WAIT WAIT…Professor Schoonmaker…Wait….Im not done….yet!….Thats Right! I am still interning. Magically, I was extended to continue to learn. Now I am not sure what this practically means, yet I am excited to extend this news to you all. What makes this so interesting is that I am able to continue to learn in hopes of […]
Archive for August, 2011
How to get PA work… I’ll let you know if I figure it out.
Posted: 23rd August 2011 by Adrienne in Random ReflectionsOn September 1st I will have been out here in LA for 3 months, and I will have spent about 2 of those 3 months trying to find PA work. I spent my first month or so trying to start up a mentorship with a director of photography, every week I emailed him, he said […]
Did you know that “Stan” by Eminem and Trey Parker’s song “America, F!#* Yeah!” both have the same important lesson to teach about comedy writing (even screen writing in general)? I would have certainly never grouped these two songs together in any circumstance. Even less so if the category is “important lessons to be learned […]
Notes from Mandaly Internship — Script coverage
Posted: 16th August 2011 by ranjanamitra in Notes to Sequence 64As an intern, your single most important task everyday can often simply become keeping yourself busy while learning new things. In my case, it was trying to hone my skills in one area that an assistant to a development executive or a producer in the motion picture industry will find themselves doing very often and […]
When in Doubt, Consult Gandalf
Posted: 16th August 2011 by Katie Kirnan in Who Am I, Where Am I and How Did I Get Here?Who am I, where am I, and how did I get here? These are questions that I am constantly asking myself. I think that each of us has a core that represents who we are. But at the same time, there are so many things about us that are constantly evolving: values, interests, priorities, political […]
Untitled Project: Scanning Forever
Posted: 15th August 2011 by annagermanidi in A picture's worth a thousand words, and video is worth a million!One of the lovely tasks that an intern has to do when working for a lit manager/producer is to scan books, that we need to have copies of in our digital database. So what you see here is a very cute 500 page book that I had to scan, 2 pages at a time. Unfortunately […]
Untitled Project: Running Around
Posted: 15th August 2011 by annagermanidi in A picture's worth a thousand words, and video is worth a million!So one of the managers in the company had to be at the Beverly Hilton all day for the 2011 Television Critics Association Awards, and as we needed to give him something ASAP I offered to take it to him. There was a FOX sign right outside the entrance that I thought it was fun […]
Untitled Project: DVD Database
Posted: 15th August 2011 by annagermanidi in A picture's worth a thousand words, and video is worth a million!This is my awesome DVD database! I created it and I am proud of it, as it was such a mess before I put my hands on it!
Hello Sequence 64, You are now done with bootcamp and you must be exhausted! But congrats for surviving! I am sure the things I’m going to say are not things you haven’t already told by others or thought about. But I’m gonna go along and say them anyway. Make the best out of your time […]
And here I was, slowly finishing my amazing internship experience at Untitled. My last thought of wisdom will be that: Always seem to be eager to do anything and everything, even if you’re not! Always be the person they turn to for whatever they need, even if you can’t actually do it. Because you’ll try […]