Week 3

TOTAL HOURS: 22 out of 80 hours

Welcome back my faithful reader. Need to get another fix of my blog? Well sit down! Relax! Enjoy the story of my ever interesting Workplace Learning Experience.

This week I spent some time with my old friend Final Cut. We laughed*, we logged, we went out for ice cream**. But mainly we logged. It was all loads of fun. I got to log some footage they shot a while back for their product Get Clean. My new mini project will involve editing together a short advertisement-type spot on the product. I'm not sure what it will be put towards, but I always enjoy editing.

I tried to capture the footage, but ran into issues. For some reason, it would capture approximately 2 seconds of material, then crap out on me. It gave me some non-descript error message and that was that. After trying the age old "doing it over and over hoping it'll work this time" method, I finally gave up and put it on hold. Joan tried to help, but didn't really know enough about Final Cut to solve any problems. We decided it'd be best to wait for Tom to help. Unfortunately, he wasn't here this week, so it'll just have to wait until next week.

It was around noon that something incredible happened. For the first time in my WLE history, including last year, I left the office to help with a real task. Not even a silly errand or anything. A full blown TASK! We went to San Francisco and checked out a possible filming location. Now, here's some really brief background information. The head of Shaklee MIGHT be appearing on Oprah, and her people MIGHT just air this shoot on their show. So, obviously, everyone is excited. You don't mess around when Oprah is involved. The concept behind this shoot was that it was supposed to be a sort of "neighborhood business meeting". Just one mother pitching her new product (incidentally Get Clean) to a huge group of mothers. It was an example on how you, the common Joe Shmoe, can expand your business in an easy affordable manner. At least that's what I got out of it. I'm just a humble intern. You can't expect me to know everything about Project Oprah.

So that was a nice breath of fresh air. I got to meet the president's wife, which was a pretty big deal. I'm pretty sure I made a good impression. I mean, I still have my internship. I didn't get fired or anything. They wouldn't think of firing me, would they? No, of course not...That's ridiculous... >_>...<_<...

So, there you go. That's the latest on my WLE. Hope you got enough for one week. What am I talking about, of course you did! This is prime stuff right here. I should charge you for reading this. Or, in lieu of such an act, an automatic "A" might suffice. Yeah...I like the sound of that.