A couple of years ago, I began to volunteer at our local Community Access Television station. Let me say, it is fun and sometimes frustrating.
I started out make a program, subject - lace, making it, some history, interesting tidbits and the such. I made up a list of programs, who could I invite to be a guest on the program and such.
On a show that is produced at the studio, Common Sense CT - I did an interview on lace. With a bit of social media, blew it out across the globe to lacemakers everywhere. It received the most views for a show ever. I was laughing as the host, Gary Byron, said we couldn't talk about lace for an hour show.
Fast forward to this summer. Sometimes, despite the 'gang', you need to take the camera by the lens and go out an film an event. I did, my first one was a meeting and I had all sorts of difficulties. The second one, pictured here came off pretty good. It took so long to edit it. Find an opening and closing, then find royalty free, fee free music for the beginning and the end. Learn to make graphics, called the bottom thirds. Oh did I say of course learn the editing software?
I'm glad to say that last week, it was finally done and approved to be shown on TV (you need to live in Newington to watch on TV) and at our website where you can watch on-demand at http://www.nctv.org/specials/ .
My third had to do with the Town Hall Renovation project. It was a hearing to get feedback. Let's say, the majority of the residents that spoke out, were not in favor of the plan the then current (now ousted) Town Council.
The last one I was able to do was the Kiwanis Speaker Meeting. I was there to only watch and enjoy myself. Low and behold the guy from the studio was nowhere to be found. Our MC was not happy, and not having any time to get back to the studio to get a camera, I took out my phone and began filming. I could only film about 15 minutes on my device and graciously the MC gave me his phone to continue filming another 45 minutes - all without a tripod to steady the camera. November 30, 2015 show if you are interested.
So back to the studio and attempted to join two different videos (matching the audio), add the beginning and end, make and add the graphics and even a slide for "technical difficulties" as the speaker had begun before I could hit record button.
This program is Scott's baby and he usually does the editing. He's an expert when it comes to editing! So we finished and as we sat back to send the video through encoding, he said, paraphrasing, despite using the phone to video the event, I did a pretty dang good job on editing. He had written me a review on them with items I had to correct. I'm going to keep them and actually write up some suggestions to "newbies" like me, to make it easier to learn the edit side.
Am I ready for Sundance or Hollywood? Not yet, though debuting my work is pretty dang special !
PS - the lace program hasn't happened yet. The studio has made progress in getting techy stuff in order so folks like myself can make movies! I did make a movie on my snowflakes which you can watch here on my YouTube channel.
I started out make a program, subject - lace, making it, some history, interesting tidbits and the such. I made up a list of programs, who could I invite to be a guest on the program and such.
On a show that is produced at the studio, Common Sense CT - I did an interview on lace. With a bit of social media, blew it out across the globe to lacemakers everywhere. It received the most views for a show ever. I was laughing as the host, Gary Byron, said we couldn't talk about lace for an hour show.Fast forward to this summer. Sometimes, despite the 'gang', you need to take the camera by the lens and go out an film an event. I did, my first one was a meeting and I had all sorts of difficulties. The second one, pictured here came off pretty good. It took so long to edit it. Find an opening and closing, then find royalty free, fee free music for the beginning and the end. Learn to make graphics, called the bottom thirds. Oh did I say of course learn the editing software?
I'm glad to say that last week, it was finally done and approved to be shown on TV (you need to live in Newington to watch on TV) and at our website where you can watch on-demand at http://www.nctv.org/specials/ .
My third had to do with the Town Hall Renovation project. It was a hearing to get feedback. Let's say, the majority of the residents that spoke out, were not in favor of the plan the then current (now ousted) Town Council.
The last one I was able to do was the Kiwanis Speaker Meeting. I was there to only watch and enjoy myself. Low and behold the guy from the studio was nowhere to be found. Our MC was not happy, and not having any time to get back to the studio to get a camera, I took out my phone and began filming. I could only film about 15 minutes on my device and graciously the MC gave me his phone to continue filming another 45 minutes - all without a tripod to steady the camera. November 30, 2015 show if you are interested.So back to the studio and attempted to join two different videos (matching the audio), add the beginning and end, make and add the graphics and even a slide for "technical difficulties" as the speaker had begun before I could hit record button.
This program is Scott's baby and he usually does the editing. He's an expert when it comes to editing! So we finished and as we sat back to send the video through encoding, he said, paraphrasing, despite using the phone to video the event, I did a pretty dang good job on editing. He had written me a review on them with items I had to correct. I'm going to keep them and actually write up some suggestions to "newbies" like me, to make it easier to learn the edit side.
Am I ready for Sundance or Hollywood? Not yet, though debuting my work is pretty dang special !
PS - the lace program hasn't happened yet. The studio has made progress in getting techy stuff in order so folks like myself can make movies! I did make a movie on my snowflakes which you can watch here on my YouTube channel.
Here's to a year of catching the dreams you chase,
doing what makes you smile,
and loving the life you live.
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