BATV Summer 2011 Newsletter

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Inside Tis Issue:Community Partnerships ...Page 3Final Cut X ...........................Page 4Technical Corner .................Page 6Programming News ............Page 7

BA V Hours o OperationMon. Turs. . 10:00 am - 9:30 pmFriday .............. 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSaturday .......... 10:00 am - 4:00 pmSunday ..................................Closed

BA V closings andlimited hours: uesday, July 26th, 2011

Open 11:00 - 7:00 (ACM Con erence)

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Open 11:00 - 7:00 (ACM Con erence)

Tursday, July 28th, 2011Open 11:00 - 7:00 (ACM Con erence)

Saturday, July 30th - Sunday, August7th, 2011 Closed or Maintenance

Monday, September 5th, 2011Closed or Labor Day

Summer 2011 Issue430 Boston Road

Billerica, MA01821

Public Educational GovernmentThe Producer

Te next regularly scheduledBA V Board o Directors

Meeting is

Wednesday, September 14th,2011, 7:00 p.m. at BA V.You are welcome to attend!

BA V Scholarship RecipientsBA V Youth Coordinator Nancy Albertson attended the Billerica MemorHigh School Annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony on June 1, 2011 and presented three BA V awards to students o the 2011 graduating class.

BA V awards are made possible rom revenue generated by selling copio programs cablecast on the access channels. Te awards are presented tBillerica graduates who plan to urther their education in a communicatiorelated eld. Since 2000, BA V has presented $43,875 in scholarships. We wish all 2011 graduates tremendous success!

Emalie El-Fakih, who plans to attendBoston University and major inCommunications.

Recipient o the Billerica Accesselevision M. Tomas Revane

Memorial Scholarship.

Michelle Button, who plans to attendFramingham State and major inCommunications with an emphasis i photography.

Recipient o the Billerica Access

elevision Scholarship.

Mackenzie Maynard, who plansto attend the University o Massachusetts, Amherst and major iCommunications.

Recipient o the Billerica Accesselevision Scholarship.


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Board o DirectorsPresident ............................... David FournierVice President .................... Barbara Flaherty Secretary ......................................John CoyneTreasurer ..................................Jim WoodsideAsst. Treasurer ....................Pamela Anastasi

Board Member ............................... Jen CascoBoard Member .........................Ronald FuscoBoard Member .............................Gerry GossBoard Member ................... William HaddadBoard Member ................... Anthony LaRosaBoard Member ......................... Greg McClay Board Member .....................James McFeeley Board Member ............................. Paul Overy Board Member ....................... Donna PopkinBoard Member .......................... Helen Potter

Te Producer 2011Billerica Access TV430 Boston Road

Billerica, MA 01821Phone: 978-663-2284

Fax: [email protected]

www.batvinc.org

Editor & LayoutJason Bazinet

Contributing Writers:Paul Abrego

Nancy AlbertsonJason Bazinet

Sam SchauermanKaren Sennott

Alex Shure

BA V Staf:echnical Coordinator .............................................Paul Abreg

Youth Coordinator ...........................................Nancy AAccess Coordinator .................................................JasoProduction/Sta Assistant ........................Matthew MacProduction/Sta Assistant ............................................Executive Director ............................................Sam ScMarketing & Outreach Coordinator ................Karen SennoProgramming Coordinator ........................................ AlBoard o Director Clerk .................................... MadelProduction/Sta Assistant ........................................ om

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PRODUCER SHOW PAGES

ake advantage o the per ect opportunity to promot your show! Let others know about your show topics, times, and any other use ul in ormation youd like to

I you are a producer and would like to have your owshow page on the BA V web site, contact Jason at978-663-2284 or e-mail [email protected]

Reorganization o the BA V Boardo DirectorsSam Schauerman

Te BA V Board o Directors met or their regularlyscheduled Board o Directors meeting on June 8, 201During the meeting, and as per BA Vs By-Laws,reorganization o the Board occurred. Tose BoardMembers elected to serve as o cers or the Corporatduring the 2011 2012 are:

David Fournier PresidentBarbara Flaherty Vice President John Coyne Secretary Jim Woodside reasurerPam Anastasi Assistant reasurer

Following o cer elections, outgoing BA V President Jenni er Casco, who voluntarily stepped down, washonored or her term as President. While Jenni er wlonger serve as BA V President, she will continue to on the board.

