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 2024 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. One primary area of focus for the Project Assistant will be the promotion and outreach for the exhibition phase of Scribe’s Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets film and installation. Tenants is a documentary surveying the history of Philadelphia’s black community from 1896 to 1968. The film weaves a lyrical historical narrative from the year Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois began his research for The Philadelphia Negro to the year the historically segregated Girard College admitted its first black students. The second area of focus will be on supporting the organization of Scribe’s archive of completed works and accompanying information. Scribe’s collection consists of a catalog of over 400 finished analog and digital video documentaries produced from 1982 through 2022 exploring the social, political and cultural history of Philadelphia and over 6,000 source video and audio tapes, as well as 3,000 hours of digital time-based media files.
Duties (may vary):
- Create promotional materials for distribution in traditional media outlets and on social media
- Outreach to communities and organizations
- Digitize analog materials
- Capture and record meta-data
- Video and audio editing
- Research and write content
Qualifications:
- Strong interest and experience in politics, the social sciences and the humanities: (history, urban studies, anthropology.)
- Excellent writing and verbal skills.
- Excellent research skills as demonstrated by completed research projects.
- Demonstrated competency with Audacity or other audio editing software, Adobe Premier Editing Software, and familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite.
To apply include a resume and one short writing sample.
Application Procedure
To apply for this or any of the SHIP internships, please follow the instructions at the Summer Humanities Internship Program homepage.