Area of internships: Podcast production
Time Commitment: 6-8 hours/week. Internship will be remote.
Number of interns: 2
About the Company
Janet Dulin Jones is a screenwriter-playwright and producer based in London and working in Los Angeles and London. She has written feature films for Sony, Paramount, Fox and Disney-Touchstone, Oprah Winfrey. She is currently working on a new play that will be directed by Trevor Nunn in London.
She also hosts and produces Cinema Sounds & Secrets, a podcast for the movie-lovers, with actor John Schawb. This podcast takes you on an exciting & revealing journey through the great films of over 118 years of cinema with stories, fun facts, celebrity interviews, memorable film scenes, quotes and classic songs.
About the internship:
Janet is looking for students who can work on the podcast. The internship will be remote.
The intern session begins second week of the semester and goes to the end of the semester.
She has two positions:
Internship 1: Sound Editor
The intern would work with producer-creators Janet and John.
- Initial work: doing the correction edits on the episodes after the initial assembly to get a feel for the show and how it is cut. We intercut small clips from scenes, soundtrack music and the score in each film’s story. You’ll have edited shows to listen to and access to the Episode folders to learn a little about the movies in the episodes. We do the 120 years of film so it is films from across the decades up to the present.
- Cutting short teasers/promos for upcoming episodes from the episode sound file AND our Mini-sodes; Tributes- Extra-Bits- Interviews; 30-60 second teasers for the social media and other fun sound bites the social media person can use on Instagram/FB/Linked in etc. You’ll have original music
written for the show to play with as the cue music for the teasers. - Cutting a newly recorded episode: We would let you take a recorded show and do the first edit. We’ll go over the episode and if it’s good you can do the revision edit and stay on the episode to cut it.
3A. UPLOADING EPISODES TO OUR LYBSYN PLATFORM TO AIR: Every other week a show goes up. Shows are recorded and can be scheduled in
advance
Internship 2: Research
The intern would research and collaborating on show media content: links for music and scenes/ creating mini-archives on the amazing films we feature – films across genre’s
and centuries; from the present all the way to the near beginning of cinema itself. If it’s good and we love it – we will get to it !
- Overview: Pull up facts, Music links, Quote links, Tributes, Mini-sodes, Celebrity Talks, Film Industry Subjects for our “Extra-Bits” short mini-sodes
These will go in the episode docs for each episode - Helping with formatting for future shows: Prepping the script docs for episodes
- Research for writing projects: 1890’s New York – TV series; Paris – 1906 – Feature Film
- Proofing work: Needs skills in Microsoft word, Final Draft, web-design programs, photo editing…