Congratulations to all!


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Become a BA V Community PartnerSam Schauerman

For the past ew years, BA V has been exploring the possibility o implementing a business / corporate spon program. Te program has been viewed as a means to build partnerships with local businesses, provide awarelocal businesses and support BA Vs mission. A er much investigation and discussion, the BA V Board oat a recent board meeting, voted to initiate the BA V Community Partner program. And so it begins

As Billericas Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Access Center, Billerica Access elevision, Inc. (Bbecome interwoven into the very abric o the Billerica community. Whether it is citizens o ering their poinchildren participating in a er-school enrichment programs, elected o cials at a government meeting, a local cservice, sporting events, or use o the community bulletin board by hundreds o non-pro t organizations annday goes by that BA V does not touch the lives o Billerica in a positive way.

Almost 80% o Billericas households subscribe to cable services o ered by Comcast and Verizon. Tat mean programs produced by BA V members as well as programs presented by Billerica residents that entertain, ineducate the local community, can be viewed by almost 12,500 households. As a BA V Community Partner,the potential to reach the same 12,500 households.

Becoming a BA V Community Partner is easy and a ordable and will promote your business or organizationthe local community. As a BA V Community Partner, you will not only enhance your business or organizatio presence, but will also support BA V as Billericas First Amendment Forum.

Become a BA V Community Partner and invest in your business, invest in your community and invest in you

Become a BA V Community Partner today.

For more in ormation, please visit www.batvinc.org or contact Sam Schauerman at 978-663-2284.

Summer Youth ActivitiesNancy Albertson

Summer is here! School is out! All the BA V youth programs have come to a rapid haltNO ! Teres plenty o exciting activities or Billerica youth at thestation and summer is as great o a time as any to getinvolved. We kicked o the summer with the BA V

Youth Club Video Premiere on June 30th. It was a unlled night that showcased what the club members haveaccomplished in the last ew months! Werent able tomake it? Be sure to check out the video on BA Vs Video On Demand eature on our website or look or iton the program schedule.

Te youth clubs will be taking a little summer breakrom the regular weekly meet ups. Well be back iull swing beginning September 6th. However, BA

will hold special club events and activities during thsummer and will noti y members through mail andor email. Need a heavier dose o BA V and video production during the summer break? BA V will b

o ering two youth workshops in August. Tis is therst summer we're o ering separate workshops ortwo di erent age groups: 10 - 13 and 14 - 17. WeekOne: Intro to Digital Video will be held August 16t17th, and the 18th. Week wo: Producing the Short Video will be held August 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Fomore details or to register visit www.batvinc.org orcall 978-663-2284. NOW OFFERING ONLINEREGIS RA ION!


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Final Cut Pro X Success or Failure? Jason Bazinet

Tis article is my opinion only and does not re ect the opinions or stance o BA V.

Now that most o you that edit here at BA V are settling in and getting com ortable with Final Cut Pro, Appland made major changes to their editing so ware. Have no worries, BA V has no plans to switch to the newe

o Final Cut Pro in the oreseeable uture, but this article is just to explain some o the changes that might e you own an older version o Final Cut Pro at home and are planning to upgrade.

On a positive note or consumers, the price or Final Cut Pro X has signi cantly dropped. It is now $299 oro Final Cut Pro X, but it no longer comes as a suite o so ware. You can buy compressor and motion or $5other components including DVD Studio Pro, Color, Sountdtrack, and Livetype have either been retired or cominto Final Cut Pro.

A major draw back in my opinion is that i youve used Final Cut Pro in the past and have several projects yoto use again or work on some more, you cant do that any more. Final Cut X is so di erent rom Final Cut Pro previous versions, that you cannot import old projects into Final Cut X. Tis could be a big down all i you stor want to access your old projects.

Also, the new version o Final Cut Pro no longer contains a log and capture unction to import video romidea is that everything will be tapeless, but as you know, that is not entirely the case yet. Several members at Bcontinue to record programs on mini DV tape and need the ability to import them.

I have not personally used the new version o Final Cut X yet, so I cant say or sure i the new version is go what I can say is that it has gotten an exorbitant number o bad reviews and complaints rom pro essional edare many eatures that didnt make it into the new version, although there is talk that later version releases o will bring them back.

ime will tell i the launch o Final Cut X will be success ul. In the meantime, several competitors seem to bmoves to take advantage o Apples blunder by o ering discounts on their so ware or users switching awayCut Pro.

