mariners suck...

So I'm not going to lie the mariners suck. were losing every single game almost... firing general managers... having our own manager freak out in a press conference... 13 swear words in 45 seconds which i am sure most of you have seen all over FSN etc. but my internship has been fun so thats a plus. I worked an event where a silent auction with the seattle seahawks raised over 1.6 million dollars for a charity. I met Matt hasselbeck which was amazing. Then we worked 3 graduations where I was put on camera 2 which is a big camera they use for the games so that was good to get practice in there. And this week so far has been another losing home stand but I get to work with camera 3 which is running around getting fan shots etc. I also got to meet Rick Rizz today by interviewing him for a spread called "baffling the broadcaster" (rick is the voice of the mariners on komo 1000) he was really nice and wanted to hear all about my internship and montana life. I work my last home game for a while this wednesday and then it will be more commercial shoots with the players and promos for radio stations like girls night out etc. I am looking forward to more commercial shoots because those are always fun...
hope all is well with everyone else!! its finally sunny in seattle thank god.

Week 4: Uplifting Balloon Ride

I'm just coming off my two-week producing rotation and cloud nine. I got to go up in a hot air balloon! Too many storms threatened us going up WAY high, so it stayed tied to the ground. Still, very fun.

Here's my story preview "web element:"

It's a little goofy since I didn't plan to be on camera that day (dressed a little down for producing)
And my package:

I love getting to do it all--shoot/report/edit. Most reporters there get a photog. Even the other intern often does! Hmm..

All this national news (flooding, tornados) is happening so locally--that boy scout camp was just 1.5 hours away and we sent reporters down there. I know Melissa touched on just how wet it is, really, all the rivers are just spilling over; it's unbelievable. And tornado warnings! Yikes! Thunderstorms probably 4/7 nights a week.

-Breanna

This is the big time now

Tomorrow I get to sit in on a talent meeting for the show. I am supposed to have a list of five to ten people who I think would be neat guests to have on the show. I am trying to mix the list up- I have found a variety of writers, actors and recording artists who inspire me. I am excited and more than a little nervous to put my input in front of the producers and talent people at the Late Late Show. Last week was exciting. We got to see two bands perform, and Craig did a few hilarious sketches. The days go by really fast, which is good. The summer seems to be flying by. It is quite interesting how I am getting more and more tasks from the staff at the show. I am very happy that they are putting me to good use. I have been helping out one of the talent coordinators responsible for booking and pre-interviewing the talent for the show. Seeing how a lot of her job is just talking to people and watching the work they have done just cements even further in my mind that you have to be a people person to work in entertainment. I am trying my best to be charming and efficient. Oh, and I saw Betty White (a golden girl) last week and she is cute as a button. Until next week...

Tornados and floods

Hello all!

Well--if nothing else it has been quite the exciting week weather wise. (But no snow!! I can't believe it snowed in Missoula!!) I have heard the tornado sirens go off 3 times and there has been a massive amounts of flooding. Pretty crazy out here--I have never seen that much rain fall in that short amount of time--and it just doesn't stop. Check out some pictures online if you haven't seen all the damages these rains have caused--it's pretty crazy.

Anyway--work is going well. Life is a bit slower here than it is in college, but I think that's because I (and all of us I'm sure) are used to living such crazy fast-paced lives at school. So it's a nice change of pace. This week we had our photo shoots for the website, so soon my picture will be on the 2100 website. I'll post the link when they get posted. I also got to voice the narration for a multi-ethnic piece which was fun. I finshed up editing the small project I was working on and survived my first show and tell, where pieces are played for the whole production team and feedback is given. Besides that, the 3 other interns and myself have been brainstorming and starting to do some basic script writing for other videos in the works.

That's about it from here. Just trying to stay busy and not get sucked up by the tornados. And I signed up for a pottery class--which I am very excited about.

Until next week . . .

Melissa

Week 5... whew

I've become almost a pro at Avid editing system lately. When I've got nothing to do I've been making videos with crazy edits just so I can practice what I've learned. Examples are fast-forwarding, zooms, effects that have lighting bolts!
Today I stayed in and didn't go out with a crew... it seemed like no one was here. I finished writing a couple of stories from yesterday and edited them. Minor problem, when I finished one package I realized that I had never opened a sequence, rather I was just editing on a blank timeline. Soo... that whole package was a waste and I had to re-do it. That's kind of how it goes I guess!
Hope everyone's having fun!

