This internship has made me feel confident in my future career choice. I feel that creating video is something that I want to do in the future. I want to move into film specially, but even things like advertisements or promos would be interesting and satisfying to me. As I've stated before on this blog, I don't feel that working in an office every day is something that I would be happy doing. I need to be out doing things that are creative in order to get work done. I also think that I need a lot of variance in my environment, otherwise I will feel exhausted all day. Sitting at a single desk in an office isn't something that I would feel comfortable doing for 40 hours a week.
I really want to go to film school, now more than ever. I'm willing to do whatever it takes in order to get there. The two professional filmmakers who I worked with while making my documentary gave me their contact info, so I'm going to reach out to them this summer and try to help out on some of their projects. I think it would be a great opportunity to get experience in making professional looking films (and not films that look like high school projects), and also more things to put on my college applications. I think that I have done a good job at making a difference in my workspace. I have done a lot of work for my mentors here, and I think that they will remember me as an intern. Even though I didn't want to do anything involving marketing, I still did, and that shows my dedication to being a great intern. I also think that my project is a pretty strong documentary. Every one I showed it to was impressed with its quality. I feel that I am academically prepared for college. I might need to do a little more work on math, and on the SAT. Overall, though, I still think that I will do well in college.
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Here is the link to my Presentation For my internship project, I created a documentary about public transportation in San Diego. I initially intended the documentary to be framed around interviews, with some footage of the trains busses intercut with them. This proved to be an ineffective way to tell a story about public transportation. To frame the narrative, I wrote an essay and recorded a voice over of myself reading it. During editing, I intercut this with the interview footage to back up my claims. This turned out to be a pretty effective story for this style of documentary. For the first two interviews I shot, I recorded two of my fellows interns who took public transportation every day. They didn't have an awful lot to say, but the lighting and depth of field in those shots looked very professional. Later on, I shot footage of an Urban Planner who worked in San Diego. She had a lot to say about the public transit system here, and contradicted the views of the other interns. This was a good thing, because you should always showcase both sides of a story. However, the lighting in this interview was not good at all. The first interview was on an overcast day, and the second was on a bright sunny day. The sun went behind clouds during her interview, and that changed the look of the lighting. I wish I had done more while filming to get the perfect lighting. Overall, I think my documentary is well made and insightful. I do wish I had chosen a topic that was more interesting and personal to me. That would have taken the documentary to the next level. Here is the video: |
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