Description:

We are searching for exceptionally motivated individuals to assist in day-to-day operations including researching footage requests, film and digital image archiving, film and video logging, non-linear time code editing, database entry and other technical and organizational duties. This is not a production position. This position is unpaid. College credit is possible.

Qualifications:

• 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

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
• non-linear editing
• Researching our analog and digital archive¬

Building Your Future
This is a intensive hands-on internship and you will 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.

Paid Internship Info:

non paid

Hours:

9:30-5PM 3-5 weekdays

Length/Availability:

six months

Start Date:

October 15, 2011

End Date:

Ongoing,

Deadline:

Ongoing

Tags:

media    digital    film    library    archiving    databse    editing    research 

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