In the days when the Career Center and the school
system’s Cable 2 studio were in the same building on Miller Street, Career
Center students could stop by regularly.
Now that the Career Center is on Highland Court and
Cable 2 is in the school system’s Education Building on Bethania Station Road,
a visit requires a field trip. The other day, teacher Mark Underwood and the students
in his Digital Media class hopped on an activity bus and headed over to Cable 2 so
that station manager Chris Runge and production assistant Zack “TJ” James could
give them a tour.
“It makes it real, and that’s a goal of Career
Technical Education,” Underwood said. “It’s real world hands on.”
As Runge and James showed them how everything worked
in the control booth and talked about such topics as polyester and striped
clothing sometimes creating undesirable shimmers on camera, Underwood said, “Could
you gentleman see yourselves working this with a little bit of practice?”
In the studio, James talked about technical details
about the cameras and about how the green screen works.
After the tour, senior Qadir Houchens, whose home
school is Reynolds High School, said, “I learned a lot about the green screen
that I didn’t know. Now I know you need a lot more lighting.”
Kyle Kissinger, a senior at Reagan High School, said
the experience encouraged his desire to go into making films.
Carlo Roselli, a Reagan senior who was an extra when
the George Clooney movie Leatherheads
was being filmed in Forsyth County, envisions becoming a movie director one day. Learning more about video production is a step in that direction, he said.
“I was surprised about how big a station they have
and only two people working there,” Roselli said.
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