The MetroEast Experience
Each year, MetroEast staff produce a video for presentation at our annual Volunteer Recognition Event. The programs are a whimsical look at "the access experience", and our way of thanking the many people who make Community Media a reality in East County.
This years video follows the adventures of three dedicated MetroEast Volunteers who discover that their video production abilities have been mysteriously "enhanced".
The 2009 video tells the story of a Community Media Producer and Volunteer named George. After a series of mishaps while working on his video productions, George decides to give up his association with MetroEast, believing that his efforts don't really have any impact on society.
Soon George meets Clarence, who shows him that his involvement with Community Media touches the lives of others in his community in ways he never imagined.
The video from 2007 is titled "Takeover". In this video, a giant media conglomerate sends a spy to MetroEast to try to discover the secrets to its success.
The video from 2006 followed the adventures of Charity, a recently hired member of the MetroEast staff. At first, she is a little overwhelmed by the technology, but soon discovers that the key to "community media" is not "media", but rather "community".
In 2005, the video imagined the result if the programs broadcast by MetroEast reached an audience outside our community... in this case, several hundred light years east of Gresham.
In 2003, MCTV (now MetroEast) began the process of planning a new building. We invited our Community Producers and Volunteers to tell us what they hoped to see in our new home. The video from that year presents a meeting where participants are encouraged to let their imaginations run free... and they do.
Many new producers at MetroEast find themselves feeling a little overwhelmed by all the technology and techniques involved in learning to make television programs. The Video from 2002 follows several volunteers to show how they are changed by the "access experience".
How would Community Media function without our dedicated volunteers and independent producers? The first in this series of videos, produced in 2001, follows the trials of the staff of MCTV (now MetroEast) as they try to produce programs, teach workshops, and program cable channels after the support of the volunteers becomes suddenly unavailable.
| Contact: | Loren Coulter |
| Phone: | 503-667-8848 ext. 314 |
| email: | loren@metroeast.org |
