“So, You Want To Be In Pictures” (Or At Least Some Part Of The Industry) Making A Media Internship Right For You

Even though that line was borrowed from the 1947 one-reel short in the Joe McDoakes series, today many young people are looking for Media Internships to provide some real “hands on” experience. Our film production internships work with both mid-level and independent production companies with the aim of giving interns as much hands-on experience in the full range of production as possible.
The film houses that we use shoot documentaries, educational films, commercials, and even full-length films. The location and duration will determine the available projects. Your experience in film will determine some of your job duties. However, we have chosen our hosts for their ability to provide meaningful work for all skill levels and to provide an immersion into the world of filmmaking for our clients.
Different locations offer different levels of specialization. We will work to determine your area of interest be it pre-production, production, or post-production and line you up with the best production company available.
Communications Internships available through I.C.E. can be customized around your particular area of interest, be in television, radio, advertising or journalism. Depending on the location we work with school, community, regional and national radio broadcast organizations. Radio broadcasting internships are a great resume booster as they demonstrate an interest and ability in social media. With the advent of social media, radio broadcasting has expanded beyond the traditional airwaves. Work with staff members to create podcasts and upload audio to websites. With the changing face of media, this is a great opportunity to learn the latest outlets for the spoken word.
Television Internships are designed as we work with community news and entertainment stations that allow our interns to receive hands on experience in the news and entertainment industry. Interns have the opportunity to work hand in hand with leading producers and on-air talent to generate exciting and relevant news and entertainment pieces. We have both on-air and behind the scenes positions that that will maximize your talents and add to your resume.
Business Internships offered through I.C.E. can be designed for Public Relations or Human Relations.
Let's expand on Public Relations which has two tracks. TRACK ONE places you directly with a high profile public relations firm whose sole duties are to manage public perception of the company that hires it. Some of the duties will include developing and writing media releases, developing and writing resource tools for customers seeking information on the values of the company, PR initiatives, developing best practice processes and templates for the PR and Communications Manager, assisting with the development of media kits, and tracking and monitoring media results. TRACK TWO places you in the PR department of a specific business or special interest group. Work with high profile advocacy groups such as Mother's Against Drunk Driving, Sierra Club, Politicians, Athletic teams, and others. Here you will have a chance to promote a particular agenda that you may believe in.
Interested? Find out more about the huge selections of internships and enjoy reading the testimonials and stories from the interns who took advantage of this program at - http://cultural-ecology.com/

Institute for Cultural Ecology

We are all familiar with the phrase “actions speak louder than words”. This is literally incorporated into the internship programs available through the Institute for Cultural Ecology, which from this point forward will be referred to as ICE. The ICE programs are designed to match the academic goals and interest of the participant to the host organizations and researchers from around the world. This blending of international cultural exposure along with an opportunity to work with a team that has dedicated themselves to their law careers within their culture provides an educational experience and lifetime experience that forever impacts you as an individual and professional. Many students as well as professionals working to jump start their career turn to law internships for that the hands on experience that is so crucial.
Legal internships allow you to actively participant on various tracks of the legal system, encountering exposure and real life experiences working from all sides including working with a sitting judge and law clerk, experiencing the operations within a law firm, as well as learning the process and advocate change through participation in the legal department of a special interest group. Just check this testimonial from Emma, a legal internships participant - "We have loved Chicago sooooo much. Our placements (at personal injury law firms) have both been amazing, we are truly gutted to be leaving soon, I'm already looking for flights out here again sometime in the future."
Working within a community growing your skills and experience in a culture that is unfamiliar to you makes a much stronger impact on you that cannot possible be obtained within a standard classroom, embedding memories that will influence you and last a lifetime. Courtney, one of the interns, describes it - “This is an experience you can't have preconceptions about. The friendly people, stimulating information, and the unbelievable scenery will blow you out of the water. This internship is about new experiences that will open your mind.”
In addition to law internships, business internships can be designed by ICE to provide you the hands on experience working directly with a high profile public relations firm. You will be honing your business skills through developing press releases, writing media releases, developing media kits as well as tracking and monitoring media results to list just a few of the assignments in the media internships. The second track of this program will place you with a special interest group or specific business working directly in the PR department giving you the opportunity to promote an agenda about which you have strong feelings.
Another area of business internships is human resources. This challenging career choice works to align qualified, skilled individuals to fit the plans and requirements of the business. This internship also involves working with organizational design and development as well as individual performance management, conduct and behavior. Media internships is the last area we'd like to feature today. This opportunity can involve working in journalism, working at a community newspaper experiencing the hands on training for many of the skills required in this industry. Charlotte and Anouk Moerkerk talk about their media internships experience - "I am really grateful for this high quality journey into media internships. First of all, the apartment in Brooklyn is perfect. I am working on a project for a new television program and a press conference the station will hold next week. I have to make sure that a camera crew can shoot footage. The staff is really nice and friendly. I love New York!"

