Making Moves with Summer Freelance Gig

Time has come when the UN meetings + events are slowing down and things around the international community are quiet, well before the huge chaos of the General Debate during the end of September.

With much more after-work times on my hand, I recently began a new freelance/part-time gig with MLB Network as a production logger. Very similar to my internship with NBC Olympics, I will be watching game broadcasts and taking notes of all game action, bloopers, analysis, and any other highlight-worthy events from the broadcast. 

My first game was an insane 17-run scoring game, which (for my first real shift) was absolutely miserable because we log every single highlight-worthy and for score plays, they look for word-for-word transcription of the call. Not only am I gaining experience working on a sports network, but also learning new media management / editing software: Adobe Premiere.

Overall though, the past week or so since starting has been so amazing and I am very excited to see what more I can learn and experience at MLB Network over the remainder of the season.

Post-Debate Frenzy

In early October, the General Debate ended and numerous Committee, conference, and council meetings restarted or continued. These non-Debate meetings occur throughout the year, in addition to various studio messages, photo opportunities, interviews, delegation statements, etc throughout the UN complex.

I continue to be stationed in the Media Ops Centre, where we monitor video recordings of all high-level meetings, as well as maintaining any studio recording or ENG shoot. Also, I am one of few staff that operate master control for the global UNTV channel. Everything really has settled into place and I am really creating my niche in the media management aspect of the UN media departments.

One pretty cool project that was just started this week is the retrieval of "ancient" video recordings - from the 1960s and 70s, for an NBC Olympics feature. Since the meetings was on film, these records are archived at some facility in New Jersey; once we obtain them, we will ingest and transfer into HD-ready for the NBC broadcast in February.

NBC Olympics Internship: Update V

It's all over! :(

The last few days of the internship went by so fast; covering the finals of wrestling and handball on Friday and Saturday were quite interesting. After not sleeping too well on Friday night, coming into 30 Rock Saturday morning having to watch wrestling was not what I was hoping for. Thankfully, the handball matches made up for the 3 hours of men's wrestling! I never thought handball (a mixture of basketball, soccer, and field hockey), would be such an interesting sport to watch.

On the last day of the internship and the Games, we continued logging events but also remembered the past few weeks with each other and how much of a great time we had!

Now... off to a semester in Los Angeles with Ithaca College.

NBC Olympics Internship: Update IV

Damn-- NBC Olympics is such a fantastic internship! With all the different people and backgrounds, even just within my department, it is so incredible to see the staff come together and put together such an incredible display of professional -- both behind the scenes and on air!

After a week of tennis, I ended up covering "futbol" (aka American soccer), some volleyball, and taekwando! Just as the previous week went, I was watching the events live and taking notes of worthy occurances/preparing them for the highlight reels.

I truly cannot believe that in a mere three days, this whole experience will be over! This last weekend, I plan to enjoy every second of it -- the internship AND the city that never sleeps!

NBC Olympics Internship: Update III

So a week as gone by since my last post and everything with my NBC Olympics internship has been so incredible.

For the first few days, I was scheduled for the 3am shift. At first, I was scared -- 'cause ya know, taking the NYC subway at 3am is kind of sketchy... thankfully, our supervisors informed us that NBC would provide a car service for these 3am shifts and I sighed in relief!!

During the first few 3am shifts, I was covering the daily live-aired tennis matches from Bravo (one of the networks NBC is airing Olympic events). After those first few 3am shifts, they moved me just to cover tennis and I have been logging tennis all of last week, thru the medal rounds (yesterday, Sunday). I got to see two crazy Olympic records (longest set in Olympic history AND longest match in Olympic history) and got to watch some great world-class tennis matches!!!

Now that tennis has ended, some new events for logging are coming my way!

NBC Olympics Internship: Update II

Since my last post on Tuesday (Aug 24), I have begun my daily responsibilities and learning nonstop from various peers and NBC staff.

As some already know, I am working with NBC Olympics as a Digital Production Services Logger -- watching the events live, taking notes, and prepping footage for online/on-air highlights. Although, I cannot post about specific events -- I can say that the knowledge and skills I am learning about from NBC directors, producers, supervisors, editors is so awesome! 

Whether it be simply watching events, shadowing producers, or helping editors cut highlights -- there has been so much great stuff that I have been able to learn.

P.S. yes -- this was posted at 4:14 am...because of the time difference and the need to watch events live // we are at 30 Rock already, logging footage!

NBC Olympics Internship: Update I

I made it... I have started my internship with NBC Olympics as an event logger! As a logger, along with 12 or so other interns, we ultimately prepare the event footage for highlights -- we watch the Games live, among all of us EVERY SINGLE EVENT, and take notes about highlight-worthy happenings.

Since Saturday 7/21 til now, we have been participating in orientation and got training on the various software/equipment we will be using. It is quite interesting to see the different platforms used in the corporate broadcasting, compared to college television.

Either way, I am excited to begin logging Olympic events tomorrow (football group stages) and the full Games starting Saturday.

New Blog w ALL Publications of my Media Work

This blog was created to host all of my individual work.

Starting in 2009 (transferred from my old sites), I began working with The Ithacan - producing, shooting, and editing numerous video articles. In Ithaca, I have also worked on ICTV programming: ranging from news, sports, and specialty programming.

Additionally, in the Summer of 2012, I worked in two post-production internships. One at America's Most Wanted; the other with NBC Olympics.

As more of my produced (and/or edited) clips become available, they will be posted here.