the Show @ studioW and updates

Yes it has been rather random keeping folks up-to-date especially since WPAA-TV has been such a happening place in 2012.

Yes there are LIVE Bands Fridays at 9 PM at studioW.  Part of the randomness is due to the creation of a FB for the station.  So if you are on FB like us there to stay informed. I will do an occassional update here as well.

Update:
WPAA-TV is engaging photographers and musicians in creation of a hyperlocal experience on the Community Message Loop.  There is always room for more Peoples Pics and original local music.
send inquiry of interest to: otpg@comcast.net

Some of our newer programs could use some post production crew support.  Children's Program Penns Pals, Veterans All Theaters View, and MidLifeMatters.

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)

Diversity: WPAA-TV Content

During Black History Month, WPAA-TV played a locally produced documentary film No Barriers Too High about Marcus McCraven, a remarkable story of achievement, excellence and accomplishment against enormous odds. It is also a contemporary story about a life lived which exemplifies the value of education and informs, by example, about experience of race in America -- that No Barrier is Too High.   

The inclusion of family among its strengths; with Stephen providing the drum track and the charming GPS behind the man description of Marguerite; this story which is to encourage our youth to consider education important also demonstrates the power of humility and perseverance.  When Andrew Young spoke at QU in 2003 he said and I paraphrase -- Dr. King did not want to be a martyr; he wanted then and now for us to be living our own stories about justice and the richness of life. Marcus certainly did just that.
                                                                                 QU ALUMNI REVIEW

Thanks to Wallingford's Coalition for Unity for encouraging the pursuit of this acquisition by WPAA-TV. This program will be archived for replay next year. 

In March in coordination with SCOW and Deutsche Welle WPAA-TV will begin a reqular schedule of Spanish Lanquage News and Global News content initiated in Nov 2011 (scheduled between 6 and 7:30 PM Monday thru Friday if no Live local programming was in progress) will continue with the addition of a 1/2 of Science News at 7:30 PM.

2 hours of weekly Spanish Language Programs repeated 3 times a week: Tues midnight- 2AM; Friday 8-10 PM; Sat. 10-Noon and streaming at www.wpaa.tv

Creating Community Television

Creating a Community Video Project is very much like starting a business. 

You need to define the product, brand it, acquire resources to build it and the niche markets that will make it more than video in the vastness of the web and cable.

You also need build the understanding among your community team that you are not going to develop ESPN Quality Products nor have the distribution of cablenetworks.

What you should strive for is authenticity.  Good luck.

Random Acts of Community Building

It sorta started in 2011. As the lynch-pin volunteer of this fluid team I intend to make random, more regular. I will give 5 to 10 hours a week to local people or organization in a way that concurrently meets the outreach objective of WPAA-TV based on some random encounter in my day. ~~ adele