Snow? For real?

Hello Hello!

So this is week three at KPAX and today I went to Polson to get shots of SNOW. I am pretty bummed that the weather has been so bad lately! Oh well what can you do I guess it gives us something to report! Yesterday I got to go out and shoot footage in Hamilton about solar energy and I also interviewed the installer of the solar panels. Then I came back to the station and wrote a VO/SOT and I got to report it in the studio at 5:30. This was my second time on air and I was a little more nervous... I don't really know why haha.
I cant get over the quality of the cameras we use. The picture is sooo clear! I love it. I have also been doing re writes for the shows and they let me shoot whenever we go out. I start the producing segment next week so hopefully I learn some tricks to help for next semester! I really like everyone at the station they are so friendly and willing to help! They are constantly trying to find ways for me to get in there and report! I really like that.

Hope all is well with all of you!
ally

week 3

Hello everyone.
Today is cloudy and kind of cold. Which makes it perfectly alright that I am editing all day. I just got a new assignment and I have plowed through it most of today. It feels good to get an assignment and be able to edit with confidence. Maybe this edit isnt as time demanding as the 1st because I understand the program so much better now. I am happy that I have learned Adobe Premiere, one more tool to put in my belt.
I shot on Saturday which was cool. I get to get my own shots and I can't depend on anyone else to get them, I like that I think this has and will continue to be a good learning experience.
Since I last blogged I have joined a yoga studio and cleaned out my car. You cant leave anything in your car because of the heat! Yet the heat is better than snow, which I hear it is snowing in Missoula. Bummer! I cannot believe it.
Well, I better get back to editing and see if I can finish even earlier. I hope that everyone is having fun. Holly, jealous that you met kristin davis:)

Hey RTV-ers!

My first week was a whirlwind. My internship coordinator was incredibly busy, so I was often left to fend for myself. My first week duties were observing and introducing myself to people at opportune moments. The most important lesson I learned was how to be engaged in the newsroom without being an annoyance. Overall I think I did really well at this. As I introduced myself to people around the newsroom when they had a spare moment, an intern who had been there 3 weeks already followed me and introduced herself then too. I have already gotten more opportunities to do things than she has because I have figured out who to ask, while she has spent her time on facebook. Clearly, how much I get out of this internship depends on how much I put into it. Knowing this, the responsibility to get newsroom experience here rests on my shoulders.

In that first week I buddied-up to a lot of photogs who didn't have reporters with them. I got to practice 2 stand-ups and I even got to interview the county Sheriff on the rise in vehicle break-ins. One story I went on with a photog was a bust: the day before a man had burned down 2 churches on the same block, so we went to the churches to see if anyone was there organizing repairs and if and where they would be holding their services, but no-one was around.

I've practiced writing a couple of VO's and one of them got used in a 10pm newscast. At the end of my 10pm shift I go into the studio and watch the newscast live, and sometimes do the same with the 5pm newscast. Oh & I go to the 2pm meeting or the morning meeting daily.

Oh and I got to hear the Governor's live statement on the capital building's front steps. The Governor announced his support for Obama right before his deadline to do so. Every Denver station was there and I got to meet interns from other stations. In fact, Bre Roy I met a photog who worked with you at that RTV camp you went to... his name is Dave Wertheimer and he says Hi Bre!

In my last few hours last week, I started to train on website postings for: www.thedenverchannel.com
I didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did. Therefore, for my first rotation I am starting with Online News. It turns out, there are a lot more things interns are allowed to do online than near the cameras. I get to pick the top 7 video packages that show up at the top of the website and I get to rewrite AP stories, read the original articles from papers across the nation, and update each story with new info.

My first week certainly kept me on my toes. It was exciting to never know where I'd be going each day and I am making valuable connections.

I also started working at High Noon Entertainment in the Denver Comcast building. I'm getting paid a great salary to transcribe tapes from the Food Network Challenge and I get to go to a shoot of it on Monday. I am learning lots of shortcuts and the people who first introduced Avid to stations across the country work here. It's basically a Production Internship, so I was thinking about splitting my intern hours between KMGH and here because they'll let me do some editing and pick out bites as I am trained more.

