WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.800 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:01.300 align:middle line:90% Hi. 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:02.500 align:middle line:90% My name is Izzy Olgaard. 00:00:02.500 --> 00:00:05.450 align:middle line:90% Thank you for coming. 00:00:05.450 --> 00:00:08.800 align:middle line:84% I'm a senior Film Studies and Studio Art double major, 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:11.197 align:middle line:84% and today I will be presenting on my internship 00:00:11.197 --> 00:00:13.105 align:middle line:90% that I had this summer. 00:00:13.105 --> 00:00:15.970 align:middle line:90% 00:00:15.970 --> 00:00:18.040 align:middle line:84% I was a lighting production intern 00:00:18.040 --> 00:00:21.465 align:middle line:84% for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, which is based in Brooklyn. 00:00:21.465 --> 00:00:24.080 align:middle line:90% 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:28.690 align:middle line:84% BRIC, the company, is a media arts company, 00:00:28.690 --> 00:00:33.340 align:middle line:84% and they provide different venues for people 00:00:33.340 --> 00:00:38.740 align:middle line:84% to express their art throughout the neighborhood. 00:00:38.740 --> 00:00:41.980 align:middle line:84% Celebrate was based in Prospect Park, 00:00:41.980 --> 00:00:46.540 align:middle line:90% and we had 25 different shows. 00:00:46.540 --> 00:00:47.740 align:middle line:90% I worked 10 weeks. 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:51.320 align:middle line:84% I averaged about 50 hours per week-- 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.130 align:middle line:84% sometimes longer, sometimes much shorter. 00:00:54.130 --> 00:00:56.820 align:middle line:90% It just depended on the week-- 00:00:56.820 --> 00:00:57.700 align:middle line:90% the shows. 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:01.510 align:middle line:84% So we had Lila Downs, which was an amazing performer, 00:01:01.510 --> 00:01:06.310 align:middle line:84% and then Sylvan Esso was one of our benefit concerts. 00:01:06.310 --> 00:01:09.190 align:middle line:84% We had six benefit concerts that we 00:01:09.190 --> 00:01:13.870 align:middle line:84% had to pay for the rest of the free concerts that we had. 00:01:13.870 --> 00:01:19.130 align:middle line:84% And then this was a scrim, which is what they have behind-- 00:01:19.130 --> 00:01:24.100 align:middle line:84% something like this, and it was from another performance 00:01:24.100 --> 00:01:26.890 align:middle line:90% from The Shins. 00:01:26.890 --> 00:01:31.080 align:middle line:84% My housing-- I lived in NYU housing, which 00:01:31.080 --> 00:01:35.010 align:middle line:84% was really convenient because their application is really 00:01:35.010 --> 00:01:37.730 align:middle line:84% easy to go through, and since I got 00:01:37.730 --> 00:01:42.186 align:middle line:84% my internship at the last minute, 00:01:42.186 --> 00:01:44.436 align:middle line:90% it was a very easy process. 00:01:44.436 --> 00:01:46.950 align:middle line:84% And I lived on Broadway and Tenth, 00:01:46.950 --> 00:01:51.300 align:middle line:84% so I had this gorgeous view of this church, which 00:01:51.300 --> 00:01:54.680 align:middle line:84% I wanted to go to, but I never ended up going. 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:55.580 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:55.580 --> 00:01:57.600 align:middle line:90% 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:02.990 align:middle line:84% I also was on their eight meal plan, which they actually make 00:02:02.990 --> 00:02:05.820 align:middle line:90% you do, which is kind of odd. 00:02:05.820 --> 00:02:08.790 align:middle line:90% It was helpful, but I also-- 00:02:08.790 --> 00:02:12.050 align:middle line:84% it was hard for me to use all the meals because 00:02:12.050 --> 00:02:15.240 align:middle line:90% of my strange festival hours. 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:20.065 align:middle line:84% I also had a 35-minute commute to work every day, 00:02:20.065 --> 00:02:23.733 align:middle line:84% but they did provide me with a Metro card 00:02:23.733 --> 00:02:25.020 align:middle line:90% through the internship. 00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:28.240 align:middle line:90% It was very nice. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.710 align:middle line:84% So my responsibilities were to help with cleanup 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:35.470 align:middle line:90% from the night before. 00:02:35.470 --> 00:02:39.040 align:middle line:84% We usually had to sweep and mop the stage. 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:43.520 align:middle line:84% And then I also helped sometimes when it would rain a lot 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:48.195 align:middle line:84% and we would have flooding or different water 00:02:48.195 --> 00:02:51.620 align:middle line:90% technical difficulties. 