i'm angela cleo smith and it's my pleasure to welcome you to berkeley community media's special live broadcast of our annual meeting coming to you from our production studios located in beautiful downtown berkeley since being in the board chair we have moved b c m to new heights and with new board members that you'll meet later on tonight we plan to continue the progress last  celebrated its twenty year anniversary of serving as the public education and government production facility for the city of berkeley we provide affordable access to state of the our production facilities and equipment for independent filmmakers producers artists musicians and citizen journalist we encourage you to become a member by going to be c m t v dot org or come in person during our business hours tonight you're going to meet the cm's board members and dedicated staff who was share our accomplishments over the past year and our plans for the future now first we're going to hear from brian scat our executive director who's got the scoop every go how is that i brought in scott executive director here at berkeley community media and i'm coming to you live from our main studio using our new tri caster which is a fabulous piece of equipment that's how we brought up the virtual set for angela so she looked like she was all professional and everything we've got quite a few things that happen this year i'm going to be switching here while i'm doing this so you can see how easy this is and the way it's easy is we take it like this and we go all right so this marks this month actually marks media democracy week and also berkeley community media week this was done by mim holly a few years  ago this year we brought in the u s dea new board room we were able to hook that up and we've also started airing some interstitials so that it makes the channel look a little bit more professional so we don't have the bulletin board coming up and we're also asking some of our members to come up with their own p s a's to you know let their shows get out there into the world so people  and also a lot of these p s a as were made by some of our interns here with the intern program that mike's going to tell you about we've got some great shows we had besides cypher we had  berkeley laughs a lot of different shows that came in here and we were really really excited to have some of our older shows that have been here for a while like education in our community media file which is a new crowd source journalism site that people can access through our website and sign up put in their information they can put a picture of themselves up there and then they become citizen journalists for the city of berkeley and anything that you do goes up on our website but it also goes to a mobile app that you can download on i phone or android you can see some pictures here that we took of an event that we had at b c m also video of our new tri caster that you just saw here and you can comment on other people just like facebook but for b c m and berkeley specifically you can get on i phone or android by typing in berkeley media file you can also comment on other people's posts submit that it goes out you can take pictures you can expand them look around them and then you can also send them to your social media facebook or twitter and e mail them and so on and so forth so it's really a great great new thing that we hope that berkeley residents will use and we're really really excited about it so here i am back in the studio right now we're going to take it back out to felicia bridges here in just a second and let's see your wares felicia there she is she's on camera one so i'm going to bring her in right now thanks for listening please come down to berkeley community media and make some t thanks brian i am thrilled to be here and a little about myself i am the b c m board secretary i am also the host and executive producer of talk to teacher that is k p of be eighty nine point three f m in berkeley and i happy to assist this valuable community resource i am going to be handing it over to our community outreach coordinator and social media  maven melanie metal take away melanie my name is melanie mansell and i'm the community outreach coordinator here at berkeley community media it's an exciting time to be a creator here at b c m it's truly an amazing time because we have amazing new h d equipment that we've just installed where local residents organizations business owners and nonprofits can now have the best tools available create their message and deliver it through our channel twenty eight and over the internet t v that work it's my job to make sure that everybody knows about our cool events and classes that are available and the resources we have here to help you share your vision we continue to cultivate relationships with  leaders community organizers community organizations and independent producers like leadership boss our building opportunities through self sufficiency berkeley cultural trust the downtown berkeley association just to name a few so we also have a number of fun events that we sponsor and hold here to be able to support our creative fray tours and we'd love for you to join us for film festivals like the horror film festival so much shorts movie jam and other interesting documentary forms that we can have just have a deeper understanding of what the video making process is all about membership here is just forty dollars a year for berkeley residents so if you can join us  on twitter at b c m dot or g and follow us and like us on facebook you'll be sure to catch up with the latest of what's happening at the z m well let's check up take out what's happening with our treasure just wanted to let you know that i am an independent video producer from berkeley i'm looking forward to supporting the amazing staff here and next we're going to hear an update on how we're doing financially from our board of i'm sorry from our trip who is the first dog business manager thanks jeff in the studio for keeping me in my ear we're having a lot of fun here with  v as you can see is the there's a lot of really cool fun technology that you can learn and now we're going to hear from the management and done business manager i watch the station's expenses and bottom line and make sure my i make modifications minor modifications to our operational budget i'm thrilled report that berkeley community media has made tremendous progress as in the best financial situation the c m s experience in my two plus years on the job we fully expect two thousand and fifteen to continue that upward trend b c m is on budget and has a prudent reserve of operations funds during twenty fourteen b c m did quite well from a business perspective in several key revenue areas which helped our financial stability as an organization workshop fees was an area where we increased our year over year revenue by a little more than sixteen percent overall we taught more sessions of final cut pro and other popular classes the both our current and new members want to teach some ways we're looking to increase our revenue include the additions of the newer imax and more overall capacity in our final cut pro edit room which allows us to teach more students at one time membership revenue has remained steady but we hope to grow that income category as we offer some new classes and offer more sessions of our core high demand workshops like final cut pro feel production studio production as well as a class for a new trial caster h d many portable studio expanding our class offerings and their frequency should help bring in more new members and drive up membership renewals b c m needs more flexibility in our overall staffing levels so a key goal for twenty fifteen and beyond is to crank up our fundraising potential and execution with some innovative ideas and fundraising events to make our progress on that front our board of directors fundraising committee is in the planning stages and we're looking forward to seeing their ideas overall things are on a sound fiscal footing as we enter the final quarter of and fourteen fifteen fiscal year our business training and experience will help the c m stay on course as an organization and continue to evolve you can stay tuned to our progress become a member and register for classes by visiting our