Another Week

This week I finished the script and changed some of the dialoge to sound more natural, because like i said before the dialoge was very very scripted sounding, and some what racist. (old white guy telling young black girl how to do her OWN JOB!) This must be the longest thing I have every typed

No work this week

This week I only revised the script. I made the script sound more natural, Because its very very scripted and is extremely boring to watch. It turns out the the script that i typed was 4,000 words and it was 14 pages long. WOW! this must be the logest thing i have ever typed. I will continue to make it better.

Fun Day

Today I worked 8 hours.

Sujata came and visited me and meet my mentor. I showed her what i was working on and what my WLE office looked like. Then after sujata left I went to alcatraz and that was very very fun. When i was there i saw Naci pelosi. Then i took some pictures and i had a fun day. Oh before all that i got my transcript finished.

Sujata post

What is the video about?

- Teaching park rangers how to be good interpreters

When was the video made? How long is it? What exactly makes it not so good? Can you give specific examples?

- The video was made in 2001(?). What makes it not so go is that it has super low production value and some of the camera angles are stupid. And thats not even mentioning how the old white guy who is teaching the young black girl (how to do HER OWN JOB!) turns out to be a ghost at the end.

What are the next steps after transcribing

- find shooting locations (aka: free trip to alcatraz) and make a shot list.


is it possible for you to post the picture you drew (like you posted the hat?)

- Dunno

what were some of the things about the history of the presidio that you didn't know before or that was interesting to you?

- Well, for me at least I never knew that crissy feild was like an actually air field with a tarmac runway. How it looks now is way way different from what it looked like in the 1970's. Oh and the presidio is/or can be connected with every major american war.

Week Three - 3/2/08

I worked on Saturday (3/2/08) from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Total Hours Worked: 24 Hours

The politics of my office work environment is very trivial. Ranger Will is my mentors boss and he kinds of runs the office that I am in, but I'm not exactly sure how the hierarchy is structured. The superintendent of the park is everyones boss and again I'm not sure how far down the latter my mentor and Ranger Will are. As decision making goes that is usually up the Ranger because they're working on their own projects, but what they do with the projects, lets say for example a brochure, is up to the superintendent weather or not the brochure gets printed or not.

Today my mentor changed my project again to something that I am very excited about doing. My old project was going to be a brochure but now my mentor wants me to remake a video. So today I started transcribing the video so we can edit the dialoge to be more relavent to our park and because the dialog is really bad and unnatural sounding. That is just one of the many things that is wrong with the video, but i digress. I first watched the video a few times and took notes on it - what i like and what i didn't like. Then I ate lunch and went for a walk around Crissy field and up to fort point. It was very windy and there were a lot of sailboats, windsurfers and kite boarders out on the water and up at fort point there were a good number of surfers. So i watch all of these things for a wile and then i walked back. And continued to work on the transcription of the video.

Next week my mentor told me that if i get the transcription done by noon he'll take me out to alcatraz, so I'm really looking forward to that.

Week Two - 2/23/08

I worked on Saturday (2/23/08) from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Total Hours Worked: 16 Hours

This week I drew a picture for a children's brochure about the old bathhouse that was near the cliff house. I really liked how my picture turned out and my mentor was very impressed. Then I read about the presidio and all the history that around it, so that was informative to say the least. It was raining and stormy as well so I didn't get to go for a walk, maybe next week i'll be able to go for one.

Week One - 2/9/08

I worked on Saturday (2/9/08) from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Total Hours Worked: 8 Hours

Well today was my first day at the presidio. I had lots of fun learning about the presidio and all its history. Like i never knew that on crissy field had an actually tarmac runway and was like an actually air port. All day me and the other intern, drew, walked around crissy field and he told me all about the different buildings. It was a VERY nice day that day so it was nice and there were alot of other people out that day. After our walk around presidio he told me about this presentation on the 1915's world fair that was going on in the officers club. So went and watched that and I learned a lot about how the worlds fair was advertised to the public in the 1900's. I would really like to do some more research about the 1915 world fair because this presentation somehow sparked my mind and i need to learn more about it.

Then they gave me this cool hat (above) and I talked with the other intern and my mentor about the project I'm going to be working on. Which got changed from doing a project about global warming to working on brochures on different things around the presidio. So far i'm happy with my internship