My name is
Cass Lubberts
and
I am a Senior Film & Video and
Humanistic
Studies major. During the summer of 2015, I was a Production
Assistant Intern for Shine Creative Studio, a company based in Baltimore, Maryland. I wanted to be in Baltimore whilst
doing my internship
so that I could continue
to support myself over the summer through independent freelance video work
like I had done
in previous years.
During the
spring semester, while I was
still abroad in Prague, CZ, I started looking for internships
both in Baltimore and even
abroad. While reaching out to my teachers and friends, I
remembered that I had met Drury a year earlier on a shoot
I had helped PA for MICA
Graduate, Hilton Carter. During the downtime I had
as a PA for Hilton, I began talking
to Drury, who I immediately liked and was interested in working with. I contacted him to see if he was
available to speak
about my interning
at his studio.
Drury responded,
asking for my resume, portfolio, and
cover letter to see if
I was talented enough
to work for his
company. After a few email exchanges, meeting
with him a couple times, and once I was Stateside, we started
working together. I was
to be the intern for Shine Creative Studio for the summer, and
he promised me some additional
work
for
money after my internship hours were fulfilled.This experience included a lot of shooting. During the days I worked with him and his team, we went on shoots at various locations, but sometimes we just turned his studio into a set using their movable walls and lights. We have since become friends and we understand how each other work. It was fun to spend time around people who share my interests and meet his co-workers who are both a jovial and hard working bunch. Working with Shine Creative gave me insight into the world of commercial videography, and let me imagine a world outside of freelance commercial work that I am already accustomed to so far in my professional career. I also left with many new possibilities for my portfolio, in addition to another person who can recommend me for when I show my resume to other companies in the near future.
However,
about two-thirds of the way done with my internship,
Drury informed me that future projects, similar to those that
we
had been working on,
weren’t
scheduled for a while, and he
suggested that I start
looking elsewhere for a place to wrap
up my
internship hours.
I looked at
the Maryland Film Festival,
and after talking and confirming with Rahne Alexander that they could
definitely use me; I decided to switch and finish my
hours there. I had hoped to
learn more about the
in’s and outs of how people organize and structure Film
Festivals. Obviously,
that is extremely important
to me, seeing as I hope to one
day be in many festivals,
so I
thought it would be a perfect match for me.
Although it wasn’t
always
glamorous, I definitely got
a better understanding of the
work being done behind the
scenes at the
Maryland Film
Festival. If I were to remain
interning there I would be able to get to view a lot
of incoming films and possibly meet with
more filmmakers, which is a
really exciting prospect.
I hope to volunteer for more events similar to those like the Parkway Theatre celebration, and definitely plan on working at the festival so that I can be around as many films and filmmakers as possible while I am still in Baltimore.
