Week 1

TOTAL HOURS: 7 out of 80 hours

So we meet again. You, my most welcome reader, are curious about
my Workplace Learning Experience activities. Normally, I wouldn't be so quick to divulge such information, but you did go through all the trouble of typing and clicking a few links. So, your hard work will be rewarded. Don't forget to say thanks!

This year, I am doing my internship at Shaklee Corporation, a distributer of concentrated health supplements, as well as a leader in environmentally friendly business practices. I'm working under Joan Klau, a producer in their Creative Services department. While I focused a lot on the video aspect of production last year, this year I hope to learn more about audio.

Even today, we did a recording session in their recording studio. Using a program called ProTools, we recorded a woman named Jessa, as she read the script for their new Earth Day DVD. It was cool to see all the different machines and equipment. Hearing Jessa reread her lines over and over really brought me back to the days of State of the World, when I narrated our group's documentary. If only we had the kind of resources I did today. Our sound quality would have been outstanding.

My other main task of the day involved reviewing most of the DVD segments, and checking to make sure the transcripts matched up verbatim. While I mainly had to just look at a word document the whole time, I couldn't help but be hypnotized by the video from time to time. If I were a man of less self control, the shot quality might have had me drooling. Something like it would have been PERFECT for our Campaign Ads project. Oh well. What's passed is passed.

So there you go. Those were the highlights for the day. Overall, I was pleased. I was worried that things might not go so smoothly, because it was very hard to get a hold of Joan. I was afraid with our lack of communication and planning ahead would be a liability. Thankfully, there was stuff for me to do. It's just that a major deadline is appraoching, and everyone was very busy. In a week or two, we'll have much more of a chance to plan things out. I'm starting to think about potential projects I might like to do. I don't know if it's feasible, but at this moment, I kind of like the idea of setting up some recording session. I could show my teachers how it's done, maybe get them to try it out. Something like that. It's just something to throw out there, and I'll be thinking about it more in the future. Until next week!