For now, have com ort in knowing your projects will still continue as normal here at BA V. As technology chsometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. I believe Apple has success ully alienated its pro essional marattempt to be at the cutting edge o the market. I think they ended up at the bleeding edge and that may be toomany consumers.

E-mail and the BA V Web Site Jason BazinetHope ully youve been receiving e-mails rom BA V to keep you up to date about events and other in ormaon at BA V. E-mail is a great way to reach our membership in between newsletter mailings and it allows us toup to date and in ormed.

I you are not on the e-mail list and would like to be added, call Jason at 978-663-2284 or e-mail jbazinet.batcomcast.net and ask to be added to the e-mail list. Some o you occasionally change your e-mail address andstopped receiving e-mails. Please make sure to update us whenever your e-mail changes so that we can keep y

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At BA V we have 2 con erence rooms that areavailable or community use, not just or BA V business, but or any community based meeting orevent that requires a com ortable place to meet, plan, work or collaborate. Our con erence rooms have beenused or meetings, presentations, weeklyscout meetings, classesand even just as a quiet place to get some

work done! As long as your purpose is non-commercial in nature,BA V is happy to makeavailable a meeting room or you or yourgroup.

Having con erencerooms available to the public helps BA V

increase its exposureand involvement in the community. Bringing Billericaresidents and community groups into the acilityhelps us increase our exposure, showcase some o ourresources and bring tra c through our art gallery, where we eature the work o a di erent Artist eachmonth.

Te largest o the 2 rooms can accommodate up to 20com ortably, and has been know to squeeze in quite a

the list. During membership renewal time at the end o the year, we will also ask you to update us on any cha your e-mail, address, phone number, and individuals listed under your membership. Tis allows us to keep an adatabase and ensure that we are contacting the correct people.

Te BA V web site is another great way to stay in ormed. Check out the web site or updates about upcominglike the next movie night happening on uesday September 6th. Another great eature on our web site is the Video Demand section. I you missed a show on V, dont have cable, or have a amily member out o town that wsee a program, check out video on demand at www.batvinc.org/vod .

Other use ul in ormation you can nd on the BA V web site includes: updates on the Youth Club, sta s e-maddresses, upcoming closings and a bunch o great links to use as resources. You can also use our online sub

or the Community Bulletin Board and Online Reservations.

ew more on olding chairs. Te smaller is best or go 12 or less. BA V con erence rooms can be reservby simply calling our o ce at 978-663-2284. As BAmembers, please remember to mention this ree meetspace to those in the Billerica community who you thi

may bene t rom such aresource.

Details:Con erence Room A: Ri

o the lobby. Con erencetable and padded chairs.Fits 12 com ortably.

Con erence Room B:Le o the lobby, behindthe reception area. womoveable olding tables, padded chairs, room oradditional olding chairs.Fits 20 com ortably.

Includes white board &markers, multiple electric outlets, cable V with DVD player.

Both rooms can be reserved or use during our regulabusiness hours.

Con erence rooms are not just or con erences!Karen Sennott

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T e c h n i c a l C o r n e r

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Hello to all members. Heres hoping the summer months are sunny and vacation plans gosmoothly. We here at BA V are hard at work to make the summer even brighter or all omembers. With recent and upcoming equipment purchases, un and in ormative BA V and new policy changes were making our summer one or the ages.

In new technology news, BA V has some great new toys or our membership to utilize. such piece o equipment is our new Lowel Caselite which is a uorescent light that is ba part o the case it comes in. Lightweight and easyto set up, the Caselite is daylight balanced andready to provide that extra punch o so lighting ideal or eld production interviews and small area productions. Another use ul eld production toolis the Ikan HD video monitor. Tese 7monitorscan be anchored on our cameras hotshoe mount,enabling producers to get a better view o their productions. Conveniently, the monitors powersource comes rom using the same type o batteries we use or our cameras. In addition to these items,

we have purchased two new camera shouldermounts.

In the edit suites we have added even more un e ects orFinal Cut Pro. Magic Bullet Looks is a cool colorizing e ect palette giving productions high-end lm looks. From deepreds and green tints or horror and sci- lms to cool blues

or crime-dramas and dramatic pieces and bright yellowsor comedies, Magic Bullet Looks creates unique moods

through colorization. Another new third-party plug-in is theFXFactory, which adds more transitions and lters to ouralready expanding library o e ects or FCP.

