Day 24 ( 3/21/2019) - 5 hrs done - 120 hrs Complete
I’m doing my Internship during Spring Break week, which was the last day today.
Today’s internship was continuing scanning a bulk of KITV News Video Log-Sheets, using the KIT Scanner in the UH West Oahu Library.
In total for today, I scanned 115 Video Log-Sheets. And grad total of scanned Video Log-sheets is 483.
Reflection: From the start of my Internship, 1/7/2019, I only known the basic understanding of what an Archive is and does. For ‘Ulu’ulu The Henry Ku’ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai’i, I’ve learned this facility is dedicated to care, preserve, and digitize film and videotape related to the history and culture of Hawaiʻi. From News footage to audio recordings. They are task to preserve all information of and for Hawai’i. Through out my Internship, I have learned the different types of video recording tapes, Betacam, Quad, Type B and Type C, just to name a few that I saw during my time at ‘Ulu’ulu. I mostly worked with the Betacam format. With the Betacams,I used the SammaPrep and SemmaCleaning sequence, to which I was looking on a checklist if the tapes have any of the following conditions, like: strong odor, scratches, wear and tear, etc. and marking them on the SammaPrep Program. Then after, if the tapes passes the Prep sequence, then the cleaning process is next. What the cleaning process is, that a machine, cleans the tape to make it ready for digital capturing at another station. From there I took the tapes to a machine that’ll play the tapes, and have a recording program open, to capture the playing footage. To me this was the most enjoyable part of the processes. Not only am I watching for visual distortions, audio glitches and other mishaps, I’m watching raw footage of what the event the camera person was capturing at the time. While I’m watching the footage, I an also recording timestamps of when and if there are visual distortions, audio glitches and other mishaps, that will be noted on the spreadsheet I was given to fill out on GoogleSheets. provided by of on my supervisors.
A couple of days later I was given a sneak preview of what would be my next project to help the ‘Ulu’ulu archives. This next project would be a “Trans-coding Project”, in other words help reformatting some video files to become different types of video files. And this was happening for the next few days. During my Remaining days at ‘Ulu’ulu, I was task to Scan, as much as I can, old KITV News Tapes Log-Sheets, and make them into a Readable PDF format.
I really enjoyed my internship at ‘Ulu’Ulu, by learning so much about the archival job, I can say that, we need Archival storage houses/places, because these hard working people are what helps preserve mankind’s evolution, past, present, adn future. Because once an important information is lost, it’s lost. There’s no way to get it back. So preservation is key.