Who am I? Where am I? How did I get here?! This almost sounds like a game of Clue! And Clue is a good place to start. When I originally began looking for an internship this summer, I applied to Hasbro as a video-production intern (to edit commercials) because working there would mix my interests of editing with Clue (and other board games) and action figures! Also because I knew Hasbro had a partnership with Universal Studios, so if I did well as an intern, I could possibly move on to work with movies. However, Hasbro didn’t care to respond to me. I applied to around twelve more internships, with only two responding. One was based in New York City and would involve editing with Avid. The other, Bigler Productions, was based in Saratoga Springs, New York, and would involve editing with Final Cut. Sadly, they both wanted an interview on the same day, so I decided to interview at Bigler. After a successful telephone interview, I went in for a formal interview and talked with the owner, cinematographer and editor. By the end of the interview, I was told I had the internship.
An interesting note for all you Sequence 64 students out there – Bigler Productions receives a stack of resumes from local communications programs, and the reason they gave me an interview over everyone else was because the name Newhouse was on it. I haven’t even graduated, yet the benefits are already flowing (that’s a good quote to use in a brochure, if I do say so).
How did I get to Newhouse? In high school, I decided that I wanted to do environmental science in college, so I did so, and added a second major of geology. I loved watching and making movies, so it was a tough decision to choose between my two interests. While attending Union College, I would document my geoscience trips to Alaska, Montserrat, Australia and New Zealand, so that I could still combine the two areas. Additionally, I created promotional videos for my school. I decided to continue with Environmental Science in graduate school at SUNY-ESF because I didn’t know what kind of job I wanted, so I figured I may as well get a masters. It was during my first semester there that I heard about Newhouse and the TRF program. I decided why not spend only one extra year to add a second masters in an area that I love. I applied, was accepted, and spent a great year immersed in television and film (only a little bit of radio).
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