Community Media - "Sights and Sounds"

A weekly newsletter from your friends at
Access Sacramento
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Father's Day - June 21, 2015
Either Here or Gone - Celebrate the Dads in your Life!     
June 16, 2015 
In This Issue
Sign Up for a Film Class!
RSVP: Orientation Tomorrow
Donate to Access Sacramento
Huge Trade Show June 30
Members Gather June 25
Listen Up! Sac TONIGHT!
Matias Bombal at CFAA
French Films & CA Stage
Tim Russ Here Saturday
New Equipment for 2015-16
Teens Learn the TV Truck
VIDEO: Celebate Access

Offices Closed July 3 & 4
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The Access Sacramento office, TV and Radio Studio, and Digital Media Lab will be closed on Friday July 3 and Saturday July 4 for the Independence Day Holiday.

 

BE SAFE

ENJOY THE HOLIDAY! 

 
 

Summer 2015 Workshop Schedule

 

Click on the image above to view the Access Sacramento workshop schedule


Getting Started at Access  

Free Orientation

Tomorrow Night at 6pm    

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Access Sacramento's next free orientation sessions are June 9 or 17 at 6 pm. 

 

RSVP by calling 916-456-8600 ext. 0.

 

Access Sacramento's regularly  scheduled Orientation Sessions are on the 2nd Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday of every month.  

 

Orientation classes are free and open to the public. They last a little more than an hour. The orientation class is also a required step in becoming an Access Sacramento member and should be taken at your earliest convenience.   

 

The Orientation Class gives you a chance to ask questions and to learn about our services and what we provide to the community and our members. We also describe the standard classes, member benefits, and provide a tour of the radio and TV studios and digital media lab.   

 

All classes are on a first come, first serve basis. We hope to see you there!

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Access Sacramento

(Inside the Coloma Community Center)

4623 T Street, Suite A

Sacramento, Ca. 95819

 

Regular office hours are Monday through Friday 9-6. Memberships must be done in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

 
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  Click  to listen to Access Sacramento's own locally produced radio station.  

Capital Film Arts Alliance

 

CFAA Meets on the Third Tuesday of the Month at the Art Institute

 

For more information visit: 


Info for All Things Film
 
  
Website that gathers together resources for Actors, Crew, Festivals and Tips for all as a one-stop shop for everything film in Sacramento.


SacCasting.com
Resource Registry for Actors, Directors & Casting Agents

 
DemocracyNOW
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman - Progressive news stories from around the world!!

 

Monday thru Thursday @ 6pm & 12am

Friday @ 5:30 pm and 11:30 pm 

 

 http://democracynow.org/  


Donations to
Access Sacramento Help Youth, Health, Community Media

   

 

Access Sacramento is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation providing low-cost or free radio, television and internet services for Sacramento County residents.

 

Your tax deductible donations support youth and adult training for job skills and work force development, promote health and community news through our channels and AccessLocal.tv, and promote Free Speech and the community voice: Making a Difference, One Voice at a Time.

Push HERE to donate today.

Sacramento Video Industry Professionals (VIPs)
Video Industry Professionals

Meetings are the last Wednesday of every month

 

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Community reports from our

Neighborhood News Bureaus   

Click here


The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition  

 

The Northern California Filmmakers Coalition (NCFC) invites you to be a studio audience guest in the television production of  "Sacramento Film Works". RSVP by phone at 916-502-7068 or 916-384-5796 or

by email at info@tru-talent.com



Sacramento Adobe Users Group   

 

 

Sacramento Adobe Users Group.

Meets monthly.

 

http://sacramentoadobeusers.org/  

 

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Next time you are in the office, ask to to join the Access Sacramento - SaveMart SHARES program. We will give you a plastic SHARES card. Hand the SHARES card to the checker each time you check-out at SaveMart and they will donate 3% of your total grocery bill to Access Sacramento.

