Intern Report: Week 3 (Sept. 15-18)
Everything at Goodspot has cranked into overdrive as we are getting the final go ahead from the Department of State for the Food Security Presentation. My job this week consisted of two main duties – lunch and stock footage. Not an hour was wasted, and many more overtime hours spent in putting this project together. I got to know the clerk at the café next door on a first name basis, as I was making lunch runs daily. My other job was to find stock footage. The State Department wanted the emotional impact of powerful images with powerful music. There was no time or money to freelance photographers, so the only other option was to look for already existing footage. I was given long lists everyday throughout the day of different things I needed to find footage for—“impoverished children”, “farmers”, “close-ups of different ethnicities,” etc. The tough part was, I could only use footage found on istockphoto.com. You will not believe how many fat, happy, white kids are on istock. The website is found wanting in anything diverse. I became the master in indirect searching and tricking search engines. Needless to say, I was timely in response to any footage request, and gave the editor a variety of choices. Intern: 1, Istock: 0.
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