Hello Again!
I wrote all these months ago. But have been off the blog path for a time. So introducing the "Retroactive Posts" for my time as an intern for Goodspot. Foreshadow: tragic end is inevitable.
Intern Report: Week 2 (Sept. 8-11)
More clerical work, and me getting used to the phones. However, there are times that I find myself doing nothing at the front desk. So, after a few days, I brave one of the bays where Mark, the junior editor, is working and ask if I can just hang out and shadow him.
I watch him work, and ask him some bland questions. After awhile, I’m helping him lay down tapes and work the tape deck. These mechanical duties alone are so much more interesting than working the front desk. I came to LA to be an editor, not a receptionist.
Later on in the week, Mark asks me to reorganize their tapes by client. That takes me 2-3 days. Picture in your head a naïve, bewildered intern sitting in a room surrounded by stacks and stacks of tapes. They had a lot of tapes. Most of the tapes were just kept in cardboard banker’s boxes. Some others kept on shelves and in their vault. I begin secret plans in my head on how I could improve tape storage. I conquer the tapes. I make organized stacks by client. And give them to Mark bit by bit as he backs them up and makes master reels for them. Intern: 1, Tapes: 0.
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