and we need to start right now that song is called to sing for the climate you must look at up there's many different versions and it's stem across europe where they gather large groups of people to sing it my favorite is sing for the climate met task i don't know why but it just it's great so because we are concerned about what's going to happen in the future so today i'm here public access this is a t v studio called the digital media center and it's here off the organ and southern oregon university campus right behind student housing it's easy to get to it's like walker and webster kind of the cross streets and work cross the street from market of choice so if you're ever looking for so you get to south into town you'll see that we're cross the street digital media center now the students use this to do their editing for their t v communication classes but also people like me and like you can come in and be a public access producer and we can produce shows and my shows called tough times and usually i'm trying to think of something to stretch your dollar or just tips and hints from what we kind of tips for today i like to remind you of things that i listen to on the news and make me think and so i wouldn't encourage people to get involved in public access it's so important that we keep public access available to the people to have a voice as you know when you watch t v it's kind of all the same stories so i want to be able to bring other stories from our community and present them so if you want to get involved i want to introduce you to somebody that's here in the studio today because i got started with public access i want to go straight to our new coordinator now key can spend working here he can barely look high but when charles took off for greener pastures and bigger t studios we had kind of left everything on you in a very short order it was like here here's the job and you didn't really organizing and keeping track of a lot of public i'm not sure how many people we have that are producing we've got like tw producers right now it's a lot of folks yeah and everybody has a lot of questions for you hey i'll come in and they need your help now this day and age in this studio we have beautiful cameras and if you're organized and you do your stage s i use a virtual reality but some people set up a stage set and they start filming they start their show they were court the twenty eight minutes and then it goes straight into the archive system and it shows a regular basis and also it could be watched by people just going to archives but not everybody cuts the show in the studio right some people like to go out in the field but to be able to use our studio here and the lighting and sound or to be able to use a camera there's classes required that's right and to be able to put him on this equipment to make sure you don't mess it up for somebody else we like people to take classes so one of the reasons i wanted you to be here is because i think you'll probably get me to start new classes we are and we're trying to new york and i want you to speak to when the classes are but i know there's also something very important because we were talking about the producers that are here you have a meeting coming up you want to remind everybody to go yeah our producer meeting we've got the quarterly producers meeting coming up that's going to be on the th of september at five hundred and thirty dollars and that's just sort of a meeting where we do a little potluck had a time and then basically give out the general announcements and a new policy changes we just basically throw as much information as we can and then after that it's really really exciting part happens and that's where we bid out the studio time is the way that  we organize what producers get what times when as we centrally do a lottery and that lottery relies firstly on volunteer hours so you know if you're a producer who's here all the time and you're constantly putting time into other people's shows we keep track of all of those hours that's why we have you fill out a crew sheet and you basically just keep adding up those hours three hours at a time generally and whoever the top eight producers are they get like  st dibs on the time slots we do the watery through them st and then or we give them the st eight lottery numbers and that's important because they're trying to schedule people to be on their show and they're planning ahead you know some people have very specific days that they need we need to remind people that our shows are done all day saturday yup ninety him toil and three employed also you still have a live show on friday night yet friday night we do a six  live show so people can sign up for that as well yes but that's the reason people are particular about getting certain times it's because of whatever guess they have you know there's definitely very high demand and often high competition for studio time which is why we try to reward the producers that you know do all of the volunteering you know it makes it a little easier on them to get the times that they're looking for you know and produce the shows that really matter to them and the so that pretty generous i mean meeting again to make sure everybody knows all those producers out there that are watching is what is that date again five thirty pm september th five hundred and thirty means you show up with food and then anything else start about six thousand six hundred and thirty somewhere around then it kind of it's just gets to rolling we just sort of start it when it's time basically so then pretty much you have three months of time slots that need to be filled and everybody chooses those but then those people that are there bidding on those shows have already taken the classes yes so got to talk about the classes that people need to take yeah that is the important thing i'm here to talk about now which is yet we have two classes that are sort of our mainstay class two classes that you need to take to sort of be a fully permission public access producer and the st one i'd recommend taking would be the public access studio workshop which is a class where we teach you the basics of how to use everything to do with the space we teach you how to use the cameras we teach you how to build sets we teach you how to make rundowns we teach how to use the tri caster for directing making graphics switching cameras basically every skill that goes into making the studio operate properly is talk to you in this course and that's  you do all five of those courses at the end we hand you a certificate of you know public access producer ship and you are forever you know permission says yes you have access to the public access and you cannot print equipment and you know take it out to the sorry that's the other class then you're certified to use the space the other class the other classes the public access field workshop which is the one where we teach on a saturday that's on saturdays yes so what's important for people to know is when they