My Summer Internship At Mandalay Sports Media - 781 Words

As I am reaching the halfway point with my summer internship at Mandalay Sports Media I want to expand my tasks from just using the Wiretap to start using all of the softwares as well learn how to script a video. Over the past two weeks the other interns who have been here for longer were using the software called â€Å"esearch†. Esearch is an ESPN database software where they store all of the clips they gather. ESPN has a large database so using it to obtain a small amount of video footage has its difficulties. First to sign in to research you need to obtain a six digit code from one of the project managers. I was not in contact with most of them and truly just friendly with one so I went to Andy. Andy gave me the code and helped me get accustomed to the database and how it works. First, you must type in a start date and an end date so the database can minimize the videos you are searching for. Then you are suppose to type in keywords that help you find the exact video you ar e looking for. For example, I was tasked with trying to find a close up iso shot of Bryce Harper during a game. For this I had to use terms from my COM 107 class with the classifications of what each shot is. Since I had background knowledge of what the shots were this helped me get accustomed of using Esearch. Finding the best possible clip takes time because ESPN has a lot of content in their database but once I found the best clip I took down the start time and end time within to clip to make sure its as