Articles by Larry Merewitz

March 20, 2014 | Larry Merewitz

Annapolis in a Minute (Video)

With all the snow and cold I thought I would share this video, to help show there is still hope for nicer days. It’s real short but gives a great overview of Annapolis. Enjoy and let us know what you think! .

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March 6, 2014 | Larry Merewitz

Hometown Video Awards 2014 (Updated)

Alliance for Community Media’s 2014 Hometown Video Awards are swiftly approaching! This exciting event comes once a year and you don’t want to miss your opportunity to participate. The Hometown Video Awards honors and promotes community media and local cable programs that are first distributed on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. […]

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February 11, 2014 | Larry Merewitz

Backpack Journalism Editing

Learn to Edit…. Be a Back Pack Journalist

Another year has gone and a new year has begun. The January training classes beginning with Intro to Video Basics have filled just about to capacity not that we couldn’t add more classes but the ones we have are doing well. Intro was January 6 and enrollment was off to a very slow start but […]

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February 4, 2014 | Larry Merewitz

Editing Video is the Answer

Every family has some form of a camera , point and shoot, maybe a step up to the SLR’s, even a small relatively inexpensive video camera. Nowadays, don’t even need a camera, still or video all you need is a phone and it can do it all.  You think about all this and do a lot […]

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January 15, 2014 | Larry Merewitz

January TV Production Classes Begin

Its January, the holidays have come and gone, gifts opened and  things are getting back to normal. The weather has actually made it feel like winter and gave us a good excuse to sit in and watch TV.  You watch TV and have your favorite shows that you look forward to seeing every week. With […]

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January 14, 2014 | Larry Merewitz

Good Youth Media is Good Storytelling

MCM hosted a youth media workshop organized by the Gandhi Brigade and presented by Erica Ginsburg Executive Director and Co-Founder of Docs In Progress, with Sam Hampton, Teaching Artist and Co-Founder of Docs In Progress on January 9. This  3 hour workshop  included some Youth media sample videos and discussion about them ,  a documentary from Docs In […]

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November 4, 2013 | Larry Merewitz

New Explorer Post Open House Set for Nov. 6

This open house is to introduce people to the  Explorers program.  Exploring is Learning for Life’s career-education program for young men and women ages 14 (who have completed 8th grade) – 20. Many community organizations are selected to be Explorer Posts and are available to give real hands on experience for the youth in the community. […]

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October 27, 2013 | Larry Merewitz

Producers and Techs Mix it Up

MCT has had a Training Dept.  since its beginning 25+ years ago. Our name has changed over the years from Montgomery Community Television(MCT), to Access Montgomery TV (AMTV) and now we are MCM (Montgomery Community Media) but many aspects of our training hasn’t really changed that much. Yes we are here to give the community […]

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October 27, 2013 | Larry Merewitz

Producers and Techs Mix it up week 2

In my previous post about the Studio Producers doing their class projects with the Studio Tech class as the technical crew, we hoped for the best.  It did turn out with good results, considering it was the first time we have ever done this. Well this past week was part 2 of this process. the other 2 […]

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September 10, 2013 | Larry Merewitz

TV Production Classes Begin Sept 11

Field Producers and Field Camera people needed for the classes beginning Sept 12 and 14.  These classes will allow you to start a project and take out equipment  to do shoots. If you are a Studio Producer the Field classes are very helpful to go along with that . Using roll-ins and B-roll in a studio […]

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