6/15 – I’ve nearly completed my first project, the board meeting video. Something that I finally figured out to do was Multi-Cam editing. I tried to at first, when I first got the project but it gave me a lot of trouble. I found a tutorial on it today, and it really made things easier for me.
I’m really impressed at how well I’m beginning to pick up the tools and tricks from Premiere Pro. I’ve really been just teaching myself since I’ve started the internship. While I think it’s great that I can learn on my own, I’d really like more feedback than what I’m getting now from the producers and editors. I definitely need to work on communicating with them.
6/16 – Big day. Finally done with the board meeting video. For the rest of the day I just continued work on the other project I have left, the lecture series. I’m really looking forward to getting this one done in hopes of getting some more interesting projects.
6/17 – Today I got a break from editing. Episode 2 of Footnote was completed, so all the staff got to watch it. Following that, the interns and producers had a meeting with our counterparts in the Pittsburgh offices. Basically we talked about plans for future episodes, and fun stuff like Footnote apparel and merchandise. At the end of the day, there was a surprise party for the company president that I didn’t know about. It was a good chance to interact with some of my fellow interns.
6/22 – Today as I walked in, I learned that the producers and editors were going to be gone for shoots around town this week. This was kind of frustrating because no one told me before hand, so I wasn’t prepared. I continued work on the lecture series. I quickly found out that this one would be a lot more challenging than the board meeting video. Since I had a lot of footage, I had a lot more waiting to do while the video rendered.
6/23 & 6/24 – Just continuing work on the lecture series. As the lecture series video gets longer, the longer I have to wait for the video to render. I’m hoping to get done next week. With everyone gone and me just having to wait on the video, I brought in some homework to do for an online class I’m taking. I’ve felt really unproductive these last few days and I’m really anxious on working on something that I hope will be a lot more interesting. My supervisor realizes that the stuff they’ve had me doing isn’t the most exciting stuff, so I hope she’ll let me do some experimenting with motion graphics and continue with tutorials.
