Internship: Week Four - FINAL WEEK

Describe your reflections on your internship project—what went well, what would you do differently, and what stands out to you?

A lot of things went well; I completed the project that I had been assigned by mentor before it was due. I was also able to help anyone staff members that needed it with no problem. If I could do this internship over again, I would not tell my mentor that I would be able to use a laptop to edit videos at the internship site, because I couldn't.

Internship: Week Three

Read another student's blog. What stands out to you? What experiences do you have in common? What contrasts do you see? What questions do you have?
What stands out is that he had to file papers and do simple work, which is a lot of what I have to do when I'm not editing. A question I would have for him, is what do you do to keep yourself entertained? I find filing and doing a lot of random grunt work to be really boring.


Describe how experiences at HTHMA have prepared you for your experience at internship.Well, all the editing and filming that I've been doing is easy for me because I've already done so much of it at HTHMA. It's pretty easy to edit videos now and I wouldn't really have known what to do if I didn't do it so much at school.

Internship: Week Two

How do you see your role as a working professional in the future?  (entrepreneur, employee, freelance, etc).
One of the teachers at the Recreational Music Center brought up an interesting idea. Some people want a person like me to record them doing whatever they do (e.g. a band playing a gig) This sounds like it would be pretty cool to do and I could see myself doing it. It's not that hard and I have all the equipment to do it.


What is the biggest challenge face at your internship?
The biggest challenge that I face everyday at internship is overcoming the boredom. My original fear has come true and I realize that this is incredibly boring. My average day at internship goes like this: walk in, start recording a lesson, record another lesson, etc. for 7 hours. However the filming portion of the project is done and now I just need to edit, which should be less boring and should also be easier.

Internship: Week One

What are you excited about, nervous about and wondering about?
I am really excited to film all the students learning how to play musical instruments. I think it will be interesting but I'm also nervous about it being boring. Filming kids all day might end up being a little monotonous. Hopefully it will be interesting though.



Describe the project you'll do at internship, including the skills and technology you need to do it and what you hope your project looks like as a final product.
I will be recording students being taught by the teachers at the Recreational Music Center. I will use all the footage to create a commercial for the music center to play on their website. Once I record everything I will edit it on a friend's Macbook using Final Cut Pro. Hopefully the commercial will turn out great and will attract people to come and learn how to play some music.