[internship]: Paid Video Production Internship: Sustainability Ambassadors

Video Production Internship($3,000 summer stipend)

About Sustainability Ambassadors

We empower youth to catalyze community sustainability through year-round professional development for student leaders, teacher leaders and community leaders. We focus on increasing curriculum rigor and relevance while benchmarking and reporting sustainable community conditions to peers and policy makers. We measure what’s working, report it and bring it into the classroom.  Learn more here: http://www.sustainabilityambassadors.org/

Position Summary

The Video Production Intern will support the Executive Producer and Student Ambassador Leadership Team in producing a series of exceptionally creative and informative short films on green building. This is a part-time summer internship with flexible hours beginning June 20. Stipend of $3,000.  

 

Ideal candidate

We are looking for a brilliant young filmmaker (college age or budding professional, skilled technician and insightful artist) who is passionate about both video production and sustainability issues (people, profit and planet). We want to advance your career, create and post tons of really smart short videos, and engage you as a role model for our Student Ambassador Leadership Team.

Essential Role

1.       Work under the creative direction of the Executive Producer and Leadership Coach.

2.       Model, coordinate and coach younger students in pre and post production planning.

3.       Assist with scheduling, location scouting and project management as directed.

4.       Assist with storyboarding a series of 3-5 minute videos on green building.

5.       Shoot, capture exceptional audio, edit to live student-produced music, add titles and graphics.

6.       Organize and archive historical and current footage for future applications

7.       Capture footage of the production process to create a “making of” short.

8.       Post videos online to build the Sustainability Ambassadors Video Library.

Qualifications and Experience

1.       Link us to videos you’ve created so we can see your technical range and artistic sensibilities.

2.       You are passionate about local sustainability issues.

3.       You own a camera and audio equipment or have access to same.

4.       You happen to have your own professional editing software or access.

5.       You can advise our team on gear and software purchases.

6.       Your instincts for visual storytelling are powerful: composition, pace, lighting (we want an artist)

7.       You are experienced as both a shooter and editor (we want a technician)

8.       You are experienced with graphics (we want an animator)

9.       You are client-focused with excellent interpersonal skills (we want a team player)

10.    You are helpful, courteous, conscientious, with a sense of humor (personable)

11.    You have proven ability to meet deadlines (professional)

12.    You are willing to work a flexible schedule

13.    You find joy in detail, efficiency, logistics, quality, and working in a startup-like environment.

Position starts June 20

Application Materials

1.       Cover letter

2.       Resume

3.       At least three references (name, title, email and phone numbers)

4.       Link to your video work

Contact

Send to Peter Donaldson, Executive Producer and Leadership Coach

peterdonaldson50@gmail.com


Please join us for high adventure on April 24, 2014 as Washington Water Trust hosts the Seattle premiere of the 12th Annual Wild & Scenic Film FestivalThe festival originates in Nevada City, CA and tours to different cities across the country delivering award-winning films about nature, adventure, water, energy, climate change, wildlife and indigenous cultures.

Come experience the Wild & Scenic!
When:    Thursday April 24, 2014
Where:   SIFF Cinema Uptown Theatre

Purchase Tickets: $15
RSVP for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Facebook


One complimentary beer/wine and a raffle ticket is included with each festival ticket purchase.

Prepare to be amazed, motivated, inspired and wowed by more than eight films including The Strong People, which tells the story of the Elwha dam removal, and Momenta, which describes the impact of the planned coal export trains through the Pacific Northwest. Other films will take us on real life adventures into the natural world—hiking with daring kayakers into a remote Mexican jungle in search of the perfect waterfall from which to plummet; reveling in the adventure of catching air; discovering what motivated a man nicknamed SLOMO to live by inline skate; and floating the Trinity River of California with a five year-old boy in search of his first steelhead.
 
5:00 pm – Happy Hour
6:00 pm – First Film Session
7:15 pm – Intermission & Raffle
7:40 pm – Second Film Session

All proceeds from this event will support the work of Washington Water Trust, a 501c3 nonprofit.

Hope to see you there!


Recent Environmental Studies graduate Ruben Chi-Bertoni (Class of ‘13) worked with the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition on a 20 minute mini documentary featuring interviews with community leaders in the Duwamish Valley. You can see the full results of his work above.

Want more information about his capstone project? Click [here] for his capstone project summary.


Take a look at this cool video made by students from the Spring 2012 UW Sustainability Studio course! 

Already thinking about classes for next quarter and looking for a cool course? The upcoming Sustainability Studio topic this Winter will be Zero Waste: From You to UW, taught by one of PoE’s wonderful teaching associates, Megan Horst. The course is primarily project-based where students are able to get involved with environmental efforts and projects on campus and at the community level. 

 It’s definitely worth checking out!

ENVIR 480, Tuesday/Thursday, 10:30AM-12:20PM


Thanks to your votes in the Odwalla video contest last year (submission above), Grounds Management won 75 native tress for restoration of the Montlake Cut! Nice work everyone! 

Now it’s time to plant the Montlake Cut! Please join with other students and faculty to help put the the new plants in the ground on Thursday, October 18th from 9:00AM – 2:00PM. Odwalla will be providing refreshments. 


Congratulations to PoE student Kiddy Emmanuel! A short film she produced for her capstone project with The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods won an award for The Next Fifty’s A Story Runs Through It neighborhood film project. 


Check out this great video put together by PoE student Angela Herr while on Ken Yocom’s ‘Reading the Elwah’ class last summer.