2008
SILVERDOCS
January – June 2008
SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival is a week long documentary film festival held in June or July every year in Silver Spring, MD. Not only does it bring together dozens of unique and colorful films but also serves a place for artists and documentary filmmakers to come together and showcase the power of documentaries.
Here at my very first internship I served as a programming intern for the festival and helped in a large variety of roles which included:
●Managing information on 80 submissions to festival via File Maker Pro and Withoutabox Databases.
●Organizing and assembling 860 juror reviews on submitted entries.
●Editing director and background information to blurbs for Silverdoc’s Festival program book.
●Promoting festival over 3 months by developing & maintaining working relationships with outside published and organizing websites.
●Creating and managing two public Google calendars for film festival and conference schedule.
Here’s a link to the AFI Silver Theater’s Website : http://www.afi.com/silver/new/default.aspx
NAHB Production Group Inc.
September 2008 – May 2009,
NAHB Production Group Inc, is a division of the National Association of Home Builders that not only makes in house videos for NAHB but also produces programming for such HGTV and The Learning Channel (TLC). Two of their more well known shows, that I helped work on were Indoors/Out and Rock Solid both of which are home improvement type shows.
In this internship, which was one of my longest, I was given lots of great hands on experience with the world of television production. My main position here was as a production assistant intern where I helped mostly with post production duties which included
●Transcribing, dubbing and logging for “Indoors/Out” and “Rock Solid”, weekly programs produced by NAHB Production Group for the DIY Network.
●Creating music queue sheets for episodes.
●Managing and gathering personal release forms for show participants.
●Creating DVD copies of finished episodes to send to sponsors.
●Logging over a dozen tapes for “Detroit Undercover”, a pilot produced by NAHB Production Group for the A&E Network
●Serving as on set production assistant for episode of “Indoors/Out”
Link to NAHB Production Group Inc: http://www.nahbprods.com/
Matthew L. Harmelin 