The Media Spot

7 summers, 35 Clips of the Day. The Generation Connection 7 wrapped up at the end of July with 5 new CODs shot and edited by tween-aged and senior citizen campers with one objective: communicate what makes the experience of exploring Central Florida with each other worth coming back for every year.

On July 25th we wrapped up our 6th straight year of collaborative video production at The Generation Connection! TGC is a summer camp that connects kids aged 8-13 with inspirational members of older generations as they travel around central Florida engaging community-building and environmentally-oriented activities, and creating a documentary video with TMS tutelage.

The Media Spot has worked within The Generation Connection summer camp for senior citizen mentors and kids age 8-12 since it's establishment in 2002. Each day, small groups of campers video tape activities and work with TMS to edit their footage into "Clips of the Day". This year's clips focus on in-camera editing, and employed a 14 year-old counselor in training to assemble and pre-edit camper's raw video clips.

The Media Spot has worked within The Generation Connection summer camp for senior citizen mentors and kids age 8-12 since it's establishment in 2002. Each day, small groups of campers video tape activities and edit the footage into "Clips of the Day". 2004's clips had campers editing in iMovie on a laptop, on the road for the first time.

This promotional video shows The Media Spot in action in 2001 at Community School 211 in the Bronx, NY.