web site  one of the few them initiatives in the bay area and i just joined b c m and i'm really interested in helping b c m make connections with other outlets like a p s a and community groups to help support citizen journalism so now let's hear from annual meetings i tend to spotlight one or two major pieces of gear we've recently acquired an effort to show how we've made progress during the year this year is different this year we have an entirely new ecosystem of integrated production and post production equipment that is designed to support the producer all the way through the process of creating their work you can hit it on the video for producers who want to shoot with cameras that have the traditional camcorder design we now have the panasonic a g a c one thirty cameras everybody loves these cameras they are sturdy versatile can be run for more than three hours shooting continuously without running out of battery life or storage space on a thirty two gigabyte s d card which we now sell at the front desk and that's what we're shooting this stuff with here tonight they also have a lot of her professional controls like a built in wavefor separately and then you light your project using our new great cast l e d lates they stay cool have dimming controls on the units and can even be operated with a battery then you check to look using our gorgeous new seven inch ican field monitor that came out right on top of the camera for producers willing to accept the challenge we also have a canon sixty d d s l r with fantastic fifty millimeter prime lens to achieve super cinematic shallow depth of field look these cameras all shoot on s d cards which means no more trouble with tape mechanisms so you can take out your s d card and go to our new seven twenty seven inch imax stations to edit your project on the latest edition of final cut pro ten which can seamlessly and just all kinds of different footage from different sources for use in a single timeline then you put your completed project on a flash drive take that into the express do you know to use a rolling with our new tri cast or a futuristic studio in a box that can switch create graphics trigger video for playback apply chroma key effects all from within a single interface while recording and streaming simultaneously and that's what i mean by ecosystem this big upgrade certainly should challenge the idea that public access always means broken and old equipment as far as usage for the past year goes here the numbers we had two hundred twenty eight studio studio uses in two thousand and fourteen for a total of seven hundred and ninety six hours there were one hundred fifty six express studio uses for a total of four hundred sixty nine hours we had one hundred seventy one camera checkouts and four hundred for editing reservations for a total of one thousand twenty one hours of editing but it we expect our usage to grow again in the upcoming year as word spreads of our new equipment thanks for your time and i like interview with michael on the intern program in education and thanks for joining us for annual meeting at berkeley community media you know it's really a dynamic fun place to be and i always talk about our community media being an arts an educational institution that happens to be a television station and as an educator myself i find the opportunity to support teachers and develop classes and support with curriculum to be really exciting rewarding way to contribute to my community grew up in berkeley to berkeley high taught of berkeley high for about seven years and i'm very proud to be doing work with berkeley community media so this last year we offered a lot of classes we offered about thirteen fourteen classes including  studio production which teaches how to work with inside this big studio cameras and lights and sound switching graphics our express studio including our new tri caster which is just absolutely groundbreaking and exciting it's berkeley community media is just really a contemporary wonderful place and i think we're shining star when it comes to public access television we've also got great classes in field production jeff as mentioned our d s l our photography sound  capture including a fully class about post production sound we've got great classes in interview technique and on camera performance also classes in final cut pro it just gets more and more exciting and also if members seem to need a class we're really happy to develop that and find the professional that could support that class right now we've got about ten interns that are working with us and they range from age fourteen on through well probably early forty's or so and they are members of our community they're really reflective berkeley high members b c c members cal students working adults that choose me live here in berkeley and we're really doing some exciting stuff we've got our turns developing content such as commercials and bumpers now in five languages other than english station dedication that we've got including making short films for the film festivals that are here and our internship program runs for of the length of a semester and it's open to all people you know after about the seventh grade and we really would like you if you're interested in working in television to come on down and talk to me mike about being an intern at berkeley community media because you really learn how a station is run and we support you also in the kind of things that you might like to be doing and we could really use your help and we'd like to meet you so i appreciate the time you spent with us and i'd like you to meet a wonderful woman who's dedicated to community broadcasting to our vice chairman jody sanders and she's out there somewhere and i express i think hello my name is jodie sanders i'm currently the vice chair of berkeley community independent film producer and i'm finishing my degree at sam cisco state we hope that you'll so for support free speech by becoming a member of b c m and taking classes and sharing your voice with the world berkeley community media is vital to the continuation of the free speech movement in upholding our rights to our freedom of expression we are now celebrating fifty years of free speech and berkeley community media is celebrating twenty years of that free speech so it's very important that you understand fifty years is not a long time so please join us in pulling our rights and armaments and sharing your voice and also we want to think sarah blanco who  is not currently here today but she also serves on the board and wants to give her things to the community as well so thank you so much and we're going to toss this over to brian who has a special announcement  hi brian scott again executive director and i'm here with greg and greg is going to be hopefully joining our board we have to make sure that we vet him but i'm pretty sure that  fit in perfectly here greg why don't you tell us a little bit about how you got here what brought you in and just your experience here at the c m yes oh hi everyone i'm greg i'm actually a downtown berkeley resident and i recently moved back to berkeley a couple years ago and i just really wanted to get more involved in the community and a couple of months ago brian gave me a tour of b c and i was just astounded at what we had here that i didn't know about he showed me the state of the art equipment the imax the d f l are the h d camcorders told me about all the classes and just how accessible it is for everyone i think once once i saw i immediately wanted to become more involved i didn't kind of interested in filmmaking but a little bit intimidated by the software so i learned about the classes and all that and because of that i just wanted to get more involved and i hope that  the board will accept me well i think that probably since we have all our board members here except one there's one sarah blanco is not here but we have most of our board i think we've got thanks for joining us come down to berkeley community media twenty to thirty nine martin luther king jr way here in berkeley california you can also find us on the web at b c m dot org and even on  dot org if you're so yes and so i think there are credits maybe rolling they may not we don't have a monitor so i don't know but hey thanks a lot and we'll see