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The Tommy TV Vision

Imagine you’re walking into a TV studio. The first thing you notice is the deafening silence from the absence of sound reflecting back to your ears. The room has been covered with sound absorption materials and every sound that is made is crisp, clear and gone in an instance. Once your sense of hearing is recalibrated, you notice, to your left, a funny looking bright green wall that’s meticulously lit. In the industry, it’s called a green screen, and it’s, well, magical. Video production software can replace that screen with anything you can imagine. People in front of it can be on a mountain, in a stadium, at Times Square, any background needed to tell your story. In front of the green screen you notice a movable news anchor desk where two people are discussing the news of the day. But they don’t seem to be talking to each other, instead, they are talking to a camera and reading from teleprompters. These cameras are controlled by cameramen wearing headsets, but what or who are they listening to? Overhead, there’s there’s an entire truss system with lights hanging everywhere. These lights are strategically placed with their brightness adjusted to provide the absolute perfect amount of light on each of the news anchors. Also, conspicuously hidden are several microphones. They are seemingly everywhere, they are attached to the news anchors’ clothing, on the cameras and hanging from the ceiling and they are capturing every sound.

You take a look around and notice many wires running to every piece of equipment. You think, “How does anyone know how all this stuff plugs in?” Following the wires, you enter into a room with TV monitors everywhere. There’s several people sitting at a table in front of these monitors. One person is monitoring the audio coming from all of the microphones and making adjustments on a soundboard with hundreds of k***s. There’s another person who’s adding titles and overlays to the video output. There’s another person who is monitoring all of the camera feeds and there’s one more person who is calling out orders in these cryptic phrases. “Switch to camera 3, bring up the footage of last nights debate on monitor 5. Cut monitor 5 on my command. Now. OK, and...back to camera 3.”

Take note of what’s going through your mind. You’ve just imagined what it’s like to walk through a small TV studio. Now, imagine that all of those people outlined above were high school students; and, then, imagine that all of those students were our students.

The vision of teaching our students how to build and operate a fully functional TV studio with live broadcasting is how Tommy TV got started. Take a moment to think of all of the video that you experience on a daily basis whether it be on TV or online. Think about all that work that goes into those productions. People are consuming more and more video content every year and there’s a growing opportunity for people who know how to produce that video content. We’ve identified over 30 marketable real world career paths all with this single class. We can provide that opportunity to our students with this unique and innovative production class.

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