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BECA Alumna Documentary

I started working on this documentary immediately after graduating from the BECA program, so I think of this project as a great example of what a BECA grad can do post grad school... Join us for the Cast, Crew & Friends Launch Party of WHO IS PACO GOMES: A Dance Documentary Before sending WHO IS PACO GOMES to film festivals worldwide, we would like to celebrate the completion of the project here in SF with you! WHAT: Screening/Performance/Party and Fundraiser WHEN: Saturday, September 26t… Continue

Added by Skye Christensen on September 8, 2009 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Guernsey on Speed: The story behind my video

"Guernsey on Speed" is back!

"Guernsey on Speed" is a sped-up video tour of the entire coastline of Guernsey. In just 3 minutes, audiences can behold, to a stunning level of detail, a vast scope of the island's countless visual treasures. Here's the… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on June 2, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

2009 Graduation weekend: The Report

Spring 2009 is over and several of us BECA masters students are now BECA alumni. But before we surrendered our studenthood, we were given one final blazing day: Saturday May 23rd 2009. You who are still students will hopefully get to enjoy all the graduation trimmings as we did, but below is what lays in store for you. I should say at this stage that I think that attending is a must - for the community and for oneself. This year, numerous graduating MA students didn't show up for either ceremon… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on May 27, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Reflections on the BECA MA creative project system

"The creative project system is broken". - Ron Compesi, (then) Creative Arts interim dean, 2007 Many students give up halfway, faculty have admitted there's a problem, and there's talk about severely restricting students' access to it. But what should be done about the creative project option? Along with fellow students Vidyut and Kurt, I'm the latest BECA grad student to emerge successfully through the creative project option (BECA 894 and its preparatory class BECA 897 - from hereon I… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on May 18, 2009 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

Montana update: Project approved!

Victory! Yesterday, my committee approved my creative project documentary, "Generation Energy", sealing my fate as a soon-to-be BECA graduate graduate. After over a year of hard slog - late nights, weekends, and a whole lot of despair - this is a great feeling. I've got many reflections to share with you. You're going to read my thoughts about the creative project structure at BECA and what I intend to do next with Generation Energy, but first I'm going to tell you about the twists and turns of… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on May 13, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

SAVE ACCESS SF - PLEASE READ!

Dear BECA friends-- As many of you know, Access SF is having its budget cut such that it will no longer exist as of June 2009. This will not only apply in San Francisco, but everywhere. Because of shifts in cable franchise agreements, municipalities will no longer have the authority and obligation to sustain their public access channels and to determine their own broadcast content according to the needs of their communities. As one casualty of these changes, Public access television will no… Continue

Added by Annie on April 28, 2009 at 5:16pm — 1 Comment

Montana blog update: Getting close

It's been a while since I blogged about my Montana documentary project, which I'm producing for my MA creative project, so here's an update. For the uninitiated, for my Masters culminating experience I chose the Creative Project option. You may find the BECA department advises you not to do this, but I took the option anyway. The winds of chance pushed me towards producing a documentary. Through fortune and contacts, I found the Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI)… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on April 6, 2009 at 12:16pm — 2 Comments

YouTube Insights

Has anybody who has stuff on YouTube ever played with this? It's pretty trippy to me. My most popular thing on my YouTube page has almost 500 views. As soon as I get 2000 views I will be able to say "Thousands of people have seen my stuff online." All but one other thing has yet to break triple digits (everybody access my stuff on different computers so it looks like I have more unique visitors!) Still I could say, "It has been seen by p… Continue

Added by Amanda on March 19, 2009 at 10:01pm — 1 Comment

My latest KPFA radio show: Environmentalism and peak oil (listen here)

On Friday 13th March, I hosted a show on KPFA's "Terra Verde" environmental radio show about the crossover between the environmental and peak oil movements. My guests were Asher Miller, executive director of the Post Carbon Institute, which works to promote understanding o… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on March 14, 2009 at 10:39am — No Comments

My latest KPFA radio show: Youth march on Washington DC (listen here)

On Friday 27th February, I presented another episode of "Terra Verde", an environmental radio show broadcast on Berkeley's KPFA station. This week, two guests joined me live from Power Shift 2009, a clean energy summit in Washingon DC attended by 10,000 young people. The… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on March 2, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

BECA - ON A DIME Production - CREW CALL

BECA people, I need your genius and big, strong, sexy muscles on Friday, Feb. 13th at 10AM in Studio 1. We're doing a lighting and set design and walk-through of our first episode of ON A DIME: an non-traditional lifestyle program for broke hos. If I haven't already talked your ear off about this personally here's the gist: ON A DIME is an informational, talk format television show that provides unconventional time- and money-saving lifestyle tips with a large dose of humor and self-deprecation… Continue

Added by Lindsey Adams on February 13, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

LOL Media Scholars

Inspired by Big Fat Whale's Brian McFadden's Erudite Ferret Macros, (who was contradicting certain other internet phenomenon) I have created my own; the first of hopefully many:

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Added by Amanda on February 4, 2009 at 11:49am — 1 Comment

Dispatches from the World of Deaf--Beyond Silence -concluding blog

Hello Everybody, This is my concluding blog about my documentary project.....this blog discusses a lot about the content exhibited in the documentary. Much to my surprise and satisfaction, I found that my research was in sync with my actual observations of the deaf community. One of the most important revelations was that there lies an extreme polarity between the hearing and deaf community in India. The hearing people are keen to make deaf people 'hearing.' They want deaf children to learn to… Continue

Added by Vidyut on January 14, 2009 at 11:27pm — 2 Comments

The Focal Point Report: Show 5 in the can... Is it now game over for the show?

On Friday 19th December, the fifth and possibly final (see later) episode of Focal Point became a reality, ending the current run of shows on a definite high point. But what will now become of Focal Point? I'll tackle these questions and more in this installment of The Focal… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on December 22, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Blogging after BECA, where to find me.

I will be continuing to blog at: http://morahan.blogspot.com/ for the forseeable future. Continue

Added by tommy morahan on December 4, 2008 at 11:30am — 5 Comments

FOCAL POINT at THE DEPOT on THURSDAY at 5 p.m.

Focal Point will be show at the depot on the large screen projection at 5 p.m. Continue

Added by tommy morahan on December 3, 2008 at 3:17pm — No Comments

The Focal Point Report: The Show 3 & 4 double-whammy

This Friday, November 21st, the third ("The Changing Landscape of the News Industry") and fourth ("Web Television") Focal Point shows were taped back-to-back in Studio 1. Could we really do two great shows at once? Read on to find out... Why do… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on November 26, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

For the Right Reasons? Hegemony at its finest. (UPDATED)

Assignment for BECA 770: A TRILOGY PART I: Blog can be found here. PART II:

PART III:

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Added by Michele Ivanez on November 17, 2008 at 10:00pm — 6 Comments

My last KPFA radio show: The environmental impacts of nuclear weapons development

On KPFA last Friday, November 7th, I hosted a great Terra Verde environmental radio show about the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons. I picked this subject because of watching Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" 1980 PBS series. In the final episode Sagan discussed the threat th… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on November 16, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

How did we name Focal Point? A short story...

I was browsing through some old emails recently and came across the first email ever to mention the name of our TV show, Focal Point. Here's that email, from Travis, dated 19th August 2008: Another idea for a show title occurred to me over my camping trip. We talked about a couple strategies for naming the show, one included using a production term that also applied in a more general way as a metaphor that describes what we're accomplishing in the show. Out of the blue as I was hiking throug… Continue

Added by Adam Greenfield on November 9, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments