Wednesday Night March 12th

Note Taker: Aaron Stenton


Subjects for the night: Imovie
Community Media Definitions
Different kinds of Alternative Media
Final Cut Pro

Fred passed out a booklet titled" What's going on in Community Media" If you did not receieve a copy, please see Fred, or a student in the class to copy it.

Fred Stated, "Community Media is a form of Alternative Media" Community Media is NOT Commercial Media. "Come to your own Conclusions"

Key Idea: "If you have a commercial media model, people are paid by a commercial enterprise to make media that will sell other things"

"You should get paid for your work"

Fred would like everybody to create their own definition of "Community Media".

Community Media is about local places. It's about not confusing it with media on-line. It deals with a specific location and or place. It can be mainstream. **There needs to be local control.**

Local Networks: Channel 4, 5, 6, News Stations. Do the products advertised during commercials appeal to us? Check it out. Leave some feedback on the blog about it.

Clear Channel can be sold as a commodity. We have no control over what changes can occur that can affect us.

Power operates differently. There is always a way to get more work out of you in the cheapest possible way. With technology on the rise, it is taking over our jobs, our social beings...etc...

More time and money is needed for Community Media.

Information in a diversity area is great. Although the Media needs to be expanded.

Community Ownership & Control- BNN is a example of this. There are not very open to just "Media Makers".

***Ways of Analyzing a Community Atmosphere***
How is the Media Governed?
Look how it meets criteria?
Does it offer training?
Where does the money come from?
Are there ways managing the money through governance?
How open are they to public in-put?
What is their editorial policy?

These are just a few questions you must ask and wonder about a organization.


**Some independent-media makers are not committed.***Pretend Media.

Community Media is a Process

There was no time for Imovie during Wednesday Night's meeting.



Media Policy 101:

3 distinctions:

1. Policy by which a country city, or state looks at how people get media in their homes and into their individual life's.

2. Communication Policy broken down to Broadcasting, telecommunications, & Cable.

3. All the policies around #2 are a kind of transportation through wires. How this type of media has impact on our community.


FreePress. Activist Tools. Has a media policy that you can download in a PDF file.

Please take a look at the following websites and read them over briefly:

http://www.freepress.net/content/tools

http://www.freepress.net/guide


Also take a look at public interest on the Wiki/Blog.


****The existence of community media is based on Policy. There needs to be policy in place in order to proceed. It needs to have a focus. Community media is created through policy.****