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AHA MEDIA’s April Smith’s 5 Question Video for KontentCreative.com
AHA MEDIA’s April Smith is lucky and honored to be the very first video interviewee for http://www.KontentCreative.com
This interview at http://kontentcreative.com/blog/ was filmed on a Nokia N95 Cameraphone. 🙂
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April Smith
Co-Founder and Producer of AHA MEDIA
youtube.com/AHAFILM
ahamedia.ca
twitter.com/aprilfilms
April Smith is an avid mobile new media livestreaming videographer/photographer using HTC Touch Pro and Nokia N95/N77 cameraphones.
She is a W2 Community Media Arts Centre Programming Assistant and a Project leader/Cheerleader for Fearless Media and for the Fearless City Mobile Project
April Smith is a Co-founder and Producer of mobile media production group AHA MEDIA.
At AHA MEDIA, we are emerging independent mobile social media event reporters and new media hyper local citizen journalists. Based in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, we cover community news and special events & functions with our ongoing learnings of technology, mobile media production and cameraphone capacity in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
1) What’s the one piece of online or offline technology that you can’t live without?
My Nokia Cameraphone, specifically my Nokia N95 (which filmed the 5 Qs video), N77 and HTC Touch ( where I can livestream content)
2) What is your favourite online resource?
Twitter! It’s a fantastic tool where my friends and supporters can talk and meet! I get to find out information in real time, real opinions from real people. I would have to say that I use it alot more than Google 
3) How many e-mails do you get in a day?
50-60 emails a day and that’s not including all the DM (Direct Messages) or @AprilFilms messages on Twitter. There’s lots of information going back and forth within my day!
4) Tomorrow there is no internet. What do you do?
I would do what I do every day and that’s go out and film with my cameraphone Whether it be in the DTES down an alley covering a new story or to cover a very special social media or twitter event in Vancouver
5) Are you followed or are you a follower?
Both! I follow lots of different people, all sorts of people that are very interesting and I hope to be followed also:) I hope that in this regard, people can share all sorts of information and if you can be the follower and the followee, you’re definitely doing the best of both of both worlds!
Cherry Blossom Festival at Oppenheimer Park
The beautiful Cherry Blossom Festival at Oppenheimer Park is from Tuesday April 14th to Saturday April 18th
From Movies, Bingo, Sushi, Paper Mache, Japanese Calligraphy to the Legacy Sakura Celebration – Come and enjoy the Celebration at Oppenhemier Park all this week! 🙂
Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen at Life Skills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
5 Days of free hot food April 14 to 18
Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen
Tuesday 14th to Sat 18th April
From 11 am to 4pm
Life Skills Centre
412 East Cordova Street Vancouver
This poster was taken through a window, hence the reflective look to it! 🙂
AHA MEDIA at Great Farm Trek 2009 at UBC
The Schedule
PAST: UBC Farm History
PRESENT: The Vancouver Campus Planning process and the UBC Farm
FUTURE: The Great Farm Trek 2009
AHA MEDIA helped to celebrate the UBC Farm and its future! 🙂
“It has been a great year for the farm, in terms of innovative programming, awards, and media attention. However, the future of the 24 hectare farm is still not clear, so it is time to come together to celebrate the Farm’s accomplishments and show our unified support for a bright future for the Farm! This is a celebratory, family-friendly event. We want thousands to join us as we trek from the UBC Student Union Building (SUB) via the Board of Governors meeting and then on to the UBC Farm.”
“We will have Vancouver’s own ever-wacky and danceable Carnival Band, the high-energy percussion ensemble known as Sambata, Papa Thom from the Shepherd’s Pie Tour ’09, Agora String Band, and much more! At the UBC farm there will be music (the soul-quakin’, boot-shakin’ bluegrass boys of the Agora String Band, and the hip hop alt country tom waits-sylin’ Blackberry Wood.) As well there will be food, addresses from James Mackinnon (100-Mile Diet author,) Rex Weyler (Greenpeace founder), special recorded greetings from David Suzuki, and the Mayor of Vancouver, and a ceremonial planting. ”
Mayor Gregor Robertson in a special recording for the Great Farm Trek 2009
David Suzuki in a special recording for the Great Farm Trek 2009
For more photos, please see our Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157616735086808/
Thanks very much! 🙂
AHA MEDIA and Susan Neeves learning from Frank Lopez – Director/Producer of SubMedia
Today at VIVO Media Arts, AHA MEDIA and Susan Neeves from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside are learning how to edit videos from the great and very patient Frank Lopez – Director/Producer of SubMedia http://submedia.tv
Thanks to Frank Lopez, for teaching and showing us how to edit our documentary videos better. 🙂
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