~~Stacy

Loving the rain... well not really

Hello everyone, Paige here from rainy Spokane. Apparently before I came in this morning it actually snowed briefly in West Spokane (thankfully far from where I am)! Anyways, I am well into my internship and just have a few weeks left. KHQ has been wonderful! I am editing whenever I can but havn't done anything too awesome yet. When I edit something good (preferably my own story) I will post it on this blog.
Recently I have been writing packages and editing some of them. I've done a couple stand-ups to include in my pachages and hope to do another today. Since I really havn't done a ton of this at school yet I do get a little nervous but am quickly getting used to reporting at the scene of a story.
Here's a few reasons KHQ is awesome:
5. probably the best TV station in the Spokane market
4. photogs are really helpful and help me with projects
3. reporters are nice and pretty funny sometimes
2. I love Spokane (of course...I am from here)
1. There are about 8 Grizzlies around the station! Including another intern- Marianne, a new Producer, one reporter- Paola Cherzad, one photog- Gabe, one promotions guy, the EP, and a partige in a pair tree.
If we can we'll take a picture soon and post it up on the blog.

Enjoy the weather!
Paige Browning

Hey All!!
Well this is my second week at Barrett and I am not going to lie, I was taken back seeing the killing of an Ox. But it has been great working with the staff at Barrett. I've been able to look at a lot of videos of hunting and fishing and would probabaly never see the things I am seeing now. Right now Barrett has tons anbd tons of projects due in the next week so it has been pretty hectic there making sure everything has been loaded. I am really looking forward to working with Barrett

The Old Ballgame

I’m finally able to blog after a hectic week of production. So here it is:

This week was one of the busiest in the year for CCTV. It started out with the men’s USSSA Slow-pitch Softball tournament. Three days full of softball and live TV work. I helped set up all the cameras and hook up the production truck on the day before the tournament. There were 5 cameras set up around the field, so a complicated production. I am continually amazed by CCTV’s ability to create a professional result with limited staff and new volunteers. At softball tournaments, the production crew is able to create DVDs immediately for team members to buy and take home. These sold quickly, especially for the championship games. The production manager Ken is going to let me direct a women’s softball tournament in the next couple weeks.

I’m continuing to work on nonprofit brochures, editing and filming some things now too. The two nonprofits I’m currently assigned to are a homeless shelter and a day care for struggling families. Totally tearjerkers if I do say so myself.

The end of the week brought graduations. I’ve now heard pomp and circumstance about 1000 times. There are 6 graduations in 3 days here in Salem, and CCTV does on site production for all of them. I worked at two, once as a camera operator and once on audio, and of course there were hours of set up and take down. I’ll be an expert coiler at the end of the summer – watch out world!

Hope everyone’s doing well, have a good week!

Starstruck

Well it's the end of week two at the Late Late Show intern boot camp as I like to call it. I was both ecstatic and nervous to see the lovely Kristin Davis (Charlotte on Sex and the City) in person before she went on the show Tuesday. It is so weird to see celebrities when they aren't on TV. I also met the three other interns. They are all from the East coast. We have been pretty busy this last week-we taped five shows along with some extra footage to air at a later date. I am trying to not be in anybody's way, but also find a balance of when to ask if I can help. I do a lot of research, mostly finding footage of potential guests on the internet so the woman who books guests can determine if they will be a good on-camera interview. It's sort of like finding the "nugget" as Denise would say. As Teal mentioned we did get to meet up in San Diego for a little visit. It was so nice to see someone from home. LA is heating up so I think I will be going to the beach a lot more. It sounds like everyone is having a successful summer thus far. Until next time...

Research, script writing and editing

Hello all and happy dairy month!

Weird right--I must be in Wisconsin where they do celebrate such events. Anyway--life here is chugging along. I am almost finished editing a short testimony project I talked about earlier. We got an assignment about two video projects they are wanting to produce next year for various chapters around the country. 2100 definitley has a team approach to producing, so as a team of interns we are researching and proposing several different looks and ideas for the two projects. It's been fun to work together and I think two of our ideas are going to be produced eventually. Hopefully I will be here for that process.

Besides that, I was asked to travel with a small team to Indianapolis (sorry if I mentioned this in my last post--not sure if I did or not) to help tech and run cameras for a conference there. So that should be fun. I'm definitely looking forward to that.

