Hello fellow interns,

                 My name is Frank Pizzolla and I'm interning at Steven David Entertainment, an end-to-end television production and development company based out of New York City, with its own in-house post-production facility. The primary responsibilities I have at the company are mostly "intern-y", But as feeling like part of the team me and the rest of the company all help to contribute to specialize in docudrama, documentary and non-fiction television, as well as select scripted series.

1. The first few days of my internship were spent on a production set of one of the shows our company is producing called RedRum a docudrama that airs on investigation discovery which just last week finished it's third season. I learned that working with a production crew is polar opposite than working the office hours. You get a real sense of teamsmanship working with a small production crew of 42 people in total pulling long hours (12 hour work day) working together every little job detail and function as a unit to produce a vision on camera. The crew for RedRum consisted of many job titles I wasn't aware of including - Production department, Locations department, AD department, Camera department, Grip/Electric department, Art department, Sound, vehicles, Hair / Make Up / Wardrobe, Editorial Department, Casting, Accounting, and lastly the Interns. As an intern on set our job was to help and do anything the Production Assistants would ask for which sometimes meant : make sure the actors on set were taken care of with food , water, assistance; Locking down the location whenever the camera was rolling ( which meant during shooting I would secure an area,  mainly a door or entrance from on coming pedestrians so they wouldn't interfere with the shot), I also would load and unload all amenities and set equipment from our trucks. My favorite part about set was that I got to play an extra as a EMT in one of the episodes. It was really cool also to see a scene for T.V. shot right in front of me in real life - Giving me sort of a director's point of view.

2. The experience is going how I expected however thoughts of creating and developing show ideas in a cool comfortable work place are slowly diminished by desk work, research for shows, running errands, and reading scripts - which isn't bad at all with knowing that you have to start off from the bottom first. Working in NYC is also a great job experience. I'm learning more about the different job spots in this industry, the freelancing aspect of the industry ( in where to get jobs mostly is  through recommendation on how you perform and who you know) networking is a big deal in this industry especially on set production jobs. One thing I realize now more so is that the people behind production and research and writing the scripts are really intelligent skilled workers who usually work under stress and usually don't take much credit because as T.V viewers we are not thinking about the people who spend long hours meticulously creating a show rather we just watch. Its really cool that Stephen David Entertainment works with a bunch of different networks such as TLC, Nat Geo Channel, History, Investigation Discovery, A&E, H2, Discovery.

3. Id say to improve myself more with my opportunity I should ask more questions, and be open to learning everything there is about the business.