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BevCam Executive Director’s Report

For the Month of March 2012

April 9, 2012

1. PRODUCTION

On March 30, Corinne Ray taped the first in a new show

series she will be producing and hosting called “Faces

and Places”. We are thrilled to have Corinne return to

BevCam after being away for several years. Her show

will feature interesting people and events from our area.

New producer Barbara Alex taped her first show with

Jamie Belsito acting as host. The series will be called

“Live Jazz Sessions”, and will feature performances by

musicians and singers taped during the Sunday Jazz

Sessions held at the Chianti Jazz Lounge in Beverly.

Bob Gigliotti, who has produced the “Bobby G

Show”, taped a number of segments for a new show

called “ViewPoint 360”. It is a parody of supposed

“non biased” TV news and comment shows, and

features a comic and satiric look at these programs.

Corinne Ray interviews Dr. Richard Wiley on her “Faces and Places” show.

Jamie Belsito and Barb Alex on the set of “Live Jazz Sessions”.

Bob Gigliotti gets set to tape a segment of his new “ViewPoint 360” show.

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BevCam participated again with our good friend Paul

Van Nest of Cinema Salem this year to produce a special

program featuring winning entries in their student 5-

minute video competition. We taped interviews on

location on opening night March 1 with the students and

edited in their winning videos. BHS students Zach Stone

(1st place) and Matt Picariello (3

rd) were among the

winners.

The Council on Aging continued with its production of “Livin’

the Good Life”. On March 4, they hosted Dr. Melvin Miller,

formerly a professor of dentistry at Tufts Dental School, who

gave a fascinating presentation with slides of benefit work he did

providing dental services in South America and Asia.

It’s great to have Dr. Mavis Jaworski returning to

BevCam as an active producer, reviving her series, “Dr.

Jaworski’s New England Talk”. Her first guests

included Attorney Jack Altshuler, discussing legal

matters, and Philip Wysor, a local real estate agent.

Mavis is also taping a series of PSA’s on public health

related topics.

Walt interviews Zach Stone at the Cinema Salem Student Film Fest awards.

Beverly Main Streets hosts and guests preparing to tape a new show

Mavis Jaworski tapes a PSA on a variety of public health topics

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On March 5, BevCam joined with Beverly Bootstraps to tape

their annual Best Chef competition at the Danversport Yacht

Club. This popular event drew a large crowd as chefs from

several local restaurants prepared delicious offerings to

impress a panel of expert judges. The winner was 15 Walnut

from Hamilton. David Andelman of “Phantom Gourmet” did

a terrific job as host and emcee.

The annual Red Cross of Northeastern Massachusetts

“Heroes Breakfast” was held on March 15 at the Co-Co

Key Resort Hotel in Danvers. BevCam taped the event

for the 7th

year in a row. Dr. Richard Wylie of Endicott

College was named the Enduring Hero.

BevCam taped a Beverly High School fundraising event

March 15 in the field house. It featured a return of the

Harlem All Stars playing basketball against a select team of

BHS faculty/staff. A great time was had by all, especially

the youngsters.

Jenny Hudson continues to produce the very popular

“Live from Chianti” series featuring a live taping from

the Chianti Jazz Lounge. The program has been

instrumental in bringing deserved focus to the North

Shore jazz music scene.

David Andelman hosts the Bootstraps “Best Chef 2012” cook-off

Steve Madore focuses in on Freddy Doeringer of the Red Cross

Alex Ushakoff zooms in on the action featuring the Harlem Al l Stars

Chianti’s Rich Marino introduces Grand Fatillia before their set

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John Maihos taped another in the “Kiwanis

Conversations” series with several people representing

the “Tour de Cure”, an event featuring a fundraising

bicycle tour to support diabetes research.

Gail Burke and Elliott Margolis and their “What’s

Happening” crew, who are perhaps currently our most

prolific producers, continue to tape programs at a rapid

pace. They feature interesting and oftentimes thought

provoking programing.

