FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 9, 2014

CONTACT: Lisa Haley Thomson, Benjamin Marvin

Phone: 518-454-5102 E-mail: marvinb@strose.edu
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SAINT ROSE OFFERS FREE VIDEO WORKSHOPS FOR ALBANYS PUBLIC

ACCESS CHANNEL
The College of Saint Rose again will offer a series of free workshops for
people who want to produce programming for Albanys public access TV channel.
Albany city residents will be given first priority to register to attend the twohour workshops. Non-Albany residents may have their names placed on a waiting
list in the event openings occur.
Five different training sessions will cover video shooting, basic digital editing,
advanced digital editing, story development and use of the television studio. The
workshops will be offered on a rotating basis at 6 p.m. on Thursdays between May
15 and July 24.
Most sessions will be presented on the Saint Rose campus at the William
Randolph Hearst Center for Communications and Interactive Media, 996 Madison
Ave., Albany. The TV studio workshop will take place in the studio at the Albany
Public Library, 161 Washington Ave., Albany.
This is the third round of annual workshops offered as part of a collaboration
among The College of Saint Rose, the city of Albany, Time Warner Cable, The New
School of Radio and Television and Albany High School to assist city residents in
preparing content to be shown on public access TV. Additional training may be
required to operate equipment in the television studio.
Filmmaker and video installation artist Liz Richards will lead the workshops.
Richards has worked in television and web production at WGBH in Boston, was a
cinema professor at Point Park University in Pittsburgh and received the 2009
Women in Film and Media (Pittsburgh Chapter) Excellence in Filmmaking Award.
Richards has had more than 60 national and international screenings of her work in
Japan, Germany, Sweden, Finland and France.
To qualify for the workshops, participants must be 18 years of age or older,
must have a valid photo ID with address and must register in advance for each
workshop. Computer skills are essential, particularly for the editing classes.
To register, visit www.strose.edu/publicaccess. Capacity is limited to 15
people for each workshop, so early registration is advised. Deadline for registration

is the Monday before the date of each Thursday workshop. Walk-ins will not be
accommodated.
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-2Details and dates for the five workshops follow. Workshops 2, 3, 4 and 5 build
on information presented in each of the previously numbered sessions, so
participants must take them in sequence:
Workshop 1 Camera 1: Participants will brainstorm short film ideas, create
pre-production materials and learn various camera types, anatomy and file formats.
Dates: May 15 and June 19.
Workshop 2 Camera 2: Working from pre-production materials, participants
will shoot necessary footage to turn their ideas into reality. Dates: May 22 and June
26.
Workshop 3 Basic Editing: Participants will learn digital file management and
storage, importing and sequencing footage and other basic editing concepts and
techniques. Dates: May 29 and July 10.
Workshop 4 Advanced Editing: Participants will learn how to export their
edited sequences to upload on the web and to burn to DVD. Dates: June 5 and July
17.
Workshop 5 Studio Training: Overview of public access TV studio policy and
procedures, producer concerns and fair use and copyright issues. Dates: June 12
and July 24.
For further information or to place a name on the waiting list for non-Albany
residents, contact Joann Crupi at crupij@strose.edu or phone 518-458-5313. For
information about the television studio, contact channelalbany@gmail.com.
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On the Web: www.strose.edu
The College of Saint Rose Experts Directory online:
www.strose.edu/expertsdirectory.

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