For Julie Kindinger, working as a video logger for NBC at the Winter Olympics in February in Turin, Italy will be an unbelievably busy, but rewarding time.
A junior from Columbus, Ohio, Kindinger will leave Feb. 3 for Italy, where she will work a minimum of 12 hours each day in the video editing department for NBC’s Olympic coverage. Kindinger will edit video for the network’s primetime coverage, anchored by Bob Costas. Her responsibility will be to initially edit footage from a variety of Olympic events each day, preparing it for the editors who will make the final decisions about what highlights make the airwaves.
“Basically, we log everything that happens in a particular event,” says Kindinger, a broadcast communication and leisure/sport management major. “If it’s figure skating, we log each routine, marking the point where each jump occurs. Then we have to make a note of what happens for each thing we log. So if a skater falls on a particular jump, we note that. It helps the more senior editors find what they need in a hurry.”
Her Olympic internship will help Kindinger build on an already impressive resume. During high school, she interned with Ohio State University’s video board department, producing highlights and other video features during Buckeye football, basketball and hockey games. She has also worked with Elon’s athletics department to develop a new system to edit video, which coaches use for practice and game preparation.
In Turin, Kindinger will join 100 other college and university interns in NBC’s video department. The interns must pay for their housing in the media village, but will be allowed to eat meals there and experience firsthand what it is like to cover the Olympic Games. She says she can’t wait to get started.
“I’ve always dreamed of working at the Olympics, so this is the ultimate internship for me.”