Focus Media
Does It Again
AHS Focus Media, a production group of Arlington High School students working with Arlington Community Media, stepped up again this year to produce its second LIVE coverage of the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life at Pierce field and track facility in June.
The group's departing senior producer, Jared Bessette-Kirton, garnered an ACMi production award on June 25th at Town Hall for the 2009 Relay. He is now enrolled at Ithaca College as as TV production major. AHS Focus Media's outgoing
founder, Jared Bessette-
Kirton and incoming Focus
Media freshman, Amy Currul,
at 2010 ACMi Awards event.
This year's Focus Media crew includes Lucas Gradwohl, Chris Opie, Dan Wolf, Noel Forte, and Amy Currul who are busy producing a new monthly show on practical ecology, called Wicked Green, premiering this fall.
Focus Media produces Arlington Update, a news, events, issues, and activities program related to AHS. However, the group does expect to cover some off-campus happenings as well. The
group collects news stories, writes on-air copy, and performs all the
major technical functions of a network or cable news program, including on-camera field reporting and program anchoring in the studio.
If you would like to learn more about the AHS/ACMi TV production program, please send an email to Jeff@acmi.tv.
We look forward to its second full season that began in September and wish them all success.
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Website Upgrade
When Sean Snyder, came aboard at ACMi, he was given the mission of upgrading our website's design and function. He has now launched the new website (www.acmi.tv) and is interested in feedback from those who use it. You may contact Sean@acmi.tv with your suggestions.
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Award Winner
Joins ACMi Staff
 Sara Alfaro-Franco, named
Producer of the Year at
ACMI's first awards event,
joined the ACMi staff on
August 2nd and is the new
Govt. Access Coordinator.
She was an IT specialist at SUN Microsystems and then a self-taught short-feature and documentary producer/director who interned with the prestigious Northern Light Productions of Boston. Sara distinguished herself as the most dedicated and prolific ACMi member-producer ever. Then she won the 2010 ACMi Producer of the Year award and emerged as the obvious choice to replace the irreplaceable J.R. Curtis who moved to a new position in Arkansas at the end of July. Welcome, Sara ! |
End of SUMMER HOURS
Regular hours resume
10am - 9pm Mon-Thurs 10am - 6pm Friday Saturday by appointment Closed on Sunday
So you see, there's plenty of time after work or school to come to the ACMI TV studio.
Equipment Office Hours
New hours for equipment pick-up and return are:
M -
F 10am - 1pm
and M - Th 5 - 7pm
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Please Remember:
ACMI TV continues to be a smoke- & fragrance-free environment. Please do your best to remember, for the sake of those with allergies and chemical sensitivities, to not use scented products when visiting or working with us here at ACMI.
Thank you.
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Arlington Community Media Inc. was conceived and founded by Arlington citizens to ensure fair and equal access to cable programming from all of Arlington's cable television providers and to provide the training, equipment, and transmission facility for Arlington's residents to use in making themselves seen and heard townwide. You are the reason we're here.
We're always happy to welcome you at ACMI TV.
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Our Newest Star
Hangin' with Hannah
is ACMi's newest show.
To find out more, you'll have to be sure to read our Fall Newsletter in early November. |
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WOW ! WHAT A NIGHT!
A transformed Robbins Memorial Auditorium was the site of the
2010 ACMi Awards event on Friday June 25th.
(photo
by Rick Macomber)
ACMi award nominees and guests began arriving at Arlington Town Hall at 6:15 PM Friday evening June
25th for the first-ever ACMi Awards--the first cable-access TV awards event since the "Sammies" were presented nearly 5 years earlier at the Knights of Columbus.
The assembled guests enjoyed refreshments and live music in the garden next to the
reflecting pool until 7:30 and then served themselves delectable edibles
provided by Arlington's
Beaujolais Catering. Music was sung by folk soloist, Bruce Meyer (producer of Living
Room Stage on ACMi TV), and Red Rooster Band of the Right Turn LIVE show,
featuring ACMi member, Ms. Carla Dorato.
At 8:15 the awards program opened with the
presentation of Certificates of Merit to four diligent and deserving
volunteers. Then, guest speaker Nancy Richard of the Northeast Region Chapter of the
Alliance for
Community Media (ACM-NE), spoke of the importance of
locally based and operated media access centers. Ms. Richard's inspiring speech
was followed by a soothing and meditative musical presentation by Sonwalkar
Sangeet, an ensemble of local musicians from India. Then began the
presentation of awards.
There were 78 nominees from among
ACMi's nearly 300 active members. 23 of them received an award for excellence
in one or more of the subcategories. The formal program ended at 10:15 with a
performance by acclaimed musical group, Air Traffic
Controller, featuring Dave Munro (formerly an air traffic
controller himself), a string quartet, and ACMi member and singer, Brianna Dee. Congratulations nominees and recipients!
A week after the awards event ACMi's new fiscal and membership year began, and we are hard at work to provide a new year of enhanced access to media production tools, fun, activities, excitement, and achievement at Arlington's own community television
production center.
