End of the Reel: last day at zeum

This is my final blog post. My internship is coming to an end and my last day is May 16 so I decided to write a blog comparing my first day to my day yesterday and see how I have changed from this internship.

My first day at Zeum I had no idea of what I was getting into I knew no one but my mentor. I didn’t know if I would get along with any of my co-workers and I didn’t think I could handle the 7 hour days. It is very strange how things can change it 12 weeks.

My first day on the job I was very reserved and just talked to the people I knew, which by the way were my classmates and fellow interns. After my first day I had no clue if I was even going to enjoy my time here.

As I look back to yesterday and compare it to my first day I can give a big smile. I am going to miss all my co-workers, the happy kids and their families, and my mentor. Over the 12 weeks of work I have been able to develop a professional and personal relationship with everyone there. Hanging out in the office, the main floor, eating lunch with the other interns, can’t forget watching the Matthew and Perry singing and dancing. I would really like to thank all the staff for making my internship exciting and always making ready to come in.

Finally I want to talk about my project. My project to me was simple but ended up being very hard. I felt that editing a movie of teens playing games was going to be a piece of cake. First of all I just like to edit - it is a passion for me. Here, the part that got hard was that I didn’t understand any of the footage. I also didn’t understand how important it was to the teen interns and to Zeum in general.

After having 2 meetings with my mentor and director of the intern program I knew it had to be good. Still I wasn’t moved to try my hardest. In fact it was after meeting the other teen interns and seeing their reaction I put all my effort to making it good for them. This project taught me that it is important to think of others because one small thing to me can mean a whole lot to the others.

I want to thanks the ZeumMasters who made working there a good time for me.

Behind the Scenes Magic: Video Editing

John here, writing from the Wednesday teen intern crew. As an assignment all the interns have been working on individual projects. My project has been to edit the Zeum Masters' Winter Olympic video.

So far the editing process has been very hard for me. Oh, let me count the reasons why.. FINDING the video of the Winter Olympics wasn't easy. Cutting it down from 45 minutes to 5 wasn't easy. Actually understanding the events in the movie wasn't easy. And having a deadline has been hard too. But fun!

Even though this has been challenging I still just tried to have fun. So I jumped right into the editing process by first watching all the footage. "Not as easy as it sounds"....But I did it and then started editing and cutting left and right. I've been lucky and have had some experience with this but like I said, this hasn't been an easy process!

The first day of editing I was able to cut the video down to about 7 and a half minutes. This was a great success but I ran into one problem I needed a good upbeat song. As I finished the day strong, I decided I need to find the song. So on my commute home I had my Ipod on shuffle and listened while my rough draft of a video played in my head. After 8 songs that didn't work including The Shins and Bloc Party I finally found a song. "YESSSS."!

I can't wait to show the video to the Zeum masters to get their feedback to see what they think. So yeah this has been the Wednesday Intern John signing off.