So many Opportunities

   So many opportunities have come my way since last week. I've been given the chance to produce a feature story for "In the loop", asked if I wanted to floor direct for WYCC's Mystery Marathon, given contact information for the United Center's in-house media team, and worked with the producer of the Chicago/ Mid-west Emmy's. It has been tough to juggle all of these things, with school and work being they way they are. I work at night five times out of the week, intern Monday through Friday starting at 9 in the morning, and I also have two online classes. Sometimes I wonder what I got myself into. I barely get sleep now, but my grandmother told me that it's not the time to get comfortable, and she's right. I'm already half way through my intern hours, and my school work hasn't dropped off either.

   As far as the opportunities at the internship, I've learned how to multitask them. I give myself a moderate amount of time to at least start on each project. Those that are more time sensitive I push towards the front. I give myself deadlines before the producer's deadlines. The feature story that I get to produce I'm thinking about going after a tap dance instructor that I worked with before. The only thing is that he hasn't responded to my messages yet, and I need to get something in the can, or bottle in my case. I've also been working on finding tidbits for the Mystery Marathon shows that are airing in November. The work that I did for Buddy Guy's Legends is really helping Ricardo, the Senior Producer for the show. Though I'm just transcribing, I know that it's benefitting.
   This week has been tough, but the more opportunities that I'm being given, the more I can see my work ethic goes appreciated.

The Experience of interning

Another week down for me, and I have to say that it could've have gone any better. Like usual I worked on ITL (In The Loop). This week's show was on cancer survivors. I did a lot of transcribing and logging for this show. I was also given the chance to propose a topic for a upcoming show. What the producers wanted was a topic that was a twist on a older show that they did. I was shown how they wanted it structured and formatted.  I also worked on a Malik Yoba interview that involved Robin Robinson. She interviewed Yoba for a promotional show on his new series called Empire.

This week I just tried to work as hard as anyone else. I wanted  to really show them that I'm able to multitask, and be effective at all times. I can improve on making myself more available. I think that there's a certain few people that I always give my assistance to, and I should be asking everyone in my opinion. This week we have call backs for the upcoming season of The Professors.