My Final

I received an email around the middle-end of July. It basically said that I was to organize a video shoot with a Business owner, create an interview, shoot it, ingest it, edit it, and publish it. Basically, I did everything for this video.

I received a contact, Diane Paparo, who founded and runs Diane Paparo Associates (DPA) and Diane Paparo Studios (DPS). www.paparo.com

Basically her story goes like this: She's an interior designer, she joined an architect firm after college. The firm did a lot of commercial work in Manhattan, and she eventually started DPA, where she designed commercial interiors for companies. The CEOs of the company liked her work so much that they asked her to design their homes. She started doing domestic design, and has been until recently. The bad economy has her going back to commercial, and even going to the government for federal contracts.

So, I thought of some questions, conducted an interview via phone, in order to get acquainted and to fine tune my questions. Over the phone, we worked out a date where I would go to her studio on 65th St. The producers were so happy with my professionalism, that they basically let me do everything on my own without any advice/help. The only thing I asked was on the day of the interview, could I take a fellow intern to help me with odds and ends. I met Isobel Scott, another intern who was trying to become a reporter. I figured this would be perfect, I could give her my interview, tell her everything she needs to know, and she could talk, and I could take full control of camera.

Finally, I cut and edited the video, and it was published. Once again, my video made it onto the front page of money.cnn.com!

Here is the final product:


I am a little upset with the color corrector tool, seeing as how the monitor I was working on was dim, and now the final video looks a little too bright. Other than that, I really am pleased with the results.