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! :)

Work it out.

So, I didn't make it into my internship last friday because I was sick. So when I came back yesterday I had a lot of making up to do(I'm still a little behind but I came in early to make up for it). Also there has been an issue with not being able to make the metro fare. Both things I needed to discuss with Rosemary and I worked it out. Yesterday,

Yesterday was a rally in Freedom Plaza(D.C) Occupy Wallstreet or Occupy D.C. The other two interns and I went out to shoot! It was great going to something like this! A few things I learned while doing this are:
A. It is very difficult to shoot in a tight crowd
B. If you get someone to say their name and that it is ok for them to be filmed on camera then it is as good as a release form.
C. Big events, you want a tripod set up for certain things like the stage. But if you cannot get close enough you will get lots of people walking in front of the camera.
D. You need a tripod for interviews but it is difficult to set one up when you are in a crowd. people will trip over it.

Just a few things. We ended up not even being able to set up the tripod! So the camera is very shaky. Sometimes my arms were getting tired. They still feel sore now.

After being pushed and shoved and stepped on, we came back to the office and reviewed the footage. Even though I did the white balance like 3 times in the shoot, it was still very bright. Or very Hot. The sun was high noon when we go there.
 We work great as a team, when there is communication. No one could hear me, and before we left Catherine and Paul both gave Nahaily and I a list of how to do things!
Keep your back to the sun
Have the Interviewer next to the camera not in front of it
Let the Interviewee hold their own microphone(You don't want the arm to be in view of the camera unless its their own arm)

 In the end we worked it out. And now we have to put the script together for our rally and edit it! Today Paul is going to show us how to use Avid.