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My work in TV and Video Production From 1989-1996, I was involved with a cable television production organization, Fair Lawn Creative Cable, in my hometown of Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Although we were volunteers, our productions looked quite professional, and were seen on Cablevision every week throughout most of Bergen County, a rather densely populated and fabulously wealthy corner of the state. I was a writer, producer, editor, and camera operator (as were the other members, at one time or another), and our programs included everything from a monthly magazine-style show to half-hour specials, documentaries, cooking shows, and entertainment programs. Shortly after FLCC’s inception, I was elected vice-president of the organization, a title that made me gloriously drunk with power. I produced and/or edited several programs and feature stories of which I am still proud after all these years, including a half-hour documentary on Beatlefest convention, a visit to the Renaissance Fair, a mini-documentary on Radburn (the first planned community in the U.S., located within the friendly confines of Fair Lawn, NJ), and a feature piece on the activities of Beatles fans at Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, as they commemorate the life and death of John Lennon. My involvement with FLCC later led me to professional work as a videographer. In 1991, I produced a half-hour program for FLCC on the Pathmark Tennis Classic, an exhibition women’s tournament in Mahwah, NJ, known for attracting the world’s best players. That program, A Match Made In Mahwah, caught the attention of the tournament, which hired me (and my trusty video colleague Larry Holand) the following year. We shot video footage of the matches, various tournament activities, and player press conferences, to be used for the tournament’s sales video and cable TV coverage. Having access to all areas at all times was, in a word, cool--as was rubbing shoulders with Steffi Graf and Monica Seles (metaphorically speaking), along with other stars of the tennis world. A bit of networking at the tournament led to other interesting TV and video jobs, both tennis-related and otherwise, over the next few years. Click on the thumbnails below for a larger image of these pictures.
Alas, I bid farewell to FLCC in order to marry my wife Karen in 1997. |
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