On June 29th, BA Vs ech Night showed o the above-mentioned eld production equiFor those who were in attendance, thank you or your participation. For those who misseour event, training is available by request or any o the above-mentioned toys. As a ri anyone is interested in being given a re resher course on any and all equipment we havcontact us to set up an appointment. We are always eager to answer questions or give traiorder or our membership to get the ull bene t o what we have to o er here at BA V.

Lastly, there is a quick policy note I would like to share regarding Final Cut Pro editing athe management o members projects. We will continue to o er Lacie drives or membedit with. However, i a program is not being actively edited (the time rame o which idetermined), it will be ofoaded rom the Lacie drive to another larger community driveit will be le or a period o two months. Te producer will be contacted when it is loadethat drive then periodically reminded about it be ore the project is discarded at a later datHope ully, this will solve the problems o Lacie drives being le or months without ac

reeing them up or other members to utilize.

Tanks or reading the echnical Corner and as always i you have any technical questionree to contact me at [email protected] . Have a great summer!


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P r o g r a m m i n g

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Hello Readers,

I hope all is well as I bid you my quarterly greetings. I pieced together the ollowing announcements or you:

A reminder to all you art/drawing/graphics/ ash people out there: BA V has a large Wacgraphics tablet to play with in the edit suites. A hand ul o olks have been having un the tablet to create custom drawings, photoshops and graphics to incorporate into Final Cu projects. It is here and ready to be checked out by anyone interested in experimenting, no necessary.

For those interested in the small stu : A while back I picked up some macro lens adaptorsEFP camcorders. Tese adaptors are quite simple to attach to the lens. Tey will give you so

reedom to get really close to the subjects you are shooting and may spark some creative Tey may be used to cheat a shallow depth o eld without changing any aperture settingother words, your subject in the oreground is in ocus while the background o your sh

ocus. Just like in the movies! Please let me know i youre interested in the adaptors, it me about 2 minutes to show you how they work.

Te ACM-NE (Alliance or Community Media, Northeast region) just released a call or or their 14th annual video contest. Tere are about twenty di erent categories to enter vid

All videos submitted must have been wholly produced and cablecast on a PEG channel beSeptember 1, 2010 and August 12, 2011. Te entry deadline or the contest is August 12thi youre entering through BA Vs ACM membership, please see me be ore August 5th adequate time to prepare the entries. For more in o, come and see me or visit http://acm-n

Ive recently come across some new public domain pictures to play on Late Night Teatrea small queue o some great classics and some hilariously bad ones as well. Keep your labloodshot eyes peeled or some new episodes this summer. Some that will be eatured inCyrano de Bergerac (1950), and Te Stranger, starring Edward G. Robinson and Orson WeOn the sillier side o the spectrum we have the horribly awesome, Hercules Against the MMen, and Te Phantom Planet, both o which have been lovingly mocked on Mystery ScieTeater years ago. Stay tuned late night this summer Youll laugh, youll cry, youll wond

As I begin to wind down, I will take this opportunity to tip my hat to the BA V members at the Billerica Council on Aging. A team o energetic and enthusiastic individuals has bethe new studio crew or the COAs monthly program, Forever Young. A er several trainsessions in the late spring, everyone was ready to Rock and Roll. Once the crew memberstheir niche in the production process, the rst couple o studio shoots with the new crew wcompleted. Im proud o all the new members that earlessly tackled the big studio here those who created programming or the COA out in the eld as well. Every program comhere involves teamwork and coordination, but this is particularly true in the main studio. I

orward to all the uture programming done by this new group o BA V members.


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In Tis Issue:Summer Youth

ActivitiesBA V Community

PartnerAnd much more...

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BA V youth workshops in AugustSign up now or Summer Youth Workshops at BA V!

Tis is the rst summer were o ering separate workshops or two di erent age groups10 - 13 and 14 - 17.

Week One: Intro to Digital Video will be held August 16th, 17th, and the 18th. Week wo: Producing the Short Video will be held August 23rd, 24th, and 25th.

For more details or to register visit www.batvinc.org or call 978-663-2284.NOW OFFERING ONLINE REGIS RA ION!

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