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- Published on Thursday, 02 February 2012 15:09
- Written by Paula Pierce
The WIN-TV Filming Chargers Production Club is not your typical after school program. Each Tuesday afternoon from 3pm-5pm a group of 12 Middle School students come to WIN-TV to work on their own television show which the produce, write, direct, do camera, sound, lighting and star in.
The club, named after the Sage Park Middle School mascot The Charger, is an opportunity for young people in grades 6-8 to learn television production skills and apply them to creating programming that they want the Windsor Community to see. The schedule is broken up into three 8 week sessions per school year, with each week devoted to one phase of production. Week 7 is production day when the show is taped, and week 8 parents and family are invited in to see the final program at a special Filming Chargers screening.
“What I like about seeing this group of kids here is that our Middle School Club teachers, Donata Rame and Deanna White, lead them and teach them the skills to put together a television program from beginning to end, but the final product has the kid’s unique stamp—it is their ideas, their scripts, their interviewing or creativity you are seeing up there, “ says Station Manager, Jenny Hawran.
The club is FREE and busing is available from Sage Park Middle School to the WIN-TV studios at L.P. Wilson Community Center. A healthy snack is served when the kids arrive at the studio after getting off the bus. Asked how WIN-TV can afford to offer the program at no cost, Hawran says, “We feel that youth programs like this are an important thing to support. Right now we are covering the costs of it from our own budget. We are seeking a grant or a business sponsorship to be able to expand the program for next school year’s program. “
Keep an eye on the WIN-TV website at www.win-tv.org for registration for the final club session of the year, which begins in April.
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