Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery Community Media’s video journalism camp at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair provided local youth with a reporting assignment to cover the fair. Their final project included a look at the animals, exhibits, food, rides and more on location at the county fair. Take a look:

Chamoda Films Our Documentary is about Dolci Gelati Café, which is a gelato shop. Gelato is Italian ice cream, and holy moly is it good. We all had a great time filming and editing, and we are very proud with the finished result.

Three Musketeers films Our documentary is about Howard Connelly and the sculptures that he creates. It is also about the Takoma Art Project and the sculptures that Howard, and the other artists send in each year. This year the theme was Please Sit On the Art. We had a great time in Takoma Park, and […]

Trolley Boys Film   Our documentary is about the National Capital Trolley Museum, where trolleys are displayed, ridden, and talked about. Some of the volunteer staff members there shared information with us about the historic museum, along with sharing their own experiences dealing with trolleys. We had a fantastic time meeting the staff, shooting different […]

MCM’s Inaugural Music Video Camp wrapped up 2 weeks of production yesterday with incredible projects. Thanks to our interns extraordinaire, Scott Goodin and Jeremy Sultan, our fantastic counselors, Jimmy Hall and Molly Donnelly, and the best teaching assistant, Jamie Fain. But we couldn’t have accomplished anything without our young filmmakers. Tag, facebook, tweet and share […]

MCM’s Inaugural Music Video Camp wrapped up two weeks of production yesterday with incredible projects. Thanks to our interns extraordinaire, Scott Goodin and Jeremy Sultan, our fantastic counselors, Jimmy Hall and Molly Donnelly, and the best teaching assistant, Jamie Fain. But we couldn’t have accomplished anything without our young filmmakers. Tag, facebook, tweet and share […]

The second week of the documentary camp was a blast, and it was truly a joy to see the three distinct stories come together in the edit! The Trolly Boys, Riboflavin and The Three Musketeers did a fantastic job, each finding their unique voice for their documentaries and deciding what part of their subjects they […]

Hello again! Time has been absolutely flying by as the Documentary Camp ended two weeks ago with a massively successful screening party at the Docs In Progress House. The following Monday a new group of enthusiastic campers arrived for MCM’s Music Video Camp and joined a Documentary camper from my group—The Trolley Boys—who signed up […]

“I did not really realize what editing was until I was in the editing room myself.” ~Jodie Foster; Director; Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays (Even people who have worked in the business for over 30 years aren’t fully aware of the importance of editing.) Our filmmaker have been editing all week, they’ve watch […]

For the past 2 days our future filmmakers have been shooting their music videos. With coolers of water, actors, shot sheets, a storyboard and our mascot we headed out to the streets of Silver Spring to create our works of art. It’s hard and you have to be tough, shoot days tend to be long […]