TOTAL HOURS: 56 out of 80 hours
Welcome back to another wacky episode of "Sean at Shaklee!" You ready? Can you handle the anticipation of all the fun in store? What? You don't think we'll have fun? That's absurd! When the title has consonance/alliteration, it must be good! You'll see...You just wait.
First things first: Final product news. At this stage, my latest idea is to present my 3-4 Get Clean Demos and show the average walk-through from conception to completion. I really hope to integrate our sound studio and even run a "mini" recording session with my teachers. I could set everything up, hand them a short script, and simulate the real deal. I wonder what I'll make them say....Oh yes. This will be fun. If the studio happens to be in use, I could always run that to show how it's done. But I think everyone would have more fun if they could actually be a part of what's happening.
So all in all, I'd cover filming, scripting, voice over, editing, revisions/reviews, etc. The whole long nine yards for something as simple as a video on a website. As for the exact date of the presentation, I'm not 100% certain. I wrote down the final day of the internship May 12, but I don't know if I officially have that spot. Whatever happens, I'll need to know so I can make sure my mentor is available and everything I want to use can be used.
So enough of that boring final project garbage. On to the boring events of my day! ...And by boring I mean "absolutely enthralling". And by enthralling I mean "fine". So yeah, my day was absolutely fine.
I finished up my demos so they were solid. The next step is getting them reviewed. They need to be sent out to a few people who will check, offer revisions, approve, etc. Whatever edits need to be made will be made, and once everyone is satisfied, online they go! I burnt a few DVD's with all the movie files, and we're set to have a meeting next Monday. Incidentally, my teachers are supposed to stop by next week. Hopefully they don't stumble in mid-meeting. Come to think of it, I wonder what I'll show them when they arrive. I don't exactly want to unveil the demos, cause they're my final product. I guess I'll just have to let Joan gush about me. OH WELL...
So after the DVD's were all burned, I mentioned a fourth demo that I never tackled because of a lack of script. And guess what happened? I was put in charge of making a script! What are the odds!? I mean really...I never would've guessed that might happen in a milli-NO! A BILLION years! Yes, that's more reasonable. So I took on my new responsibility with care, and whipped up a script in about a half hour.
The tough thing about the new demo was that it used the product to clean a blood stained sock. Now, this raises an interesting dilemma. The rest of the demos are all happy and positive, and now we're presented with a mysterious blood stained sock. How did the blood get there? Furthermore, how am I supposed to give a positive spin to the spot? It's harder than you think. "New Fresh Laundry cleans even the toughest stains, like blood!" :D
Not quite.
My first draft script ignored the blood factor all together. I just referred to is as a "difficult" stain. Joan said that was all fine and dandy, but marketing might really want blood to be mentioned in one way or another. After all, blood is actually a pretty stubborn stain. The fact that the product can deal with it so easily is a rather strong selling point. So, I experimented with different lines. I tried to give it a kids spin, like soccer and scraped knees, but that was equally difficult without the proper footage. In the end, I came up with "Accidents happen. But even blood is no match for the power of Fresh Laundry Concentrate." Humorous, simple, acceptable. It doesn't really kill the mood. So the plan of attack is that we'll record the version that ignores the blood issue, and if marketing wants to be picky, we'll pull the revision out.
After I finished the scripting, we managed to grab Cynthia to do a recording session. She didn't have much time, so we rushed it. Joan was busy at the time so I got to handle everything completely by myself. Quite the exciting event if I do say so myself. Cynthia pretty much nailed it on the first try, so we were able to do the entire session from beginning to end in a little over 5 minutes. Skill. That's all I can say.
With recording done, I transferred the file over to my main computer and immediately got to work on the demo. I tell you, once you have a system, you can pump them out. I edited a full rough draft together in about a half hour, which brought my total up to a tremendous 4 demos. Joan scheduled a meeting next week with some of the higher-ups in marketing to review them and give whatever input they feel necessary. If all goes well, they may sign it off then and there. While I don't expect that to happen, that would be quite awesome. It's always nice to get it right the first time, unlike certain graduation portfolio reflections I would like to burn. If you could burn digital files that is. And not like CD burning but the burning with fire. That burning. The fun kind.
And there you have it. My absolutely fine day all nicely laid out for you. Enjoy it? Of course you did. I told you you would. That should be enough right there. I better wrap this up before my fingers start crampi
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Week 6
TOTAL HOURS: 48 out of 80 hours
I know you probably came here today to read some hilarious installments of my WLE blog. But there is something serious I must discuss first. It's a problem that is plaguing the world over, and there doesn't seem to be an end. I'm speaking, of course, of lazy blog prompts.
