The fourth week of my internship was super fun! I was still working on video edits and made some final edits my boss requested I add to the Nickel Creek videos, then I was tasked to make some more videos for Parker Millsap. I was asked to go find some of his older videos and make edits and 30-second clips for reels and TikTok. I was unfamiliar with Parker’s old content so it was cool getting to go through some of his videos and cut these clips. I sent it over to my supervisor and she loved it so it was an easy task. Another huge focus this week was social media. I was given a list of artists and albums to post about for the week and wrote up captions. For the content of the captions I referred to the press releases that are up on our shared drive, I came up with a draft and got it approved by my supervisors. Then we decided that we need to come up with a schedule of post content for the next coming weeks. I made a document with a list of different types of posts we can do spanning a range of artists. The posts consist of album features, singles posts, Reels, tour dates, and positive press pieces. My supervisor made some edits and comments and we are currently working on it still. I also made some more posts for the feed and created the new music Friday posts. I also made some updates to the quick reference guide which tracks our upcoming releases, and we had our weekly team meeting. The week ended on a super cool note. I was given two tickets to see one of our artists Lucero at the social in Orlando. A perk of this internship is if there is a show in the area by one of the artists in our company I can contact my supervisors and see if I can get a spot on the guest list. Lucero has become one of my favorite bands and it was super cool to see a band that is a part of the company live and in person. After the show, I was lucky enough to run into the guitar player and the singer and I introduced myself and told them I intern for Thirty Tigers, they were both super nice and thanked me and sang the company’s praises. Going to live shows is one of my favorite things and it is such a cool experience going as someone who works in the industry and being able to make these connections with people I admire.
the week of the 24 was the third week of my internship with thirty tigers. The main focus of the week was to edit videos for the band Nickel Creek. Nickel Creek is an American Bluegrass trio comprised of brother and sister Sara and Sean Watkins and their friend Chris Thile. This week the group announced their first record in nine years titled “Celebrants” which is out in March. With this big comeback, I was tasked with making cuts of their new video for their song “Strangers”. Thirty Tigers is working on making content for their artists that they can share on TikTok and Instagram Reels. A big job of mine is to help edit these existing videos and make them easy to upload to these platforms. My supervisor sent me a file of the video I needed to edit and requested I make a few videos. First I go into the premiere and change the aspect ratio of the video to make it vertical. Then I watch the video and cut it to the thirty seconds that I think will sound and look the best. After that, I add the text. I had to make a video with a text overlay adverting the song, one advertising that it is available on Spotify, and two advertising the album’s preorder. This was the bulk of my work this week and took a few edits and revisions until I got it approved and sent to management. In addition to editing videos we had our weekly team meeting, and I was tasked to make a social media excel sheet tracking artists’ engagements. I also worked on posting for New Music Friday on our story for Instagram and made a few main feed posts highlighting some recent releases.
This week was not particularly busy with my internship. I only went in on Tuesday since Thursday I was volunteering elsewhere. On Tuesday, I sat with Bethany and Eve to review the schedule for the upcoming months. Since there will be a large event in March (the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference – Dr. Wolek, I’m sure you are excited for this!) we rescheduled Bethany’s nature sketch club on that Saturday so she has more time to help out. We will be assisting the center on a few of those days to make sure everything runs smoothly. I then helped Bethany schedule posts on Facebook for events coming up at the center related to art and wellness. I was actually able to show her that instead of putting the link into the caption like she has been doing, there was a way to link the page onto the post itself which also eliminated the need to upload a picture since it allows the user to preview the page right on FB. I finished my time there by helping her find a picture to use for the painting workshop she had the next day with residents of a nursing home. Although it was not as eventful as last week, it was still exciting to be part of the process of marketing and planning events for a nonprofit, which are both such huge parts of running one!
Going in chronological order, when I last wrote on here, I had mentioned I had a few days off. Those two days I went to two of the different parks. I had a blast and made a few new friends each of those days. I went with one friend who is very outgoing and she ended up finding random people on the bus who were also in the college program to go to the parks with us. Almost all the friends I have made, other than coworkers, have been found on the bus. CPs are always going to the parks alone and it’s fun to find someone to hang out with and talk too. There are so many different types of people I have meet which has been super interesting! I have started to make a lot of friends with my coworkers as well. I am sad though because most of the friends I have made at work are ending their program in the next two weeks. They are from the groups that started in the fall.
