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Reminder: Andrew’s Workshop Tonight ~ Turn Your Camera Into a Canvas with Cape Ann TV’s Andrew Love

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Turn Your Camera into a Canvas

Join Cape Ann TV’s staff member and videographer Andrew Love for a video composition workshop on Tuesday, April 2 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. This class is for the novice filmmaker who wants to take their project to the next level by covering the rules and aesthetic guidelines industry professionals follow when crafting their camera shots.

Your camera is your paintbrush. Whether it cost $300 or $30,000, use it to mold the emotions and perspectives of your audience.  In this workshop you will learn how to make your subjects powerful, vulnerable, attractive, interesting, and identifiable using only your zoom rocker and a tripod.

Andrew in studio 1

This video composition workshop is open to the public for a fee of $10 and is free for Cape Ann TV members.

To sign up for this class email Andrew at alove@capeanntv.org or call 978-281-2443.

Time: 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2

Place: Cape Ann TV, 38 Blackburn Center, Gloucester, MA

Fee: $10 (free for Cape Ann TV Members)

Turn Your Camera Into a Canvas with Cape Ann TV’s Andrew Love

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Turn Your Camera into a Canvas

Join Cape Ann TV’s staff member and videographer Andrew Love for a video composition workshop on Tuesday, April 2 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. This class is for the novice filmmaker who wants to take their project to the next level by covering the rules and aesthetic guidelines industry professionals follow when crafting their camera shots.

Your camera is your paintbrush. Whether it cost $300 or $30,000, use it to mold the emotions and perspectives of your audience.  In this workshop you will learn how to make your subjects powerful, vulnerable, attractive, interesting, and identifiable using only your zoom rocker and a tripod.

Andrew in studio 1

This video composition workshop is open to the public for a fee of $10 and is free for Cape Ann TV members.

To sign up for this class email Andrew at alove@capeanntv.org or call 978-281-2443.

Time: 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2

Place: Cape Ann TV, 38 Blackburn Center, Gloucester, MA

Fee: $10 (free for Cape Ann TV Members)

New TV Show on Good Harbor Beach Erosion Premieres Tonight

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Gloucester’s Bob Quinn, who has been going to Good Harbor for the past 80 years, tours the dunes of Good Harbor Beach and comments on the poundin’ it took this winter.

Here is a clip from the half –hour show that airs all  week on Cape Ann TV Channel 12.

Show airs: Monday (tonight) at 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday at 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.; Thursday at 8:30 p.m.; Friday at 12:30 p.m. and Saturday at 5:00 p.m.  See Channel Listings for more Cape Ann TV Shows.

Even though there’s still snow on the ground, it’s not too early to be thinking about swimming at Good Harbor.  So, to get you in the mood, here’s a very up-beat song Allen Estes wrote last Summer and performed on Local Music Seen.

Speaking of Allen, he’s appearing at Giuseppe’s this Thursday for the second week of the Singer Songwriter Shuffle along with his son Dylan and other local favorites Inge Berge, Steve Caraway, Marina Evans, Jon Waterman and Joe Wilkins.

But don’t wait until Thursday.  Lots of live music on Cape Ann all week long.  See here!

A Winter’s Dream Video from Lisa Smith

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Lisa Smith (L) w/ Andrew Love

Lisa Smith is a producer, director, editor, videographer, teacher, etc. at Cape Ann TV.  Lisa and Andrew Love taught Robert Sherman, producer of the new Birding Show, everything he needed to know to get his project off the ground.  Lisa also directs most of the Local Music Seen with Allen Estes shows that Vickie and I co-produce with Allen (see clips from some of those shows here) including the show featuring Boston rock star Charlie Farren that premieres tonight at 6:30pm (more about that show here).

It’s a great deal.  For $20 a year, Lisa and Andrew will teach you everything you need to know about video production.  Plus you get the use of their studio (where we tape Local Music Seen) and equipment.  (We took their equipment on the road last year for Mardi Gras at Minglewood w/ Henri Smith & Charles Neville and then for the GHS Docksiders.)

Recently Lisa shot some blizzard video and put together a wonderful dreamy piece that just makes you feel OK about all the snow and grateful to live here.  Check it out:

Charlie Farren on Local Music Seen with Allen Estes Tonight 6:30pm

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Boston rock star Charlie Farren (lead singer/guitarist for The Joe Perry Project & Farrenheight) has emerged as an outstanding solo acoustic artist, who has always been known for great songs and great singing.  He proves why as the featured guest on Local Music Seen with Allen Estes, which premieres tonight at 6:30pm on Cape Ann TV Channel 12.

