Journal Entry #1: Friday January 24, 2007

Today is our fourth day in Internship and I am excited about this opportunity. My internship is with a production company, my step-father's to be exact. I will be editing most of the time, which I like to do. Editing can be difficult and is time consuming. I have edited before and know from experience. I start on Monday and I think it will be interesting to say the least. I will be working in Adobe Premier, which may people say is complicated, but I taught myself, by using Help(F1) and the book.

Journal Entry #2: Thursday Febuary 8, 2007

I have now been to my Internship 4 times. I have found my experience, so far, to be very nice. I listen to music, like Three days Grace and Nickelback, and sit a computer. Right now I am working on a commercial for the Walla Walla Sweet Onion Festival; in 2006 Doug, my step-dad and mentor, and I filmed at the onion festival. I am hoping to be done with it on Wednesday; all I have to do now is come up with a little spiel about the Walla Walla Sweet Onion Festival record it using a mic and overlay it on the video. I have already unlinked the audio and video from each other and deleted all the audio. The hardest part will be coming up with 52 seconds of audio… Maybe I will just have to talk slow and have a lot of pauses to stretch it out.

Journal Entry #3: Thusday March 1, 2007

We have now been in Internship class for a month. The best thing about my Internship so far is the fact I enjoy not only the organization I work at, but the things I work on. Yesterday I worked on put something to together about the Shamrock Shindig for the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. The Shamrock Shindig is a fundraiser the Chamber puts on to raise money for miscellaneous expenses. It is all very fascinating. One of the most fun parts of editing is annoying the people around you when you have to replay a clip several times in order to get just the right spot. To some, I imagine editing becomes very repetitive, because you have to watch and listen to the same bit of video over and over, but to me since I am looking for and listening for flaws, the only time it seems repetitive is when I watch is just to view it. A part of what made the Shamrock Shindig difficult is the fact the I was using audio from an interview but video clips of the lobby, the band that was playing, and packages that were being auctioned off, and I had to put the clips in such a way that they ran together smoothly.

Journal Entry #4: April 10, 2007

I very much enjoyed the talk I had with Dr. Kennie Reeves and Darby Yates at our first Power Donut Break. The business they were representing was the veterinary clinic. What I was able to learn from them that it is very important to find a career that you enjoy, especially, if one furthers their education, because further education costs money. Therefore if one switches later on they have to pay more money to get education in the next career they choose.