills, and general lessons. I interacted with new, interesting people, and would say that I am much more able to engage with my fellow humans as a result. To put it succinctly, it was fun and I'll miss it. Thanks for checking out this section of my DP, as I think it chronicles the most interesting experience I've had in high school to date.
Today, I got my project back under control, which is good. I also got to go on a shoot, where I learned that it's often a good thing to do two shows on one shoot if possible, maximize the results from an effort. Which makes sense, but it was good to have it demonstrated. So, I expect to have my project wrapped up tomorrow and good to go with no problems.
Lucky number thirteen. Going to be a uniquely boring blog post, as today was a very focused day. Today, I worked on my project, with the end goal of completing as much of it as possible. What this meant is that I wrote a script and altered the core video footage, trying to get it looking better. No new skills learned today, just a lesson in persistence.
Today was a project work day. I gathered footage for my final project, which is a thirty-second promotional video for 4CornersTV, and started work on my script. It will be completed by Friday. Today I emphasized that finding the footage you need is difficult, especially when in a foreign operating system. Working through my issues,
The beginning of the end.
Today was awesome. We went on a shoot with a McLaren 650S Spider, which was a beauty to behold. Aerodynamics and engineering (Including electronics) that belonged in an aircraft. But I digress. The real lesson from today, my real takeaway, was the orchestration of a full-level shoot, and all the details therein. We also got my mentor's car stuck. Fortunately, the shoot was for a car-oriented end goal, and the situation was resolved fairly rapidly. I promoted 4CornersTV by handing out business cards. I also learned a rather rapid tutorial on the mechanics of the microphones and cameras, at least as far as maintenance is concerned. I'm really sad that the end is so soon. This week was a different week. I was a little more ready, a little more capable. And I feel like I got more stuff done as a result. Working is a lot more productive when you are understanding what you're doing. By that token, I'm a little more productive than I was. I wouldn't say I've gotten to a professional level with the skills taught by my internship. I would, however, say that I'm getting there, that I have the opportunity to practice these skills and carry them with me into the real world. And that's my major reflection on my second week of LINK.
Today was a very special day, although I didn't realize it when I walked in. Today, I got to interview my mentor. You can find a link on the main page, or click here to read it. Today, I started work on my final project. It feels kind of scary to just have one week left in my internship, but I intend to make the most of it. I'm looking forward to showing off what I've learned at exhibition. I also had a chance to cross over my skills from the Powerhouse Science Center, as we had some young visitors and my mentor was asked to give a presentation.
Day 9 of my LINK internship. It's startling to realize how fast it's gone by. Today, I completed my first real edit, and will ask for feedback on it tomorrow. All my attention and energy is going towards my final project now, and I'm compiling clips and useful things for that. I'm really getting the hang of making the editing software do what I tell it to. I also learned how to fade audio in and out. I'm, as ever, excited for tomorrow.
Today, I spent the majority of my day learning how to edit videos, which is an awesome skill to learn. Unfortunately, it does not lend itself well to writing a blog. I learned how to get the audio from another video to play over a video, and vice versa. The layers functionality works sort of like Photoshop, which is useful. Although it isn't an intuitive thing yet, I'm starting to get the hang of it. I really want to go back and tweak my very first time playing with the software last week now. The segment that I'm working on currently would make an excellent back-up project should my main plan fall through. Redundancy is my friend. I got to see the daily news being filmed, which was fun. Just another day in paradise, really.
Today was an awesome day!
My mentor, sadly, was a bit under the weather. (Feel better soon!) What this meant was I got to do the soundbites for the shoot I went to yesterday. Soundbites, as I briefly mentioned last week, are what happens when you transcribe the audio from a given set of footage clip by clip. Think of it as a script written after the fact. Tomorrow, I get to hone my video-editing skills, and then work on my project. I'm having a lot of fun with this. |
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