CALLING ALL KIDS AGES 9 AND UP!!!

Let’s make a movie, animate a character, or pretend you’re the local weather person. Sign up for Access Tucson’s Kid Production Classes and you can participate in all the fun.

Video Production
Training for shooting video on location to make your own film. Camera techniques, lighting, audio, scripting and computer-based editing are all covered. Class members will plan and produces a short film.
each session is 2 weeks, M-F, 9am to Noon
June 18-29 or July 16-27
Fee: $250

Animation
With an easy-to-use animation program, imagination and a soundtrack, students can make incredible animated shorts using hand-drawn subjects. This one-week class lets students learn about art, computers and making art with computers.
each session is 1 week, M-F, 9am to Noon
June 11-15 or July 9-13
Fee: $180

Studio Production
Provides complete multi-camera studio production training – including green screen and special effects! Each student will participate in studio lighting, audio, camera operation and directing. Class members will plan and produce a TV show.
1 week, M-F, 9am to Noon
July 23-27
Fee: $180

Contact Lisa Horner at 624-9833 x 109 or 275-0864 (mobile) or lisa@accesstucson.org to sign up.

All participants will receive a DVD of their produced program.

Please call 624-9833 to register.

Studio Production
Make a TV show. Learn studio cameras, audio, directing green screen and special effects.

Ages 9 and up.
One week, Monday-Friday, 9am to Noon.
Session 1: June 27-July 1
Session 2: July 18-22
$180 a session.

Animation
With an easy to use animation program, imagination and a soundtrack, students can make their own cartoons. This one week class lets students learn about art, computers and storytelling.

Ages 9 and up.
One week, Monday-Friday, 9am to Noon.
Session 1: June 20-24
Session 2: July 11-15
$180 a session.

Video Production
This session provides instruction for shooting video on location to make your own film. Camera technique, lighting, audio, scripting and computer-based editing are all covered in this class.

Ages 9 and up.
Two weeks, Monday-Friday, 9am to Noon
Session 1: June 20-July 1
Session 2: July 11-22
$250 a session.

Please call 624-9833 to register or please email lisa@accesstucson.org.

July 19-23
9:30am – 12:00pm
for ages 9 -12
$180

Video Production
This session provides instruction for shooting video on location to make your own film. Camera technique, lighting, audio, scripting and computer-based editing are all covered in this class.

July 19-30
9:00am – 12:00pm
for ages 9 and up
$250

Please call 275-0864 to register.

Access Tucson Board of Directors will meet Thursday 1/14 at 5pm to discuss the fallout from the budget cuts made by the city. Until further notice, we will be conducting business as usual.

Green Teen Video Contest is a youth produced video competition for youth aged 12 to 18 designed to connect teens from around the region and world, so that they can share and develop their visions for a sustainable future. This is a contest in conjunction with the Annual Youth Environment Summit held at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Who Can Enter
- Anyone between the ages of 12 and 18.
- Youth from all states, countries and nations can enter.

Why You Should Enter
All youth who worked on a winning film will be invited to the Red Carpet Film Premier of submitted films to be held at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

Out-of-town FILM CREWS invited to the Red Carpet film premier will be awarded a travel allowance of up to $200 cash.

The 2 Grand Prize Winning films (one Eco-Ad and one Eco-Documentary) will be awarded a CASH PRIZE of $100 for each member of the FILM CREW.

This contest gives you a chance to let your voice be heard, to connect with like-minded youth from around the world and gives you a chance to develop your film making skills through our FREE film making workshops hosted by Access Tucson.

For all the info about the Youth Environment Summit and the Green Teen Video Contest, click here:

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

- Add graphics
- Create stills
- Add motion effects

October 26th
5:45 – 10:00 pm
$30

Sign up @ the Front Desk Today!
Access Tucson Studio certification required.

Over 30 youth, ages 9 and up participated in Access Tucson’s annual summer session. Classes included Digital Field Production, Studio Production and Animation.

Be sure to catch the results!

Premieres Saturday August 29 at 8pm on Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox). Encores nightly Aug. 30 through Sept. 4 at 8pm on the same channel.

more about classes

Media is certainly a part of our lives and our childrens’ lives. The Access Tucson Summer Session gives kids a new perspective and understanding of television and media. Through creating their own productions, children are no longer simple consumers of television, but programmers. This experience enables them to better understand all the media messages they see daily and have a fun time learning!

