Week Nine at NP

Another enjoyable week at New Perspective Productions. So much happened that it’s near impossible to mention all of it here. Since it’s close to the end of post-production, I can reveal the fortunate non-profit organization for which we are doing the promotional video: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh.


8/4 - Tuesday

In the morning, I conducted Photoshop work on some graphics for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In the afternoon, I observed the rest of a shoot that was going on all day for an employee orientation video. The same actor from a previous shoot was on this one, and he and I had had a really good conversation. The TelePrompTer was involved again, and we even got to operate it.

8/5 - Wednesday

Wednesday marked the start of editing (at last). We had determined at the start of the internship that I would lead the editing portion of the project, and so I have. We had originally planned to have 4 weeks of post-production, but due to scheduling conflicts with our interviewees, we were left with two. I was slightly disappointed since much of the scheduling conflicts had occurred during the week I was on vacation. However, I was still optimistic that we could get it done on time.

I started the Avid project and organized all of the video footage into bins. Then I divided the footage into subclips and put them in their own bins. Lastly for the day, I laid the best interview moments from all of the interviews into the timeline. That put us at about 18 minutes. Our ultimate goal is to get everything under 10.

8/6 - Thursday

Call time was 7:30am for another exciting New Perspective shoot in the studio. I was a grip and a production still photographer. Mike and I also went out to buy a variety of props beforehand. We were now completely comfortable with green screen and we used it all day. We also had a child actor on the set, so that made it even more fun. The shoot went very well and we wrapped early at 3pm. I spent the remaining two hours cutting down the interview footage.