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<\/a>Photo by Chris Tropea\/In Motion<\/figcaption><\/figure>In each of the labs students get hands-on learning experience in running professional production equipment. \u201cIn the RTV class you learn how to run a live show, with the same equipment that you would use in the real world job. The first semester is the basics while the second and third semesters are teaching you to produce and direct your own show,\u201d says Zack Wilson, a current student in the program.<\/p>\n
Throughout the program students learn things that they will need to know for working in a live television studio such as creating and crewing a live broadcast production, says Bevins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe skills learned include studio and field camera operation, videotape playback, camera shading, prompter operation, phone screener and initiator, studio and field lighting, audio, graphics, technical directing, jib operation, nonlinear editing, associate directing, producing and show directing,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n
With live shows being broadcasted every week, the students get to use the skills they have learned on a live set, not only giving them practice, but also live show experience to add to their resum\u00e9. \u201cThe hands-on aspect of the classes is something for sure that I enjoy. It makes the class exciting and engaging, and all the professors there make you feel like you are a part of something special,\u201d Wilson says.<\/p>\n
To accompany the hands-on experience students get to do some creative work. For example, in the final semester of the program, students are given the opportunity to produce a show to be aired live each week on the college\u2019s station. Student produced shows from the past include \u201cExpedition Central Florida,\u201d featuring places of interest in the area; \u201cCall It Improv,\u201d a collaborative effort with the Daytona State College Improv Club where student actors appeared each week; and \u201cCreARTivity,\u201d a program spotlighting local artists across a variety of mediums.The students create the show their final semester and run everything behind the scenes as well.<\/p>\n
Wilson adds, \u201cAfter visiting the studio and watching the live broadcasts I saw the potential for career that I could be passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the program, including all the aspects of crewing a live show, the students get to try out every aspect of production so they can discover what part of the process truly interests them. From running cameras all the way up to being the associate producer of a live show, there is a field of interest for every student.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have always been interested in audio and I am looking forward to putting that interest to use on a live TV program,\u201d Wilson says enthusiastically.<\/p>\n
The first live student program will be \u2018Pet Owners Hotline,\u2019 airing on Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. on WCEU-Channel 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chris Tropea In Motion Staff Writer Twice a week at Daytona State College there are live television programs being filmed and broadcasted on the college\u2019s television station. Those wondering \u201cWho\u2019s running the show?\u201d might be surprised to know, it\u2019s students. Participants in the Television Studio Production Certificate program crew the Continue reading Lights, camera, action pay off in live television<\/span>