Let's make a 'community media' videos together!

The common idea in the #TeenTigerTV Contributed Media Project is we share Wallingford but see it from different vantage points. Many sunsets, rainbows, first snowfall or enormous ones, or critters visiting our yards have many of us reaching for our cameras; then sharing on Social Media. What if we could see the seasons change, our encounters with nature, our favorite places, and other things Wallingford, more collectively?

With a camera in nearly everyones pocket anyone can contribute to content creation from where they are. Content can be crowd-sourced around an idea and produced into something representing many views. It is the coming together of people across generations, with different skills and vantage points agreeing to a common idea that defines community. It is the coming together of people from all generations as neighbors and fans of Wallingford that make each Contributed Media video special.

Community Media brings people together to produce video content. It is not about where you see the content, or the resources used to produce it; it is about coming together to engage, inspire, educate or entertain.

Most Social media is a person sharing something they did, think, or saw on platforms. They can be one of houndreds or thousands with a common interest. Each person participates from their point-of-view. With limitations, common interests can be viewed collectively with a hashtag. Truthfully, a collective exprerience is rare.

Community Media originated before Social Media. It involved people coming together, learning technology, and using publicly managed resources to create TV content for distribution on cable television. Today, community content creation does not depend on public resources; however, it still requires people coming together in the public interest around an idea.

WPAA-TV and Community Media Center hosts the #TeenTigerTV youth media progam. Our purpose is to serve our viewers, producers, and contributors in the production of content that matters to them and ultimately the public. By providing our tools and stage as a free resource on a 1st, come, 1st serve basis, WPAA-TV celebrates Wallingford every day. Community media encourages local dialogue, increases discourse around policy issues, fosters an understanding of local cultures, and shares information to improve our lives. In Wallingford, we have a space to be brave and safe for all of this. However, Unity begins with U. Let’s share the joy of enjoying everything Wallingford

You can contribute pictures and short video clips of places and things Wallingford using the email movie@wpaa.tv. This submission process gives the youth team permission to use the content submitted. After it is edited you will see the video on TV and Social Media. Contributed Media videos are here on YouTube. All videos are cablecast on WPAA-TV Comcast 1070/18. Most contributors will see the results on YouTube. Everyone is encoraged to share with their friends and family.

Help us. Your experiences can be part of our community memories: Submit your pictures to movie@wpaa.tv. And if you are a young person the youth team are barinstorming wasy to give you incentives to participate in 2026. There is no need to wait, submit now.

To recap:

Contributed Media means content—specifically pictures and short video clips—that is crowd-sourced from various individuals in our community and then edited/produced collectively to represent many different views around a common idea about Wallingford.
It is defined by:

• Crowd-Sourcing: Anyone with a camera can submit content (like photos of sunsets, nature, or favorite places) via email to movie@wpaa.tv.
• Collective View: The goal is to move beyond individual social media sharing to see things, like the changing seasons in Wallingford, more collectively.
• Community Production: The submitted content is used by the #TeenTigerTV youth media program to produce a video that becomes a community memory, which is then shared on social media, cablecast on WPAA-TV, and uploaded to YouTube.