 

This costs you nothing - the 3% comes from SaveMart as a supporter of our nonprofit organization. Once you get into the habit of remembering your SHARES card, the rest is simple. Thanks to you and SaveMart for supporting Access Sacramento.   
 
 

Stay Connected with 

Access Sacaramento!

You can get information about Access Sacramento in many ways. If you're away from home or cable TV, then watch us live from our main website!

 

 

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Follow us on Twitter

 

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General Information

Get the latest on programming, upcoming classes or services, and news about Access Sacramento in the community.

 

@SacGOTW

Hometown TV Game of the Week 

Learn what's coming up on the schedule, the latest about this week's game, and get in-game updates.  Plus, if you send us a tweet during the game, your comment may appear on the air LIVE, Fridays at 7pm on Comcast & CCI Cable Ch. 17, and AT&T U-verse Ch. 14. Replays on Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Tuesdays and 7 p.m.

  

Like us on Facebook

 

Access Sacramento

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Learn about Access Sacramento in the community, information about upcoming classes, and current news and information affecting public access cable.

 

A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival

https://www.facebook.com/ 

groups/343414605740324/ 

  

Find details about the current festival, production news , and the crews, directors and stars.  16th World Premiere Sunday Oct. 4 at 1pm at The Crest Theatre in Sacramento.

 

LiveWire

https://www.facebook.com/g

roups/133349386715657/

LiveWire is Sacramento's longest running LIVE weekly talk show and it can be seen every Wednesday at 5pm on Comcast/CCI Cable Ch. 17 and AT&T U-Verse Ch. 14.  Find out about current guests, topics and see highlights from shows.

 

Facebook Fan Sites

 

"Listen Up Sacramento!"

https://www.facebook.com/g

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Fans of Access Sacramento's twice monthly music performance show "Listen Up Sacramento!" offer info about performers, singers, and bands that have appeared on the show including new performance announcements and news from the groups.    


California Film Foundation

 

Meetings are always the 1st Friday of each month.  

 


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DW-TV (Watch Deutsche-Welle TV in English) Daily News from the heart of Europe. Plus Arts, Travel, and Entertainment features. Weeknights 5:30 pm & 11:30 pm on Channel 17 and on Channel 18 every other hour.

 

 
  
  Thank you for your support.

    

  Gary Martin, Executive Director 

  Access Sacramento
  4623 T Street
  Sacramento, CA. 95819
  (916) 456-8600 #100 

Annual Membership Meeting

SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, June 25  6pm
TV Studio

You can be on TV.  All members of Access Sacramento are invited to our TV Studio on the Coloma Community Center next Thursday to meet and provide comments to the Board of Directors, to hear the latest news and plans for the upcoming year, and to hear who will receive this year's television and radio producer and provider of the year awards.

This week, current paid-members of Access Sacramento receive a mailed annual report and Board of Director's ballot.  Members are asked to mark their ballot and mail it in time to arrive by next Wednesday.

The Board of Directors meets for its regular business meeting at 6pm, and then begins the Annual Membership Meeting at 7:00 pm.  The membership meeting can be watched live on Access Sacramento, Comcast & Consolidated Communications Channel 17, AT&T U-Verse Channel 14 or live streamed from AccessSacramento.org.

Coloma Community Center TV Studio

4623 T Street, Sacramento

Thursday, June 25

6pm - Business Meeting

7 pm - Membership Meeting on TV

 

JoAnn Fuller, Board Chair
At 7pm, all radio and television series producers and providers will receive certificates marking their years of service. Special awards will be presented for the radio and television producer and provider of the year, with other awards including rookie of the year.

At 6pm, the Board of Directors will select its new leadership, after current chair JoAnn Fuller steps down because of term limits after six years of elected board service. The Board will also received next year's draft budget. 

See You There!

