Summer Workshop: Stop-Motion Animation with Jessica Barnthouse

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Screen Shot 2013-05-20 at 3.54.48 PMArlington Community Media’s newest staff member and Government Access Coordinator, Jessica Barnthouse, is offering ACMI’s first ever animation workshop for adults.

This hands-on series of animation classes will cover stop-motion animation from theory to practice. Students will be working in groups with a variety of mediums, including paper, clay, legos, and whatever else folks bring in to animate. The finished short films will be screened at an evening outdoor animation festival at Robbins Farm Park on Friday, August 9 at 8:30pm (rain date: August 10). Start brainstorming now your animation ideas and bring anything you want to animate to the first class on June 4th.

Dates: June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2

Time: 6-8pm

Place: ACMi’s Studio B at 892 Massachusetts Avenue

Cost: $40 for ACMi members; $60 non-members

To register, email Jessica@acmi.tv or call 781-777-1115.

ACMi Youth Summer Workshops at Studio B

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Arlington Community Media Inc. (ACMi) is pleased to announce its spring/summer schedule of Studio B workshops for Arlington young folks from 13-17 years of age. For more information, email info@acmi.tv or call 781-777-1115.

fallingMay15th - College Application Video Profiles for High School Juniors & Seniors

High school students who want to attend college are increasingly being asked by admissions offices to create personal video profiles to accompany their applications. This workshop will present what colleges are looking for and how ACMi along with AHS faculty can help students create a successful video profile.

            Introduction to Adobe Premier Pro

May 28th – Intro to Editing, Part 1 (3-5pm)

June   4th – Intro to Editing, Part 2 (3-5pm)

Learn the basics of what it takes to digitally edit a project in Adobe Premiere Pro and explore yet to be discovered aspects of your creativity.
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Irish Luck Returns to ACMi

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Irish Interns 2013_ACMiArlington Community Media Inc. is once again blessed by the arrival of two strapping interns from Northern Ireland as part of a program initiated last year by The Irish International Immigrant Center (IIIC) and Ann-Marie Byrne, Director of its Learning Exchange Program. This year’s duo arrived at ACMi bootcamp for induction on Wednesday morning April 17th for a tour with Ms. Byrne and two other officials from the program.
27-year old Niall from Londonderry and 19-year-old Ryan from Omagh in County Tyrone settled in quickly and the following day were already busy recording and editing a short piece designed to shift them into a workflow routine for the following five weeks, Monday through Thursday, that will allow each of them to learn about all aspects of television production. Continue reading →

AHS Guidance on “College Admission Videos” set for May 15th at ACMi Studio B

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Studio B, seen here, is located across from AHS at 892 Mass Ave.

Studio B, seen here, is located across from AHS at 892 Mass Ave.

On Wednesday May 15th from 7–9:30 PM, Arlington Community Media Inc (ACMI) will host a discussion led by the Arlington High School (AHS) Guidance Department about the increasing demand by colleges for admission videos from prospective students. AHS guidance counselors will open the evening program with an introduction to the topic and a discussion of the importance for students to use video self profiles to compete for acceptance to the college of their choice.
Examples of videos will be presented, including an AHS Athletic Department presentation, an AHS athletic student’s video, and a presentation by ACMI’s Youth Coordinator, Daniel Black, highlighting how ACMI can help students create their video profiles. There will be time for questions and answers at the conclusion of the presentation.
For more information, contact Dan@acmi.tv or call 781-777-1115, ext.225.

Arlington Teens Win International Video Festival Award

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Focus Media member producers of “Humorama” receive check at ACMi’s Studio B from Just-A-Minute Festival founder Don Daniels. From left to right (after Mr. Daniels) they are: Mike, Brendan, Noel, Adrian, and Lucas (listed above photo).

Focus Media member producers of “Humorama” receive check at ACMi’s Studio B from Just-A-Minute Festival founder Don Daniels. From left to right (after Mr. Daniels) they are: Mike, Brendan, Noel, Adrian, and Lucas (listed above photo).

In September a team of high-schoolers calling themselves Focus Media Productions participated in the Just-A-Minute Film Festival. For several of the members the experience produced their first digital media production. The team created several digital video shorts and garnered first-place awards for two of them: “Dancing Mike” (http://justaminute.tv/159) and “Getting Out of Car” (http://justaminute.tv/160).

After the videos were created and submitted to the festival, the team stayed together to create and produce its own show for ACMI. Humorama is primarily a sketch comedy and improvisation show and can be seen on ACMI’s education channel (Comcast 9, RCN 13, and Verizon 24). Check the current schedule (http://acmi.tv/programming/schedule/) for show times — but we digress.
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Roots of Arlington: New Video Project from Peter Gordon

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Arlington poet, playwright, artist, and videoist Peter Gordon, has produced a new series of video shorts which will play on ACMi’s Public channel. The contemplative, narrated videos focus of the literal “Roots of Arlington”, Gordon’s title for the series, and their unique majesty as seen in a local cemetery, curbside on local sidewalks, around train tracks, and in other places “Here and There” in our town.

You may watch these four videos here.

To read a description of the project in the artist’s own words, see below.

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ACMi Provides Town Election Related Programming

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In support of increased public awareness of Arlington town government, ACMi offeres the following programming on the Government Channel (RCN 15, Comcast 22, Verizon 26).

Candidate Video Profiles: Recorded live in the ACMi Studio, these profiles offered candidates a chance speak, through our cameras, to their current or future constituency about who they are and what they seek to accomplish in their position. The Candidate Profiles are playing now through April 5th on Sundays 9PM, Mondays 5PM, Wednesdays Noon & 5PM, Thursdays 11AM, and Fridays 5PM. For immediate online viewing visit the ACMi VOD page.

Candidates’ Debates: Recorded at the ACMi Studio and playing from March 18th until April 6th on Sundays 8PM, Tuesdays 5PM, Wednesdays 11AM & 9PM, Thursdays 10AM & 5PM, and Saturdays 5PM. For immediate online viewing of the Selectmen Debate and the School Committee Debate, visit the Arlington Public New Website.

Candidates’ Night LIVE: Hosted by The League of Women Voters of Arlington and Vision 20/20
on Thursday March 21st at 8PM on ACMi’s PUBLIC channel (RCN 3, Comcast 8, Verizon 31).
Replays are on the ACMi Government Channel from Friday March 22 to Saturday April 6th on
Sundays 11AM & 6PM, Tuesdays 6PM, Thursdays 8AM, Fridays 9PM, and Saturdays 6PM.

Election Returns LIVE: Saturday April 6th on the ACMi Government Channel at 8PM.

2013 Battle of the Bands

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After a successful production, ACMi is now airing the AHS Battle of the Bands on the Education channel.

The event has been broken up into seven episodes highlighting each of the bands performances; new episodes will air on Saturday and Sunday evening at 9PM and we will run the whole event back-to-back in April.

Also, here are some photos from the event itself


(Photo Credit: Jeff Munro)