So far so good in WI. They have a much different technique for story telling and editing so it's been great to learn that and broaden my experience base. Glad you all are doing well. It's been fun to see you guys on TV too! Thanks for posting those. Until next week . . .

Melissa

Intrigue and Confidence

I wonder how differently all of us will approach our class work next semester?

Isn't it crazy reading about everybody's varied experiences? We're all gonna be saying to each other, "Well yeah, but I learned this at my internship..." We'll drive each other nuts.

But on to the task at hand I have a belated recap of my third week at Loopline Film. The week was wonderfully diverse and productive.  The week began with me finishing the logging and note-taking for the project I've written about before. The notes for the tapes ended up being a 30 page Word document (let's hope it gets some use!)

Later that same day (Tuesday, since we had Monday off due to a "Bank Holiday") I accompanied one of the new employees to do some research for a project in the field. The film will be about Kathleen Lynn, an Irish Doctor in the early 1900's. I won't get into it much, let's say she was important, influential and founded a childrens' hospital in Ireland when the country had the biggest infant mortality rate in Europe. 

Right, but the cool part was we took a trip to the National Museum of Ireland, met up with one of the curators, and got card-swiped into a secret-looking area to view some locked away materials. Yours truly was the photographer and spent the afternoon feeling like a documentary Indiana Jones (that is Indiana Jones pre-"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", which made me gag.) It felt cooler than I'm sure it sounds.

The rest of the week was just as varied. I met and spoke with my supervisor and other employees to discuss careers in the field of documentary, which was enlightening.

I helped sort the last year's receipts into months and catalogue them under 'petty cash' expenses for the company's taxes, which was meticulous.

Loopline recently moved to this new location so we reorganized the old master tape library, which was laborious.

I slightly had the chance to familiarize myself with a totally different brand of editing software: "Lightworks." It's computer based LINEAR editing from all I can figure, but its set up so the old dogs used to editing with actual film can feel at home. And you don't use a keyboard, you use this video game-esque controller to edit. I forgot my camera, but I'll load some pictures so you can all see it. It seems like the sorta thing that would be much faster than anything we've used one you become familiar with it. Sé Merry Doyle, the big cheese over here, flies through editing on it. 

Granted, the younger guy's here who use FinalCut seem to think it's a dinosaur. I'm undecided.

The second half of the week was spent with two things: First, finishing the rough draft of this 'deadline calendar' I've mentioned before, which I'm almost done with. Secondly, I helped Sé and another editor Marc finish producing a film in two languages (English and Irish), on two editing systems (Sé on Lightworks, Marc on FinalCut), in two rooms at the same time. I've never had so many timecodes floating around in my head. The film is nearly done: "John Henry Foley: Ghosts of the Empire". It's about a 19th Century sculptor...

Today is actually the Monday of my fourth week. I'm taking Tuesday-Thursday off to go to London and see off my girlfriend Laura as she heads back to the U.S. I'll be here for another month. Today though, before I leave, I'm scheduled to discuss my 3o pages of notes on "Patrick Ireland", which should be interesting.

-db

Flooded. producing. tornadoes.

I'm on the 2-week producing rotation. It's such great practice rewriting wire copy on a time crunch. I can feel my writing improve each day. I get to produce three web updates each day and help write stories mainly for the midday newscast, but usually bumps for the later ones. Today tornadoes and storms hammered our viewing area. Serious damage, flooding. Great viewer photos. It's still hard for me to comprehend the reality of tornadoes here! I'm sure I'll see one myself by the end of the summer. Even though I was a producer today, Dexter sent me out to cover heavy flooding in Canton (just a vo/sot). Unbelievable flooding...it looked like lakes on farmland. I interviewed a woman who had to forge two feet of water to get to me on the road from her house. Once I had it back and edited, I ended up sticking around to help answer phones because viewers were going crazy. I love talking, well..listening to all these calls. It's intriguing. People were calling about power outages or if they'd seen a tornado or funnel clouds or complaining because the meteorologist wouldn't "shut his mouth." It was great. Having fun and feeling a little more like I belong.
P.S. Election coverage was fun, too! Got to interview the Gov. and phoner with former Sen. George McGovern election night and previous week got footage of Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. I feel like here I'm right in the middle of national news.

