Finally, a week without much chaos. For the first time in a while, it’s properly quieted down around here. We hired a new designer in the meantime, and she has been integrating nicely with the rest of the team. We are still looking for a new accountant, but the workflow hasn’t been too overwhelming. There isn’t much to say about this week, other than that I learned more about scanning and publishing bills. Ill always find something to occupy myself on though, so the burden of keeping my brain entertained is no longer entirely at the behest of someone else. I genuinely can’t understand why tasks do not take as long with me. Im unaware if I’m simply underworked or I have an abnormal capacity for work. Whatever the answer, I think it best if I treat these traits as a boon in the workforce.With proper management, I believe I could be even more productive. I am doing all that I can for this company, which means that sometimes I will have to sit and wait for my coworkers. I think of my job as sort of “trimming the fat” of the company on days that I’m here. Just cleaning up whatever needs to be cleaned, or helping a coworker with tasks, is just a part of the job. A larger part of the job is patience, the patience to know when to help, and the patience to listen to coworkers who are tech illiterate and need help operating their own office printer that they’ve had longer than I’ve been there. But, you help the people who need help, and that’s my job.
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Rough Cut Done
I finished the rough cut of the promotional video for The Young Sound Seekers camp. I sent the video to Eve to get her thoughts about it, and we are meeting tomorrow to go over it. Overall I think the video is good, but in the end, it’s not about what I think it is what Eve and the Atlantic Center for the Arts feel about it. The process I had for making this video was to divide and concur. I started by filtering the video and photos that I thought were good to include and putting them in a separate folder. Then after going through what I recorded I listened to the interviews I did with the students and find the timestamps of good statements to include. Once I had everything I needed prepared I opened up Hitfilm Express, the editing software I use, and sorted the media I had based on the location they were recorded at. Dividing up everything this was helped me a lot because it stopped me from constantly going through the files I had, and allowed me to know where everything was. Working on this video was generally pretty smooth, except for the fact my editing software would randomly crash; however, this got me into the habit of saving after nearly every action I did. One time after working for around 10 minutes without saving the software crashed and I decided that was a good time for a dinner break. This was an odd experience for me because usually when I work on Hitfilms I don’t go through this. I think what caused this problem was that were so many media files to keep track the software was struggling a bit. This road bump didn’t stop me though and I was able to finish the rough cut in a decent time.
Nearing the Deadline
Tomorrow (Monday) will be the last day that I can submit labels for the exhibit. It’s because the exhibit, named Tech Savvy, officially goes out July 23rd. I only have two more assigned labels to do, though, so it shouldn’t be too hard to get them done. Information about the exhibit was covered in the Museum of Arts and Sciences newsletter. The front cover emphasizes the exhibit with a phonograph on display and the words “Tech Savvy: Home Technology from the 1890s-1990s” written beside it. We actually have technology from the 2000s, like an iMac, which will be in the exhibit that will show “the future” aspect of technology.
The opportunity I had to get to work alongside this curation project has been so much fun. I’m so incredibly happy that I’ve had this opportunity, too, because knowing that I want to work in museums but now exactly knowing where (curation, education, etc.), getting a bunch of different experiences is exactly what I need. I’d never expect that I’d have this much fun doing a curation project, but it’s made me consider looking more in that direction for the future.
Something cool which popped up from my position here at MOAS is that in this summer newsletter, they have a section where they highlight their interns. There’s only one intern per department, so there’s me in the education department and one intern in the curation department, and we each got to turn in a photo of ourselves, as well as a paragraph about ourselves. These feature pretty early on in the newsletter and it’s super neat!
Plan of Attack
This week was a little bit of a struggle for me. On Tuesday, I got hit with a cold that made me want to rest all day, and it carried over till Thursday. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t productive though. When I was awake and had some energy I went through the moments I captured and sorted them into what would be suitable for the video. I also got some interview videos that Eve took that feature some of the counselors from the camp. I had worked all day yesterday, so I wasn’t able to go through them. For this 4th of July weekend, I plan to first put all the visual elements together in my video editor and focus on that. Once I am done compiling the visuals I will look through some of the recordings I took from the studio time to see if there are any good sound bites I can put over the video. Some ideas I had of sound to put over the video were using the recordings the students took over their time at camp. Another idea is to have their interview answers and things said while in the studio. There will be some clips that will have their audio like when the students are interviewing the park rangers that came to visit. I don’t have any plans and I am not scheduled to work till Monday, so I hope to finish a rough draft of the promotional video. Once I am done with the video I will send it over to Eve to get her thoughts on it and see what can be improved.