The following is the caption timecode transcript. It’s for your convenience (Control F) and accessibility.
00:00:00:20 – 00:00:02:07
Hi, my name is Kyrie Wick.
00:00:02:07 – 00:00:06:18
I’m a junior at Emerson College, class of 2026.
00:00:06:29 – 00:00:09:26
I am a Visual Media Arts Production major
00:00:09:26 – 00:00:12:27
with a minor in Dance, and my internship
00:00:12:27 – 00:00:16:17
was at Mezz Entertainment. I was a Digital Media Intern.
00:00:22:26 – 00:00:24:25
I found my internship via LinkedIn
00:00:24:25 – 00:00:30:02
summer of 2023, when I was entering my sophomore year at Emerson.
00:00:30:27 – 00:00:35:15
I decided to take this internship as Mezz was looking for Digital Interns
00:00:35:15 – 00:00:39:17
who could specialize in video editing, photo editing, and graphics.
00:00:39:23 – 00:00:42:23
And I have many, many years.
00:00:43:15 – 00:00:48:05
Since elementary school, since 2015, working on both photos and video editing.
00:00:48:13 – 00:00:50:23
And I wanted to show them what I was capable of.
00:00:54:15 – 00:00:55:27
So my
00:00:55:27 – 00:01:00:07
I would’t say daily routine, but we had basically a, a weekly routine
00:01:00:13 – 00:01:04:18
where Mondays, we would have full Mezz team meetings
00:01:04:28 – 00:01:07:29
and then Thursdays we would have digital meetings.
00:01:08:05 – 00:01:12:23
Now at the full team meetings, we discuss
what other groups were talking about.
00:01:12:23 – 00:01:15:24
We’d watch usually have a documentary
we would have to discuss
00:01:16:16 – 00:01:19:23
based off of different entertainment
00:01:20:07 – 00:01:24:25
industry perspectives,
or we’d have a lecture of some sort.
00:01:24:27 – 00:01:28:27
And on the team meeting days on Thursdays,
we’d share our work.
00:01:29:02 – 00:01:32:03
So every Thursday or Friday,
depending on the week,
00:01:32:08 – 00:01:35:07
we would get an assignment based off of
00:01:35:07 – 00:01:38:00
what was due for the following week.
00:01:38:00 – 00:01:41:00
And that could be video
editing, graphics assets,
00:01:41:01 – 00:01:44:19
client news brand promos, etc.
00:01:44:19 – 00:01:47:20
anything that was affiliated
with Mezz entertainment.
00:01:48:18 – 00:01:51:09
So most of the times, for me,
being a film major,
00:01:51:09 – 00:01:56:16
I had the job for video editing,
but I was flexible.
00:01:56:16 – 00:01:58:27
I did basically everything,
00:01:58:27 – 00:02:02:23
and all of the assets
that the digital team made were then sent
00:02:02:23 – 00:02:09:03
to social media and shared on LinkedIn,
Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, etc.
00:02:09:03 – 00:02:13:14
depending on the criteria
that the social media team was looking for
00:02:13:22 – 00:02:15:26
and the size of the file.
00:02:19:17 – 00:02:20:29
My favorite part of the internship,
00:02:20:29 – 00:02:25:22
although it was project based
and we did have creative freedom
00:02:25:22 – 00:02:28:22
and everything that we did aside from,
00:02:28:22 – 00:02:31:09
certain clients or requests,
00:02:31:09 – 00:02:35:22
the overall all communication
and relationships that I made,
00:02:36:02 – 00:02:40:13
we although our meetings were on zoom,
we did communicate via slack
00:02:40:24 – 00:02:44:05
and all the interns
were from around the country,
00:02:44:18 – 00:02:47:27
sometimes even other countries,
and were able to communicate,
00:02:48:04 – 00:02:52:03
find shared interests and interests,
including musicians
00:02:52:05 – 00:02:54:20
and concerts and artists that we like.
00:02:54:25 – 00:02:59:13
as well as sharing with the other teams our digital asset
00:02:59:13 – 00:03:02:13
creations and especially communicate
with the social media team.
00:03:02:25 – 00:03:07:10
And just a lot of the collaboration
and the friendly environment.
00:03:07:19 – 00:03:09:22
And everyone was supportive of each other
00:03:09:22 – 00:03:14:12
My favorite project was probably one of the photos that I photoshopped.
00:03:14:22 – 00:03:20:01
And I also merged in with Canva and
it was really hard, but it was really fun.
00:03:20:01 – 00:03:23:07
I was able to experiment with tools
that I haven’t used before,
00:03:23:18 – 00:03:27:14
and I got a lot of love from the clients
00:03:27:14 – 00:03:30:19
that I made it for,
and especially the head
00:03:30:19 – 00:03:31:18
of a department.
