The weather was nice and didn’t affect the 23 Tyrone residents who volunteered and shot video of Tyrone’s people, places and things this past Saturday.
The videographers could be seen on many street corners with cameras and tripods in hand, moving back and forth on the sidewalks in town, to get different views and vantage points on the subjects they had been assigned to shoot.
Once video was completed, residents then selected a time and narrated what they knew about the subject in a make-shift studio at the Tyrone Area High School Library. Everyone involved received a free WPSX hat as a “thank you” for their efforts. Depending on content, each person was given 15 minutes to talk about what they had shot earlier that day.
The video and narration now goes to the post production stage and will be ready for a town-wide preview with volunteers, their guests and invited guests in the audience in early December. The original tapes of the footage will be returned to residents after the post production phase of the project is complete. The Daily Herald, the project’s media sponsor, will announce the day, time and location of the sneak preview.
The program when completed will air on WPSX-TV on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003 at 7 p.m. during one of the station’s on-air membership campaigns. Video or DVD copies for Tyrone residents will be available that evening for a donation to the public television station. Additional copies will be made available in town at a later date.
“Things went very well, and the weather held out. We had a good group of people who shot a variety of things in Tyrone,” said Greg Peterson, program coordinator for WPSX-TV. “We are now in the process of going through all the footage and dubbing it to one common source.”
