Personal Narrative: Football Internship

For the month of my internship it was like going down memory lane, except more of in a coaches position. It's a day by day process from Monday to Friday that I go in for the internship. Everyday I wake up at 5AM and I arrive before the players get to the weightroom before weightlifting. The first day that I started was to make sure all of the cameras were charged up before I began anything. The next thing I do is check to see what workouts that are being done today so that I can know what to record and what not to record. The reason for that is to show off different workouts so I can show how the team have developed over time from the beginning to the end. Once weightlifting and winter conditioning is completed for football, my job is to create a video of Walsh Universities football teams workouts and use it as a time-lapse to show them at the beginning of spring workouts until the end. The recording is like a building process for them. It's showing all of their accomplishments and their work effort that they are doing to prepare for the upcoming spring ball. As I do that, I'm also put into a coaches perspective with the players. Since I am a past player, I understand and know what they are going through to prepare for spring football. As I record them doing their workouts, I also communicate with them so that they can understand what they are working for and different ways they can improve. I'm also recording some mistakes and mishaps that I
How this media internship applies to that is the process of developing a image for the team which is the same way that video advertisement is done. Both video advertisement and my recordings have an objective, and that's to leave an image in someone's mind of what they are watching. Once the recording process is done, then I will take my editing skills to the video and make it into a video highlight for the team to show of the hard work that they