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Preservation Access Program Recipients Summer/Fall 2016
The Preservation Access Program is about to end its third consecutive year of continuous support from the National Endowment for the Arts. We’ve been so busy capturing fantastic content from our participants we forgot to announce who they are! Some of our old friends are back, including Charles Woodman, Nancy Meli Walker, and the creators of the upcoming documentary on Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, and we’ve made some new ones, notably three filmmakers revisiting work they began years ago: Audrey Daniel, Jim Culp, and Susana Aikin. Interestingly, there are three collections that consist primarily of ½” open reel [...]
BAVC Media Program Helps Young Adults Leap into Local Tech Workforce
BAVC Media’s Inaugural Emerging Media Makers Program Helps Young Adults Leap into the Local Tech Workforce BAVC Media hosted a small group of young adult media makers this past Spring for its inaugural cohort of Emerging Media Makers. The eight participants were ages 18-24, unemployed, out-of-school, and facing significant socioeconomic barriers to employment. BAVC Media has only intermittently worked with these valuable members of our community. Funded by San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, this new program, Emerging Media Makers, was experimental in several ways, and in the end was profoundly instructive and impactful. We focused on what [...]
PAR, SAR, and DAR: Making Sense of Standard Definition (SD) video pixels
By Katherine Frances Nagels It’s well-known that while motion picture film has seen many different aspect ratios come and go over its history, video has been defined by just two key aspect ratios: 4:3 for analogue and standard definition (SD) video, and 16:9 for high definition (HD) video. Simple, right? Yes—but underlying this are some aspect ratios that are not so straightforward: those of the video pixels themselves. These days, we are very used to thinking of each pixel in an image or video being the same width and height, i.e., square—and this is indeed the case for the vast [...]
These 5 Tips won’t win you a Tony but they could land you the job
A skilled performer seizes the opportunity to practice before taking their act to the stage by going over the script, meditating for focus, and perfecting techniques to connect with their audience. The same goes for the art of job interviewing; practice can make things pretty close to perfect. Last month, jobseekers from the TechSF program benefitted from participating in a mock interview event with members from the LinkedIn Sales Solutions Team. After the one-on-one mock interviews took place, the group gathered for a debrief session to hear from the LinkedIn team about tips on interviews based on what they observed. [...]
QCSchool: Embedding QCTools in an automated digitization workflow
By Peter Bubestinger As our open-source, video analyzation software, QCTools continues to evolve, we’ve been talking to users around the world about how they use the versatile application in their specialized workflows. Peter Bubestinger is a digital archivist who has worked with many cultural heritage institutions including Austrian Mediathek (Österreichische Mediathek), the country’s national audio/video archive. Peter is a notable contributor and user of QCTools and recently I asked him if he could describe for us how QCTools is used in conjunction with Mediathek’s innovative digitization workflow system, DVA-Profession, for which he also serves as a lead developer. - Kelly Haydon [...]
The Factory in Full Gear
I was completely blown away when I first saw films made by students in The Factory at BAVC Media. The fact that this occurred when I was working as a judge at the Josiah Youth Media Festival all the way in Texas only demonstrates further what big shoes I was filling when I took over as the lead instructor in May of 2014. The Annex has become a second home to many of the students who take ownership of the space and make it their own. One of the walls in the lab space is even dedicated to the people [...]
Preservation Access Program Featured Artist: Charles Woodman
A clip from Dance Tracks (1990-1996), an early work by Charles Woodman, mastered on ¾” video at the Experimental Television Center, Preserved by BAVC Media At the end of 2016, we will have celebrated three years of continuous support from the National Endowment of the Arts for our Preservation Access Program (PAP), having provided affordable digitization and preservation services to nearly 100 artists and organizations whose latter-century works are locked into obsolete media formats. In celebration of reaching that milestone, we will be highlighting those participating artists whose dedication to preservation and access is exemplary. Featured this month is Charles [...]
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) Taps Desmond Holt as First Recipient of Carl Weichert Mograph Scholarship
Creative spirit of BAVC Media Instructor Carl Weichert lives on through emerging motion graphics artist. San Francisco, CA—One year ago this May, BAVC Media instructor Carl Weichert passed away at age 51, leaving hundreds of friends, students and collaborators with a profound sense of loss. Finding humor in almost every situation, Weichert was known as the ultimate sherpa, taking BAVC Media students to the top of the editing/motion graphics mountain for over a decade. “He was a wonderful man with a giant heart, full of love to give and to receive,” Svetlana Butnaru, one of Weichert’s past students, remarked last [...]
BAVC Media’S PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT AWARDED KNIGHT FOUNDATION PROTOTYPE FUND FOR INNOVATIVE OPEN SOURCE PROJECT
San Francisco, CA — Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is excited to announce that it is one of 16 recipients of the Knight Foundation’s summer 2014 Prototype Fund. The $35,000 award supports six months of development for key components of an open source project that makes video preservation easier for journalists and others. BAVC Media’s Prototype Fund award will support its video and audio Preservation Department in developing QC Capture, a video digitization app that allows media organizations, journalists and others to easily preserve aging video tape. The app will be the newest component in the QCTools suite and BAVC Media believes that the [...]
BAVC Media Announces NEA Grant to support National MediaMaker Fellowship and California Arts Council Grant to Support Independent Filmmaker Community Workshops
More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide Includes $90,000 awarded to BAVC Media. San Francisco, CA—National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2016. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $90,000 to Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) to support the National MediaMaker Fellowship Program. The Art Works category supports the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with [...]