You may remember that a couple of years ago, Charlie teamed up with Jon Butcher (another Boston rock star – see Jon Butcher videos here) to form Farren, Butcher, Inc. (FBI).  Perhaps you remember their spectacular benefit for the Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team at Cruiseport!

Here’s a sneak preview of tonight’s premiere with Charlie singing his smash hit You Are The Only One.  Watch and you’ll know why he’s a star!

After you catch the show tonight at 6:30 there are excellent live music choices in town, making it very hard to choose.  They’re all free and they start at 7,8 and 9, so you could try to catch some of every show.  Check out the complete live music schedule here.

Cape Ann TV Soars with the Premiere of BirdWatcherTV – Thursday 8:30pm

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Check out this news release from Cape Ann TV’s Lisa Smith about a brand new show premiering Thursday @8:30pm.

Bird Watcher TV's Host Robert Sherman
Bird Watcher TV’s Host/Producer Robert Sherman

Did you know that birds from the Arctic tundra and birds all the way down to the grasslands of Argentina visit Cape Ann each year?  Join BirdWatcherTV host Robert Sherman, also producer, videographer and editor of this series, as he travels around Cape Ann in search of wild birds.  Along the way, you’ll meet the people who watch birds, feed birds, study birds or who are just plain crazy about birds.

Gloucester resident, Robert Sherman is a naturalist, who works as a park ranger and natural history interpreter for Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. His interest in ornithology/bird watching began during his college years when he was a geography major at UMass-Amherst. Robert has been leading birding tours in Massachusetts since the early 1990s.  SEE PREVIEW HERE

In this new series Robert captures the natural beauty of Cape Ann and its stunning wildlife on camera. Robert was trained in television production at Cape Ann TV and used its editing facilities and field camera equipment to produce BirdWatcherTV. Cape Ann TV Production Coordinator, Lisa Smith states, “Robert is very dedicated to this project. He created this program over the past few months in his “down time” and made a remarkable first-time documentary on the birds that inhabit Cape Ann. You can really tell that this a labor of love. We are look forward to Robert’s next program highlighting the Cape Ann Winter Birding Weekend that occurred earlier in February.” Robert said he hopes viewers of BirdWatcherTV, “gain a greater appreciation of the beauty and diversity of what is so close to home, and I want to encourage people to get outside and enjoy nature.”

BirdWatcherTV premiers this week and airs on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 on Thursday, February 21 at 8:30 p.m.; Friday, February 22 at 3:30 p.m.; Saturday, February 23 at 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, February 24 at 8:00 p.m.

Cape Ann TV’s Andrew Love is a Genius

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This past week Andrew Love, Cape Ann TV producer, has been helping to organize, copy, and transfer to various external hard drives my film projects in progress, and to also locate a plethora of render files that were on a variety of hard drives–terabytes of information and footage! He’s a gifted editor and organizer and I am grateful to him for lending his considerable talents.

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Do you have a project that you would like develop to air on Cape Ann TV? Membership is open to any citizen of Cape Ann 16 years of age or older. (Ed. Note: membership is a only $20.00 per year!). Training classes are included in the membership fee. Learn more about television production and what makes Cape Ann TV so unique.

Cape Ann Television has wonderful after school programs for students. Gloucester students can attend the after school program held by Cape Ann TV at Art Haven. For more information call Lisa Smith at 978-281-2443. For Rockport students, there is a new after school video club led by Cape Ann TV producer Andrew Love. For more information  call Andrew at 978-281-2443.

My sincerest thanks Andrew for all you help this past week!Barry O'Brien, Andrew Love Cape Ann TV ©KIM Smith 2011JPG

Unfortunately, I don’t have a great photo of Andrew so this will have to do (he’s really much better looking in person, for all the single gals in GMG land). Barry O’Brien (left) and Andrew Love teaching a class at Cape Ann TV studio.

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Lisa Smith and Andrew Love ~ above photo courtesy Google Image Search from the Gloucester Daily Times

Don’t Miss Cape Ann TV’s Santa Party on Tuesday 12/4

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Cape Ann TV’s annual Santa Party is Tuesday 12/4 from 3-7pm.  The event is FREE and all children are welcome.  Check out this video:

As this is the season of giving, Cape Ann TV is a Project Uplift children’s toy and teen present collection site for families in need. Although it is not necessary to bring a gift, you may drop off a new unwrapped toy or new clothes for a child, or gift card for teens up to age 14.  More Info: 978-281-2443 or see the website, here.