Summer Session Members:

• Work in a team oriented environment.

• Utilize writing and communication skills.

• Create with sound and images.

• Learn to produce their own messages for television.

In addition to the new skills learned through the Summer Session program, all of the students receive certification for utilizing the Access Tucson Facilities year round!

All participants will receive a copy of Summer Session 2009.

Animation
Create your own cartoons!

With an easy to use animation program, imagination and a soundtrack, students can make expressive short videos using hand-drawn subjects. This one week class lets students learn about art and computers.

Animation instructor Eleanor Kohloss has been producing animation for television for eight years and has taught animation for the Tucson Pima Arts Council youth program in addition to the Access Tucson courses. Eleanor received the Alliance for Community Media Award for her animated feature “Two All-Beef Patties.”

Studio Production
Start your own TV show!

The Access Tucson studios provide an exceptional production environment for creating television. The Studio Production class provides comprehensive multi-camera studio production training. Each student will participate in studio lighting, audio, camera operation and directing. Class members plan and produce a studio program.

Studio Production instructor Larry Foster is an Access Tucson staff member and has worked as an instructor for the U of A’s Media Arts Program, teaching film production & technique. He has had an extensive career in the television industry acting as a director for KUAT, KOLD and KGUN’s newscasts.

Video Production
Make your own Movie!

This session provides instruction for shooting video on location to make your own film. Camera technique, lighting, audio, scripting and computer-based editing are all covered in this class.

Video Production instructor Tim O’Grady is an Access Tucson staff member and has worked as a videographer and editor for KOLD Channel 13 & Tucson 12, the City information channel in addition to numerous commercials and syndicated programs.

What is Access Tucson?
Access Tucson was established in 1984 as an independent, non-profit, membership based organization for the management of public access. Access Tucson remains a vital community resource by providing training and facilities for Tucsonans to communicate with the community utilizing electronic media. We operate two channels on the city cable system. Training for using our facilities is provided at a low cost and use of our production facilities is free.

Who should attend the Access Tucson Summer Session?
This special program offers skill building for young people ages 9 and up. No prior experience in media is necessary. The Summer Session production classes will be challenging for both beginners and experienced producers.

Summer Session Schedule

Animation
5 Weekdays
9:00am – 12:00pm
Ages 9 & Up
Session 1: July 6–10, 2009
Session 2: July 13–17, 2009
Session 3: August 3-7, 2009

Studio Production
5 Weekdays
9:00am – 12:00pm
Ages 9 & Up
Session 1: July 20–24, 2009
Session 2: July 27–31, 2009

Video Production
10 Weekdays
9:00am – 12:00pm
Ages 9 & Up
July 20 – 31, 2009

Summer Session Fees

Animation
$160

Studio Production
$160

Video Production
$210

Payment is due at the time of registration. Fees are payable with MasterCard, Visa, guaranteed check or cash.

All workshops will be held at the Access Tucson facility:
Access Tucson
124 East Broadway
624-9833

Applications may still be submitted for classes that may have unfilled seats. Awards will be made on a first come, first serve, stand-by basis and require service hours in exchange for the award.

The Grants and Scholarships Committee and the staff of Access Tucson truly regret the suspension of the Scholarships Program. The vibrancy and diversity of our organization comes directly from our membership and the programming they produce. We hope that the suspension of this program will be brief.

Class Stand-By Application

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If you have questions about the Class Stand-By process, please contact Lisa Horner, lisa@accesstucson.org or call 624.9833.

Access Tucson is pleased to announce 2 new classes for creating and distributing content on the web!

-Blogging

A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

Learn how to create a blog by doing it! Prep for this class should include what you would like to call your blog. Very basic computer skills required.

Monday
5:45-8:00pm

$30 Class Fee

-Web Distribution

Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging, is a form of blogging for which the medium is video. Entries often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata.

Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet. Learn how to post video to distribution sites such as YouTube and Blip. Learn how to compress for the best results and much more.

Monday
5:45 – 9:00pm

$40 Class Fee

Sign-up for class at the front desk or by calling:

520.624.9833

Click here and scroll to the bottom for the dates of the next web classes.

