Pembroke Community Media Offers Summertime Community Service Hours

Pembroke Community Media is your avenue for grabbing and publicizing news in and about Pembroke, and also news of interest to us residents.   

Every day there are numerous pertinent Pembroke events and happenings.

At the beginning of last week's “Indie Short” article I mentioned the trend of average people capturing news, and then I thought about community service.  Wouldn’t it be great to offer our town's high school students interested in journalism and writing, a professional outlet for that news story of interest to themselves and maybe everyone in Pembroke?

So, we are welcoming volunteers interested in earning community credit hours by covering local news this summer.  Everything you need is right here in town at Pembroke Community Media.

 

No need to travel to other towns, work with strangers, or be limited by regular business hours.

Pembroke Community Media is moms, dads and kids you know from Pembroke.

News would include: 

·         local sports

·         local crime and justice

·         local weather

·         local business and economy

·         local events

·         local education

·         local politics

Community Service hours are earned by answering basic questions about particular events:  The who, what, where, when, why and how of Pembroke happenings.

This is your chance for:

·         Interviewing Police Officers involved in local crime and justice. 

·         Interviewing local sports stars to ask what makes them able to do what they do.  

·         Interviewing Town employees or selectmen to discover why they make certain decisions.

·         Interviewing teachers or school administrators to find out what the next school year will bring…And more

And just as a topping on the cake, new research conducted for the Newspaper Association Foundation found that student journalists earn better high school grades, perform at higher levels on college entrance exams, and receive higher grades in college writing and grammar courses than students lacking that experience.

So, what are you waiting for? Call 781-910-8899 or contact us through www.pembrokecommunitymedia.com to spend the most enjoyable and productive part of your summer earning community service hours by covering local news.

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Happy Mother's Day from Pembroke Community Media

Mother's Day is just two days away, and pembrokecommunitymedia.com is celebrating with this photo gallery, and by continuing to bring you videos made by and including Pembroke's children, moms, and dads.

 

Community service hours required for high school graduation are offered FREE.
Editing instruction and production guidance are FREE.
Summer project interpretation is FREE.
Video creation help is FREE.

 

You get the idea. We never charge for what has always been volunteers working with other volunteers to bring this town the programming we've all come to love and expect.

Funding comes from local businesses and private contributions which are always 100% tax-deductible under IRS 501(c)(3) regulations and Commonwealth of Massachusetts non-profit statutes.
 

DVDs are free with a $20 donation to support Pembroke Community Media Center.  Call 781-910-8899, or CLICK HERE.

ALL SUPPORT IS FULLY TAX-DEDUCTIBLE

Have an idea for a show or want to cover a local event? Join the fun by contacting us today to start your project tomorrow. 

Pembroke Community Media Center, Inc., right here in Pembroke, is an IRS 501(c) (3) tax-exempt, Commonwealth of Massachusetts non-profit company created by residents, and is run by volunteers with support from local businesses and people like you.

 

3 Ideas for A Video

Become a Volunteer!  What are you waiting for? Go out there; shoot some movies with borrowed cameras from Pembroke Community Media Center.... It is FREE!

Here are some ideas:



1. How about a Time Lapse Video – 

These are very easy to make videos – you borrow a camera from Pembroke Community Media, along with the camera stand.  We show you how to use the camera and stand.  You then set up your camera and mount it on the stand, in one place (at the skate board park or in a bird sanctuary) and start recording. After a certain amount of time, stop recording. 

When you position the camera at eye-level, you capture images from the same perspective as we see them in real life, the lens of the camera becomes an extension of the person watching.  It’s as if they were there watching whatever you are recording.

Bring the camera and the stand back to Pembroke Community Media and you can go into the editing room and edit the footage yourself, or have a volunteer from Pembroke Community Media do it for you.  You can add your own music, and taa daa you have a video.  You can get DVDs or your work when it is done.

2. Your Could Do an Interview with Someone Else or with a Bunch of People.

Prepare 10 questions to interview someone. You can make the questions such that the respondent can answer with just a “Yes” or “No”. Or ask a question to many people, for example, ‘If you could get ANY band to play at Pembroke High School, which one would you choose?’ – ask people the question, and then record their answers.  

Never underestimate the power of images to support your storytelling process.  Film a good range of different images and activities within the place that you are asking the questions that will best light up the area you are shooting and who your participants may be.  

Capture as as you can, including series of shots that will serve to portray through strong images the feeling of the interview, and will also help smooth the editing process by allowing breaks in action or in answers to be ‘covered’ by other relevant shots that do not feel out-of-place.  

Bring the recording back to Pembroke Community Media  and you can edit the footage yourself, or have a volunteer from Pembroke Community Media  do it for you.

3. Record your, brother, sister, son, daughter, or friend’s sporting event.    
Pembroke Community Media will show you how to zoom, focus, set the background, and span for a sporting event.  Borrow the camera, and go to the event.  Record the entire event or just parts of it.  Remember that the closer you are, the more audio and visual information you will be able to capture on camera.  It is good to have both wide shots at a distance from the event, as well as shots from within it.  A close shot, has more emotional strength, as the audience will be confronted more powerfully with the expressions of the participants.  Capture the audiences’ reactions too.

A wide shot, gives more of a relative sense of the event – how many people are attending the event, where is the event taking place, and so on.   
Bring the camera back to the Media Center, you can go in the editing room with our software and learn how to edit the entire piece, or someone can do it for you.  You can add music to it, or just leave the sound as is.  Then get a DVD, to show everyone, of your recording.

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Yes You Can, with Pembroke Community Media Center

If you were waiting for a personal invitation to join Pembroke Community MediaCenter, here it is.

“Dear Human, Please volunteer!” You need us as much as we need you.  If you're not already a part of the excitement, chances are that you know someone who is.

We have people who film, edit,  drive children to and from our cub scout go-and-see-its and sets/appointments, bring cookies and flowers, produce, carry equipment on-site, appear as guests on shows, leave notebooks and winter coats behind by mistake, and come around just to hang out.

One thing's missing, though, and that's you.

Pembroke Community Media Center was created independently by Pembroke residents, originally for Pembroke residents, friends, and neighbors.

If you enjoy the programming at www.pembrokecommunitymedia.com,  but don't have time to volunteer, you can still be a supporter and have your name or your business represented on our website,  acknowledged in one of these mailings, and posted at www.yourpcmc.blogspot.com. Or you can remain anonymous, as some have preferred. 'Fact is, we wouldn't exist without the support of our donors contributing towards the cost of cameras, tripods, and other supplies. 

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