Last minute chance to be in a TV audience on Local Music Seen with Allen Estes & Megan Burtt Today at 1pm

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BREAKING NEWS ~ ONLY ON GMG:
Colorado Singer/songwriter Megan Burtt will be taping a show today at Cape Ann TV that will air on Local Music Seen with Allen Estes sometime this month.  Megan is visiting her friend, and Berklee classmate, Chelsea Berry for a few days as part of her Northeast tour.  After her excellent show on Saturday at Old Sloop, I asked Megan if she’d be in the area long enough to tape a show and she agreed!  So we scrambled our crew.

If you’d like to be in the audience, come to the Cape Ann TV Studio in Blackburn Park (directions here) at 1pm.  Ring the doorbell and say, I’m here for Local Music Seen.  Don’t worry about what you look like, you won’t be on camera.  Your presence allows the performers to connect with a live audience, which gives the show an added dimension.  And your clapping, cheering, whistling, etc. will be captured on the soundtrack.

If that’s not enough, you’ll also get to hear a brand-new song from Allen Estes that I haven’t even heard yet (we missed his show at Rhumbline on Sunday because we can’t be in two places at once).  Here’s a taste of what you can expect from Megan:

And don’t forget to vote (if you’re not sure why, check this out).  Might as well stop by your polling place on the way to Blackburn

Sneak Peak at Tonight’s Local Music Seen with Allen Estes

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Tune into Cape Ann TV Channel 12 tonight at 6:30 to see three generations of Estes Boys. Here’s a short clip from the show that Lisa Smith just sent over.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Beeman School this Wednesday & Thursday

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Lisa Smith from Cape Ann TV produced this charming video promoting this week’s production of Wizard of Oz at Beeman School directed by Heidi Dallin.  Check out the press release below:

The Beeman Elementary School Chorus presents The Wizard of Oz on Wednesday, April 11 and Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7:00PM at Beeman School, 138 Cherry Street, Gloucester. All tickets for the production are $5.00 each and will be sold at the door the night of the performance.

This endearing classic story celebrates friendship, inner strength, and the true meaning of home. The play features the classic songs: Follow The Yellow Brick Road, Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, If I Only Had a Brain, If I Were the King of the Forest and Somewhere Over the Rainbow. 

The production features 25 fourth and fifth grade Beeman students and is directed by Beeman Music teacher Beth Goldberg and Gloucester Stage Youth Acting Workshop director and actress Heidi Dallin.

Willy Wonka Musical at O’Maley Middle School

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Link to Cape Ann TV Interview with Willy Wonka Cast

There are four performances for this year’s 2012 O’Maley School Drama Club musical, featuring a double cast and 75 talented middle school students in the cast and crew.

Evening performances are Friday, March 9th and Friday, March 16th at 7:00 p.m. Matinee shows are on Saturday, March 10th and March 17th at 1:00.  Tickets ($5.00 students/seniors and $7.00 adults) can be purchased 30 minutes before the show in the O’Maley School Auditorium. Call Leslie Sellers at 978-281-9850 if you need more information.

After School Video Club at Cape Ann TV

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After School Video Club

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at Cape Ann TV
for Cape Ann Middle School
and High School Students

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Tuesdays
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Begins October 4, 2011
at the Cape Ann TV Studio
38 Blackburn Center, Gloucester

Sign up for Cape Ann TV’s exciting after school program.
You will write stories and create television programs
to air on Channel 12!

A $20 fee includes a one-year membership to Cape Ann TV

For more information and to register contact Lisa:
978-281-2443
lsmith@capeanntv.org

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www.capeanntv.org

 

Art Haven Video from Cape Ann TV’s After the Beach Video Club

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Hi Joey,

The After-the-Beach Video Club visited Art Haven. Here is short clip from the visit for GMG.

Allen Estes Features -Julie Dougherty and T Max

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Coming soon on Cape Ann TV “Allen Estes Music Scene”

 

Be sure to watch the show on Cape Ann TV “Allen Estes Music Scene”

Link to T Max’s NOISE publication online.    

Link to Julie Dougherty  GIGS.

Other Links:

Cape Ann TV  http://capeanntv.org/

GimmeSound http://www.gimmesound.com/

 

Cape Ann TV Video Club Video

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Cape Ann TV’s After-the-Beach Video Club visits the Gloucester Schooner Adventure at the Marine Railway on Rocky Neck.  Joanne Souza, Schooner Adventure’s Executive Director, describes the ship’s newly restored windlass to the students.

