Description:

Film+Digital Media Archiving Internship

We are searching for exceptionally motivated individuals to train researching footage requests, film and digital image archiving, film and video logging, off-line time code editing, database entry and other technical and related media skills. This is not a production position. This position is unpaid. College credit is possible and highly encouraged

What You Will Learn
• Digitizing, archiving and making accessible archival materials
• Cleaning, repairing and archiving 16mm and 35mm film elements
• How to maintain digital databases
• Principles of time code
• Logging and metadata procedures
• How to work with digital files
• Off-line editing
• Researching our analog and digital archive

This is a intensive hands-on internship. You will be trained and leave here with real world skills. Past interns have received scholarships to New York University’s Moving Image Preservation Program, furthered their studies at the L Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House, received grants from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and now have positions at Oddball Film+Video, the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lucasfilm, Witness, Canyon Cinema, the Stanford Archives of Recorded Sound, Current TV and the National Archives

Qualifications:

Requirements

• Tech and computer savvy
• Basic knowledge of film and video systems
• Basic understanding of migrating analog (tape) and digital files
• Background in archiving, history, library science or moving image studies
• Self directed and the ability to work independently
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Reliable and dependable
• Goal-oriented

***Minimum 6 month commitment of 3-5 full weekdays per week is required (other programs possible)

Paid Internship Info:

none

Hours:

9.30am-5pm

Length/Availability:

4-6 months, 3-5 days per week

Start Date:

May 1, 2013

Deadline:

April 15, 2013

Tags:

Film  Archive  Media  Research  Arts  Editing 

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