Describe one significant activity or project that you have completed or are working on currently.
As I said in a post before I am currently working in the post-production on a
series they've been working on since the summer of 2001 examining how
democracy functions, using immigration policy as a case study. They're
looking at the policy-making side of democracy, not the electoral
side.
My work in this post-production of the series is Transcribing. It means I listen to a cassette recorded from a videotape and I type whatever people says. The tapes I'm working on right now are from some recordings made in a radio station in Phoenix, Arizona. The radio station is called "Campesina de Corazon Mexicano" which is a Mexican radio station, where they have a show in which Alfredo Gutierrez and Maria Barquin discuss about politics and the making of the Prop 200, and they only speak in Spanish. And thats where my work comes in, I type whatever people says and who says it, all in Spanish.
I've been working on this since my first week, so I've type more in the last few weeks than I've ever done in my life. My mentor has told me that I will actually move on to do something also, but i still don't know when. The whole point is that I like it and everyday I learn something new.
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Nice internship u have.
Typing documentaries?!..
Hmm..sounds pretty tough to me.
Anyway, good luck out there Pab.
Very cool! Transcribing is grunt work, but it gives you an appreciation for the total process. And it is always cool to use new technology. -AS-
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