This summer I found out about BRIC arts media. What a treasure! I planned to take a class on "short-form media" to get some ideas/tips for my youtube channel. (www.youtube.com/cadyfinlayson)
BRIC ORIENTATION
In order to take the class, you must attend an orientation so I did.
They had snacks, the room was packed, and we watched a somewhat outdated film about the history of tv.
The orientation leader spoke about BRIC and talked about how to have a tv show, or material aired on their channel (BCAT). I didn't go there to do a tv show but as I was sitting there, I thought, why not? Why not THINK BIG! (I often disagree with Donald Trump, but I love his quote,...."If you're going to think, THINK BIG!".
So I signed up for classes (Field Production, Digital Stories and the big one, TV studio production). Their classes are well-taught and affordable. You do have to give them some footage for BCAT in exchange, but that was the point after all.
I'm working out some ideas now for a "Special" that like the other shows, will be 28 minutes and 30 seconds. I'm filming our Kansas trip (Scottish festival) and hope to include some Sean-Nos dancing which I'm totally in love with (old-style Irish dancing that is sort of like tap dancing). I'll do segments on favorite places, cool people, must-reads (my sister's new book, Tip of a Bone www.christinefinlayson.com). I might even do a segment on my journey into physical fitness...
The photo shows one of our teachers, Matt, in the tv studio class. And here's the takeaway....I knew I would enjoy the creating part of tv, and meeting other creative people. What completely surprised me was how much fun it was to work with the various machines in the control room. I'm usually the first to run away from technology, so this was an extra surprise. I guess we get so used to what we do that we don't realize the world of possibilities out there.
BRIC does a wonderful job of creating options....
I hope to have some show news soon.....
