The Girl

     On a sunny May morning a few days after my last spring finals had been completed I received the much anticipated phone call. "Congratulations! We would like to offer you an internship in the KTLA Creative Services Department!" Ah sweet success! My weeks of summer internship hunting and interviewing had finally paid off. Thus began my unpaid summer foray into the land of morning TV. Only a week after this call, I found myself braving the foggy morning commute with fellow Angelinos all the way to the KTLA station on Sunset Blvd. 

     Before I let you in on my summer at KTLA, allow me to tell you a little about me. I am a Southern California native currently in my last semester of college. The degree I will achieve at the end of this semester will be a BS in Business Marketing and minor in Film. I began my four year (now four and a half year) college experience straight out of high school in the fall of 2006. Because I have many interests and an indecisive streak, I found myself considering practically every major offered at my school before finally setting my sights on marketing. Dancing, ballet in particular, is food for my soul. I believe in the importance of a having a healthy, active, imagination. Things I like include creativity, advertising, chocolate, baking, movie trailers, fashion, random acts of kindness, cloudy days, and dim sum. I hope to be able to squeeze in some traveling with friends and family after this last semester of college and find work in creative entertainment marketing. I am also open to working in other industries such as the fashion industry.

     I honestly didn't know quite what to expect going into this internship. I knew that Creative Services encompassed marketing and programming duties but on that nerves-filled first morning commute I had no idea what to expect in terms of what my tasks would be. My internship and work experience at the time that I began working at KTLA was unfortunately not entertainment industry oriented. This blog for my school’s internship credit class will let you in on some of my duties, experiences, thoughts and lessons learned from the Creative Services internship. This is what happened when a girl walked into a TV station....