Weekly Rundown: Week 4

During the last week I worked for 17 hours, which brought my grand total to 61 hours completed. After this week, I should be over halfway to completing the internship. This week, I got a lot done, but didn't complete the objectives I set for myself. I did however, have the opportunity to do some things I hadn't planned for.

As I said in last week's rundown, last Friday was supposed to be the deadline to receive the program artwork. However, because more pressing issues came up, the deadline was delayed. I did however, make headway towards completion. I was able to account for about 50-75% of the missing artwork last week. And as of right now I am missing artwork from only 10 companies.

In a exciting event, one of the publications I was working on is now completed. The 2011-2012 Pocket Schedule is now completely formatted and is going off the be printed. Even though I was not as heavily involved in this project as I am in others, its still exciting to see a major project get completed.

I did receive a couple of new responsibilities last week. My bosses wanted to go ahead and make sure that they were on track to fulfill all of the contractual obligations they had to their corporate partners. So they instructed me to go through "The Book" of all their contracts and make sure we had the necessary assets (artwork, weblinks, dasher boards etc) to fulfill our responsibilities. I went through the book and made lists of what we needed and distributed them to the proper salesperson.

Last week, I got my first inside look at the Crown Coliseum, the home arena of the Fayetteville FireAntz. I was able to see the locker rooms, and all of the "underbelly" of the building. It was neat to see how much goes on that fans and spectators will never see. I wasn't aware that the building would have a full time staff like it did.

Also, while I was in the coliseum, I saw how the video board was operated. I learned how to operate the video matrix, and how to make ad's that are in the proper format for the operating system of the video board. I will now begin making videos, and ad's that can be played during games. It will be cool to see my work displayed in front of thousands.

My goals for this week are to get as many hours as possible, and to get the rest of the artwork in. Also I would like to get a few pieces of work done for the video board. I can possibly get to make a few sales calls today, and that is exciting to me.