This marks the 13th year for Access Tucson’s Summer Session. Since 1995, kids have taken over the facility each summer to learn television production in the studio and in the field to create very entertaining media. Along the way, whether they knew it or not, they were improving their communication skills, working in team-based production groups and learning how TV is constructed. These kids will never watch television the same way again…

They know it’s pretty easy to chroma-key pirates onto a clipper ship without ever leaving the building. They know how sound effects make a bank heist shoot-out seem believable. And they know you can’t live without slo-mo in a tragic scene. These kids are hip to the world of media magic—they know the weather guy’s tricks. Hopefully, they’ll see their favorite television shows and films in a new and wiser way.

Studio Production instructor Larry Foster and Digital Field Production instructor Tim O’Grady led youth through the process of creating media. Long-time volunteer and Utterback Middle School media teacher, Bonnie Dickason and Access Tucson’s Ivy Roberts assisted in this journey.

An exciting addition to this year’s camp was the screening of the Summer Session productions at The Loft Cinema. Students were able to see their work on the big screen as part of the 2008 Tucson International Children’s Film Festival presented by the Glassman Foundation and sponsored by Target. Work from Access Tucson Summer Session, Tucson Museum of Art and the Pima County Library was featured at the screening.

Be sure to watch Summer Session 2008 on Access Tucson.

Premiere weekend:
Saturday, July 26 at 6pm and 9pm
Sunday, July 27 at 8pm and 11pm
Channels 74 on Comcast and 99 on Cox.

Saturday July 12
10AM
The Loft Cinema

See what Tucson’s talented young filmmakers (grades K-12) are cooking up at this special one-morning film festival highlighting short films made by kids from around the Old Pueblo. Comedy, drama, animation, music videos … who knows what these future Spielbergs and Scorseses will create for the big screen? The only way to find out is to show up and see for yourself!

THE YOUNG FILMMAKERS FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL is part of the 2008 Tucson International Children’s Film Festival, presented by The Glassman Foundation.

Sponsored by Target, in partnership with Access Tucson and The Tucson Museum of Art.

(Various directors, 2008, 90 mins., Not Rated)

Additional cablecast times on Access Tucson coming soon!

Enrollment is still open for the Access Tucson Studio Production Summer Session. Kids learn how to make their own studio TV show.

What would happen if kids took over the news and talk shows? We know from experience that the results are really entertaining.

Summer Session Members:

· Work in a team oriented environment.

· Utilize writing and communication skills.

· Create with sound and images.

· Learn to produce their own messages for television.

All of the students receive certification for utilizing the Access Tucson Facilities year round!

Call 624-9833 to sign-up today!

Summer Session Studio Production is held June 23-27 9:00am-12:00pm.
$150.00 Session Fee.

For more information contact:
Lisa Horner
Director of Training
lisa@accesstucson.org

Television Production
Access Tucson has a summer program that offers kids a chance to explore the world of television production. From scripting and shooting, to performing as talent on the set, Summer Session participants learn to create their own television programs.

Media is certainly a part of our lives and our children’s lives. The Access Tucson Summer Session gives kids a new perspective and understanding of television and media. Through creating their own messages, children are no longer simple consumers of television, but programmers. This experience enables them to better understand all the media messages they see daily and have a fun time learning!

Summer Session Members:

• Work in a team oriented environment.

• Utilize writing and communication skills.

• Create with sound and images.

• Learn to produce their own messages for television.

In addition to the new skills learned through the Summer Session program, all of the students receive certification for utilizing the Access Tucson Facilities year round!

Video Production
This session provides instruction for shooting video on location to make your own film. Camera technique, lighting, audio, scripting and computer-based editing are all covered in this class.

All class members will participate in creating finished edited productions and will receive a copy of their work.

Tim O’Grady is an Access Tucson staff member and has worked as a videographer and editor for KOLD Channel13 & Tucson 12, the City information channel in addition to numerous commercials and syndicated programs.

Studio Production
The Access Tucson studios provide an exceptional production environment for creating television. The Studio Production class provides comprehensive multi-camera studio production training. Each student will participate in studio lighting, audio, camera operation and directing. Class members plan and produce a studio program and each student will receive a copy of the finished program.

Larry Foster is an Access Tucson staff member and has worked as an instructor for the U of A’s Media Arts Program, teaching film production & technique. He has had an extensive career in the television industry acting as a director for KUAT, KOLD and KGUN’s newscasts.