All the best!
from The Staff at ACMi TV
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What's Been Going On at 85 Park Avenue
ACE-ACMi
SummerFun
This
summer, Arlington
7th to 9th graders attended the second annual ACMi-ACE SummerFun Television
Production Workshop held during the final week of July.
Last July,
the Arlington Community Education (ACE) SummerFun program added the week-long
workshop in video and TV production to its curriculum as a a
collaboration with ACMi.
We also gratefully acknowledge our volunteer interns and
assistants: Jared Bessette-Kirton, Noel Forte, Lucas Gradwohl, Billy
Lawler, David Vishniac, and Dan Wolf and for assisting ACMi Studio
Manager Jeff Munro and staff members Lakis Koulouris, Sean Snyder, and
Sara Alfaro-Franco.
The Steve Katsos Show, the only weekly program produced in ACMi's studio is also now the first show at ACMi ever to be picked up by broadcast TV. About an hour and a half after the conclusion of the 2010 ACMi Awards, The Steve Katsos Show (winner of ACMi's Best Overall Production Award) appeared on MYTV's New England broadcast channels for the first time. This meant that the show became available in about three million households in New England.
Back in March, The Steve Katsos Show completed its 52nd consecutive episode and, after a short hiatus, began its second season of showcasing musicians, comedians, actors, authors, and other artists on its half-hour show. The show is a big success and it provides a wonderful TV production learning experience for a gaggle of ACMi members. Steve still plans to go national with his show, and we are inclined to believe him, as he is already in preliminary talks with Comedy Central.
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Tech on call: ACMi technical staff is now on call during business hours to assist our members. The on-call names and times are listed on a whiteboard in the Edit Lab so that members will know whom to ask for help at any given time during the day.
New equipment: ACMi now has a new video server robust enough for video-on-demand (VOD) when it becomes available to visitors at our newly configured website.
* * * New look in the studio: The ACMi studio is now all black except for the floors--and we're looking into that too. Our producers are very happy with the change.___________________________
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ACMi-based Arlington producers register for
this year's A.C.M. northeast regional video contest
The Northeast chapter of the Alliance for Community Media's 13th annual video contest offered a fresh chance for ACMi member-producers to win a regional award in November.
The submission deadline was September 01, 2010. ACMi itself submitted a program for consideration, and will also be a judging site for submissions from other community access stations. We look forward to the November awards presentation ceremony. If you will be going to the awards ceremony, please contact Walter@acmi.tv to let us know.
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TOWN DAY 2010 IS ALMOST HERE.
ACMi COVERS IT LIVE. YOU CAN HELP!
We need volunteers to help support and nourish the production crew during the LIVE coverage of Town Day 2010. ContactWalter@ACMI.tv for information. ____________________________________________________
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A reminder on keeping the Free Press free: We cannot fulfill our obligation to our viewers without keeping them (you) up to date on conditions that may affect freedom of speech and the press--for that is what community media access is charged by its communities to do. In that spirit of keeping our viewers informed, we offer the following link to the organization that brings to you the program "Democracy Now!" -- Free Speech TV. Thank you for your interest in free and independent public information media. To read more, please click here.
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The ACMi Edit Lab
 Prior to renovation, ACMi's E.D. McLeod indicates the area to be upgraded.
After the renovation, the new Edit Lab has two Mac and two PC stations.
Last summer's project in ACMI's downstairs post-production center to provide new editing stations for members and new office space for staff, is now complete. The former editing suites are now offices for Lakis Koulouris (Public Access) and Sean Snyder (Programming & Media).
Editors now have a sense of working together while the use of headsets keeps their work private and does not disturb the other editors.
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Workshops at ACMI
ACMi TV offers workshops in single-camera and multi-
camera field production, digital editing, graphic design, and
studio operations. See the current listing and schedule of
these offerings here.
Most workshops: 6:30-8:30 PM (unless otherwise stipulated).(Final Cut Pro editing workshop is now a 2-part series.)
NEW POLICY:
Our workshops are now offered at $20 each for ACMi members, and $40 each for non-members.
Reservations and payment are required in advance.
RSVP to indicated instructors on the schedule or
to Walter@ACMI.tv or call 781-777-1115.
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Membership Year 2010-11 Well Underway
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July 1, 2010 marked the beginning of ACMI's fourth full membership year. And yet not everyone has gotten the word. While new members are piling in, not all our veterans have renewed. Please be sure to renew as soon as possible.
Chief among the perks that attend ACMi membership is reduced-fee registration in all ACMi workshops. See our current schedule at www.ACMI.tv. And, if you have a documentary or dramatic project that you have been wanting to see on the small screen, we have what you've been waiting for--top quality digital equipment and the training to put it to work for your project. What do we get out of this amazing deal? We get interesting, informative, and creative programming for our Public Access channel. So wait no longer. Come make ACMi TV your launching pad to the world of new media and to new community connections. The doors are open here Monday through Thursday from 10 AM to 9 PM (and Friday to 6 PM).
We look forward to welcoming you at 85 Park Ave again soon.
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Not a member yet, or haven't yet renewed?
Download a membership application here and mail it, or come to 85 Park Avenue to deliver it in person! |
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