Going Abroad: Can You Afford to Follow Your Bliss?

In 1988, wearing a High School letterman jacket one size too large and braces minus the wire that I habitually removed, I entered Lewis and Clark College. Carl Sagan's Cosmos yet ruled the universe and Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth was the preferred stocking stuffer for many a Lewis and Clark freshman. Two of the most potent myths that Campbell propagated were: 1) there really is such a thing as a "good day to die" for many indigenous cultures; 2) when making life decisions the greatest advice is to "follow your bliss."
My undergraduate advisor echoed Campbell. “Take the courses you like,” he advised, “and major in the subject that you are best at.” I chose philosophy as a major and to make it even less palatable to future employers I chose religious studies as my minor. With the decline in the economy, the rise in college tuitions, and double digit unemployment rates awaiting new graduates, some pundits are calling college an outright "scam." A Salon.com article all but summed it up: "Is it time to kill the Liberal Arts degree?" The age-old proverb that philosophy bakes no bread has new chefs in the kitchen.
As going abroad is intrinsic to the liberal arts mission, its value is under siege. At Lewis and Clark, 85% of the student body study abroad. Indeed, this was our spirit quest: Joseph Campbell's "liminal experience." And those that did not study abroad chose to volunteer abroad or intern abroad. But, with USA Today reporting that student loan debt will soon exceed 1 trillion dollars, surpassing even credit card debt, some talking suits have suggested that going abroad is a bet on your bottom dollar (or the Chinese yuan should the government assume your debt).
According to Troy Peden, President of GoAbroad.com, "study abroad has remained steady, but intern abroad and volunteer abroad is going crazy! Through the roof." As the Director of an intern abroad company, I too have watched the numbers increase exponentially. The economy has spoken and students have answered. If they are forced to bake bread, then by-God they are going to do it in foreign ovens.
Study abroad is something of a hedge fund for students. It allows them to follow their bliss while at the same time generating a resume-worthy experience. The main difference is their ROI may very well be the realization that life is a journey, not an investment. So, from a philosophy graduate to the men who have never left the kitchen, keep on baking: my backpack is full of your goodies.
Anna Lindjem, a former student of mine, had this to say following a marine internships course: "I'm not so interested in how a cell works anymore. I'd like to know how all things work together, like reef ecology and how humans affect their environment. I'm into the bigger picture now. I will be doing more marine internships in the future.” Seeing the big picture is not mere self-exploration: it is good business. Many of the so-called “practical degrees” such as accounting and graphic design are heading to the equator. The survivors in an outsourced world will be those who can think out of the box, see the forest from the trees or the reef from the cell as the case may be.
The evidence is no further than the palm of your hand. The latest juggernaut of Apple products were not based on pure technology, but a vision. Steve Jobs credits his travels to Asia and immersion into mystical religions for his perception of the human/technology interface. His ability to see the moon in a dewdrop and the synergy between the simple and the complex ushered us into a new world.
At this very moment, the next game changer may be sleeping under the stars with Bantu tribesmen or spinning cotton with Nepali factory workers. In the vast reaches between what we know and what we experience, inspiration is born. The kitchen will always have its bakers. I say follow your bliss.

