A group of Dartmouth seniors are learning how to use digital cameras, editing software, and more to produce their own television show focused on the positives of Dartmouth.

Through a partnership between the Council on Aging and Dartmouth Community Television, four residents have been working for the past few weeks on the new show.

The team — Warren Hathaway, Bradford Thelin, Nancy Jordan, and Gary Moraes — are working closely with DCTV’s Daniel Medeiros, meeting weekly to shoot video interviews both in the studio and around town.

At the team’s March 19 session, a name was finally nailed down for the production: “Bridging the Future: Positive Change Around Us.” The show will feature interviews, news, and information about Dartmouth, its residents, and its history.

One of the major goals of the show, which was the basis for the name, is bridging the generation gap.

“It’s our vision to bring the Council on Aging into the community, and not just being a standalone building,” said Director Amy DiPietro.

Moraes, who had learned a lot about the technology that drives DCTV, agreed.

“The idea we came up with, ‘A Bridge to the Future,’ I think through this mechanism we achieve a whole lot of things,” Moraes said. “We can produce a program which will contribute to that cause, and we can ourselves grow and understand this technology.”

Medeiros is teaching the team all there is to know about the hardware and software required to produce a television show.

Moraes noted that it started out slowly, with detailed walkthroughs of the cameras and computers before launching into the control room.

“He began very simply in our initial meeting when we got together,” Moraes said. “It was a simple handout. Then he took us into the control room. There were all kinds of buttons, switches, things we were supposed to use. Then it became a little more serious.”

Moraes was a quick learner, and helped the rest of his group by creating a template to place over all of the various buttons in the studio while Medeiros taught the group how to use software like Adobe Premiere.

So far, the group has produced an introductory segment which will air soon, and hope to start airing their show by the end of next month. Look out for it on Dartmouth Community Television both on cable and online on the station’s on demand video library.