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Storyville Entertainment

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Overall, my summer internship at Storyville Entertainment was a positive experience. My primary goal going into the internship was to learn more about the development process. At Storyville, I watched my supervisors navigate through development beginning with the initial pitch. For example, I watched Storyville’s head of development brainstorm ideas for a specific network during my first week as an intern. Throughout the weeks, I helped her research potential hosts, locations, and real-life examples of the show’s story. Last week, the development executive pitched the idea to the network, and the network asked Storyville to create a sizzle reel for the show. Not only did I observe the development process, but I also took an active role in …show more content…

For most of the day, I was busy with administrative tasks or creative work. However, there were times where I did not have any specific assignments. During these times, I prepared pitch ideas for future weeks or read the other interns’ pitches. While this was productive, I should have made myself more useful by asking members of the production and editing teams if they needed help with anything. Unfortunately, I did not do this often because I did not want to bother my supervisors. Looking back, I should have put myself out there more than I did because I probably would have been able to help in small ways, and I would have gotten to know more people in the office. In the future, I will try harder to learn about different employees’ positions and offer my help to more departments of the company. My summer internship at Storyville was extremely educational, and it made me more excited to work in television as a career. My supervisors were consistently kind, appreciative and willing to give the interns opportunities to learn. This internship taught me a lot about various facets of producing television, and I believe my knowledge of the ins and outs of unscripted television is much stronger than it was before I began my internship at

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