Speak Your Mind

Mark Your Calendars!! The next scheduled broadcast is on Saturday, January 26th, 2007 at 9pm on TPT Channel 17.

Asian Media Access has collaborated with Juxtaposition Arts and TPT (Twin Cities Public Television) in producing a 30-minute video on what the West Broadway Ave. in North Minneapolis means to an average person on the street in the area. The finished video will be broadcasted on TPT starting in November of 2007.

Speak Your Mind was a try-out video project by Juxtaposition Arts in 2006. After the project, they saw the need in providing this kind of venue for an average person to speak, and they saw that the project was good in general, but felt inadequate in their video production knowledge to take it to the next level.

In 2007, during conversations between Asian Media Access and Juxtaposition, this project came up, and AMA offered to help out with the project on the technical aspect. TPT was contacted to seek a time slot to broadcast this video, and TPT decided to donate time and resources to this project as a third partner.

The three organizations have been meeting and hammering out details. The show will contain three interwoven parts - indepth interviews (profiles) of 3 people that have close ties to North Minneapolis, street interviews of people on the street, and montages of sights and sounds of the North Minneapolis.

Youth from both Minneapolis and Juxtaposition were involved in the street interview segments as well as being responsible for getting the images of the North Minneapolis. They received trainings on equipment usage and interview techniques, and were intimately involved in the development of the questions asked in the street interviews.

The production dates were set for four days in mid June, and the youth jumped right into the post-production period of reviewing tapes and transcribing them, paper-editing; and after a couple of back-and-forth with the TPT production team, the final product's finishing touch was cut by TPT.

It was a great opportunity for the youth to see and experience first-hand what it required to take a production from beginning to end, and produced a show subject that is close to their hearts that they can be proud of.