internship, march

This week was a bit more tedious at my internship. The director of the organization needed some old footage to be digitized and edited, a little, so it could be further worked on. At first glance it seemed like this documentary was finished, but now that I think about it, I wonder if the filmmakers are going to go back and try to find the people that they once documented. I did over hear the director speculating about trying to get in contact with that family, again. This family lived in Macedonia approximately 10 years ago by a group of rebels. They became refugees; some of the refugees survived, some traveled and some died. This one particular family became refugees in a camp in an area in Kosovo. These families, of course, did not speak any english. My job was to first digitize all of the video that they had; there were 5 videos given to me and I had to digitize all of them; each video being about an hour long. After digitizing them, I had to keep a track of everything (visually) that happened. So, if there were a large group of people walking in line to a water well or if a kid was playing by himself and crying in a relatively deserted area, I had to track it. That task, itself took hours to do. After that I had another job to do. I had to locate the beginning and the end of whenever one of the foreign refugees would be interviewed. I then made markers and put those at the start and end points. With those marked points I edited out those specific sections and created a new file with only those sections in it. So, I put fade in and out effects on each sections, leaving 2 seconds of blank filler space at the beginning and end of each section and then digitized the whole video, so it could be sent off to a translator.