My Internship ExperienceCita480

Internship In Information Technology Spring 2011

by: Adama Bagayoko

Internship Site

• 34 Cornell Drive SUNY Canton Public Relations department second floor FOB

Goals and Objectives

• Start my own website to promote my services.• Learn to work in a group to get things done in

a timely manner.• Further improve my communication skills.• Help further develop the schools website.• Learn different software in order to edit video.

First Thoughts

• At the start of the internship I really didn’t know what to expect. My main duties during the internship were to film and edit video for the schools YouTube page and later embed the videos throughout the semester on SUNY Canton’s Website.

• I also took initiative to start working on a website for myself.

Work Enviourment

• The work Enviourment that I had the pleasure of working in was nice clean and quit. Whenever I needed help it was readily available.

• On a daily basis I made sure to be at work in a timely manner prepared and well dressed.

Software used during internship

• Final Cut Express• I movie• Garage band• Dream weaver

Final Cut Express

• Final Cut Express is a video editing program that allows users to play with the options of editing videos to there liking.

• Final Cut Express provides an open format Timeline that accommodates DV (both NTSC and PAL) and HD footage simultaneously and in real time. Just drop video into the Timeline and edit away.

Final Cut Express

Final Cut Express

Below is a screen shot of the Time Line in final cut where video clips can be dragged dropped and edited no matter what format its in.

Final Cut Express

• On the right of the screen shot is the canvas where edits of video clips can be viewed.

• On the left of the screen shot is the viewer where video clips can be clipped with in and out points.

iMovie

• With iMovie, putting together a great movie is as quick as drag and drop. When you want to add professional polish to your project you just simply export to Final Cut Express 4 and edit like a pro. This is done by going to the file tab then exporting in quick time format which has the (.mov) extension

iMovie

Audio Editing in iMovie

• iMovie shows you detailed audio waveforms for all your clips. They’re color coded, so you can see where the audio is overpowering. To adjust the audio levels of a clip or part of a clip, just drag the volume slider. To shorten or extend fades, drag the fade edges. As you make changes, waveforms update immediately so you always see what you hear. And the new single-row view shows you your entire movie project in one horizontal row, so it’s easier to preview and edit your soundtrack.

Audio Editing in iMovie

Garage Band

• In garage band I had the opportunity to develop my own music tracks for the videos I made.

• Garage band has a Vass amount of sounds and music strings that can be lined up to create an audio track.

• After creating an audio track you can export the file in mp3 format so that it can be implemented in final cut express.

• Garage Band allows you to change the tempo of the track the in and out of the track and the length as well as the transitions between sounds.

Garage Band

Using Dreamweaver• I created a webpage on the schools website under the home tab

called public relations with the following tag<div align="left"> <p class="style4"><a

href="http://www.canton.edu">Home</a> > Public Relations</p>• Using dream weaver, I had the option and control of embedding

my video to the one of the web pages I added to SUNY Canton’s website under the home tab called public relations.

• I started the embed process by using a paragraph tag (<p> </p>). In between the opening and close of the tab I pasted the embed for one of my videos located on the schools website then repeated the steps until all the videos were uploaded.

• I then resized the videos to fit the page

Dreamweaver

Embed code Screen shot

Screenshot Of Embed Code Displayed

My Website

• Throughout the semester I was thinking of starting a website and actually had the chance to host a free website. On my website I embedded the various videos I have work on throughout the semester for SUNY Canton Below is a link to my site.

• www.wix.com/abutta492/IT

My Website

Lessons Learned

• Throughout the semester I've learned to be able to take constructive criticism and work hard to improve in the areas that I need improvement in.

• This semester was very much a learning experience that I will never forget. It helped me develop my writing skill in the area of writing emails.

• This semester I have also learned to be able to work with other's to get tasks and assignments completed. I found that two people might disagree on certain things but there's always a common ground.

• I have also learned that a person is only as good as his last assignment.

• I would definitely recommend this internship site to future interns. The staff there has been nothing but accepting and helpful throughout the semester.