On March 10, BevCam taped the Beverly Rotary Club

sponsored “North Shore Star” event at the Danversport

Yacht Club. The exceptional singers displayed styles

ranging from opera to show tunes to country. Bill

Hanney of the North Shore Music Theater was one of

the judges. Fred Van Ness won first place for his superb

rendition of “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables.

Kim and Steve get John Maihos and his guests ready for taping.

Elliott Margolis and Gail Burke with their guest Rabbi Allison Adler

Winner Fred Van Ness receives kudos from the panel of judges

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2. OUTREACH

BevCam taped a video PSA at the request of the Coast Guard

Auxiliary on location at the US Coast Guard station in Gloucester,

featuring an interview with Commanding Officer Luis Munoz, in

preparation for their “Safe Boating Day” in May.

On March 22, the Beverly High School and Chamber of Commerce held a continental breakfast/coffee

connection at the high school to focus on mutually beneficial potential relationships between the school

and the business community. BevCam was on hand to tape the proceedings.

BevCam has been co-ordinating with the Beverly Chamber of Commerce to resume production of a

regular series. Here is an excerpt from Executive Director John Somes March newsletter:

“I am excited to announce that the Beverly Chamber of Commerce and BevCam will be promoting a

new show that focuses on Shop Local. Each month we will have a different host with a couple of guests

from the Business community to discuss different topics on shopping local.”

Chris Gilbert, who produced the series “This City Beverly” for

BevCam, was in the studio finishing post production on his

documentary “Beyond Empires. The work mostly involved some

voiceovers for scenes they shot on location in India.

Mike Bookman of Beverly’s local BEMA agency asked us to broadcast some FEMA sponsored PSA’s

on emergency preparedness which we are starting to air.

Paul Van Ness monitors voiceovers for “Beyond Empires”

Walt interviews Commanding Officer Luis Munoz

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Mark Layman, a BHS girl’s gymnastics team parent, has become a new member. He taped several of the

gymnastics competitions, including their successful Mass State meet, which are airing on Channel 22.

Patricia Beckwith has become a new member and is interested in producing a series on financial topics.

We’ve had discussions with former producer Rick MacDonald of US Advisory Group about reviving his

series “Life by Design”.

While taping a “Reflections” show on site with Fred Hammond, we spoke with Peter Harmeling of

Harmeling Physical Therapy. We discussed a new series he would like to produce on health, nutrition

and body maintenance issues.

Barbara Alex, mentioned above, is a new member; other new members include Jamie Belsito, Thomas

Massa, Patricia Armstrong, and Greystone Services.

Mary Rodrick has reactivated her membership, as has Dr. Mavis Jaworski, mentioned above.

BevCam’s working relationship with Beverly High School has produced positive results all around,

especially in increasing the amount of student-produced shows on Channel 22. Media teacher Jo Lloyd

sums it up nicely:

“Channel 22 is packed with programming! …we are at a point where some programs need to actually

be bumped to facilitate incoming material.

Currently, the Studio Production class is producing 3 regularly running shows on Channel 22…Chit-

Chat with Sky and Kat- 8 episodes, Wallfries - 3 episodes, BHS Now - 3 episodes. Final edited episode

lengths are on average 20-30 minutes.

The Media Remix class has provided many video short features, commercials for and about the BHS

community, and video PSAs.

Other shows that have been produced by Media program: Writer's Corner (a combination project

between my Creative Writing class and Media students)-2 episodes with more on the way, BHS Vocal

Ensemble (a combination project between Chorus and Media students), Antigone (a combination project

between Lara Collins' English class and Media students), The Road Ahead (Media students production

of recent assembly).

Channel 22 has also been airing BHS sporting events taped by BevCam and parent volunteers which

seems to have worked quite well to cover events outside of the regular school day.

BevCam also produces other school related programming on Channel 22 such as Winter Concert, State

of the Schools, and Focus on Education with Dr.Galinski.

Additionally, I continue to post PSA slides as needed by the BHS community at large (bullying

prevention, events, etc.).

I am happy to say that Channel 22 which has had limited programming in the past is so filled with

programming that a future objective needs to actually look at scheduling!”