 

For more information call 916-456-8600 ext. 0  

 


"Gillian Underwood & The Lonesome Doves"

Tonight at 11pm on Channel 17

By Listen Up! Producer, Erika Kjelstrom

"Listen Up! Sacramento" is delighted to unveil the lyrical local duo, Gillian Underwood & The Lonesome Doves! If you enjoy artists like Neko Case or Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, make sure you tune in. Heartbreaking lyrics mixed with rockin' guitar riffs... it will leave you "Lonesome" for more! 

Press Contact: gillgilltheguitargirl@gmail.com 

Tune in to "Listen Up! Sacramento" at 11pm tonight, June 16th on Access Sacramento channel 17 on Comcast/Consolidated Communications cable and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. You can also watch with our web simulcast at the same time it airs at www.AccessSacramento.org 

and click 'watch 17.' 
 

TONIGHT'S CFAA FILM MEETING  

 

Special Documentary Screening

plus Q&A to follow


"The Sacramento Picture"
Writer Producer Director Matias Bombal 

 

Tonight at 7pm, Meet the makers of "The Sacramento Picture" documentary at the regular June meeting of the Capital Film Arts Alliance.

 

"The Sacramento Picture" is a combination of the blending of news and other film footage from various eras of Sacramento's history and modern day recordings of locals speaking about different aspects of the city's history.    

 

Sacramento area historian and film critic Matias Antonio Bombal, also narrates this uinique Sacramento documentary. 

 

Joining Bombal for the presentation and questions and answers is the Editor and Post-Production supervisor Chad E. Williams.  

  

Join us for a screening and Q&A!

  

CFAA meetings are held at:

The Art Institute of Sacramento 

2850 Gateway Oaks Dr., Sacramento 

 

CFAA meetings and writers events are free to members,and only $5 for non-members or guests and $3 for students.

     

Phone: 916-600-6477  

Email: Info@capitalfilmarts.org

 


Sacramento French Film Festival
and 
California Stage 
Wednesday 5pm on LiveWire! 
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LiveWire welcomes back Cecile Downs from the Sacramento French Film Festival who will be kicking off their event this Friday. Also coming in is Nick Cronenwett from the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen to share with the audience what they do at this local nonprofit organization.

  

The SFFF, organized by the Sacramento French Cultural Society, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created in 2010 and is the second largest French film festival on the West Coast. It is a unique cultural event that brings people together around films and French culture in a festive atmosphere.

  

With the variety of its programming, the SFFF appeals to a diverse, educated, and affluent audience of all ages. Held for the past 12 years at the Crest Theatre, Sacramento's last art deco movie palace, the SFFF reaches thousands of people each year and plays an important part in the cultural life of Downtown Sacramento. 
 

  

For more info on the Sacramento French Film Festival:

www.sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org 

  

The Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen (SBK) is a community-centered bicycle shop serving the residents of Sacramento.

  

The organization was formed in order to promote cycling as a low-cost, alternative form of transportation; enable self-sufficiency through knowledge of bicycle maintenance; and promote bicycle safety through education and classes.

For more info on the Sacramento Bike Kitchen:

www.sacbikekitchen.org 

 

Join us and tune in to LiveWire! at 5 p.m.  Wednesday, June 17th on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch the simulcast online the same time it airs at www.AccessSacramento.org and click 'watch 17'. The encore presentation airs the following Thursday at 7:30 p.m


Sac FilmWorks Show Recruits Audience Members for Saturday

RSVP Required
Hollywood Actor/Director Tim Russ
Comments on  Sac Web Series "Rellik"  

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Star Trek star and movie director Tim Russ will be the special interview guest this Saturday when Sacramento Film Works tapes in the Access Sacramento TV Studio at 6:30 pm at 4623 T. Street, Sacramento.

Russ will reveal some secrets from the making of his latest directorial project, the Northern California web series launch of "Rellik."  The first episode, written by a team of Sacamento writers, premiered at Sacramento Comic Con this week and played Sunday on the big screen in Roseville.

Sacramento Film Works is produced by the Northern California Filmmaker Coalition.