This afternoon, I checked my school website to see the prompt I was supposed to respond to. This is what I found:
What academic or leadership skills does your WLE require from you? Provide detailed examples.
That's it? That's all you could come up with? I remember when the blog prompts filled me with unbridled terror and hatred for their very existence. I mean, just look at week 4. Now that was a prompt! I avoided that thing for who knows how long. Now, I'm not saying I support these things, in fact, I wish we never had to respond to a prompt. I'd much rather ramble freely about what I feel like (much like what I'm doing now). But if you go through all the effort to conjure up these demon spawn, at least make them worthwhile.
Now to answer your question: critical thinking, creative expression, and productive collaboration. Critical thinking has definitely been useful for developing my videos. I have to constantly figure out if the layout and shots are good at selling the product. Creative expression is always present in video, since it's sort of an art form to begin with. And of course, like in most businesses, collaborating productively is a must. Unless you're running things by yourself, you need to be able to work well with your co-workers. Otherwise, there's no telling if you'll get the product you want.
Phew. Now that that's out of the way, here's the week 6 update!
Today was definitely more of a day of discovery and experimentation than a day of production. I ended up taking a little break from Final Cut and explored some more of the mysterious After Effects. I was able to stumble my way to a very basic placeholder graphic. It had the entire Get Clean product line crawling by with a banner containing the Get Clean logo underneath. Then....you ready for this? A light sweep goes over the logo. Yes, yes I know. My innovative genius was able to make the logo shimmer for a brief moment.
Later, Tom was able to set aside some time and gave me a crash course in the program. I'm definitely more comfortable with the interface now, and I know some useful tricks as well. I went back and tinkered with my animation to see how I could spice it up. Get this! Now the banner sweeps in and the logo appears, and freaking light shines and these cool rays are everywhere and stuff...Forget it. You can't even describe it. It's too mind blowing. I'll just have to screen cap it.
Now that's pretty freaking epic.
I'm curious if I can get a copy of After Effects for myself. I'm not sure how I could incorporate it with any MSAT work, but I think it'd be good to have. A nice accompaniment to all the other Adobe stuff on my laptop at home.
And so, the day continued as I explored the endless possibilities of After Effects. BUT THEN...Joan appeared and a new path was forged. A path...of budgets. Sexy, sexy budgets. We headed on over to her cubicle and she brought out a template spreadsheet. Apparently when doing budgets, they always start out with the basic one and then add and subtract based on the particular project. I was actually surprised by some of the figures. Under the art/animation category, she labeled 2D and 3D animators as roughly $1200/day and $1500/day respectively. Looks like I'm getting into the right business.
After looking at the costs of each little thing, a bunch of calculations go on at the bottom regarding the projected cost, price per unit, and other fun stuff. It was a nice mini lesson that I'm sure can easily be expanded upon. Now I can rest easy knowing that if I ever run into a wall with the whole video editing thingamajigger, I'll always have budgets to keep me entertained. Speaking of resting, that sounds pretty good right now. Let's see if I've written enough...Oh yeah. This is plenty. In fact, I think you got more than I intended. You should thank me for writing all of this!
You know, I should really start charging for subscriptions to this thing.
I know you probably came here today to read some hilarious installments of my WLE blog. But there is something serious I must discuss first. It's a problem that is plaguing the world over, and there doesn't seem to be an end. I'm speaking, of course, of lazy blog prompts.
This afternoon, I checked my school website to see the prompt I was supposed to respond to. This is what I found:
What academic or leadership skills does your WLE require from you? Provide detailed examples.
That's it? That's all you could come up with? I remember when the blog prompts filled me with unbridled terror and hatred for their very existence. I mean, just look at week 4. Now that was a prompt! I avoided that thing for who knows how long. Now, I'm not saying I support these things, in fact, I wish we never had to respond to a prompt. I'd much rather ramble freely about what I feel like (much like what I'm doing now). But if you go through all the effort to conjure up these demon spawn, at least make them worthwhile.
Now to answer your question: critical thinking, creative expression, and productive collaboration. Critical thinking has definitely been useful for developing my videos. I have to constantly figure out if the layout and shots are good at selling the product. Creative expression is always present in video, since it's sort of an art form to begin with. And of course, like in most businesses, collaborating productively is a must. Unless you're running things by yourself, you need to be able to work well with your co-workers. Otherwise, there's no telling if you'll get the product you want.
Phew. Now that that's out of the way, here's the week 6 update!
