Mary Helen Wood began a 16-week internship with PBS Books and Detroit Public Television through Duke’s “Keep Exploring” experiential learning program. She assisted in production work for live events and communication efforts with PBS affiliates and library partners across the country.
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This looks so awesome, Mary Helen! Since this was a remote internship, what did the enrichment funding cover?
It was a great experience! This internship was unpaid, so the enrichment funding compensated me for my time in a way Detroit Public Television was unable to do. It made it much easier to support myself through the summer.
This sounds so cool! It sounds like you were able to get a lot of multi-faceted knowledge from a singular internship.
This looks like it has been super fulfilling~ Before finding this internship, were you at all interested in public media and content creation? Also I read that you animated 2 reels — did you have to animate by hand or did you use one of the Adobe platforms you learned?
I was definitely interested in content creation. I’ve worked as the photo and podcast editor for the Chronicle during my time at Duke, and that multimedia production and social media experience was put to good use this summer. As for public media, I’ve been interested in radio for a long time but had not delved into television before, so this exposed me to a new field. I used Adobe After Effects for the animation! The lighting effects were helpful, but I had to go through the process of learning how to animate shapes and such, which was new to me!
It seems like this has been an awesome opportunity! What prior knowledge did you have going in to this internship that ended up being a real asset on the job?
A working knowledge of Photoshop and other Adobe platforms was extremely useful and allowed me to create more engaging newsletters and take the lead on videos that I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise. Writing and communication skills were critical. I had experience scripting podcasts and radio shows thanks to my time at the Chronicle and a public policy class I took, which was extremely useful. A good deal of my job was proofreading and editing communication efforts, so the writing skills that came with my history major came in handy as well.
This seems to have been an awesome opportunity! What prior knowledge or skills did you have going in to the internship that ended up being a real asset on the job?
This is such an interesting presentation Mary Helen! I’m excited to see what new opportunities emerge from distance learning. I think it’s well known that our education system needs revamping, and I hope we can take this as impetus to do so.
I was definitely interested in content creation. I’ve worked as the photo and podcast editor for the Chronicle during my time at Duke, and that multimedia production and social media experience was put to good use this summer. As for public media, I’ve been interested in radio for a long time but had not delved into television before, so this exposed me to a new field. I used Adobe After Effects for the animation! The lighting effects were helpful, but I had to go through the process of learning how to animate shapes and such, which was new to me!
This was a very interesting project to read about Mary Helen! In these changing times, it is very important for us to try and adapt to a virtual learning environment. How did you come about this program and what about it spoke to you in a way that translated to your studies at Duke?
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