 Hello and welcome to our very first episode of the ACMI show I'm Animo Smone and we are here at the farmers market interviewing people who are Walking around the farmers market for my ACMI members current ACMI members volunteer base and whatnot our first guest today is Kevin Whitmore How are you Kevin? I'm great a name. That's a beautiful Wednesday. I'm happy to be here I'm glad to have you here too. You were uh It's not like we planned this out You were just walking around the farmers market and I was like hey one part of the show. Yeah, that's right I wanted to I was driving through Arlington and figured I'd stop and and grab some smoked fish pate and Say hello to my old friends at ACMI I knew you guys would be here today and now you're here on a podcast show And I think that's the beauty that really encapsulated ACMI is just the ability to hop right into the action So as a former ACMI staff member you are the former goose What was the title? I was the youth production manager. Yes What can you say about ACMI's work environment and the opportunities available for the community and For in your case the youth here at Arlington. Well, as I've said many times I think ACMI is an incredible resource for the youth in Arlington Um, and if you're watching this at home, I encourage you if you know any Any kids in the Arlington school system who might be any age that might be interested in learning video production or filmmaking or animation or podcasting to Contact ACMI and come on down. It's a free service free membership for any any Arlington school If this is all free. Yeah, this is all free How can you not utilize all of this nice equipment that we have for free brand new podcasting station that is a road caster Yeah, like the the youth here that are involved with ACMI get hands-on professional experience that It's really hard to find even at the college level. So if they're interested in pursuing a career In production in any sense, it's really a good way to Kind of get a head start on that. I know a lot of the kids I work with who are working professionally in the field now Um, but even if you're just you know, want to do it as a hobby I think learning media and learning film production or Is a uh, it's a great skill to have Production is a very broad field come to think of it because there's like so many different positions So when we say productions, how would we probably? Actually encapsulate the many different things that they could do in the fields You know, there's camera ops because production is not Just a singular entity where you have to focus all your attention and training towards this Variety of things. Yeah, no, there's so much that you can learn if you want to you know You could come into acmi and learn how to record and mix an album or do live sound. Um, there's a You could be you could learn to be a video engineer or a camera person or Animator, um, you know, there's there's all aspects of production I recommend you to you know anyone to try everything Even if it's something you don't think you're interested in you might find that you really enjoy it Um, and then if you find something that you really enjoy you can focus on that. That's right And you know that will cap it up for this first installment of the acmi show. Yeah, it was great great being here um, and i'm gonna go buy some mead and uh Enjoy the rest of the day. All right. Thank you once again, kevin. Good to see you Remember to all the viewers out there. You could be part of this podcasting station at the farmer's market every Wednesday from two to six We'll be here throughout the entire summer for as long as the farmer's market continues to run once again. I'm