Community Media - "Sights and Sounds"
A weekly newsletter from your friends at
 
Celebrate Summer with a Special Treat
Today is National Ice Cream Sandwich Day!
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SacCasting.com
Resource Registry for Actors, Directors & Casting Agents
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Sacramento Video
Industry Professionals
(VIPs)
Meetings are at 7 p.m. on the Last Tuesday of Every Month in the
Coloma Community Center
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Help Access Sacramento Donate a Car, Boat or RV 
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High Definition Remote Truck
Comes Home to Access Sacramento
Access Sacramento officially takes ownership of a new High-Definition remote broadcast truck this week after nearly a year in planning and construction.
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Access Sacramento's new HD remote truck set up for a musical concert last Sunday.
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The vehicle arrived from TV Pro Gear in Glendale, CA last Wednesday, and the crew members from Access Sacramento's Hometown TV staff put the truck through its paces Sunday covering 10 new local rock bands as part of the training program from the 36th annual Skip's Stairway to Stardom.
For a sample of what goes on inside the truck's TV control room, visit Access Sacramento's FaceBook page: CLICK HERE.
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Director Roniecia Harris at the video switcher.
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On the TV side, the truck features four new HD cameras, a For-A video switcher, 24-channel audio mixer, Compix character generator for graphics, and NewTek 3-Play instrant replay system. The Blackmagic recording systems are all digital.
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Truck Engineer Richard Langley monitors camera video settings.
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The truck itself is outfitted with a side awning for sun and rain protection, an auto-leveling system, and roof-top side rails for use as a camera platform.
The production vehicle was purchased with funding from the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission and will create a minimum of 50 Hometown TV and Game of the Week broadcasts over the next 12 months.
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Cameraman Jesse Nix operates one of four HD cameras at Skip_s Stairway to Stardom.
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Production of the 36th annual Skip's Stairway to Stardom also included post-performance interviews with eac of the bands. The concert's music gets a special audio mix from Skip's Music which is then incorporated into the finshed broadcast.
DVD's of the concert are available for purchase from the Access Sacramento office by calling 916-456-8600 ext. 0.
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Mischief!
Today August 2nd at 11pm on Channel 17
Access Sacramento's Listen Up! Sacramento is pleased to present local cover band & ambassadors of fun, Mischief! If you are a little bit country AND a little bit rock n' roll, then you'll be sure to enjoy their great mix of old time rock n' roll & classic country tunes. Get ready to have fun, and make a little Mischief!
Web: http://www.reverbnation.com/musicbymischief
Tune in to "Listen Up! Sacramento" at 11pm today,Tuesday August 2nd, 2016 on Access Sacramento's channel 17 on Comcast/Consolidated Communications and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. You can also watch with our web simulcast at the same time it airs. Watch replays of the episode on Wednesday at 3:00pm, & Thursday at 7:00am
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Breast Cancer Awareness and Healthy Eating Featured Wednesday 5pm on Ch. 17
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, and The Food Literacy Center on this week's LiveWire!
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, uniting more than 300 communities to finish the fight. Last year nearly 1.2 million Making Strides walkers nationwide turned awareness into action and helped to raise more than $60 million to help the Society save more lives from breast cancer.
Next Melissa Granville from the Food Literacy Center joins us to talk about inspiring kids to eat their vegetables. She will also discuss how teaching low-income elementary children cooking and nutrition improves our communities' health, environment and economy.
Join us for LiveWire! every Wednesday at 5 p.m. on Access Sacramento. Watch Comcast or Consolidated Communications, channel 17 or on AT&T channel 14.. You can also watch the program streaming from Access Sacramento.org at the same time it airs live.The encore presentation airs Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Don't forget to like us on Facebook at
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AccessLocal.Tv Training Program
Featured in Statewide California Endowment Youth Media Event
The project provides training for up to six young journalists for four-months at a time. The group writes articles, creates radio podcasts, and broadcats video news reports for the AccessLocal.Tv website and on special news program on cable TV.
Program coordinator Isaac Gonzalez and his teams are to be congratulated, not only for the volume of their work, but also for its quality in providing content that is positive and supportive of important programs that help improve Sacramento County.
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Vote for KUBU 96.5 FM
for the Sacramento KCRA A-List
Starting July 4th through August 28th you can vote for KUBU 96.5 FM for the Best FM Radio Station for 2016 on the Sacramento A-List City Voter.
Click Here to vote for KUBU!
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"On-Camera Kids" Acting Workshop Makes Film for October Premiere
Access Sacramento's original new training program designed to give young people a start in the professional world of movie making kicked off the training experience Saturday with a video taped audition. The final result with be the new short film "Returning Andrew."
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Kids and their parents with movie director Brian Jaggar (5th from the left) at Access Sacramento
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The kids participated in a memorized reading as well as a cold read which was recorded for later feedback and evaluation. Shooting for the film written and directed by SacCasting.com's Brian Jaggar happens later this month.
This program will earn the actors a credit in the on-line storehouse of movie info IMDB.com and then this unique experience will pay off with the showing of this start up short film at the "A Place Called Sacramento" film festival Oct. 8 at the Crest Theatre.
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