Week 5 at the internship was productive. On Monday, I followed my usual routine: arriving and meeting with Dave, then continuing to work on the same episode from Week 4. Since last week, I’ve been selecting the best takes, which is a very tedious process. I had to watch all the takes the students did and choose the best ones. Sometimes, the takes were very similar, making it hard to choose, or there were no good takes at all, so I had to pick the closest to good. After a while, I finished selecting takes for all 10 students.

Dave then asked me to start organizing the B-Roll. The process was the same as with the A-Roll. There were different folders with general university B-Roll and 10 folders with different students, each with their own subfolders. I had to put each video on the timeline and label it with the folder name, for example, “student walking by welcome center,” and so on. This task took a while, and after organizing the general university B-Roll, I only had time to organize B-Roll for 2 or 3 students. Monday seemed a bit boring, but I realized that knowing the process of organizing footage and putting everything together is important for working on bigger projects with their own structure.

Thursday was more exciting. After coming in, I continued organizing the B-Roll of the 10 students. Once I finished that, Dave asked me to work on the promo for the new “The College Tour” episode. The process was the same as before: cutting each student’s take into four different sentences and putting together four shots of different students saying those sentences to make one promo. For example, one student says, “Welcome to Stetson University,” the second student says, “In Deland, Florida,” the third student says, “This is the College Tour,” and the fourth student says, “Streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.” I chose the students with the best energy and put it together.

While I was in the middle of this, Michelle, one of the senior editors working on a Ukrainian documentary, asked for my help translating some parts and showed me the process of working on something big like a documentary. I helped her translate, and while she was finishing the first part of the documentary and editing the last bits, I gave her some suggestions. She really liked them and ended up using them.

After we finished working on the documentary, I went back to my computer and completed the promo. Dave said I could go home early since I got everything done. That was my day at Adrenaline Films on Thursday.