Its the final countdown; I am making some last minuet money, doing phone interviews, and firming up plans for my trip. And now I get to reveal them all to you! Well as all of you know, or should know from reading my tweets, blogs, facebook, or whatever, I will be in DC this fall doing an internship and a few classes. This blog serves as a mass text/email to everyone, so come here and read what I am up to.
Along with taking two classes (Photojournalism and Poli. Comm.) I have to complete a (mostly) full time internship. From pretty much May to now (halfway through August) I have been looking for internships. Now my internship coordinator told me most places usually wait about 6 week before the semester until they conduct interviews and such. Now if your a college student banking on finding an internship, and your four weeks out, instinctively, we begin to panic. You broaden your desired internship field, and begin searching many many more medians. By this time, I have had probably 15 leads that never surfaced into an interview. So I began searching anything I could find, one of them being Craigslist. I have been perusing CL for some time now, but have never acted on an ad or anything on their site. So I do end up on craigslist alot looking for video cameras, cars, or video projects to help out with, but never looking for internships. The first day I looked I found two companies looking for interns, one was a shady looking ad, but included a 20 dollar a week stipend. The other claimed to be a primetime television show, with the initials "AMW." Before looking into the latter internship I sent the required materials to be considered, then I decided to look them up. Apparently "AMW" is short for Americas Most Wanted. Isnt it ironic AMW uses craigslist to find its prey? I sure thought so. After getting an email back asking for a phone interview, my brother-in-law ("C" for those of you migrating from here) reminded me I should probably check out their most wanted list before responding (luckly, they missed me this time.)) But I also sent my info into this company with the 20 dollar stipend; Come on, I'm a college kid, thats alot of money. I promptly got an email back from this company wanting a phone interview, and they identified themselfs as Home Front Communications. Home Front has clients such as ADT, The AD Council, American Cancer Society, Orbitz, TSA, and US Census Bureau; so this place is pretty much awesome in my book. Well I also had AMW email about a phone interview, and WUSA9 email also. So, I plan on holding a primetime television show to announce my "Decision" (WARNING: Some souls may be crushed)
So off the records I have decided to take my talents to Home Front Communications. I will be interning from 10-5 (which means I wont have to wake up till 9!) Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesday is reserved for field trips around the DC area.
Aside from my internship, classes, and field trips, I am not sure if there is anything to do in the MD, DC, or VA area. So I stumbled upon a casting call for extras in Micheal Bays upcoming Transformers 3D. When I saw this my hand (metaphorically) shot up. I have always wanted to be around a film set, and now that its coming to my city I don't want to miss this. So tonights docut includes taking some headshots to send with my info to a casting agency in hopes of getting some screen time.
Now comes to the part of this post I am looking forward to, here I get to tell you what I am gonna buy and when. Currently I have a Canon T2i with a Tamron 18-270 mm lens. I hope to get a battery grip by Christmas. That will pretty much complete my photography spending. Next summer, assuming I land the head guard job, I hope to bring in enough to purchase a used camcorder. Option A and Option B. I was able to use "Option A" at the LCMS NYG and was please with the results. I have never held "Option B" but it has great reviews and looks like it handles well. I will probably be dropping $3,000 to $4,000 depending if I can work out a deal with whoever is selling it. I also decided I am going to purchase another monitor, 24 inches at least, to edit on. I will use my laptop as my editing computer, and use the BlacX with WD 1.5 TB HD I recently purchased for storage. And I can pick up Adobe Production Suite online with a student discount for about $400. This way I will be able to do my entire senior project without have to use CUCs equipment (thank God). I will mill around with my Senior Project idea and will get back to yall on that.
Stay Sweet,
Drew