00:02:51.620 --> 00:02:56.860 align:middle line:84% So sometimes, the roof would kind of collect water, 00:02:56.860 --> 00:02:59.151 align:middle line:84% and so I would go up and push the water-- 00:02:59.151 --> 00:02:59.650 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:59.650 --> 00:03:01.191 align:middle line:84% --from the top, which was really fun. 00:03:01.191 --> 00:03:02.800 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:04.420 align:middle line:84% I also helped with loading, which 00:03:04.420 --> 00:03:08.740 align:middle line:84% meant loading in the equipment from different bands. 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:10.890 align:middle line:84% Sometimes there would be a lot of equipment, 00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:13.500 align:middle line:84% and sometimes there would be very little. 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:15.970 align:middle line:84% One of my coworkers told me last year 00:03:15.970 --> 00:03:18.290 align:middle line:84% that they had The Lumineers come, 00:03:18.290 --> 00:03:23.620 align:middle line:84% and they had two 18-wheelers come, packed full of stuff, 00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:29.110 align:middle line:84% so it really depends on the band and how much equipment they 00:03:29.110 --> 00:03:30.910 align:middle line:90% want to have. 00:03:30.910 --> 00:03:35.880 align:middle line:84% I also help with focus, which means going up into the truss-- 00:03:35.880 --> 00:03:38.480 align:middle line:90% and this is me up there-- 00:03:38.480 --> 00:03:42.585 align:middle line:84% and then my boss is down here, directing over comm, 00:03:42.585 --> 00:03:46.660 align:middle line:84% and he would tell me where to point the lights to light up 00:03:46.660 --> 00:03:49.180 align:middle line:90% the band for that evening. 00:03:49.180 --> 00:03:54.670 align:middle line:84% I also operated follow spot, which meant the follow spot-- 00:03:54.670 --> 00:03:59.650 align:middle line:84% during the shows, I would follow the artist around. 00:03:59.650 --> 00:04:01.510 align:middle line:84% I would be up in here, because we 00:04:01.510 --> 00:04:03.760 align:middle line:84% had three different follow spots, 00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:07.300 align:middle line:84% and so it would just depend on the night. 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:08.980 align:middle line:84% Sometimes it would be very boring 00:04:08.980 --> 00:04:11.860 align:middle line:84% and we'd have like one violinist-- like go in. 00:04:11.860 --> 00:04:12.714 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:12.714 --> 00:04:15.100 align:middle line:84% But then other times-- like Chronixx 00:04:15.100 --> 00:04:19.320 align:middle line:84% came, and he was very active and ran around the stage 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:21.320 align:middle line:84% everywhere and went into the pit, 00:04:21.320 --> 00:04:23.650 align:middle line:84% and so I had to follow him wherever he went, 00:04:23.650 --> 00:04:25.080 align:middle line:90% which was really exciting. 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:26.090 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:26.090 --> 00:04:26.590 align:middle line:90% 00:04:26.590 --> 00:04:29.520 align:middle line:84% I also would help with load-in afterwards, which 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:33.590 align:middle line:84% meant taking down everything that we had set up that day 00:04:33.590 --> 00:04:34.470 align:middle line:90% and loading it out. 00:04:34.470 --> 00:04:37.510 align:middle line:84% So this took either a couple hours 00:04:37.510 --> 00:04:39.760 align:middle line:90% or maybe like 20 minutes-- 00:04:39.760 --> 00:04:41.760 align:middle line:90% it all depended. 00:04:41.760 --> 00:04:44.410 align:middle line:84% We had a 10:30 curfew, which meant 00:04:44.410 --> 00:04:47.800 align:middle line:84% you could not have any more sound on the stage 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:49.550 align:middle line:90% after 10:30 PM. 00:04:49.550 --> 00:04:53.260 align:middle line:84% So that means that you're finishing the show early, 00:04:53.260 --> 00:04:56.470 align:middle line:84% but that doesn't mean you finish your shift early. 00:04:56.470 --> 00:04:59.080 align:middle line:84% Sometimes I would get home at like 2:00 or 3:00 00:04:59.080 --> 00:05:00.010 align:middle line:90% in the morning. 00:05:00.010 --> 00:05:01.600 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.865 align:middle line:84% And I think my roommates probably though I was 00:05:03.865 --> 00:05:05.516 align:middle line:90% doing something weird, but-- 00:05:05.516 --> 00:05:07.428 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:05:07.428 --> 00:05:08.390 align:middle line:90% 00:05:08.390 --> 00:05:10.960 align:middle line:84% So this is just an example of what I did. 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:15.760 align:middle line:84% So we set this up, so this is like in the light. 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:18.460 align:middle line:84% These are on metal frames, and then 00:05:18.460 --> 00:05:20.990 align:middle line:84% the lights are on the metal frames, 00:05:20.990 --> 00:05:23.140 align:middle line:84% and so I helped build these things. 