come to the studio to luden the studio it's like a two hour class and it's like for five weeks and it's on a tuesday and it starts at what time that so the tuesday night tuesday nights it's three to five pm for the three to class for the field class it's twelve to two and so the reason i'm bringing that up is so it used to run later in the evening that means if somebody has a job they have a hard time getting here from three to five but it's only five times for tuesdays so maybe you could go to work early that day or something are right about that time or figure out a way to work it out so that's three dollars to five dollars on tuesdays starting on august starting on august th so in three weeks every little less than three weeks if you want to give up five tuesdays you can learn how to use the studio you know if you miss that particular schedule that will come around again in about eight to twelve weeks we do it about or every quarter we have five nights of or five afternoons of studio training and then we have the five saturdays where you go twelve to two and you meet here and then you go out in the field and you learn how to use a camera but not just for lighting to get good effects but sound is hard when you're outside we teach you by microphones what microphones are appropriate for various situations how to do stuff when people are active and up in the field you know the class that i took we did farmer's markets and it was really fun but we really had trouble with interviewing people because of all the sounds and  doors and people you know of cash rich or whatever was happening out there totally so it is a lot to learn when you want to do something else in the field but if you're a person that wants to go out and do a film things to capture the what's going on in the world whether it's your own program or news kind of things people might want to do this outdoor classes like if for example they wanted to do the local parades or the local events yeah you know they could help create the outdoor one is starting sooner or is the other one is soon and starting next saturday august th august th now if somebody misses one of those classes is there a way to catch up if they want to start might not see this show in time i did the show will be out by good it's going to be out by next oh good for sure so on the th if you want to do the one that's in the field and that's important is that saturdays if you have time off in the summer that be a good class to just starting on the th because you would learn how to use cameras and you can take them to your school or your i mean you know like if you have kids in school and you want to film a play they're doing or something because the reason i like to encourage people to learn how to use that equipment is for example we do have a lot of home bound people and if if there's neat little plays that the kids are putting on or something there is a time and a place that we can make that available to shut ins and home bound people so we if there's something you want to share with the home bound people shot it just yet in yeah anyway so and what else i want to make sure everybody understands that key convince her book is now our public access coordinator so we started keep all of us working together smoothly and and put out fires when we have trouble with equipment tonight we were having a problem with everything blinking on and off we had  a little short somewhere yeah still still never really found out why but appears to have been fixed seems to be thanks to all k and then i'm going to bring in wanda i want her to talk a little bit about some of the program she does because she's really one of our talk a little bit about some of the different shows she does and thanks for joining me this newly always a pleasure so while wanda's coming in we're trying to give her she was helping in with our sound and lighting so we're getting her out here so  want to wald wanda's coming in i want to remind people that as we talk about communities and you're involved in churches or groups or activities that are going to be going on with your kids one of the things this time of year you might wan found that car washes like if you want to get all the kids together and do a car wash like as a benefit for a group i'm finding this time of year people who drive an elton camping and doing all these things and you know it's i know i don't know if this town's on metered water i never thought of that but that they can still do buckets of soapy water and then rinse it off but i think it's a good way to earn money i just drove up to one dollar yesterday in mt shasta they were doing it for one of the sports groups see what we're doing of course we have the exhibition halls for everybody that makes something wonderful creative sewing medals photography all that kind of stuff august th through the th catch our county fair it's called the siskiyou county fair and this year it's  hundred and sixty years that this is been going on it started with farmers out in the valley bringing their animals to market in then more and more people got involved and of course now it's kind of fun for kids so think about going to your local county fairs and supporting that and you know i've got one guy roped her into coming in here and helping me make people aware of some of the different shows that we have i brought in lee in the last show and she was talking about all the fun things that are going on in talent but you are one of the most involved in all the years that i've been here i have never met somebody that is so committed to keeping us on the air and keeping public access live and going and you helps  us producers you are invaluable to us we all need you but you also have projects that you work on yourself and i think one of our most watched programs was something that you did on animals but you're still doing intervals natters shows so this borland and i brought her in today and start with telling people about animals matter because just about everybody on the planet's had a pet of one kind or another whether it's birds or cats or dogs or we've all had something that kind of shares our life experience so i'm going to bring you right into people's home and have you start talking about the programs you've worked on what you have coming up and any hot tips that you have to get people involved in public access i want you to give me a hook at the end let's thank you to read thank you for having me on your show it's an honor to be here with you always a pleasure and the show that you're referring to is the showed that we did in two thousand and fourteen called animals matter it's a program that is producing with the a lot of help from the southern oregon animal rights a society and through their connections we've been able to get scott backstabbed who is someone high up in the humane society of the united states he's an organ director his title is always changing they're a very dynamic organization and then one of our regular regular g gay bradshaw who is most