Practica

Heyo,
I just got back from my practica so I thought I would write up a quick update for you all.  It’s the end of my third week working for David V. and I have logged over sixty hours so far.  I’m pretty pleased with what he’s been having me do.  Right now we’re putting together a documentary for a program called Salts, which is out of Victoria.  I spent a lot of time going through interview footage, just cutting it down and understanding the story.  Now I’m cutting down the B-roll footage and will soon be cutting together my own section.  We started with around fifty hours of footage and will need to cut it down to a forty minute film by next Friday.
Other than that, today I helped him polish off the final edits on a couple Kaltire Olympic commercials that will be airing soon.  I have also helped him film an interview and met a member of the band Swollen Members–a co-writer for a show he and my supervisor are working on.
I’m so stoked about this internship.  Today while we were waiting for the commercials to export numerous times, my boss and I talked about life, school, God, and the power of prayer.  His big advice so far about this industry, beyond getting connections and being willing to work crazy hours for no pay just to learn and get to know important people, is to pray.  I really appreciate him.  He has a lot of knowledge and is still humble.  He knows that he doesn’t know everything–there is always room to grow and to be a student.  In this industry, you should always be in a student mindset.

Jamie out.