 Portland Media Center is a video production resource for Portland City government. We can produce for you public service announcements that last 30 seconds to two minutes, short news stories anywhere from two to ten minutes long, short interviews also from two to ten minutes long, or document a single speaker or presentation. This video will show you how to do that without any additional cost to your department. The first step is to run your idea by the city's director of communication, Jessica Granton. You can also copy me, Tom Handell, at tomh at portlandmedia.org. Once there's agreement among all of us, I'll either communicate with you further about the details, or have Brian Naublock, our production coordinator, get in touch with you for more details. Here's what we can do. For a public service announcement, or PSA, we can tape a person you designate to give the announcement, or we can have a PMC staff record the announcement from a script you've prepared. We can also record extra footage, B-roll at the same time if you want to add moving images to make your announcement more interesting. We can also take JPEG files of stills that you provide us with. We will then edit it for you. If it is a short news story of an event or profile of an employee, we can tape sound bytes from one to three people you designate at the event and collect B-roll. Just let us know where and when to show up and let us know the people you want us to talk to. We'll take it from there and edit it ourselves. If it is a short interview, usually about an important issue or an event that you want people to know about in advance, we usually do those in our studio with a PMC staff conducting the interview. Just let us know who is going to be interviewed and what it's about and we'll arrange studio time with that person. If you have a single speaker making a presentation up to an hour in length, just let us know where and when it will be and whom we should contact for additional questions if we have any. Usually we need to know if there is a PA system we can plug into. Also it's good to know if there will be a PowerPoint slide presentation, in which case we would ask how to arrange getting that on a flash drive or through the internet for us to edit in later. All four of these video services assume that we will take your content and shape the product ourselves. It will then be posted to our YouTube channel. We will send you the link when it's done. If you want a more involved video produced that would include someone other than PMC staff making decisions about the final product, we can quote you how much that would cost and as a city production, we'll discount it by 15%. There is also a limited amount of funds we have to discount that price by an additional 50% as long as those funds last. If you have any questions about anything PMC can do for the city, please don't hesitate to contact me directly, Tom Handel, at tomhatportlandmedia.org, or by calling me at 775-2900-ext. 200. Remember, video is a great way to make Portland a user-friendly community.