Third Week @ BMP Audio (1.10 - 7.10)

I have been asked to do a couple different manual tasks this week which have helped me experience different parts of an office lifestyle. I was asked to package a box of CDs that are given to a different company, just to say thanks for there hard work, the CDs we give to them are doubles and we already have a copy of so we are not losing out and helping out the other company at the same time. I was then asked to mail this box, I walked to the post office a couple blocks away and mailed it. Mailing boxes in the US is different from the UK so this was a new experience to me which will be helpful in the future. On Tuesday my supervisor Erik wasn’t in so I couldn’t do much production work so I was given another manual job by the manager and that was to file cheques and stamp the envelopes, while doing this I listen to the radio program that BMP Audio produce, this gave me an insight to what the program is like as well as the style and editing. 

The main task I was given this week was to edit the Dr. John acts for show 12/43. This was the task that I have most enjoyed since being at the internship. Talking to Erik, he said that this is one of the most important roles of the entire production and he let me have a go this week. I started with the raw interview of an artist called Dr. John, who tends to go off topic and babble on about different stories. I was asked to take the audio material and cut it down to the basic script, this took some time as I had to separate the material mid sentence. I then had to cut this editing material even more as the program is only an hour including the interview, music tracks and announcements by the speaker and DJ. It is a difficult when having to cut down the audio as there might be a specific time limit for the act so Erik gave me advice, if there a two sentences to pick to cut away and one is informational and one is humorous, pick the funny one to keep. The aim of the interview is to make the interviewee look good and likable, if a listener wanted to find more information on the interviewee they can look online on their wikipedia page and other places. I had a lot of fun editing the acts into smaller pieces that could be used in the final program. 

I worked my hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday which added up to 13 hours. I arrived 30 minutes on Wednesday as I knew that I would be editing the Dr. John interview but did not count as my contracted hours.

Total: 41 hours