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Hi.

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My name is Izzy Olgaard.

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Thank you for coming.

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I'm a senior Film Studies
and Studio Art double major,

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and today I will be
presenting on my internship

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that I had this summer.

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I was a lighting
production intern

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for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!,
which is based in Brooklyn.

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BRIC, the company, is
a media arts company,

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and they provide different
venues for people

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to express their art
throughout the neighborhood.

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Celebrate was based
in Prospect Park,

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and we had 25 different shows.

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I worked 10 weeks.

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I averaged about
50 hours per week--

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sometimes longer,
sometimes much shorter.

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It just depended on the week--

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the shows.

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So we had Lila Downs, which
was an amazing performer,

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and then Sylvan Esso was
one of our benefit concerts.

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We had six benefit
concerts that we

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had to pay for the rest of
the free concerts that we had.

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And then this was a scrim,
which is what they have behind--

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something like this, and it
was from another performance

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from The Shins.

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My housing-- I lived
in NYU housing, which

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was really convenient because
their application is really

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easy to go through,
and since I got

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my internship at
the last minute,

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it was a very easy process.

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And I lived on
Broadway and Tenth,

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so I had this gorgeous
view of this church, which

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I wanted to go to, but
I never ended up going.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I also was on their eight meal
plan, which they actually make

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you do, which is kind of odd.

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It was helpful, but I also--

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it was hard for me to
use all the meals because

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of my strange festival hours.

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I also had a 35-minute
commute to work every day,

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but they did provide
me with a Metro card

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through the internship.

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It was very nice.

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So my responsibilities
were to help with cleanup

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from the night before.

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We usually had to sweep
and mop the stage.

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And then I also helped sometimes
when it would rain a lot

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and we would have flooding
or different water

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technical difficulties.

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So sometimes, the roof
would kind of collect water,

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and so I would go up
and push the water--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--from the top,
which was really fun.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I also helped with
loading, which

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meant loading in the equipment
from different bands.

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Sometimes there would
be a lot of equipment,

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and sometimes there
would be very little.

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One of my coworkers
told me last year

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that they had The
Lumineers come,

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and they had two 18-wheelers
come, packed full of stuff,

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so it really depends on the
band and how much equipment they

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want to have.

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I also help with focus, which
means going up into the truss--

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and this is me up there--

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and then my boss is down
here, directing over comm,

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and he would tell me where to
point the lights to light up

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the band for that evening.

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I also operated follow spot,
which meant the follow spot--

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during the shows, I would
follow the artist around.

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I would be up in
here, because we

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had three different
follow spots,

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and so it would just
depend on the night.

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Sometimes it would
be very boring

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and we'd have like one
violinist-- like go in.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But then other
times-- like Chronixx

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came, and he was very active
and ran around the stage

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everywhere and
went into the pit,

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and so I had to follow
him wherever he went,

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which was really exciting.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I also would help with
load-in afterwards, which

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meant taking down everything
that we had set up that day

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and loading it out.

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So this took either
a couple hours

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or maybe like 20 minutes--

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it all depended.

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We had a 10:30
curfew, which meant

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you could not have any
more sound on the stage

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after 10:30 PM.

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So that means that you're
finishing the show early,

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but that doesn't mean you
finish your shift early.

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Sometimes I would get
home at like 2:00 or 3:00

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in the morning.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I think my roommates
probably though I was

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doing something weird, but--

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[LAUGHTER]

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So this is just an
example of what I did.

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So we set this up, so
this is like in the light.

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These are on metal
frames, and then

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the lights are on
the metal frames,

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and so I helped
build these things.

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This was for Sylvan Esso.

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The sound is kind
of weird, but it's

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more about the lighting,
which is what I did.

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[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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So this would be going on during
the show, and we would have--

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[END PLAYBACK]

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--a person at front of
house, which is sitting

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like here in the crowd, and they
would be controlling the lights

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during the show.

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So this is what I helped make.

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And then, let's see.

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Oh, yeah.

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So this is my group that
I worked with this summer.

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We had one day where we just
decided to have a photo shoot,

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and after a show we
just set up lights

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to make it look, you know,
cinematic and theatrical,

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and we just had a
silly photo shoot.

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And so I learned in life
that technical production

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is very similar in all
different industries.

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So what I want to do mainly
is work in the film industry

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after I graduate, and so
working in the performing arts

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is actually very similar.

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So I thought maybe
that I wouldn't

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learn as much as I
wanted to for what

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I wanted to do after I
graduate, but I actually

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learned a lot of
very minimal things,

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but they were all very helpful.

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I also learned that
most of the people

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that I worked with
work freelance,

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so they work from job to job.

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They have Celebrate
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we called it "summer camp,"
almost, where every summer, we

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would just come back and have
fun working the festival,

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but they also find jobs
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And they say that it's pretty
easy to find jobs in New York.

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I also learned that
if you work hard,

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even if you don't know
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[LAUGHTER]

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--in the job, you still can
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So I really--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--coming to this, I had
no idea what I was doing,

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and I fooled a lot of people
by just going with the flow,

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learning fast and on my feet,
because the performing arts

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industry is very fast-paced,
and they want everything done

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at a certain time very quickly.

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And then this is
just a cute video

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from one of the last shows.

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[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

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These kids were
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and they had these
humongous drums,

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and they were
really, really cute.

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Aww.

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[LAUGHTER]

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They were really cute.

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[END PLAYBACK]

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So that's it.

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[APPLAUSE]

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