It’s been a couple weeks since I posted about my internship, so I figured I’d get caught up.

In week 4, I worked a whopping 29 hours. A lot more than the 20 that I’m supposed to do, but it made up for missed time the week before. It was busy. I spent a few hours editing a project in Final Cut Pro X. The next day, I worked the government meetings again, the county and Oly city council. This time I learned how to work the CG station and how to operate the robotic camera system. That was lots of fun! Two days later, I had a 9 hour day working on a field shoot for the county. We started at 7 am, and travelled all around the county filming groups of soldiers from JBLM as they volunteered for a special county-wide community service day. I mostly shot the B-roll footage, and helped to coordinate the interviews. Then on Saturday, I shot my voting PSA (which I wrote about in the last post). I served as the director and camera person on that shoot. Finally on Sunday I filmed a panel discussion at the Capital Theater.

Week five was busy, but luckily not so much as the week before. On Monday I did another all day shoot, this time shooting a monthly show called “Thurston County Connection. I worked as a grip in a crew of 3. So I would help to set up and take down the lights and cameras at each location, sometimes I shot the interviews or B-Roll. We had a great lunch at QB! On Tuesday, I worked on editing the PSA which I shot on Saturday, and finished it up in a day! It’s not perfect, but it’s on public access. And I think it’s pretty clever. It’s currently airing between shows on all the channels, and it’s on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKVXqGKoxy0

On Friday, I did some work at home to edit the panel discussion footage that I shot on Sunday.

Overall, it’s been a busy couple of weeks. I have to say that it’s loads of fun. The best part about this internship is that I get to be hands on with everything. I get to use all the equipment, and even lead some productions!