George Romero, the director who is singlehandedly responsible for the entire zombie movie genre, directed Knightriders in 1979 and cast Brother Blue for a significant role. Knightriders is a story about a troupe of renaissance actors who live out the days of King Arthur while riding a lot of motorcycles. Ed Harris is the character leading the traveling circus of jousting bikers. Brother Blue starred as Merlin, the magician, who travels with the merry band of re-enactors on his school bus. Take a good look at the trailer for several good shots of a 1979-aged Brother Blue.

Yes, election season has begun and with it comes campaign ads and candidate forums and more. This month, CCTV offered city election candidates a short spot in our studio to record a small candidacy promo and we are again presenting these pieces for our Cambridge audience to educate themselves on their choices this coming November 3, 2009. Visit the Candidates Page to see our collection of campaign pieces, and watch our three cable channels as we roll out special election programming blocks for the next two months.

We've talked a lot about making better use of our content classification and tagging system and now we've gone and done it.

The principle of a good classification system is all about telling items apart from one another as well as grouping items together that have some relationship or commonality. The best classification system we (read: human kind) has ever developed is the Scientific Classification of Organisms that helps us determine what family, genus, and species a living creature belongs in based on common and ancestral traits of the organism themselves. It get's really technical, like whether the hairs of the fur of a species are hollow or solid, but it's all there and does a fantastic job of helping us sort life out. read more...

Here is the full twelve week curriculum of the Digital Media Fellowship program, operated by Cambridge Community Television.

Here are the samples of public service announcements that we used in the workshop today, and attached below is the syllabus from the whole morning.

Joan Chen “Join Me”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32G-VePisM

Cyberbully
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOQyMvG99w

Obesity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I01WHOCUHkc

Credit Fairy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nd3ol6lLWQ

Fatherhood Involvement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A2Ap3DyvLg

“Good Idea, Bad Idea”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jyf-USBwZg

David Lynch’s “Clean Up New York”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWv90msTUc

Homeowners Rehab
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/7972

Today we welcomed six participants in our Media Fellowship program here at CCTV. These six individuals, representing six different non-profit and city government agencies, will spend the next ten weeks learning how to develop, write, plan, shoot, edit and present digital media for their sponsoring organizations.

Represented are Kozue Sawame from the Asian Task Force, Joe Johnson from the Human Rights Commission, Sally Spiers from CASCAP, Marianne Colangelo from the City of Cambridge Department of Human Services, Ardeene Goodridge from the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, and Nicole Cleckley from Families First Parenting.

These are digital storytelling video samples to be used during the orientation session of the Media Fellowship at CCTV.

Ironing: http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=4
The Talking Tree: http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=8
Empowerment: http://www.creativenarrations.net/site/storybook/ywca/elsa.html
Those People: http://www.creativenarrations.net/site/storybook/index.html