Step 1: ATTEND MANDATORY SKYPE GROUP INTERNSHIP MEETING.

Step 2: LOCATION SELECTION. Look at the Opportunities Tab (above) and companies from the Animation/Design Firm Contact List (or perform your own web searches for companies). Pick at least 3 places that you are interested in and that you plan to contact.

Step 3: COMPLETE "PREP 1" ASSIGNMENT: Plan of Action Statement, Resume, and Draft Cover Letter. See Instructions/Templates and Submit in appropriate Laulima Assignment.***NOTE: IF you have already secured an internship loaction, YOU MUST STILL COMPLETE & UPLOAD your Plan of Action Statement (as to the steps you took to land your current internship).

 

 

Step 4: COMPLETE "PREP 2" ASSIGNMENT: Draft Portfolio/Demo Reel link, Final (Text Only) Cover Letter & Final Designed Resume. Submit into appropriate Laulima Assignments. (TO PREPARE A PDF PORTFOLIO: Go through your work and then choose pieces that you think will best appeal to them, based on the type of work they do. Nicely put together a PDF portfolio, a mini website portfolio, or a demo reel of your work. For internship I suggest doing a PDF and working in InDesign to create it. I suggest using separate pages for each work (but you can show several views of the same piece on that page). I also suggest working in landscape orientation and using minimal design elements to frame your work. Labels should be small and unobstructed—such as this Portfolio Example. ***NOTE: IF you have already secured an internship loaction, YOU MUST STILL COMPLETE & UPLOAD the ENTIRE ASSIGNMENT IN STEP 4. Then YOU MAY SKIP to STEP10.

 

Step 5: APPLY FOR INTERNSHIP POSITIONS. Send the cover letter content as the body of an email to the employer, send a direct link to your Resume, and to your Portfolio/Demo Reel -OR- follow their requested application guidelines (if they provided them (Suggestion: Do not contact them until you have all your application materials ready). You ma

Step 6: WAIT FOR RESPONSES. Follow up if necessary with another email or phonecall (waiting a week for responses is typical).

Step 7: SCHEDULE INTERVIEWS. If they express interest, Try to schedule interviews as close together as possible (so that you're in interview mode and in the event they make you offers you can weigh them against each other).

Step 8: INTERVIEW. **Give them a copy of the Industry Handout while you are there, so they become familiar with internship location requirements for our program, as they consider offering you an internship position.

Step 9: ACCEPT OR DECLINE INTERNSHIP OFFERS. AFTER DOING ALL of your interviews and hearing back from all of them, accept or decline internship offers—Don't be pressured into accepting, you can let them know it is required for the course that you wait and discuss your options with your internship instructor prior to making a selection.

Step 10: COMPLETE INTERNSHIP DOCUMENTATION.
(**due completed & signed via Laulima Assignment feature for my review/signature PRIOR TO START OF INTERNSHIP).
[[ Instructions on DIGITAL SIGNATURES here ]]

A) Have SUPERVISOR DIGITALLY or HAND SIGN the Industry Handout and upload the via Laulima Assignment. I'll verify with them that they meet the criteria prior to you starting your iternship by calling or emailing them to discuss your position, as necessary.
B) WITH THE HELP OF YOUR SUPERVISOR, thoroughly FILL OUT and BOTH OF YOU, DIGITALLY or HAND SIGN and upload the signed Student Study Plan and Contract via Laulima Assignment. I will review it upon receipt and contact either you or the employer if I have any questions. Upon approval I will sign it. ***Note: As you consider your working schedule/times, take into account Holidays the company takes off, our final meeting date/time, and the ability to work more during Spring Break.
C) ONLY YOU FILL OUT, SIGN and UPLOAD your Release of Risk and Liability via Laulima Assignment.

Upon receipt of all signed and final documentation, I will route via email to all parties for their records and formally approve the internship for NMA credit, at which time you may officially begin your internship.

Step 11: BEGIN YOUR SERVICE HOURS AT INTERNSHIP LOCATION. Be a darn good intern!!

Step 12: COURSE WORK.
A) Begin doing Progress Reports as scheduled, via Laulima Assignments ;
B) Keep in contact with instructor, as necessary. Via email, phone or Create a new topic in the Questions or Discussions Board to ask Questions or Share Experiences, so that everyone can comment and benefit from the discussion. **Make sure to √ the box "Notify when a reply is posted" when posting a new topic, so that you are notified when someone responds to it.

Step 13: NOTIFY SUPERVISOR AND INSTRUCTOR OF APPROACHING END OF SERVICE HOURS VIA EMAIL (CC me in your email to Supervisor). When you do this will vary for everyone depending on when you started, but I would say that letting them know after your 3rd progress report that you are approaching your hours is a good time to do it. **This will prompt me as your Instructor to request your Intern Supervisor Evaluation and receive it in a timely manner for course grading (I will CC you in the request) and will inform you as soon as I receive it. You are responsible for following up with your employer if your evaluation is not received in a timely manner.

Step 14: COMPLETE FINAL DESIGN BRIEF (Samples of Web Final Internship Brief & Printed Final Internship Brief)

Step 15: ATTEND ONLINE FINAL MANDTORY MEETING AND FINAL DESIGN BRIEF PRESENTATION. Presenting will be done online this semester via Laulima Assignments and you will be required to post your design brief, comment and respond to the post/comments of others. FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS, PLEASE SEE Course Website Schedule (dated May7) or see appropriate Laulima Assignment.

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Step 16: YOU'RE DONE. I'll share with you your Intern Supervisor Evaluation with you via email or in response to the appropriate assignment, and your grade will be posted on GradeBook at the end of the semester and submitted on myUH.

 

 

PROCESS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Current as of December 13, 2012