A Day Uptown... Like REALLY Uptown.

So yesterday at 1230 I went with one of my supervisors to the Bronx for a photoshoot for a WNBA Liberty player. Her name is Kia Vaughn and she is the only native New Yorker playing for New York's WNBA team, the Garden will be showing a feature story on her during one of the Liberty games. The Liberty staff is apparently very small, too small to have people in the office and out doing things hands-on at the same time, so they asked the Knicks PR department for some help on monitoring the video/photo shoot. Since the other two PR interns got to go to the Knicks summer camps with our supervisor, I got to go to this shoot. It was only painful because I was hungry and it was 90 something degrees out in the Bronx. Yet, it was a lot of fun to see the area that my dad grew up in and it was a great experience to watch a feature actually be shot. I already know some things about shooting a package because of hat I've done as a reporter for WakeTV. Actually, I was shocked to find that it was quite similar to what I do for WakeTV. I mean, the producer who was there had a pretty good idea of what she was looking for in her piece, just as I have when I'm shooting for a package for Wake. Yet, it was also just as candid and spontaneous as our shoots because you never know what you're going to have to deal with weather wise, lighting wise, crowd wise. So I would say I learned a lot yesterday. I also got to talk to said supervisor a little about how he ended up at the Knicks and it was really helpful. He recommended a few people within the company to get in touch with so I can have some contacts. What I really want to do is get in touch with the Wake grad who started ISP because I'd really like to do that next summer. I miss college sports!