Graffiti

Hello Hello,

So yesterday I came into work and Ryan, one of the reporters, said he wanted to do a story on graffiti in Missoula. He also said that he thought I should do the interviews which isn't that unusual because I've conducted a few interviews in the last two weeks... THEN he tells me he plans on helping me get it ready for the 5:30 show where I will be infront of the plasma screen reporting! We worked all day on it and then at 5:40 I went on! It was pretty exciting! I don't have actual footage of it but I did put a link at the bottom to my story that showed up online!

The reporters here are so helpful! They all were excited to see me go on air and they helped me calm down so I wasn't nervous! Everything else is going well. I've been doing some reporting and next week I start my producing segment. I dont know what they will have me do but I'm sure it will be fun!

It sounds like you're all doing well! Keep up the good work;)

ally


http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=8433470

mariners.

Hello all!! Greetings from sea town!

So I'm finishing up my first week at the mariners... Ray no worries Steve says he is faxing my learning agreement asap!!
So far everything has been pretty exciting I got to go out and get interviews with the fans before the game and shoot the pre game with camera 3.. so the first pitch... national anthem etc. Then I got to go around shooting the fans in the stands throughout the whole game.. we lost... but I still was able to go into the press conference with the skipper where each news station asked questions. My second day I worked on the graphics for the big screen which is one of my tasks i complete each day... the head shots of all the players... mariner game notes etc. using avid's decko...

Today I got to meet Steve Pool (the weather man for komo 4) he did a weather day for little kids around Washington. I also worked with the TD today to see how his job works. All in all its been fun so far I work again Friday and Saturday. Saturday will be a event where I will work a camera most likely filming the guest speakers/event.

Should be fun-- hope all is well!!

Kelly Hanson.

update 2

Hello Everyone!

I am still loving KHQ...the, reporters, producers, news director, assignment editors, photogs, anchors are all awesome!!!

On the Weekends I usually go out with Paola...who is a UM alumni...and very helpful...Sunday we each wrote a package on Kevin Coe "The South Hill Rapist"... pretty creepy stuff....then she helped me do an as-live so that was GREAT practice...After the 6pm news show, she watched my as-live with me and gave me some pointers...which is awesome cuz i definitely need them!!

Yesterday (monday) I went all over Spokane with another reporter...it was a super slow day...and her stories kept falling through...but we ended up doing one about "comcast dating on demand"....yes for those of you who don't know you can do more than online dating know you can date through the TV...And best news of all...KHQ was the first station in Spokane with the story and we even beat the Press Releases!!! ohhh and if you guys are interested...check out KHQ.COM or just go ahead and make a trip up to The Big Easy or Fast Eddy's in Spokane to create your on profile for Comcast Dating on Demand...

Ok...then today...another pretty cool story or at least I thought so...I went to Colton, WA...and we interviewed a 16 year old boy from Colton High School that was riding the bus to school and noticed the driver kind of slumped over and the bus was going off the road...the kid grabbed the wheel and steered, the bus driver, himself, and nine other passengers safely into a wheatfield...the bus didn't even have a scratch...pretty neat huh...anyway I wrote a package for that and did another as-live...so hopefully I'll get the hang of being "live" pretty soon!

Thats all for now!!! Hope everyone else is having a great time!!!
Ray my form is in the mail tomorrow!

~Marianne

First Day at Barrett

Hello Everyone!!
Well today was my first day at Barrett Productions. Basically I learned about Avid and what I will be during there during my internship; that being loading and giving specific detail to what is happening to each scene. It was interesting watching all the pieces through my trial and error, there was a piece of elk hunting and seeing the process of a kill was pretty interesting. I return back to Barrett tomorrow morning and look forward to my work there.

1st edit

Hello again radio tv'rs.

I have just finished editing my 1st project. I had 6 hours of tape to edit and I had 2 weeks to complete it. I just finished today making it in a week. I am loving my internship and I am excited about everything I am learning. Jerry has given I am filming again on Saturday with one of Jerry's aids Chris and I am handing my edit in tomorrow and will be getting an evaluation of my work.  

Holly came to San Diego on Tuesday because her studio was dark. It was awesome to see her and talk about how much work she is doing. We went to the beach and had lunch at a nice restaurant. It would be awesome to see the rest of you Cali folk!! Okay, well until tomorrow. Have a good week!

Teal