My Internship Has Been Completed

After 13 consecutive weeks of hard work and efforts, my internship at Eye On The Bay has been completed on Tuesday. Honestly to say I had a lot of feelings on that day, on one hand I really feel proud of myself that I can complete  all my work nicely, and I also proud of that I came to work all the required days during that 13 weeks; on the other hand, I really didn't want to leave the Eye On The Bay office, and I really want to work there continuously. Why? During that 13 weeks, I was working in their office and helping the producers, everyone in the EOTB office are really awesome. A lot of feelings…

On my last day of my internship at EOTB, I arrived to the station around 10am as usual, then I began my last day of work. First, I checked with the Feature Producer Henry Kaiser (he is such a great producer, and I remember that my first day was also to help Henry.) to see if there was anything that I could help him, he asked me to help him on transferring the video from a BETA-tape into the computer. This was my first time, and was my only chance to learn how to capture video from a tape to the computer. After finishing that work, I went back to Henry's cubicle and he asked me if I could help him to log his “Unusual Jobs — Window Washers”, then I began to help him on that. What else did I do that day? Besides those daily duties like checking emails, checking voice message and deliver mail, I also helped James Reid, the Executive Producer to find the tapes he asked for, later James asked me to watch those tape and see if there was something he wanted. I also helped another producer Amanda to ingest her video footage into CAT-DV.

The time was almost 5pm, and it's the time for me to say goodbye, earlier that afternoon I asked Cassandra if I could stay for the next semester with only working one day a week instead of two, (because I have classes during the day next semester, I can't spend two full days to work like this semester.) but Cassandra said the rule was set by the station, she couldn't do anything of it or to change the rule, I have to say goodbye to them. When I printed out my final intern follow-up report and put it into the interns binder, I was about to leave, but I was asked by Liam Mayclem, the host and producer of Eye On The Bay to help him pickup his package downstairs, this was my final duty for EOTB, a few minutes after 5pm on December 14, I walked out from the EOTB office and the KPIX station, when I walked out from the EOTB office, I talked to producer Chris Bollini, he asked me about my plans next semester, he also asked me if I would come back next semester, I told him that I really wanted to come back, but my class schedule next semester prevents me to do so. Finally, a warm holiday greeting and a goodbye between Chris and me ended my last day at EOTB.

It was raining when I stepped out from the station, that made me feel a little bit sad about my leave. Another thing that I felt sad was I started my internship with other interns and a new intern, but I ended my internship alone. Honeybee, the intern who started her job as I started, has left the office on Monday. We didn't have a lot of time to work together, especially after mid November.

I have got so many good memories working in the EOTB office, but the most important thing is that I learned a lot of things. I also learned many essential skills there, and I should have something good to put into my résumé and my reel.

More hard work is still on the way…