Today was definitely more of a day of discovery and experimentation than a day of production. I ended up taking a little break from Final Cut and explored some more of the mysterious After Effects. I was able to stumble my way to a very basic placeholder graphic. It had the entire Get Clean product line crawling by with a banner containing the Get Clean logo underneath. Then....you ready for this? A light sweep goes over the logo. Yes, yes I know. My innovative genius was able to make the logo shimmer for a brief moment.
Later, Tom was able to set aside some time and gave me a crash course in the program. I'm definitely more comfortable with the interface now, and I know some useful tricks as well. I went back and tinkered with my animation to see how I could spice it up. Get this! Now the banner sweeps in and the logo appears, and freaking light shines and these cool rays are everywhere and stuff...Forget it. You can't even describe it. It's too mind blowing. I'll just have to screen cap it.
Now that's pretty freaking epic.
I'm curious if I can get a copy of After Effects for myself. I'm not sure how I could incorporate it with any MSAT work, but I think it'd be good to have. A nice accompaniment to all the other Adobe stuff on my laptop at home.
And so, the day continued as I explored the endless possibilities of After Effects. BUT THEN...Joan appeared and a new path was forged. A path...of budgets. Sexy, sexy budgets. We headed on over to her cubicle and she brought out a template spreadsheet. Apparently when doing budgets, they always start out with the basic one and then add and subtract based on the particular project. I was actually surprised by some of the figures. Under the art/animation category, she labeled 2D and 3D animators as roughly $1200/day and $1500/day respectively. Looks like I'm getting into the right business.
After looking at the costs of each little thing, a bunch of calculations go on at the bottom regarding the projected cost, price per unit, and other fun stuff. It was a nice mini lesson that I'm sure can easily be expanded upon. Now I can rest easy knowing that if I ever run into a wall with the whole video editing thingamajigger, I'll always have budgets to keep me entertained. Speaking of resting, that sounds pretty good right now. Let's see if I've written enough...Oh yeah. This is plenty. In fact, I think you got more than I intended. You should thank me for writing all of this!
You know, I should really start charging for subscriptions to this thing.
Week 5
TOTAL HOURS: 39 out of 80 hours
No way...Nuh-uh! Halfway? I'm halfway done with the WLE? That's crazy. Already? Shut up...No! Pfff...Impossible. You're silly. You're totally silly.
Enough of that nonsense. Trying to make me think I'm at the halfway mark...
This week I had several options on what to do. I could continue to refine the demos, or...I could learn about the totally awesome and interesting world of BUDGETS! Easiest decision I've made during this whole experience. That's right. I was interested in budgets. I mean, who wouldn't be? All the numbers, and calculations. I was all like, "I'm gonna totally impress the ladies around the office with my budgeting skills." And when they'd see me budgeting, they'd be all, "Oh Sean! You're so smart and cool. Come party with us!" And I'd be all, "I'll be right with you babes. But first, I got some numbers to crunch." At that point, the ladies would probably faint from my overwhelming attractiveness, yadda yadda. You know the rest.
But SOMEHOW, budgeting never came. I ended up focusing on the demos the whole day. I started out doing some basic edits Joan had suggested. Then at 1:30, I actually got to run a recording session. Cynthia, Shaklee's quintessential voice talent, came in to lend her voice to my demos. I must say, I was nervous. All I really had to do was tell her when to talk, but my head was too full of thoughts of whether or not things were set up right. We got through it though, and it came out sounding...how to put it...spectacular? Yeah, I think that's good. Spectacular...
So with Cynthia's lines all recorded, I went back to work on replacing my audio with hers. But not before exporting one of the demos while it still had my voice, cause I'm going to be honest here. I sounded damn good. So I saved that away just for me, and finished placing Cynthia in the right spots. After that, things required a little shifting because obviously, she didn't speak at exactly the same pace as myself. But hey, she was a professional, so the re-syncing turned out to be very minimal.
After a little tinkering in After Effects, the day was pretty much over. I talked a little with Joan regarding my final project, and I think we both agree these demos will be the main feature. At this point, it's up to me to figure out how I want to present everything. My plans to wrap this up pretty much include continuing my re-familiarization with After Effects, and creating nice opening graphics for my demos. Once those are in place, I think the pieces themselves are good to go. Like I said, the next challenge would be developing my presentation format. Once I've got that, I think the rest of my WLE will be learning whatever random things I haven't had the chance to do yet.
Oh, and that oh-so-sexy budgeting of course.
No way...Nuh-uh! Halfway? I'm halfway done with the WLE? That's crazy. Already? Shut up...No! Pfff...Impossible. You're silly. You're totally silly.