00:03:35:16 – 00:03:38:16
Some essential skills,
abilities and knowledge.
00:03:38:16 – 00:03:42:22
Someone in my field should have some
understanding just to keep going.
00:03:42:22 – 00:03:44:01
Even if you fail.
00:03:44:01 – 00:03:45:22
If someone
00:03:45:22 – 00:03:49:08
is giving you a hard time
or being negative,
00:03:49:08 – 00:03:53:25
especially based off of, oh, you could have easily done this better,
00:03:53:25 – 00:03:56:09
or I could have done this
like prove them wrong.
00:03:56:09 – 00:03:58:20
And if you fall in fail, just get back up.
00:03:58:22 – 00:03:59:26
You’re going to find people out there.
00:03:59:26 – 00:04:03:08
They’re going to respect you and be
on the same page as you and trust you.
00:04:03:22 – 00:04:04:18
And basically
00:04:04:20 – 00:04:07:16
give their heart to you and ways,
00:04:07:16 – 00:04:10:26
and you’re just going to be able to find that with time.
00:04:10:26 – 00:04:14:24
You’re going to think, oh, I have friends
like my friends are my back support.
00:04:14:24 – 00:04:16:11
But that’s not always the case.
00:04:16:11 – 00:04:17:21
There’s going to be people in the industry
00:04:17:21 – 00:04:21:17
that are going to realize,
oh wow, this person is capable.
00:04:21:18 – 00:04:27:25
They may be quiet, but they have a big
creative mindset that gets them going.
00:04:27:25 – 00:04:30:24
And makes us think differently.
00:04:34:06 – 00:04:34:20
Something
00:04:34:20 – 00:04:37:22
I learned, or I wish I learned before
taking my internship,
00:04:38:00 – 00:04:41:08
is just this idea of pacing myself
and being able
00:04:41:08 – 00:04:44:08
to understand that
00:04:44:13 – 00:04:49:11
everything I do has a purpose,
has a meaning, and I’m not being
00:04:49:11 – 00:04:53:06
told to work on a project
just for it to not get published.
00:04:53:06 – 00:04:56:04
Again, there’s going to be people
that bring you down, tear you down.
00:04:56:04 – 00:04:58:18
But if you just keep going,
pushing through and showing
00:04:58:18 – 00:05:01:14
people what you’re capable of, you’re going to have better luck
00:05:01:14 – 00:05:03:12
in the industry as a whole.
00:05:03:12 – 00:05:05:09
In terms of my internship,
00:05:05:09 – 00:05:09:00
again, pacing myself, there are times
where I would do an assignment.
00:05:09:00 – 00:05:12:00
It would take me ten minutes
and a couple assignments would take me
00:05:12:00 – 00:05:15:15
like four hours, and the ones that took me
00:05:15:15 – 00:05:19:25
four hours ended up hating and the head of the company loved.
00:05:19:25 – 00:05:23:20
And the ones that took me again, the one that took me like 20 minutes
00:05:24:14 – 00:05:28:02
I ended up loving
and other people had feedback on.
00:05:28:02 – 00:05:31:02
But you’re going to have to take that
feedback,
00:05:31:16 – 00:05:34:28
and there’s going to be people
that understand
00:05:34:29 – 00:05:39:19
critical feedback
that is constructive,
00:05:40:02 – 00:05:44:17
and you’re going to be able to take those
and realize, oh, I didn’t think of that
00:05:44:17 – 00:05:47:22
project this way, or oh,
I didn’t think to make that edit
00:05:47:26 – 00:05:50:26
that certain way,
let me play around with it.
00:05:50:27 – 00:05:55:00
And once you get that idea in your mind
that, hey,
00:05:55:25 – 00:05:58:11
other people’s ideas are actually
00:05:58:11 – 00:06:01:11
beneficial and helpful,
00:06:01:12 – 00:06:05:01
then you can start building a trust
with people and they’ll bring
00:06:05:17 – 00:06:08:26
they’ll bring a better attitude,
bring a positive attitude, help
00:06:08:26 – 00:06:12:22
you out and build a trust, vice versa.
00:06:13:02 – 00:06:15:23
And it just makes life so much easier
00:06:15:23 – 00:06:20:05
and everyone’s
so much more helpful than you probably experienced.
00:06:20:07 – 00:06:20:21
You got to
00:06:20:21 – 00:06:23:22
to take a risk and meet new people
and not be quiet,
00:06:23:22 – 00:06:26:22
because once you get your voice out there
and you get your thoughts out there,
00:06:26:27 – 00:06:29:16
there are going to be people that want you on their team.
