Rex Features Internship. Weeks 1-3

Rex Features Internship

On the 12th of November i started my first day of interning at Rex Features in London. I have a 6 week placement of working 9-5, monday to friday in the Rex Features office based between Farringdon and Holborn.

Week 1

Tuesday - The first day we met Rick who introduced us to most of the team and gave us tutorials on how to use lightbox, the software they use for key wording and organising images they receive. I had an email address made for myself which would receive stacks of photos which would need to be key worded and sorted out and then send them on to the next stage. After a few hours of that, we were then lead down to the basement by ex falmouth student, Emily, who showed us the other thing we would be doing for a few hours everyday. The task was to down size the files of alphabetically arranged transparencies that filled the basement. I was informed that it has been going on for close to a year now and they are only half way through the letter B. This was my favourite part of the job, being able to see old photos of actors and rockstars that haven't been seen by others.

Wednesday - We're told that even morning when we come in we will have emails with stacks of photos for us to run through in Lightbox, which took us up to around 12 or 1 o'clock. Then after lunch we spent the rest of the day in basement de-duplicating transparencies.

Thursday - After finishing the morning task i was given the job of scanning newspaper tear outs. They are usually pages with photos of celebrities which Rex have been sent in by photographers and then bought by the newspapers. So the reason for scanning these 'tear sheets' is for referencing and invoicing. Every page i scan has code on it which when im putting it into lightbox it saves it under the photographers name who took it. When they were all done it was time for lunch and then down in the basement to de-dupe.

Friday - Completed my morning stacks, scanned a pile of tear sheets and then de-duped.


Week 2

It gets a little repetitive here.

Monday -- Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and a few magazines and then de-duped.

Tuesday - Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and magazines and then de-duped

Wednesday - After we completed out morning stacks we were introduced to something else we had to do. we would download DVD's with still images from movies into Lightbox and then use a tool called Sub head Magic to link up actors names to faces, add details of the movie and then register it. After we went to the basement and de-duped.

Thursday - It was really quiet as it was thanksgiving, so no morning stacks. I started the day by downloading and key wording film stills, scanning a small amount of tear sheets and then de-duping.

Friday - Still no more stack sheets as it's Black Friday in America. So scanned the tear sheets that were already at my desk, worked on the film stills and then de-duped


Week 3

Monday - Back to normal now, a few stack sheets in an email, so worked on them until about 12, scanned some tear sheets and then de-duped

Tuesday - More stack sheets, this time all of photos of bands and music festivals for Metal Hammer Magazine, which i was quite happy to as i was at most of those concerts that were on my screen. Scanned some tear sheets then de-duped.

Wednesday - Stack sheets for Metal Hammer again, tear shett scanning then de-duping.

Thursday - Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and a few magazines and then de-duped.

Friday - Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and a few magazines and de-duped