Meeting people

This morning I went to an event. The Government Video Expo(2011), This is my first meeting people kind of event I have been to. Not filming anything, we went there to check out the small convention, full of awesome people, and great companies. The elevator pitches that we had come up with a few months ago were a great help!
 When it comes to meeting people in a professional environment, you need to overcome any shyness that you normally have, and have a firm greeting and handshake. I've been working on mine personally, and my greeting is weak, but my handshake is great. Not good enough.

"Hi, I'm Amber of double r productions. I am an intern production assistant. I specialize in graphic arts and 3d modeling."
Unfortunately it doesn't come out like that, but it is a work in progress!

People ask about your company! Weather you are an intern or the company owner, you need to know who you are working for and what you do! Things to look into for the future. Keep at it!

Throw your shyness out of the window!

Outside sources

Sometimes when working on a project you need outside sources, knowledge of what you are working on. If it is a tech company generally you wouldn't want to use something like fruit for a logo. But it could be their thing. So studying into the company you are working on is a must!
Also When working on a project and staring at the same screen for how ever long, you need outside eyes to look into your project. plus it is great for them to see the small things you missed!

While working on the marketing picture for the Jam company I needed to get outside eyes to see where I was going too light or too dark, also those little spelling mistakes are so easy for other people to see.

Finding Mojo

So last week I had one good logo idea, and needed to come up with at least 3. I had no mojo to move foreword. It took a little bit of time with some music and alone time in my head with a sketchbook and I was ready to go again! A good nights rest plus some good morale can make everything all better. In graphics you need to have a lot of tricks to get inspiration.
 Also it helped to play with the words, the fonts, and the colors, so not everything looks the same. Just a few more hints on helping out with graphics.

Few weeks behind

Ok, so I am a few weeks behind, Ive missed the last 4 thursdays. And only been here on friday.

I've noticed when you miss work, you need to make it up somehow. Working from home can be difficult if you don't have the right tools. Stable internet access, strong or moderate phone signal, and a place where you can concentrate. I've been trying to work from home and when home is a place full of people and nowhere to be alone, it gets difficult. Possible! But difficult! Especially in graphics. I could put my headphones in all I want to drown out my roommates incessant raving about one thing or another, but it wont make them go away.

Just some things to keep in mind.

everyone has opinions

well last friday i finished a PDF for emails, and honestly it was very unfortunate. But I worked with what I had. Yesterday I had to redo the PDF everything text the first person told me to put in the second person told me to take out! things that I didn't like got worse! And It turned out good in the end. Working with what I had, I like how it ended. Just something to remember, Everyone has their own opinions on a situation, and not all of them are going to be good for other people. If that makes sense.

Then I had more back seat editing. The other girls filmed the Vlog the day I couldn't make it in, and it turned out SO CUTE!! I love what they did with it. For the next project I need some hands on with the avid. Well, A very non busy intern week I've had not much to blog on.

Backseat editing

One thing to know for the future: missing the 7:34a bus means I have to wait until the 7:45a bus which takes an extra 15 minutes to get to destination. So I showed up right on time. Which is late for my usual! Plus the metro stole an extra dollar seventy from me. 
So for future reference, dont miss the bus! 

That aside, today was difficult. The intern team bounced around working on editing with the Avid and making our postcards. Avid is very similar to premiere, things are just in different places. Once you find them its pretty much a downwards roll until the end. Although it wasn't that easy today, because I was watching from another chair. Watching Ilse and Nahielly do it was kind of like being stuck behind a rookie driver. They can do it, but they are still new, and I wanna get out there. I had my turn, and as a team I think it's turing out great! Tomorrow it should be done!! This makes me very excited to see it. Since it was Ilses script, and some of Nahielly and my ideas. It has been an overall great learning experience. 


Working on the postcard ideas has been another journey. Very tedious. While trying to come up with a practical idea, I still need to make it witty. It needs to be simple yet grab attention. The others have come up with GREAT IDEAS! Why can't my ideas be good. D: I had an idea about "To the MOOOON!!!" With the cow on the moon in a spacesuit. And a black and white version of it. Then I put the cow holding up a filmstrip frame with a halo that says "Holy cow!"
Anyhow we are going to have to see how this turns out. Wish me luck!!

Unknown time crunch

Well yesterday I came into the internship early to get started on my list as soon as I could! The list I wrote last week before I missed a day sick. Needless to say my list had gotten longer and longer with the Occupy DC shoot yesterday.
Well as soon as I began to work, Rosemary came in and needed us to work on the script for the Occupy DC video. Before we finished that Claudio came in and needed our lists of 10 Associations(which I thought I had until end of business day to finish). And I still needed to study our book about the Avid system so we could start the editing.
I felt the crunch of not being there everyday of the week. I feel the need to be more than one person to do this, or be there more than twice a week. But then how will I work my retail job to make money? I just need to have more concentration and get things done.
In the end, Ilse typed up the script because it was her vision. And when I got my 10 associations done Nahailley put them all together. This way I got started on my list of things I needed to get done. Like the logos, My friday notes, the post card idea, and a few other things in the middle. Then still leave in time to get to the Metro to make it to my bus on time. Because if I miss the 6:18 bus I cant catch another one until 6:50.

Also I got to see my finished booklet for Rosemarys sisters party. Looks so much cooler than I was expecting. and Rosemary seems very pleased with it! So I am too!
On that note we still have a ton more to work on next week!

Im really glad to be part of this team. I just wish I could add a few more days to the week so I could make myself more useful in it. They are great people and they all do great at what they do! :)