Do you want to help tell the Burlington story to a television audience? Got some experience with a video camera? Jump in.

By Pepper Parr

BURLINGTON, ON  August 7, 2012  Is the world just waiting for your videography skills?

Do you really know that you are great behind a video camera and that all you need is a chance and once you have that chance you are on your way to Hollywood fame?

Stand by – there is an opportunity coming your way.  Give a listen.

WNED, a Buffalo television station that is part of the PBS television network, which is a sort of copy cat of our CBC is looking for 20 to 25 videographers to produce material for a one hour production.  Many people in southwestern Ontario, according to WNED, see the station as their CBC.

The Burlington story – to be told by the people of Burlington on American television.

This is a great opportunity.  If you have some ideas that you think would make great television WNED wants to hear from you.  If you are good with a video camera and want to get some practical experience WNED wants to hear from you.

Lynne Bader-Gregory is the producer behind this series which WNED has done on both sides of the border.  She will be in Burlington early in September to meet with the volunteers who want to take part in this program.  She will brainstorm with people, give videographers technical tips on how to capture an image; work with people on their ideas and then give them two to two and a half weeks to get into the field and do their filming.

For anyone wanting some real experience with video – give this a look.  If it isn’t for you – then think of someone who would be interested and pass it along.

This is a chance to get some experience and tell the Burlington story as well.

Editing for the one hour television program, will be done sometime in November at which time WNED will announce the air date.  The program will be something like a video scrapbook of the people, places and happenings of Western New York and Southern Ontario towns as seen through the eyes of their residents.

People will use their cameras to shoot footage.   WNED-TV will give you a one hour blank videotape for each volunteer in the format of their choice. There are no restrictions as to age or experience and no cost to participate. Just a willingness to be part of the project.

Bader-Gregory has some of the volunteers they want but they’d like to have a full compliment which is 20 to 25 people.  Volunteers are asked to attend one of two pre-production organizational meetings to answer any questions about the project and to brainstorm a list of subjects to videotape.  After footage has been shot, all volunteers participate in an on-camera interview about their subject.

Contact  Lynne Bader-Gregory, Senior Producer, WNED.  716-845-7000, ext. 251 or email her at

lbader-gregory@wned.org


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