Here’s How GMG Can Help Cape Ann TV and Cape Ann TV Can Help GMG Win/Win/Win

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

As any of the thousands of you have witnessed the camera that I’ve used to produce the pictures and video for this little ol’ blog is a tiny thing.  Boy wouldn’t I love to use those $10,000 hi def cameras they use at Cape Ann TV to produce some stunning video. 

You can take a short two session class and learn how to use all the incredible equipment they have at your disposal up at the Cape Ann TV studio including the world class video editing software Final Cut Pro.  The cost is negligible (something like $25 or $35 dollars) and once you take the class you can take the super sweet cameras out and film shows for Cape Ann TV.  They even have students that will show up and work the cameras if you want to produce a TV show on local access cable and people who will edit that footage for you.

Now this all sounds fantastic right?  Well it is BUT I think that GMG could make it all that much more worth while and exciting to get involved with Cape Ann TV.

Here’s how-

Rich Sagall and Heidi Dallin recently invited to come in as guests on their respective shows.  In the studio there was Andrew Love the Producer, The Hosts,Two Camerapeople,  two interns and the other guests for each show.  I’m not sure how many man hours that represents to get a 22 minute show on air but I can assure you that these people all really care and produce some fantastic shows with a whole lot of time and energy which goes into each production.

As an example of how these programs are aired I present you the scheduled for The Cape Ann Report- Heidi Dallin’s show that I was a guest on last week-

Thursday, May 5, 6:00 PM

Friday, May 6, 1:00 PM

Sunday, May 8: 3:00 PM

Once these programs air, they are shelved…forever….with out an on demand way to access them.  Now I ask you, how many people are watching or looking out for, at those specific times those shows?   Your chances of stumbling upon these shows at those specific times out and contained to only being shown in the geographic limitations of Cape Ann TV’s airing audience is what, .005% of Cape Ann’s population?  Who pray tell is checking out channel 12 at 1PM on a Friday???? 

This is not to discourage folks from getting involved at Cape ANN TV but to offer GMG’s already built in audience of 15-22,000 people a day, every day to show these programs for all the people who are already putting in the time and energy to create this fantastic programming.  The shows are edited in Final Cut Pro which means they could also be uploaded to YouTube.  Here is my proposal- A GMG/Cape Ann TV partnership

These shows get aired roughly 4 times and then put on a shelf the way it works now at Cape Ann TV.  There is no way to search any of the shows for the general public once the shows have aired and view them at their own convenience. In the age of competing with over 200 cable channels the chances that anyone is watching at the very specific times they air is slim but if these shows are uploaded to YouTube after they air on Cape Ann TV and labeled with the content of the show, they would be forever available to the community and the people who produce them.  Imagine covering the Greasy Pole year after year with those fantastic cameras and editing equipment available to you at Cape Ann TV and being able to do a simple YouTube search ten years from now  for “Greasy Pole 2011” “Cape Ann TV” and being able to pull it right up?  This vs the current system where you would lug all the equipment around capture the fantastic footage, spend time editing it and the show only airing 4 times never to see the light of day ever again?

So in my proposal the people who create the shows take ownership of them (after all they put the time in to create them) they air on Cape Ann TV first and once they run through the four times they would air on Cape Ann TV, upload them to their own free YouTube accounts, and send us the links to their shows. 

We could air the shows on which an incredible amount of time and energy was spent producing, to our already built in audience on GMG.  We will tag it (which means it would be fully searchable by the subject matter in each piece forever), give full credit to the people who produced it and in this way the Cape Ann Community entire internet connected universe could enjoy the programs.

This in my opinion is one of those win/win/win situations for which I love to make happen especially when it’s right there and all we have to do is connect the pieces.

We’ve already built up the GMG audience, so here is how it helps everyone-

It helps Cape Ann TV because if people know that their programs in which they pour all that time and energy into will actually be viewed by the entire community and would be accessible forever instead of put on a shelf I just know we could get a whole lot more people involved at Cape Ann TV.

It helps the people who produce the programs because they get rewarded for all the work they put in because their shows actually see the light of day after they air 4 times at random times(many of which are during working hours).

It helps GMG to bring more great content to the community and the world.  Do you know how many people check out GMG from around the country and the world? I can’t tell you how many times I wish I would have liked to have seen some of the programs produced at Cape ANN TV but it just didn’t fit into my schedule or I didn’t know when it was going to air.  With our searchable database and reach those programs could be easily searchable and On-Demand forever.

I’m just saying….Let’s Make It Happen!