Internship week 1 Wrap up

Internship site: NBC

Department: IT (technical department)

Project Title: Documentary of a High school Intern

General Description: High school students are going through three weeks of being in the real world of internship at a rather large company. Throughout those three weeks the students are expected to perform dutys of full time employees of NBC, throughout the three weeks they are going to be interviewed about their experiences and acomplishments. By the end of the third weeks each student will have a few questions about their site documented in a video which will be edited, shot, and completely assembled by the students. Then possibly aired on the news.

Learning Objectives: The objective of the video is for the students to learn how to use the equipment used for professional news brodcasting and to get a feel of what the professional industry is really like.

Organization/Company Objectives & Benefits: To show the public what goes on behind the camera from someone who isn't a biased source. To put a story on the air that has never been done before, something really unique that will get people to think.

Schedule: Theres no set schedule because the news is never completely planned

Academic Skills: Basic writing of screenplay and camera angles. On camera skills and public speaking.

Technical Skills: Final cut pro, livetype, newsedit, camera operation

Collaboration—Skills and Opportunities: While being at this internship, students get to know their mentors and the mentors co-workers. If they make a good enough impression, the mentors might remember the interns which could turn into college recommendations and possibly a job.

Exhibition Plans: Working on possibly getting the documentary on the air when its finished

Schedule & Timelines: There cant be a set time because of how un predictable this office is.

The first week of NBC, I didn't know what to expect. For the first few days it was mainly just shadowing a mentor to learn how the business worked and how all the machines worked. For like the middle of the week the main thing we were doing was fixing computers and installing new hardware to the people that needed it in the office. Personally i went with Mario (camera man) to film a story about music in the workplace. I didn't really have too many challenges, the only one i really had was when my mentor was expecting me to reformat computers and install drivers because i didn't know how to do that. How to solve my problem was to ask a lot of questions and learn from the questions I asked. My first week was mainly just a starter week, next week will be a lot harder and a lot more realistic of having a job.