Some seats may still be available but must be ordered either by phone or e-mail.  Open seating is not available.  For ticket availability, call  (916) 502-7068 or (916) 384-5796.  Inquiries may also be sent to info@tru-talent.com or bellg777@gmail.com by this Thursday.


2015-2016 Planned Purchases Help Access Sacramento TV & Radio
Members

In the last few weeks, Access Sacramento has been reporting on its budget approvals with the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission.

Today we can also provide details on a variety of planned equipment purchases and other improvements intended to help all members create programming and make their shows better.

On-Line Video Submission
Sportcomputer Access Sacramento intends to implement a video ingest process that will allow television producers and providers to submit their programs electronically instead of physically bringing a DVD or flash drive directly to the station.  This YouTube style upload system will allow programming to be transferred directly to the Access Sacramento playback server no matter what type of digital file was originally created.

KUBU 96.5 FM Remote Audio Broadcasting
Live radio broadcasting from outside the Access Sacramento studios using appropriate audio mixing, headsets, and necessary cell or internet connectivity will be one of the first things purchased once the new budget year is active in August, 2015. The proposed Comrex system includes headsets and wireless microphones for field interviews and other event coverage support.

AccessLocal.TV Moves to the Cloud
Access Sacramento's News blog website has so much content now (articles, pictures, videos, podcasts) that its performance and load-speeds have slowed.  By moving the content and website management to leased cloud space, performance issues should be resolved with unlimited growth potential (depending on funding.)

TV Studio Control Room Monitors
Much of the equipment in the TV control room is still older style analog Standard Definition broadcast technology.  Most of those monitors will be replaced with High-Definition compliant monitors that will lead the way toward full HD integration in the years to come.

Check-out Cameras & Additional Media Lab Computers
Two additional check out cameras and their accessories (Tripods, Lights, Microphones) will be purchased in the next fiscal year, and additional computers will be placed in the digital media lab to help with a transition Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software to Adobe's Creative Cloud using Premiere, Photoshop and After Effects software.

HD Truck & Remote Video Control Room
As previously mentioned in earlier weeks, Access Sacramento is also authorized to replaces its existing 1996 Recreation Vehicle that creates Hometown TV and Game of the Week broadcasts. Delivery of the new High Definition vehicle with its cameras, video switcher, audio mixer, recording systems, and intercom system is expected after February 15, 2016.

All of these new equipment will help ensure Access Sacramento remains on the path toward the digital future while we "Make a Difference, One Voice at a time."


Youth Training for Video Remotes

Access Sacramento Partners with Youth Broadcast And Media Association

Training Class Begins
A special five-week training session began Saturday for teens who want experience with producing a "Big Remote" using professional television equipment.

In a partnership between Access Sacramento and the Youth Broadcast and Media Association (YBAMA), nine high-school/college-aged students are learning how to operate cameras, audio and other equipment in preparation for producing a taped television event in July.
(From Left, Back Row) Access Sacramento's Trainer Richard Langley starting Youth Broadcast & Media Association training with Myles Hailey, Cosumnes Oaks , Maury Montalvo and Dominic Herrera, Grant, Matt Binger and Cameron Clarke, Natomas Charter, and Slade Carpenter, Bear River, High Schools student participants.


More details about the first day of the class' training can be found HERE.

Access Sacramento this year also will partner with YBAMA's 19th annual North American All Youth Film Festival with a live broadcast from the Crest Theatre Oct. 2.


VIDEO  HIGHLIGHT REEL
Sample Access Sacramento's Programming

The variety of cultural arts and  events programming seen on Access Sacramento throughout the year is a celebration of the broad diversity found in Sacramento County.

  

Take two minutes and see what you've been missing:

 

Click to Watch the Video

 

Many of these programs come from our Hometown TV or Game of the Week programs, but LiveWire! and Listen Up! Sacramento. 

Your non-profit organization's event can also be covered by Access Sacramento by simply putting in an application.