My name is Chris and I am an Electronic Media major. I am interning at VideoWorks Production Company in Reading. I have been here for two weeks and I have been having a great time. I have been out on a couple shoots and everyone I work with is very nice. I help everyone out with whatever they need and when I have free time I learn how to use the equipment.
Lena:
I've always wanted to complete an internship but never really knew much about them. As an English/Professional Writing major, not only was an internship required, but also highly encouraged as an extremely important element of the learning process. After 2 years in the Professional Writing major, I finally decided that I want to become a screenwriter. This realization really helped me mold the type of internship I wanted to have. I initially began searching for screenwriting internships in cities; however after a lot of researching I discovered that this wouldn't be a possibility because of the expense of living away. I eventually settled on doing a local internship and began searching them out in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area where I live. After searching for what felt like forever and not finding anything in the screenwriting field or even the media field, I changed the approach to my search. I began researching local media companies and checking their websites for internship listings. Finally I looked up WVIA, a local NPR/PBS station that I spent my life listening to and watching with my parents. While they didn't offer any television writing internships, they did offer a radio news internship. I was immediately drawn to it because it was an internship in the media and would allow me to get a lot of experience writing for a legitimate and highly respected company. So I applied for the position and two weeks later when I hadn't heard anything, I called the site and verified that they had received my application. During the phone call, the internship coordinator told me she was very interested in my application and scheduled an interview for me over spring break. My interview went well and I got the position. Afterward, the coordinator pulled me aside and told me how my persistence is what got me my position and that I should never lose that persistence. After the interview, all of the other details were settled. My internship is 9 credits, aka 450 hours. Yes, daunting. But it is definitely not a problem because I have so many duties and responsibilities. I am working in the Radio, or FM department. My main responsibilities include researching local news stories, writing news and radio copy, interviewing authors and news sources, editing those interviews using audio editing software, contacting public relations executives, preparing interviews for radio hosts, and organizing music collections. However, my supervisors have told me I may be able to do some work in the television department as well.
Chris F:
My name is Chris and I am a senior Electronic Media major with a minor in Psychology. My internship is for credit, and I am paid when I go out on shoots and for my driving mileage that I log for things such as deliveries and pickups to and from clients. What drew me to my site was the size of the location, it’s a rather small production house and I figured with the size being so small that I would be able to get to know a lot of people and build my network rather than getting lost in the mix at a larger facility. Specifically what I do at my internship is pick up and drop off things for clients, digitize and log footage, go out on shoots, do some off-line edit work, sit in on editing sessions, help pack equipment for shoots, and pick the brain of as many people as I can at every chance I can.
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