Mark Ingram
In this issue of Take 1 the producer I’m spotlighting is myself. Although I’m not a Local Access producer, I am a Local Access Coordinator for CommuniTyVision 21. As such I help train Local Access crews and produce video productions to promote the use of community television. With my great group of colleagues I co-produce CommunityVision 21’s public affairs programs that act as a living television production classroom for our exciting internship program. As segment producer for “On The HomeFront”, one of my most important tasks is to reach out to individuals, civic groups, human service organizations - just anyone and everyone who is doing something of service in our franchise community (Trumbull, Monroe, Newtown, Brookfield, Southbury, Sherman, New Fairfield, New Milford, Bridgewater, Roxbury, Woodbury, Washington, Bethlehem, and Kent)! Please, if you are engaging in a community service endeavor and would like your actions cablecasted as a guest on our program “On the HomeFront” give me a call at (203) 304-4050.
Lastly, I am the writer for the very article you are reading now. Producer Spotlight usually is an interview with a community television producer. I talk to them about how they first heard about Local Access, how they got involved, their motivations for creating their own show, how they gather their volunteers as well as their plans and challenges in future video programs. They also like to talk about the fun, difficult and unusual experiences they encounter through their training period with us that leads them to their video production adventures out in the field.
This seems like the perfect place to tell you about myself and my own multi-media adventures. Way back in the jurassic period I majored in music at Five Towns College in New York. Also a fine artist, my work was shown in galleries and exhibits. I am proud to have won a first place award at a juried art show in Bethel, CT. Later on I studied digital art at Future Media Concepts in Manhattan. After college I worked professionally with two modern percussion ensembles that performed concerts, music for commercial promotions and music for film. I interned in video for a number of years in West Hartford and University of Bridgeport TV. Through this period I worked on video productions of all kinds including mobile production truck shoots. In the years to come I greatly enjoyed doing freelance work in video and audio production for businesses in Connecticut, Maine and in Indiana for a Chicago based company. Multi-track audio production with acoustic percussion is a passion with me. I produced a cassette of this type of the African harp.
Somehow, all this brought me here, at Charter Communications where I have been for the past three years. Exploring my multimedia interests and adventures with your multimedia adventures in the greatest free- frolicking ecstatic video drama that is your unbelievable local access to community television bar none - IN THE WORLD! CommunityVision 21 is a great place to create!
