INTERNSHIP
I did my internship at Story2tell Mediaproductions.
It is a small film company based in Utrecht which makes documentaries, educational films, and promotional films.
My goal was to learn more about film and incorporate better storytelling into my projects.
And sure I did!
Where did i Work?
As I said Story2tell is a small company with 2 main employees.
Marieke Spee
RESEARCHER & DOCUMENTAIREMAKER
A history degree stood at her base but in the meantime, she has grown into an experienced researcher and documentary maker. She knows how to get the best stories out of people and make them into great documentaries.
Jos Bierings
BEELDEND KUNSTENAAR & FILMMAKER
Trained as a visual artist but now an experienced television producer. Jos is a
creative thinker with an aesthetic eye for detail and a passion for capturing intriguing stories.
leading Assignment
The first thing I noticed about Story2tell Media is that its website was outdated.
Therefore I saw a chance to not only learn to incorporate storytelling into video but also in webdesign.
My leading assignment, therefore, was to redesign their website and include some storytelling assets in it.
So to sum everything up, I wanted to focus my attention on film but besides that, work on the redesign of their website.
Some projects i did...
Intership projects
The Burezina food garden is a new addition to the Overvecht neighborhood in Utrecht. It is a vegetable garden that the entire neighborhood can use. The garden is part of community center Burezina.
Do you want to come garden with us?
This is the first project which i did at my internship. I filmed certain parts and edited the whole video.
Therefore I had to think of the music, chronological order and information which should be included in the video.
In collaboration with the Watersnoodmuseum, they are making a series entitled “Stories about Water”.
This film is about the Boessen family from Limburg. They were eyewitnesses to the flood disasters of 2021 in the Netherlands.
What I had to do in this project was to correctly tell the story of the interviewed family. I had to edit the whole video and make sure their story was correctly told and beautifully conveyed to the audience.
In total I made 3 more movies for this project. All of them are found on the Watersnood Museum Youtube channel.
In the dark and cold winter days, it is nice to have some lights burning here and there. The light poem responded to these desires and was made into a beautiful work of art together with Utrecht poetry writers.
This video is an after movie of the light installation “Het Lichtgedicht”.
In this project my role was to edit the video. Therefore I had to include the best information and make sure that the story was right!
This project was also the first I had independent contact with the client to finish the project correctly.
And at last she was pleasantly surprised!
Monobanda, the client, developed an interactive installation for children and teens with difficulty controlling certain emotions.
The light installation should give the users the ability to express their emotions without any consequences.
They wanted to promote their product with a short promotion film.
This was the second project I both had to film and edit the whole video.
Therefore this project was the biggest learning experience. It had some difficulties I had to face and was a bigger project than I ever did before.
In collaboration with RTV Utrecht and Utrecht University, Story2tell is making 6 episodes of: Het Gebeurt In Utrecht (It Happens In Utrecht). For six months we followed six professors at Utrecht University, who are they, what do they specialize in, and what drives them. In this episode we follow Wilfried van Sark, Professor of Solar Energy Integration.
Because this project was so enormous, I was there to mostly support Jos with filming.
I went with him to all the film locations, did 80% of all the sound recording and thought of questions to ask the professors while interviewing them.
What I also did was create a couple of intro animations and the complete outro.
How do you measure soil moisture from space?
The Netherlands is a low-lying and wet country. Because of the risk of flooding, soil moisture needs to be monitored very closely. This is done from space with the help of satellites.
In this educational video for SchoolTv and Nemo, this phenomenon is being explained.
This was my last project at Story2tell. It was also the biggest edit I had ever done.
But I learned a lot during this project. I worked for a big client and therefore had more responsibility then ever before in the Internship.
Redesign Website
As I mentioned before, besides the creation of the films I have also done a complete redesign of their website!
You can check it out on www.story2tell.nl
Looking Back
Looking back at my internship with great pleasure and lots of things I have learned.
Jos and Marieke were also impressed with my work and therefore I got the opportunity to continue to collab with Story2tell on future projects.