Enough of that nonsense. Trying to make me think I'm at the halfway mark...
This week I had several options on what to do. I could continue to refine the demos, or...I could learn about the totally awesome and interesting world of BUDGETS! Easiest decision I've made during this whole experience. That's right. I was interested in budgets. I mean, who wouldn't be? All the numbers, and calculations. I was all like, "I'm gonna totally impress the ladies around the office with my budgeting skills." And when they'd see me budgeting, they'd be all, "Oh Sean! You're so smart and cool. Come party with us!" And I'd be all, "I'll be right with you babes. But first, I got some numbers to crunch." At that point, the ladies would probably faint from my overwhelming attractiveness, yadda yadda. You know the rest.
But SOMEHOW, budgeting never came. I ended up focusing on the demos the whole day. I started out doing some basic edits Joan had suggested. Then at 1:30, I actually got to run a recording session. Cynthia, Shaklee's quintessential voice talent, came in to lend her voice to my demos. I must say, I was nervous. All I really had to do was tell her when to talk, but my head was too full of thoughts of whether or not things were set up right. We got through it though, and it came out sounding...how to put it...spectacular? Yeah, I think that's good. Spectacular...
So with Cynthia's lines all recorded, I went back to work on replacing my audio with hers. But not before exporting one of the demos while it still had my voice, cause I'm going to be honest here. I sounded damn good. So I saved that away just for me, and finished placing Cynthia in the right spots. After that, things required a little shifting because obviously, she didn't speak at exactly the same pace as myself. But hey, she was a professional, so the re-syncing turned out to be very minimal.
After a little tinkering in After Effects, the day was pretty much over. I talked a little with Joan regarding my final project, and I think we both agree these demos will be the main feature. At this point, it's up to me to figure out how I want to present everything. My plans to wrap this up pretty much include continuing my re-familiarization with After Effects, and creating nice opening graphics for my demos. Once those are in place, I think the pieces themselves are good to go. Like I said, the next challenge would be developing my presentation format. Once I've got that, I think the rest of my WLE will be learning whatever random things I haven't had the chance to do yet.
Oh, and that oh-so-sexy budgeting of course.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Week 4
TOTAL HOURS: 30 out of 80 hours
Hello again! Nice to see you, again. How was getting here? Hope you didn't run into a lot of traffic. Sit down, sit down! Let me get you some coffee. Alright, you comfy? Good, good... Well let's get down to business!
Today involved a lot of Final Cutting. Tom was able to help me figure out the capturing issue. Turns out it was just a little thing in the capture settings. Who would've guessed? Of ALL the reasons capturing wasn't working, it turns out to be in the most OBVIOUS place. Oh well, it got solved. That's all that matters. So with the footage captured, I was finally able to get to work on the demos.
But before I could really get started, I needed some narration to sync everything with. Joan showed me a couple scripts, and I quickly looked over them and made little edits. Then I got to make a scratch track with my voice! Joan and I went into the recording studio and I got to sit in the room with the microphones and all that jazz. Oh how it brought me back to State of the World days. All the reading, and rereading....and the reading...Good times, good times.
Once I had the scratch track I ---
~~ WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG FOR A FORCED REFLECTION ~~
1. I am a little unclear about what McLuhan means by pattern-recognition. Is he referring to just patterns and reoccuring norms in society? That would make the most sense. Then he'd be arguing that with all the information barraging kids, they need to find certain things they can depend on, before branching out to more esoteric information. If that's the case, I'm inclined to agree. Just dumping a whole lot of seemingly random information on a child doesn't really scream "helpful". If they have a good base to start with, things should be easier.
2. Because of the information-overload you find in today's society, children should learn societal patterns before they branch out.
3. A "serious" bit of information I've found is that it is essential for people to be on the same page when working together. The Earth Day DVD ran into a lot of kinks because certain people didn't understand different aspects of production. This led to changes and suggestions that impeded rather than helped. Now I know that if I'm ever involved in a big group project, I'll need to make sure everyone knows whats going on every step of the way.
4. I think a research/exploration thing is good after the student has a base of knowledge. With my Get Clean demos for example, I'm pretty much on my own. I was given footage and let loose. There was no real storyboard to work with. I enjoy this because I'm thinking more. I'm not just replicating someone else's vision. I can create something original. And the main reason I can thrive in this setting is because I've been working with Final Cut and movie projects for a while now. If I was starting at square one, I wouldn't be so happy. I'd probably be feeling very lost.