Everyone at my job is so nice and understanding! I have gone out a couple times with some girls after a closing shift to get Wawa which has been really fun. I also went to Animal kingdom one day before work with a friend of a friend which was really exciting. It is so baffling to me that I can just go to the parks before work. Every time I think about it my mind is blown. Like truly, I can go whenever I want. The advice many CPs have given me is to not go everyday because then 1) I’ll be super exhausted and 2) I will get tired of them and I won’t enjoy them as much. So I’ve decided to only go to the parks whenever people invite me or if I really am in the mood to go. I won’t go every single day even though I technically can.
I also started working at a new location!!! For my job we have two locations, our main restaurant and our pool bar. I started at the pool bar around the last week of January. It is definitely my favorite one because it is so easy and fun to work at. They always give us free food there and my leaders are much more relaxed. I feel it is much more of a stress free environment. It has been super slow at the pool bar location but I know it will pick up the hotter it gets outside because more people will be going to the pool. I also had a friend from stetson tell me they were in Orlando and asked if I wanted to hang out. It was perfect because it was my only day off that week so I was able to go out in Orlando with her for the day.
The next day at work I was almost late because the bus was 5 minutes behind schedule. This may not seem like a big deal but I literally had to run from the bus stop to clock in and I made it exactly on time thank goodness but still I was in a rush. I have had a super difficult time with the buses lately. The next day the bus was also running late so I was 1 minute late. Disney takes being late, even if it is just by a minute, as a very big deal. If you are late three times in 30 days you get a half a point. If you get 3 points you get marked down I forget what they call it but if you get 3 of those then you get terminated. The next day was my friends birthday so we went out to Epcot to celebrate with a group of friends. They all had the day off so they all stayed out but I left early. I took the monorail over to Magic Kingdom. I had gotten there about 2 hours early and didn’t want to just wait at the hotel so I went into Magic Kingdom. I saw a parade which was super nice and I should have left it at that. Instead I pushed it and I went on a ride. The line got longer when I was in it or else I probably wouldn’t have gotten on in the first place. I was so sure I was going to make it in perfect timing but I was wrong. It was mostly because I had to monorail back to the resort I work at and my resort is the last stop on the monorail. I ended up being 8 minutes late. I was so disappointed in myself that day. I took full ownership and apologized as it was no one fault other than my own that I was late. They were pretty nice about it but I just felt super bad because I should’ve planned my timing better. If I had just not gotten on the ride I would’ve been on time. That day at work was super hard. It was one of those days where one bad thing after another happens, I messed up about 7 times on small little things but adding them all together made me feel horrible. My leaders were super nice and forgiving but I still felt bad myself. It was my second day ever being completely alone so I wasn’t 100% what I was doing.
The next day I went to Hollywood studios before work with some coworkers who started 15 minutes before me and had a car so I knew I wasn’t going to be late. We had a blast there and we all got out paycheck that morning so we were able to buy food at the parks! Yesterday I just woke up and got ready for work I didn’t do anything before or after. It was a much better day. I got put on my two favorite positions, got an hour break during a 9 hour shift, and I had a really good day overall.
Today is my only day off for the week so my best friend is driving from Stetson to see me! We are going to go out to Orlando and maybe do some shopping. I am very much enjoying my program so far. I have had good days and I have had bad but overall I am very grateful for what experiences I’ve had so far!
This week of internship for me was back to more of what I am accustomed to. Since the beginning of this year, there is a very notable difference in my workflow and my abilities as I have had more practice in photoshop. There is a plethora of new methods I use that I had never heard of in past years and some that hadn’t even existed yet. This week for my internship I was tasked with making a high quality post for Stetson Men’s Basketball’s Equality and Inclusion Game on Saturday. As of Friday, I have now completed the graphic and submitted it to my supervisor after going back and forth on what components would make the post most successful. After some deliberation, we came to the conclusion that including at least 3 players would make the most sense for the post, and I made sure to include the image of the organization sponsoring the event in the top corner of the post.
Most likely the post will go live either tonight later or during the day of the game. I am very proud of this particular graphic, so I am going to try to share it myself as well as maybe get some of my close friends to maybe comment on it or share it as well. The precision and quality of the graphics I have been working on lately have drastically improved, and I’m very proud of my progress so in the next few week so am going to try to increase the volume of posts I create to help Stetson Men’s Basketball’s social media presence.
