It was Extravaganza here all week. My volunteering surrounded the events and the station. We, NCTV, are awaiting a large grant to arrive any day now, once the state of CT gets going. This organization is funded primarily with government grants. Anyone that knows grants, let alone from the government, are at the whim of political powers to be.
The group has been anticipating this grant that would allow us to upgrade to HD production. All the avenues that we are pushing the content to are all switching to HD. In the business, we can not snooze!
While it is really techie, I'm learning lots about the station that I can help with. I've had the chance to edit part of a program we filmed with adding the graphics to the "bottom third". Watch the TV news, did you notice the bottom third the screen? Then we gave me some 'permissions' to update the website with writing some code to link our programs to the website. That takes me back to the days I used to do some programing. A simply misplaced comma and it won't work.
What is amazing with this group - they are amazingly bright individuals. Each of them with their speciality - audio, editing, filming, content, and the list goes on.
Anyway - Extravaganza - this was my second year as the on-air talent. Mike G was my cameraman once again. It is amazing how much the talent and camera guy work to get the best. Besides interviewing people at random, we sought out certain folks that were in charge of the event, other notable individuals from the community.
Then we separated to obtain additional footage close ups that help will help fill out and transition during the film. Great experience for me to "see" what the camera can pick up. He picked up footage from Wednesday night, we teamed up for Friday night footage and interviews, and then all day on Saturday doing pretty much the same.
I'm having fun with this, even with the learning curve and learning and earning the trust of the group. Most of the background work is helping make up processes so that we have less time in the admin side of the station and therefore having more time to work on content.
One idea came as I interviewed various people and organizations - we need a show on the station that highlights these organizations. So I guess I'm going to be writing up a proposal in the middle of the HD upgrade.
Great week - lots of stimulus, other areas were equally good. More on the minimization of 'stuff', and clearing up items. Thanks for stopping by and see you next week!
While it is really techie, I'm learning lots about the station that I can help with. I've had the chance to edit part of a program we filmed with adding the graphics to the "bottom third". Watch the TV news, did you notice the bottom third the screen? Then we gave me some 'permissions' to update the website with writing some code to link our programs to the website. That takes me back to the days I used to do some programing. A simply misplaced comma and it won't work. What is amazing with this group - they are amazingly bright individuals. Each of them with their speciality - audio, editing, filming, content, and the list goes on.
Anyway - Extravaganza - this was my second year as the on-air talent. Mike G was my cameraman once again. It is amazing how much the talent and camera guy work to get the best. Besides interviewing people at random, we sought out certain folks that were in charge of the event, other notable individuals from the community.
Then we separated to obtain additional footage close ups that help will help fill out and transition during the film. Great experience for me to "see" what the camera can pick up. He picked up footage from Wednesday night, we teamed up for Friday night footage and interviews, and then all day on Saturday doing pretty much the same.
I'm having fun with this, even with the learning curve and learning and earning the trust of the group. Most of the background work is helping make up processes so that we have less time in the admin side of the station and therefore having more time to work on content.
One idea came as I interviewed various people and organizations - we need a show on the station that highlights these organizations. So I guess I'm going to be writing up a proposal in the middle of the HD upgrade.
Great week - lots of stimulus, other areas were equally good. More on the minimization of 'stuff', and clearing up items. Thanks for stopping by and see you next week!
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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