Posts Tagged ‘Auburn’
Behind the scenes at City Council Meeting
Ever wonder what it’s like at the Auburn City Council Meeting? Not really? How about what it’s like to film the Auburn City Council Meeting? Well let me share some behind the scenes secrets with you.
City Council begins at 6:00pm every second and forth Monday of each month. I begin setting up at city hall at 5:00pm. Tonight I have ACTV volunteer, Kellen Walker, assisting me.
Kellen Walker
We begin by setting up a television monitor, an audio mixer, a DVD recorder, and a ParkerVision remote control camera system. Yup that’s right I said remote control camera. Very cool stuff.
I monitor audio and video input and output to produce a live edit of the meeting. The meeting is recorded straight to DVD and also directly to our Tightrope server back at the Studio. I then schedule the broadcast of the show on Tuesday at 6:00pm.
The meetings run anywhere from 1 to 6 hours. I have to come prepared with plenty of extra DVDs and water. Once the meeting has concluded I tear down the set and pack up. I must hurry and do this as I have had the lights turned out on me more than once.
The entire city staff is very kind and friendly. The city council meetings may not be the most exciting part of my day but they are always interesting and I have learned much about the behind the scenes of the city of Auburn by filming these meetings.
Auburn City Council
You can watch these meetings at 6:00pm on ch. 20 in Auburn with Wave Broadband.
Photos taken with Instagr.am
Western States 100 Endurance Run Documentary
Auburn Community Television along with the support of the officials on the Western States 100 Endurance Run are producing a 90 min documentary on the Race/Trail/Runners.
We sent several film crews out the day of the race and returned with hours upon hours of footage equaling at least half a terabyte of space on my hardrive. We also had a small editing crew that went through the footage as it came in. That was a 24 hour marathon of editing for us! We were thus able to broadcast a 40 min teaser of the run at 11:00 on the Sunday morning following the race. As a local Television station it was a new record for us. Very exciting, especially as this coincided with our new system upgrade to Tightrope Media Systems. Our output quality was finally crystal clear!
Now I have the task of going through all the footage, researching, and coming up with a story line to create this documentary.
So, this is the first big project of my and ACTV’s undertaking. I am very excited for its potential and we intend to make this a yearly video. I am still in the storyboarding stages. (I suppose I’m a little intimated by the quantity of footage we have to dive right into it.) This documentary is being produced 100% by volunteers. It’s amazing how the community of Auburn and the entire global running community are all so eager to be involved and have anything they can do with this production.
If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of this documentary please send an e-mail to auburntv@gmail.com