Hawaii Internships: Changing Your World in Paradise

Changing lives through marine internships and ecology internships is the mission of the Institute for Cultural Ecology. Both of these tracks come together in our Hawaii internships programs.
Alison Metz, a former biology major and competitive swimmer at UC Santa Barbara, enrolled in I.C.E.’s marine internships program after hearing about it from two teammates who had participated in it. The course, which involves extensive backcountry hiking and wilderness camping amid the spectacular and diverse natural scenery of the Hawaiian Islands, focusses on reef internships and study in remote locations.
Metz claims to have benefited most from the time away from the daily grind to reflect on life and consider her future. "I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to do, and that was of the greatest impact. I really learned to slow down, and I think that's the best thing I could've gotten from the trip. I think I took a little bit of that home with me. When you're in college, you try to fit eight thousand things in one day, and there, your task for the day might be setting up camp or collecting bananas or … free diving and picking algae off rocks to analyze … It was a slower way to live. When I was dreaming of hawaii internships, this was what I imagined."
Metz, who had never been camping before, also enjoyed that aspect of the experience. "I think I learned the most from the group interaction and the challenges of the hikes and the camping." She tells of one particular experience that made an impression on her. "There was a hike that took five hours that went through eleven canyons and valleys that was a pretty big deal, because we wound up back in the forest where no one goes, and there was a local there who collected coconuts and bananas for us and made us dinner. It was an enlightening experience to realize people do live off the land that way."
Clearly, the reef internships differed from her day to day life. Metz goes on to ruminate, "We've adapted in a very weird way, in that we sit at our computers all day, and it had a huge impact on me to live that way for six weeks and to realize that we're actually supposed to be doing that … There you're going to sleep with the sunset, you're waking up with the sunrise, and everything's different, even your body. I've never felt so healthy. And if you allow it to, it really makes you ponder what the point of life is -- like, should I be outdoors enjoying the beauty of this world every day or should I be inside crunching on my laptop?"
The flagship program for the Institute is called Intern Around the World. Here, Students are able to choose from ecology internships, marine internships, and reef internships in Hawaii, Fiji and Australia.
I.C.E. runs a program called Intern Around the World, a multi-country experience focusing on reef internships in Hawaii, Fiji, and Australia.Anna Lindhjem, a participant in the Hawaii internships aspect of Intern Around the World observed, "There was a sign we saw on the wall of a hostel in Maui that said 'Be a traveler, not a tourist,' and I think that's what we really got to do." Dr. David Adams is a cultural anthropologist who founded the Institute for Cultural Ecology in 1999. He is the author of Samsara and Season of the Loon, both available at Amazon.com. The Institute is an ecology internships provider company that specializes in marine internships and reef internships. To learn more about the hundreds of intern abroad and study abroad options in more than seventeen countries see www.cultural-ecology.com

Intern Abroad: Where in the World Should you Go?

The first thing I ask a student applying to the Institute for Cultural Ecology is what is more important to them: the internship topic or the location. In this golden age of global travel, some of us have the enviable burden of too many choices.
Often times, the ideal intern abroad program may not be in the ideal location. For example, I had a student named Miranda just out of High School. Her first choice for an intern abroad location was Thailand; her first choice for program was communication internships in general and media internships in particular. Specifically, Miranda was fascinated by television internships and we gave her the option of a satellite television station in New York City or, working in Thailand with a smaller, more localized station geared to tourists. Miranda had to make a choice: go with the resume builder and high profile media internship in New York or learn a new culture and enjoy tropical weather in Thailand and at a smaller market television internship.
As a nineteen-year-old with her life ahead of her, I gave her the following advice and ultimately left the decision to her. In support of communication internships in New York, I reminded her that she had a long life ahead and would certainly get to Thailand if that was her dream location. So, the location is always there, while the window to intern abroad can be limited. Second, I told her that she should consider this an investment in her future. New York media internships would not only look stronger on her resume but would also allow her to make connections with people in the industry that could be influential in landing work in the future. Finally, I asked her to consider where she would gain the most job skills. As far as television internships go, the New York station was state of the art, and she would be introduced to equipment and techniques otherwise not available in a smaller market.
For Thailand, I appealed to her emotional side. First, I suggested the simple act of following her heart. If her heart told her that Thailand is where she wants to be, then not following that could lead to regret. Second, there were a host of communication and cultural skills available doing an intern abroad program that cannot otherwise be gained in your native country. Third, the opportunity to immerse oneself in a foreign language at such a young age can pay dividends for the future and is the essence of communication internships.
Ultimately Amanda weighed both choices and followed her heart. She went back to her original goal and inspiration: to intern abroad and immerse herself in a foreign culture. Eighty-five degree weather vs. a New York winter helped make the decision easy for her as well. She never looked back and came back inspired by her television internship and determined to take on the world.
Dr. David Adams is a cultural anthropologist who founded the Institute for Cultural Ecology in 1999. He is the author of Samsara and Season of the Loon, both available at Amazon.com. The Institute is a leading communication internships provider that specializes in media internships and television internships.To learn more about the hundreds of intern abroad and study abroad options in more than seventeen countries see www.cultural-ecology.com