known for her or her starting the field of animal psychology  in africa and there was this odd thing that was happening where elephants were being killed and they discovered they thought for some reason at st right not services were doing it but then they discovered that it was a young bull elephants experience p t s d from the extreme violence that humans have been perpetrating towards them for years but so in the is backed by neural science that in animal brains are the same areas where the joys experience where love is experience where happiness is you know animals have these same areas in the brains of humans do so only welshman yes so it just helped to break down those barriers so when you talk about animal psychology it was in terms of working in communicating with animals that they were yes and it was realizing that if the effects that they were having from all this violence you know wildlife can no longer just absorb the massive amount of violence that you know that we humans perpetrate animals matter but you also work on other programs and something that's very important to you yes well my other program is called a focus on and like to see that program features  ordinary people who are doing inspirational things extraordinary things ordinary people doing extraordinary things as and and sometimes they don't even know they're doing it sometimes it's just a passion that drives them and they wouldn't be doing anything else but they make a difference they're making a difference and so a focus on is some of the titles that you've had before is it with individual people or also with groups to say groups is usually one or two people i'm usually in the back you know running directing the show i rarely come out in front of the cameras but i want to start doing that more i think it's important for you when you have questions it's hard to send those questions through people's minds to get a master your guest yes sometimes sometimes that's why it's unlikely to get you on is that you can communicate with them so tell me  focus on show that you're working on right now well next saturday i'll be doing i'll be interviewing crew mood go condi she's so wonderful she's had quite an extraordinary life and continues to have an extraordinary life she and her husband continue to travel the world yeah so what's for that but we need to say her name again say her name again her name is gokhan and she's been a producer here for i think going on seventeen years wow her show is cooking with coup mood and today she was doing a show before i got here and so she was feet and she always the people that work on her show one time i start putting spinach in the rice i thought that was just yeah as i have learned a lot about indian cooking from directing her shows are just running or just you know korean on her shows learning about the the indian spices and herbs yeah she mixes things like today when you said she mixed apples with beats i thought that was an interesting combination i was a delicious well out of the cold cellar it was a cold salad and also had salary and it's and yogurt was the main dressing it was really delicious know you said that they also travel do they travel because they have family or are they doing something in their work was traveling i think it's mostly family comes from a large family  who are around the globe live around the globe and her children some of her children are also i think billy i believe one is in germany and another one this in england so yeah so she's going to bring you some good stories and they're going to be in the title of your show is called a focus on yes but each week it has a different person are not ready to week i don't produce a show every week but maybe just joined the team the production team the strength of a woman the executive producer is back and dual the producer is another producer is joseph curl and i joined the team as a woman is women sharing their journey of how they've become the empowering inspiring strong woman they are today so we interview women and we ask these women on camera to open up their lives to us to expose their vulnerable in this and to talk about the most challenging moments of their lives and in doing so they never inevitably show us where their strength comes from or how their strength and power developed and  yeah going through challenging times is a is a very growing thing to go through well you know and we can all learn from each other because we sometimes think that what we're going through is just us and we find out when women tell the stories we go i can relate to that exact and we learn from each other's lessons and now we've we've handled things and we've made it through tough times yet to share with each other some of the lessons learned so do you already have a guest for some of the st shows well the st season is is going to release be released by the end of this year so you guys are just work you ladies strength of a woman are working on this project and then they'll be released so people will be looking for this to be shown after the st of the year well hopefully we're you know before the end of this year oh yeah and our marine our main platform will be you tube but will also be showing it on online channels yeah so so it's going to be called the strength of a woman the strength of a woman and the director the person that's and i'm seeing that's true i love it is a little different getting used to but it is been a great experience so the thing is we are going to be making people aware of strong women in this community yes and so people can look forward to some of the strengths that are going to be exposed by your show and help people reach inside themselves and share with other people  say you know the the we're hoping the the documentary series will go globally and that people of all areas of the world can relate to benefit and  share the strength of the women in their communities as well so glad you came on to talk about that because people will be watching for it also animals matters and a focus on our shows to watch for when they go to the archives because there will be shows in the archives ok well this show is going to be ramping up i like to remind people to accept the things you're powerless about and it's really important as we go through life whether we're at work or play or with families a lot of times things didn't go quite exactly like we had planned but we need to accept the things are perilous about because no matter every day you can't change what happened yesterday it's so important joy isn't something you find you have to have it and you have to allow it to you have to see it every day so i like to remind people that every day's a new day i know that sounds cliche to say seize the day thanks so much for joining me my show is called tough times monday nights at seven hundred and thirty saturdays at noon and i look forward to seeing you again and sharing other wonderful producers that are here at the studio that i like to grab an inner deuce you to thank