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Meet Emmanuel Te: Preservation Intern
At BAVC Media Preservation, I gained experience in video conversion of older video formats. I learned the basics in how to maintain playback equipment and handle client's tapes, document conversion progress on SalesForce, work with time based correctors to set audiovisual levels to maintain original video quality, and spot errors during quality control. While at BAVC Media, I always felt like I was working and walking among “living history,” at times flavored with some San Franciscan culture. Though the physical tapes and the equipment used to transfer them are still playable now, they are slowly moving towards their eventual obsolescence. [...]
Catching Up With the Next Generation of Media Makers
The BAVC Media Next Gen students wrapped up the fall semester with a celebration at the San Francisco Public Library in December where they shared their work from the term and came together in community. Friends, family, and allies attended the showcase to help celebrate the students and their work. In case you missed it, all the work is available online to view and share. The beginning video students, Reel Life, and the two advanced tracks, Animation and The Factory, all screened their videos together during this showcase, available on this Youtube playlist. The audio production students were busy all [...]
Meet BAVC Media Student Danielle Bezalel!
Meet BAVC Media Student Danielle Bezalel!
Danielle Bezalel graduated from UC Berkeley (go bears!) in 2014 with a degree in Film and Media and a minor in Education. She's passionate about making media that matters, singing on stage with her band Happnstance, eating lots of chocolate, traveling the world, getting fit, and cracking jokes with her 18 year old brother. Email her at daniellebezalel@gmail.com to hear more about her story and to get involved with Sex Ed with DB!
Preservation Access Program 2017 – 2018
We are excited to announce the participants in the upcoming round of BAVC Media’s Preservation Access Program! From video artists to unique regional collections, the group is representative of the wide variety of artists and institutions this unique program serves. The following is a brief overview of the clients we will be collaborating with to preserve their precious magnetic media over the coming months: Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects [...]
ICYMI: National MediaMaker Fellows Making Waves
Our 2017 National MediaMaker Fellows head to Washington D.C. this month for the 3rd annual Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival, which “celebrates the finest new films inspired by the investigative instinct.” Pausing on this phrase, it struck me just how often the projects that come out of the Fellowship began with a simple question, or a hunch or a scenario that required further investigation. We don’t often identify independent filmmakers as investigators, but I think that a sense of purposeful curiosity is the seed of many stories and a force which shapes the course of production. Every March we welcome [...]
Failed utopias and resilient publics: Interviews with BAVC Media’s 2017-18 Residents, Andrea Rodriguez and Erica Molesworth
Last month, BAVC Media announced Andrea Rodriguez and Erica Molesworth (pictured above) as the recipients of our 2017-18 Residency program. With support from the San Francisco Film Commission, the Residency builds on the successes of BAVC Media’s previous Artist-in-Residence program, offering participants a shared work space, industry-standard equipment, and opportunities to take advantage of BAVC Media’s courses and share out their projects with their creative peers and the public. Although Andrea and Erica have backgrounds in different disciplines (Andrea, in dance and interactive design, and Erica, in visual art with an emphasis on photography) and radically different creative practices, the [...]
From Freelance to Google, Video Production Pros Break it Down
September’s Tech Talk Tuesday featured Cleave Frink, Jr. Production Manager and Liz Cabrera, Producer of the Google Developer Studio, video production arm of the Google Engineering team. They gave us a glimpse into how they arrived to their current roles, advice on how to build a career in video production, and how different business settings can influence the types of roles available. And while both Cleave and Liz confirmed that the current video production market is competitive, especially in the corporate realm, demand continues to grow based on how the global population consumes media. So don’t give up! You [...]
BAVC Media 2017-2018 Residents Announced
San Francisco, CA — Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is pleased to announce that Andrea Rodriguez and Erica Molesworth are the 2017-2018 Residents for BAVC Media’s relaunched Residency program, made possible through support from the San Francisco Film Commission. Building on the success of BAVC Media’s previous Artist-in-Residence program, the present iteration of the Residency program provides Bay Area independent media makers with the space and resources necessary for developing creative work. During the nine month program, each Resident is given a shared co-working space at BAVC Media’s Mission District offices, the opportunity to take BAVC Media courses of [...]
Preservation Access Program Client: CET Films
Written by: Hannah Franklin, Preservation Department Intern, Summer 2017 My summer internship with BAVC Media’s Preservation Access Program has been a challenging yet incredibly rewarding experience. My tasks have centered around the digitization of works from the Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET), a small cultural heritage institution based in Berkeley, California. Now known as CET Films, the Center is a non-profit organization responsible for producing and distributing educational films, focusing on Asian American history. PAP is made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This year, CET Films has submitted [...]
