MCLEAPS Graduation Video

The MCLEAPS interns and I were tasked with creating a final presentation for our graduation ceremony in December. Working in groups can be difficult, but creating a presentation that showcased each of our own personal experiences throughout the internship was becoming difficult. How do we share our experience and make it interesting? As the first cohort of the program, we did not have any prior presentations to help guide us and we were establishing expectations for future cohorts. We then decided to create a video as our presentation.  I was a journalism major in my first year of college, but I have not worked with video equipment in three years. Since I was the only one with video editing skills, I quickly was appointed leader of this project. I was very nervous and felt very overwhelmed once I started editing. I had to reacquaint myself with the editing software at Cronkite and I also had to relearn how to use a professional digital camera. I wanted the video to be great and I wanted it to be our video. For two weeks, I interviewed my fellow interns and captured footage of them working in their offices. For the next two weeks, I edited the footage I had and asked my fellow interns about their input and what they would like to see change. Several of them would help me with the video at Cronkite and even stay late with me editing. They could not provide much help, but they were encouraging me. Two of them even did narrations for the video. We presented the video to Mary Ellen Sheppard and other HR leaders twice to receive their feedback. The video is finally done and we will showcase it at our graduation ceremony. Here is the link to the final video edit and I am happy to have finished this project for our internship. I hope this provides a better visual of what the MCLEAPS internship encompasses and how great the program is. I am sorry I could not include the video in this post, but the file was too big.