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:25.080 align:middle line:90% This was for Sylvan Esso. 00:05:25.080 --> 00:05:27.520 align:middle line:84% The sound is kind of weird, but it's 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:29.546 align:middle line:84% more about the lighting, which is what I did. 00:05:29.546 --> 00:05:30.236 align:middle line:90% [VIDEO PLAYBACK] 00:05:30.236 --> 00:05:30.860 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:05:30.860 --> 00:05:36.267 align:middle line:84% So this would be going on during the show, and we would have-- 00:05:36.267 --> 00:05:36.850 align:middle line:90% [END PLAYBACK] 00:05:36.850 --> 00:05:40.270 align:middle line:84% --a person at front of house, which is sitting 00:05:40.270 --> 00:05:45.060 align:middle line:84% like here in the crowd, and they would be controlling the lights 00:05:45.060 --> 00:05:46.280 align:middle line:90% during the show. 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:49.300 align:middle line:90% So this is what I helped make. 00:05:49.300 --> 00:05:51.890 align:middle line:90% 00:05:51.890 --> 00:05:54.050 align:middle line:90% And then, let's see. 00:05:54.050 --> 00:05:55.200 align:middle line:90% Oh, yeah. 00:05:55.200 --> 00:05:59.790 align:middle line:84% So this is my group that I worked with this summer. 00:05:59.790 --> 00:06:03.720 align:middle line:84% We had one day where we just decided to have a photo shoot, 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.660 align:middle line:84% and after a show we just set up lights 00:06:06.660 --> 00:06:11.000 align:middle line:84% to make it look, you know, cinematic and theatrical, 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:15.030 align:middle line:84% and we just had a silly photo shoot. 00:06:15.030 --> 00:06:19.190 align:middle line:84% And so I learned in life that technical production 00:06:19.190 --> 00:06:23.750 align:middle line:84% is very similar in all different industries. 00:06:23.750 --> 00:06:28.020 align:middle line:84% So what I want to do mainly is work in the film industry 00:06:28.020 --> 00:06:32.670 align:middle line:84% after I graduate, and so working in the performing arts 00:06:32.670 --> 00:06:34.020 align:middle line:90% is actually very similar. 00:06:34.020 --> 00:06:37.080 align:middle line:84% So I thought maybe that I wouldn't 00:06:37.080 --> 00:06:40.200 align:middle line:84% learn as much as I wanted to for what 00:06:40.200 --> 00:06:43.350 align:middle line:84% I wanted to do after I graduate, but I actually 00:06:43.350 --> 00:06:46.650 align:middle line:84% learned a lot of very minimal things, 00:06:46.650 --> 00:06:50.380 align:middle line:90% but they were all very helpful. 00:06:50.380 --> 00:06:53.250 align:middle line:84% I also learned that most of the people 00:06:53.250 --> 00:06:54.990 align:middle line:84% that I worked with work freelance, 00:06:54.990 --> 00:06:57.680 align:middle line:90% so they work from job to job. 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.680 align:middle line:84% They have Celebrate as maybe their-- 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.615 align:middle line:84% we called it "summer camp," almost, where every summer, we 00:07:04.615 --> 00:07:08.210 align:middle line:84% would just come back and have fun working the festival, 00:07:08.210 --> 00:07:11.730 align:middle line:84% but they also find jobs throughout the year. 00:07:11.730 --> 00:07:16.670 align:middle line:84% And they say that it's pretty easy to find jobs in New York. 00:07:16.670 --> 00:07:21.860 align:middle line:84% I also learned that if you work hard, 00:07:21.860 --> 00:07:24.200 align:middle line:84% even if you don't know what you're really doing-- 00:07:24.200 --> 00:07:25.000 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:31.280 align:middle line:84% --in the job, you still can fool people by your hard work. 00:07:31.280 --> 00:07:32.570 align:middle line:90% So I really-- 00:07:32.570 --> 00:07:33.070 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:07:33.070 --> 00:07:36.412 align:middle line:84% --coming to this, I had no idea what I was doing, 00:07:36.412 --> 00:07:41.880 align:middle line:84% and I fooled a lot of people by just going with the flow, 00:07:41.880 --> 00:07:46.830 align:middle line:84% learning fast and on my feet, because the performing arts 00:07:46.830 --> 00:07:50.900 align:middle line:84% industry is very fast-paced, and they want everything done 00:07:50.900 --> 00:07:54.275 align:middle line:90% at a certain time very quickly. 00:07:54.275 --> 00:07:58.295 align:middle line:84% And then this is just a cute video 00:07:58.295 --> 00:07:59.894 align:middle line:90% from one of the last shows. 00:07:59.894 --> 00:08:00.560 align:middle line:90% [VIDEO PLAYBACK] 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:02.560 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:07.021 align:middle line:84% These kids were like 3 feet tall, 00:08:07.021 --> 00:08:08.745 align:middle line:84% and they had these humongous drums, 00:08:08.745 --> 00:08:10.780 align:middle line:84% and they were really, really cute. 00:08:10.780 --> 00:08:11.280 align:middle line:90% Aww. 00:08:11.280 --> 00:08:12.480 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:16.080 align:middle line:90% 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:17.597 align:middle line:90% They were really cute. 00:08:17.597 --> 00:08:18.180 align:middle line:90% [END PLAYBACK] 00:08:18.180 --> 00:08:19.080 align:middle line:90% So that's it. 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