Public Event TV: One Camera Shoot

Wallace Dam Fishway: Harry Haakonsen Dedication Video is complete.  I did not editorialize but I did edit the material presenting the nearly 2 hour event in 30 minutes, with a slight restructuring of the sequence of events.  I did give the project slightly more than one hour per minute of production attention. 

I enjoyed creating the lower thirds shad tag and I leveraged several web page mastheads.

It was a refreshing event to attend. I know that there was years of effort to get Town's cooperation for which there was ample credit bestowed and ironically, accepted. In reality it was informing but agonizing to watch each new Town Council get briefed on the project's value and to hear the same concerns about liability raised.
In the end there are many proud volunteers and hope for an easier future for the several varieties of fish that swim home.  For this cause I am not wearing the T-Shirt but it was rewarding to help tell the story via coverage of this Earth Day event.  Search Wallace Damn on the wpaa.tv calendar for play times between 4/25/12 and 5/20/12.  On VOD look for otpg Wallace Damn Fishway Dedication.

  

Poetry Returns to Wallingford - at least for a day

As other teams before them, this year's CT Teen Poetry Slam Team is making plans to go to San Franscisco, California to participate in Brave New Voices-Witness the Word 2012.  They will be using the WPAA-TV facility to workshop performance techniques and do a fundraising feature performance on April 14th at 8PM.  There is no charge for this performance: however, tax-deductible donations are welcome through their sponsor Piece Theatre.
Piece Theatre Founder and veteran performance poet Josiah Houston is this year's team performance coach. Among other Performance and Poetry accolades, he was a member of the CT Teen Slam Team from 1999-2001. He has subsequently led a dramatic life journey through the world of theater arts,  the lessons from which he hopes may benefit this fine group of young Connecticut writers: Sera Pisani, Julie Ficks, Sophie Dillon, Maggie Kearney, Kate Bartell, and Evan Knoll.

I had the benefit of working with veteran thespian John Basinger for one day.  One day with him transformed my awareness of what was possible delivering off the page.  April 14th is designed to have the same potential for this team. A combination of good writing and performance is still a rare experience.  I hope the folks in the Wallingford area come out and enjoy this event.

Josiah

Saturday April 14th

8 PM

28 So Orchard St. 

Children Stories: 2 languages

The youth content Media Zone on WPAA is 5-8 AM and Saturdays 5 AM until Noon. The following locally produced children stories in Spanish & English will be scheduled in this zone often in 2012.  They can also be viewed on VOD via the links below.

BENventures: I Can Do It produced by local Children's author Camila Gabriel with OTPG Support
These two Beatrice Potter Stories produced by SCOW the Spanish Community of Wallingford  with OTPG Support are also playing

The Story of Perico Rabbit - El Cuento De Perico El Conejo Tavieso : The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
The Story of Carlota Duck - El Cuento De La OCA Carlota: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)