public access tv workshops 2014 release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 9, 2014
CONTACT: Lisa Haley Thomson, Benjamin Marvin Phone: 518-454-5102 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.strose.edu/news
SAINT ROSE OFFERS FREE VIDEO WORKSHOPS FOR ALBANY’S PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNEL
The College of Saint Rose again will offer a series of free workshops for people who want to
produce programming for Albany’s public access TV channel.
Albany city residents will be given first priority to register to attend the two-hour
workshops. Non-Albany residents may have their names placed on a waiting list in the event
openings occur.
Five different training sessions will cover video shooting, basic digital editing, advanced
digital editing, story development and use of the television studio. The workshops will be offered on
a rotating basis at 6 p.m. on Thursdays between May 15 and July 24.
Most sessions will be presented on the Saint Rose campus at the William Randolph Hearst
Center for Communications and Interactive Media, 996 Madison Ave., Albany. The TV studio
workshop will take place in the studio at the Albany Public Library, 161 Washington Ave., Albany.
This is the third round of annual workshops offered as part of a collaboration among The
College of Saint Rose, the city of Albany, Time Warner Cable, The New School of Radio and
Television and Albany High School to assist city residents in preparing content to be shown on
public access TV. Additional training may be required to operate equipment in the television studio.
Filmmaker and video installation artist Liz Richards will lead the workshops. Richards has
worked in television and web production at WGBH in Boston, was a cinema professor at Point Park
University in Pittsburgh and received the 2009 Women in Film and Media (Pittsburgh Chapter)
“Excellence in Filmmaking Award.” Richards has had more than 60 national and international
screenings of her work in Japan, Germany, Sweden, Finland and France.
To qualify for the workshops, participants must be 18 years of age or older, must have a
valid photo ID with address and must register in advance for each workshop. Computer skills
are essential, particularly for the editing classes.
To register, visit www.strose.edu/publicaccess. Capacity is limited to 15 people for each
workshop, so early registration is advised. Deadline for registration is the Monday before the date of
each Thursday workshop. Walk-ins will not be accommodated.
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Details and dates for the five workshops follow. Workshops 2, 3, 4 and 5 build on
information presented in each of the previously numbered sessions, so participants must take them
in sequence:
• Workshop 1 – Camera 1: Participants will brainstorm short film ideas, create pre-production materials and learn various camera types, anatomy and file formats. Dates: May 15 and June 19. • Workshop 2 – Camera 2: Working from pre-production materials, participants will shoot necessary footage to turn their ideas into reality. Dates: May 22 and June 26. • Workshop 3 – Basic Editing: Participants will learn digital file management and storage, importing and sequencing footage and other basic editing concepts and techniques. Dates: May 29 and July 10. • Workshop 4 – Advanced Editing: Participants will learn how to export their edited sequences to upload on the web and to burn to DVD. Dates: June 5 and July 17.
• Workshop 5 – Studio Training: Overview of public access TV studio policy and procedures, producer concerns and fair use and copyright issues. Dates: June 12 and July 24.
For further information or to place a name on the waiting list for non-Albany residents,
contact Joann Crupi at [email protected] or phone 518-458-5313. For information about the
television studio, contact [email protected].
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