What is Access Tucson?
Access Tucson was established in 1984 as an independent, non-profit, membership based organization for the management of public access. Access Tucson remains a vital community resource by providing training and facilities for Tucsonans to communicate with the community utilizing electronic media. We operate two channels on the city cable system. Training for using our facilities is provided at a low cost and use of our production facilities is free.

Who should attend the Access Tucson Summer Session?
This special program offers skill building for young people ages 9 and up. No prior experience in media is necessary. The Summer Session production classes will be challenging for both beginners and experienced producers.

Summer Session Schedule

Video Production

10 Weekdays
9:00am – 12:00pm
Ages 9 & Up
June 16 – 27, 2008

Studio Production
5 Weekdays
9:00am – 12:00pm
Ages 9 & Up
June 23–27, 2008

Summer Session Fees

Video Production
$200

Studio Production
$150

Payment is due at the time of registration. Fees are payable with MasterCard, Visa, guaranteed check or cash.

Scholarships are available for the Summer Session classes. Please contact Access Tucson for more information.

All Workshops will be held at the Access Tucson Facility
Access Tucson
124 East Broadway
624-9833

Lauren Johnson has spent quite a few hours in the FCP suite upstairs to create Talk Tools, soon to be airing on the Access Tucson channels.

Talk Tools is an instructional, demonstrative video that provides oral motor therapy techniques to strengthen the muscles of the jaw for improving speech clarity. This program was developed by Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson (Lauren’s mother) to help parents and therapists who have children and clients who have impaired speech.

Lauren has a background in broadcast journalism and identified Access Tucson as having the resources she needed and took advantage of “the awesome opportunity.” After taking the Digital Field Production, Studio Production and Final Cut Pro classes, she had everything she needed to create a professional production.

Lauren Johnson Talk Tools Producer

“You get to talk to people who really know this stuff, ask questions and apply it to what you need personally. The Multi-Cam feature is the coolest aspect of using Final Cut Pro and was just what I needed for this production.”

Access Tucson staff member, Eric Peery, spends a lot of time in the Media Lab and the Final Cut Pro Suites. Eric has received Apple FCP end user certification.

Access Tucson staff member Eric Peery

“Whatever you can imagine—you can do.” Peery simply states. “You can manipulate 1 frame of video that corresponds to 100 “frames” of audio. I once spent 3 days building a 4 second effect.” It was an effect for a slasher film clip as part of his Celluloid Fever movie review program. “It was so much fun!” But then, that’s Eric.

Lauren adds, “It is a free service, but you are treated like a part of the production staff—everyone says ‘Hi’ to me when I come in.” The hardest parts? Hypothermia for one–Access Tucson’s edit suites are cool places to be anytime of the year—and “learning all the short cuts and trying to create a really good product.”

See the classes section for Digital Field Production, Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro class information and the class schedule for dates and times. Call Access Tucson at 624-9833 to sign up.

In TALK camp, children and young adults are trained twice weekly in the use of appropriate Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to assist in speech communications. UA Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences graduate students, together with a UA clinical instructor of speech-language pathology and speech aides, help AAC users practice their skills.

Participants included clients Jonathan, Jonathan, Fred, Zach, and James and graduate clinicians Margaret DeFresne, Jennifer Parrott, Kristin Nelson, Lauren Staniunas and Riah Ellis from the University of Arizona Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.

On the tour, participants created two short studio programs using chroma-key backgrounds they designed, worked in the control room to direct the shots, insert graphics and select music for the productions. They also got to meet Tucson Police Department Traffic officers who stopped by from their TucsonVision production next door in Studio B.

Pre-production is the first step..

Which audio slider?

Choosing the right music..

That’s a wrap!

TPD-Traffic Officers drop by

To learn how to schedule a tour for your group or school, see Facility Tour information.

This marks the 12th year for Access Tucson’s Summer Session. Since 1995, kids have taken over the facility each summer to learn television production in the studio and in the field to create some incredibly entertaining media.

Access Tucson interns Donvan Doyle, Bonnie Dickason and Ashley Lewelling helped keep cameras rolling, create zombies and capture these behind-the-scene images.

Evil Monkey Girls

2400 or Enter the Fatrix

On The Set