Study Abroad: How Not to Upset a Headhunter or Die Trying

Crossing boundaries in their disparate forms is the single greatest purveyor of wisdom in study abroad. With each boundary crossed comes a deeper awareness of place. And, sense of place is what separates the traveler from the tourist.
In 2003 I led twelve students on a six-week study abroad course to Fiji with the Institute for Cultural Ecology of which I serve as Director. I.C.E. runs gap year programs and is an intern abroad provider.
As a cultural anthropologist, I was eager to kick off the village stay component of our study abroad program. To put it bluntly, our village hosts were headhunters. Well . . . they used to be. Not in some headman’s foggy memory captured in a fireside story. No, these folks had elders that still recalled the pungent taste of a human spleen.
Fears of study abroad students becoming human jerky soon dissipated as children emerged en-masse from village huts. Nervous giggles and broken English filled the courtyard. Thus began the bonding between students and villagers and memories that would last a lifetime. “Bula! I am your father,” said a fifty year old man with skin sagging beneath either eye. “Bula! I am your mother,” followed a female voice escorting a student into her new home. For the youngest of the gap year programs students, having a new mother and father was a welcomed site.
The next day, while the students crossed culinary, social, and physical boundaries with each breath, I headed down to the river to trade the drama of cultural immersion for the respite of simple flowing water. I needed a return to the elements: liquid helium for the spirit. With no thought for the morrow, I plunged headfirst into the stream and wrapped my arms around bamboo flotsam in the river’s center. My spontaneous journey began.
I passed streamside villages and the astonished looks of bank-side children. Apparently they had never seen a white man flailing down a river for no apparent reason.
That night I returned to my host village. Joined by eight or so elders, I passed the kava from my lips to the man across from me. The tone was noticeably somber. “Mr. David,” the headman spoke tersely, “we have a problem we need to speak to you about.” The eyes of the men drifted off me and onto the kava bowl between us. “Today you went into the river. And you entered the territory of many villages. This has caused us big trouble.”
I sat frozen: snapped back to a reality so obvious; so hidden. In a flash, I realized the implications of what I had done. The river that my Western eyes saw as nature in its most primordial form; transcending boundaries and belonging solely to the hydrologic cycle had
deceived me. I had spent the day floating on the currents of history and the bloodshed of battles past. “The man you drank kava with downstream,” the headman explained, “he is one of our longtime enemies. You must understand: you are like our children. We must take care of you.
Dr. David Adams is a cultural anthropologist who founded the Institute for Cultural Ecology in 1999. He is the author of Samsara and Season of the Loon, both available at Amazon.com. The Institute is a leading intern abroad and study abroad company that also specializes in gap year programs. To learn more about the hundreds of intern abroad and study abroad options in more than seventeen countries see www.cultural-ecology.com

Professional Internship at Institute for Cultural Ecology

In this era of rapid industrialization which is leading of varied ill effects, aquatic life is the one which is facing threat of survival. Marine conservation is the term which comes to the rescue; it aims at the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas. Marine conservation focuses on limiting the human-caused damage to marine life and on restoring damaged marine ecosystems. Marine conservation also focuses on preserving endangered marine species.
Reef internship is an internship programs which aims to involve student in marine conservation and gives them an exquisite learning experience at the same time. Reef internship program is designed to introduce college age students (juniors, seniors, recent graduates and graduate students) to works for a nonprofit sector of marine conservation. Interns will be exposed to a wide range of environmental nonprofit activities. Students opting for the reef internship should have a common ambition of making a positive contribution towards the conservation.
The law internship is a way for the law firm as well as the individual to see whether one can or cannot fit into the atmosphere and lifestyle of the firm. Gone are those days when theoretical knowledge was enough, today is an era where theoretical knowledge must also not lag behind in practical application of the theory. All you need is to act natural, relaxed. You might very well end up working at your summer internship firm after college, so acting 'forced' and 'business like' would go against you in the long term aim. Not only will it give a false impression to the law firm of your personality and attitude which could hurt both you and the firm in the long term, it will also seem very conspicuous.
The demand for legal professional is increasing day by day and so is the trend to pursue legal internship. More and more aspirants are joining by each passing second. Our aim at ICT is to get opportunities for the intern that look towards the more global scope of placement rather than mere making money during internship. Different types of legal internship program which are available include Paralegal internship and corporate legal internship.

Enrolling in reef internship, legal internship or in law internship, it’s of course an opportunity for you to learn something and for the firm to get some reasonable labor; but at the end of the day, both parties are looking at establishing a long term relationship with the intern by offering a job. It develops a prefect win-win situation for both the parties.