Monday, June 22, 2009

Internship- 3 main jobs

I have been at my internship for about a month now and I feel like I am really starting to get the hang of it. Basically, I am helping to develop and market different new projects that are in the works for the company. Until recently, the company has only done documentary films. But, they are beginning to look into real life television series for channels like The Sundance Channel or BBC or PBS although PBS has no money to give. There are three main projects that they have had me working on, all of which are actually really interesting.
The first, and the one I spend the most time on is about social entrepreneurship. They would like to create a show which would follow different young social entrepreneurs who have inventions or ideas to bring to the developing world. These seemingly small ideas and technology to impoverished countries and help to implement them so that they themselves can make a profit but more importantly to help the country with their major needs. I have been doing a lot of research to see what kinds of young social entrepreneurs are out there. One interesting woman who we have met with a few times now is named Anna Jaffe. She is the creator of Global Cycle Solutions which takes a simple bike and turns it into a corn sheller to help people do this daily task 20 times faster.
Another project we are working on would be based around Berklee College of Music which is right around the corner from here. The show would follow seniors who are aspiring musicians in their journeys to become professionals. This would not be your typical reality show though. We would follow students as they learn from a star studded faculty many of whom have won Grammys; we would watch them striving to make record deals, or just find gigs around the city; and we would, I think, just learn a lot about what inspires and challenges them. I like this project a lot and hope it goes through. However, some consultants who have come in to determine which pitches would make successful shows didn’t really seem to like this idea as much.
The third thing I am working on is about psychic archeology. This one is pretty strange and I will write more about it once I figure out what it is and why we are interested in it. Some of my colleges just got back from Toronto to show our film, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. I am very curious to hear about the trip and how the fim was received.

1 comment:

  1. I just watched the Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison trailer on YouTube, it looked awesome and very interesting and like the film is well made

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