5. This internship has a good balance as far as letting me do things on a discovery basis. While I like doing my own thing occasionally, I wouldn't want to feel neglected. So far, I feel I've had a good mix of working by myself and with Joan/Tom.
~~THANKS FOR BEARING WITH US FOLKS. WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED BLOG ALREADY IN PROGRESS~~
And that's when my computer literally EXPLODED! I ducked just in time, narrowly avoiding a large chunk. Not only was the digital information lost, but the shards of computer destroyed countless tapes and hard copies. Needless, to say, we took a long lunch to recooperate. That's the last time we'll let Zombie Hitler into the building.
Anyway, I finished off the day with a good start on the demos. Pretty much everything was synced up. I just need to create some good graphics (perhaps with After Effects), and experiment with different shots in certain places. I don't know how long this will take me, but it might end up being a final product type deal (If I can think of a decent presentation, that is).
That's all for now! I hope you enjoyed my ramblings this week. I might not be in on Monday next week. Joan and Tom might have to film something in Atlanta, leaving me off the hook. If that's the case though, I'll probably go in on Thursday. In any case, I'll be in next week one way or another. Until next time!
Hello again! Nice to see you, again. How was getting here? Hope you didn't run into a lot of traffic. Sit down, sit down! Let me get you some coffee. Alright, you comfy? Good, good... Well let's get down to business!
Today involved a lot of Final Cutting. Tom was able to help me figure out the capturing issue. Turns out it was just a little thing in the capture settings. Who would've guessed? Of ALL the reasons capturing wasn't working, it turns out to be in the most OBVIOUS place. Oh well, it got solved. That's all that matters. So with the footage captured, I was finally able to get to work on the demos.
But before I could really get started, I needed some narration to sync everything with. Joan showed me a couple scripts, and I quickly looked over them and made little edits. Then I got to make a scratch track with my voice! Joan and I went into the recording studio and I got to sit in the room with the microphones and all that jazz. Oh how it brought me back to State of the World days. All the reading, and rereading....and the reading...Good times, good times.
Once I had the scratch track I ---
~~ WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG FOR A FORCED REFLECTION ~~
1. I am a little unclear about what McLuhan means by pattern-recognition. Is he referring to just patterns and reoccuring norms in society? That would make the most sense. Then he'd be arguing that with all the information barraging kids, they need to find certain things they can depend on, before branching out to more esoteric information. If that's the case, I'm inclined to agree. Just dumping a whole lot of seemingly random information on a child doesn't really scream "helpful". If they have a good base to start with, things should be easier.
2. Because of the information-overload you find in today's society, children should learn societal patterns before they branch out.
3. A "serious" bit of information I've found is that it is essential for people to be on the same page when working together. The Earth Day DVD ran into a lot of kinks because certain people didn't understand different aspects of production. This led to changes and suggestions that impeded rather than helped. Now I know that if I'm ever involved in a big group project, I'll need to make sure everyone knows whats going on every step of the way.
4. I think a research/exploration thing is good after the student has a base of knowledge. With my Get Clean demos for example, I'm pretty much on my own. I was given footage and let loose. There was no real storyboard to work with. I enjoy this because I'm thinking more. I'm not just replicating someone else's vision. I can create something original. And the main reason I can thrive in this setting is because I've been working with Final Cut and movie projects for a while now. If I was starting at square one, I wouldn't be so happy. I'd probably be feeling very lost.
5. This internship has a good balance as far as letting me do things on a discovery basis. While I like doing my own thing occasionally, I wouldn't want to feel neglected. So far, I feel I've had a good mix of working by myself and with Joan/Tom.
~~THANKS FOR BEARING WITH US FOLKS. WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED BLOG ALREADY IN PROGRESS~~
And that's when my computer literally EXPLODED! I ducked just in time, narrowly avoiding a large chunk. Not only was the digital information lost, but the shards of computer destroyed countless tapes and hard copies. Needless, to say, we took a long lunch to recooperate. That's the last time we'll let Zombie Hitler into the building.
Anyway, I finished off the day with a good start on the demos. Pretty much everything was synced up. I just need to create some good graphics (perhaps with After Effects), and experiment with different shots in certain places. I don't know how long this will take me, but it might end up being a final product type deal (If I can think of a decent presentation, that is).
That's all for now! I hope you enjoyed my ramblings this week. I might not be in on Monday next week. Joan and Tom might have to film something in Atlanta, leaving me off the hook. If that's the case though, I'll probably go in on Thursday. In any case, I'll be in next week one way or another. Until next time!
Monday, April 2, 2007
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.
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.
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