Breaking News - Bus Fire Outside Media Center Offices

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A bus carrying Japanese tourists catches fire on San Antonio Road just off Highway 101, yards away from the offices of the Media Center

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NEVER BREAK YOUR FINGER WHEN YOUR A TECH INTERN, it makes life hard. Typing becomes a chore and life slows down. On brighter news professional pages are up done by yours truly :). They are temperamental but wont be up for long until a professional site is done.
Tchuss for now

Second Post by the Web Intern

A second post, after editing videos(whose links i shall find and post) and using dreamweaver to create an FAQ page and to edit some pages, i will be getting a serious project soon. The nature is unknown and the suspense is intense (for me at least) but i dont have long to wait.
:P

Video links will be updated into this post soon...

Human Centipede II, coming soon to a theater near you.

The video below this comment represents my summer in a nutshell. Good friends, good times, good memories. On one of our last few days together, the interns decided to have a sleepover in the studio in order to watch the movie Human Centipede. To fill you in, I watched that movie at the beginning of summer and made references to it constantly, to the point where everyone else wanted to watch it out of sheer curiosity. Except for Wes Rapaport, who, as you all know, is a huge dweeb.
I was disappointed to discover that Human Centipede was only available on Comcast; it has yet to come out on DVD. So we played Pictionary and Wii. We also held a three-hour Apples-to-Apples marathon. (Helen Keller is such a gem, she works for every adjective.) At 3 a.m., we finally decided to watch a movie. Our options were limited, so we went with "Stay Alive." We were on the look-out for Frankie Muniz the whole time. Most people fell asleep instantly. So I made a human centipede out of them. It was all I could do in a matter of crisis.
This video is the Blair Witch Project of the Media Center. It was a great ending to a great summer. Becca, you will be greatly missed. Good luck with your future endeavors and make sure to visit! I would also like to thank the Media Center Interns for another amazing summer. Make sure to stay tuned for Human Centipede, the sequel. It's scheduled to come out in 2011.

LOCAL FOCUS: Summer intern sleepover!

The new intern, who writes unimaginative blogs or just needs some practice

Hi, my name is Mark, i am the new web intern. I decided to be a web intern so i could learn more about technology, in particular the internet.

My first day was on a monday, and despite the day i thought it was a great start. It started out by me learning what i would do and i got a the proto-checklist, then i readjusted video embed sizes (Blip get user friendly or else google and youtube shall win)for a while, expect more detailed and longer posts

PS the magic numbers are width=426 height=340

The world-wide Media Center

Vivid news, intense documentaries, discussions about recent events or fiction videos exposing an individual view on a relevant concern: The Midpen Media Center keeps all of you guys up with everything that recently matters in Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Stanford. A television station that is closely connected to its community members as opposed to the usual rather unconcerned and passive TV consumption. Here every one of you can even become a producer yourself in the name of the Bay Area. The MC is a true local facility, one could say.

THEN WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING HERE ?!

I am the Media Center's latest intern ... German intern. From the other side of the world. Time shift: 9 hours ahead. My name is Sarah-Marie (actually Sarah-Maria but as there are far too many syllables, I abolished the a), I am 23 years old and study at the Frankfurt Goethe-University. Even though this here is not in the least my community, I am glowingly delighted about every blink of my eyes that I can spend at the Midpen MC. For sure it is due to the huge variety of things I get to learn. As a student of 'Theater-, Film- and Media Studies' and 'History of Art' (and 'Economics', by the way; a lot, I know, sometimes I think it's even too much of a lot) moving pictures are a engaging and esteemed field to me, yet in a merely theoretical and philosophical way. So my hands have been tickling for some time to get onto something, on a physical project so to speak. But there is far more to my amazement concerning the life as an intern.

When I accidentally got the opportunity to be accommodated by some people in Palo Alto, foreigners at that time (their openness still leaves me stunned yet feeling like home), I began searching for some volunteer opportunities in the Bay Area. Googling I came across the MC website that instantly raised my curiosity. Still, I never would have dared hoping to learn such ambitious techniques and achieving such skilled training without bringing any foreknowledge with me. So although video production turns out to be a mainly digital process (in relation to my prior used 'physical' image), this is exactly what I wanted. I had planned on doing a 20 to 25 hours/week internship but have ended up staying all day at the MC during the last three weeks, mainly spending time with my precious Final Cut Pro (Plug! ... ? no, love.). And when I, beyond that, could shoot the footage myself (in HD!), a rather marvelous feeling emerges. What one can conjure with moving images and sound! I supremely appreciate being able to follow just these personal interests and urges, while steadily receiving support - not only by Becca (!!) but by all the other members, volunteers and employees that provide their time and thoughts, and what is more their open-minded interest in letting me take part in their MC life. And here we have the other fact I am so lucky about:

Back in Germany one of my biggest worries was to remain a tourist in the Californian Bay Area, in this faraway place that I however was so eager to get to know. Now I can honestly state that I don't find myself in a touristy spot at all. Besides the just mentioned steady support this is due to some people I have never even met face-to-face: the MC's youth. One of the first things I intensely encountered were the works of former MC interns and members of the YAC when editing their 2010 Youth Highlight Reel. It is quite a bond to be formed in the editing process towards the respective footage. Their documentaries, shows, visual essays and fictions offered me versatile and sensitive insights into the Bay Area as well as a slight idea of the young videographers' mindsets and thoughts. Some touched me personally or left me stunned of the work's visional beauty.

To be honest, I envy all you volunteers for the opportunity to stay involved in this fun work. But you are a great lot and besides feeling deeply grateful I am just happy that this medium is so vivid that thanks to the internet I will be able to keep in touch and anticipate in your pictures and your minds, even 5500 Miles across the ocean.

Tatatataaaa: The first German/Bay Area Production!

If you are interested in my very own first work apart from the Highlight Reel, watch this. I'd like to remark that I am still concerned with aesthetics in the main, perhaps because of the 'early experience and try-out'-state I am in, perhaps because of my personal art-theoretical background and interest. So guys don't expect too much content. But ... goodness knows, you might find some.

"Long Shoot"

Here I just tried something with Garage Band, but it's not at all fully worked out. I guess I find the impression and expression of the film better in silence. You might try both.

"First Shots"

Concerning audio, I worked with the background noises here.