This summer I went to New York City and worked as an intern at DuArt Film & Video in Midtown Manhattan. As an intern I had the amazing opportunity to not only experience how a major post-production house operates, but I was able to get into it and get my hands dirty with real editing and work with the sound department. I was given the task of creating one minute marketing reels that showed off as much of the wonderful work that has happened at DuArt in recent years as possible. This involved many hours editing with Final Cut Pro, as well as ingesting footage from (most often) digi-beta decks.
In addition to editing reels, at DuArt I worked with producers finding time-code cues to be used in dubbing recording sessions. I was also able to sit in and question directors, actors, producers and mixers as they did cartoon dubbing work.
Outside of this internship I had the amazing opportunity to work as a grip/PA on the set of a pilot episode of a new series called Sleepwalkers. This was a multi-day shoot utilizing the RED camera and was a fully professional operation. I learned and honed so many on-set skills, I can not wait to use them again on more professional sets.
As for the future, I was asked to work with College Humor next summer as an intern on set. I also hope to work on more TV shows and hopefully feature films in NYC.
For now back to school to learn even more!
