Internship description provided by Scribe Video Center
About Scribe
Scribe Video Center is a media arts center that provides training in all aspects of time-based media production (digital video, audio, interactive media) to first time filmmakers and mid-level working media artists. Through instructional workshops, screenings with local, national and international filmmakers and community production programs we provide a venue to learn amount the craft of audio and video media making, with a particular focus on the documentary.
Scribe Summer 2026 Opportunity
Project Assistant (In-Person ONLY)
The Project Assistant position provides an opportunity to get hands-on experience working closely with Scribe staff members on various duties related to ongoing projects at a nationally recognized media arts center that promotes participatory community media production.
Areas of work for the Project Assistant include:
- Research into the life and work of the influential musician John Coltrane, particularly during his time as a resident of Philadelphia. This work will include archive research, content research and mapping locations that were significant in Coltrane’s life.
- Participating as an Oral History Conductor for Scribe’s Power Politics Oral History Project, which explores strategies for political empowerment by historically disenfranchised communities, specifically interviewing organizers, activists, strategists and leaders in the Black, Puerto-Rican, Asian-American and other economically disadvantaged communities.
The work for both projects includes research, contacting and communicating with interview subjects. The intern will research institutional and private archives for photos, recorded audio and documents related to these projects; collect video oral histories using video and audio equipment; transcribe, edit and fact-check the interviews; and capture and record meta-data.
Training will be provided in humanities research techniques for media and in digital media production and in editing.
Qualifications:
- Strong interest and experience in politics, the social sciences and the humanities (e.g., history, urban studies, anthropology.)
- Excellent writing and verbal skills.
- Excellent research skills as demonstrated by completed research projects.
- Demonstrated skills with video and audio production including camera and lighting and sound production.
- Familiarity with Audacity, Hindenburg or other audio editing software, Adobe Premier Editing Software, and the Adobe Creative Suite.
To apply include a resume and one writing sample, preferably a paper demonstrating original research.
Application Procedure
To apply for this or any of the SHIP internships, please follow the instructions at the Summer Humanities Internship Program homepage.