PHILADELPHIA – North Penn Television career study students have been hard at work producing the weekly morning show and news show, and they spent Friday, November 16th at Drexel University learning what kind of options they have as a film, television, or media arts major in college.
Drexel offered a variety of television workshops, in which students met faculty and students who gave them a sense of what to expect as they garner skills for their post-college career. After a presentation featuring segments from Drexel’s comedy show Off Campus and news stories from Drexel University Television, students broke into groups to learn more about editing and post-production processes.
In the editing workshop, the professor presented finished projects she had assigned to her students, including trailers for a Harry Potter movie and How to Train Your Dragon. After a few questions regarding the best software to edit on, the students moved onto a question session with only college students. The college students were asked questions from what their favorite projects and internships were to what the party scene is like at Drexel.
Moving on from the panel, the NPTV students learned about a totally unfamiliar process: color-correcting. The presenter showed them how to take a flat colored photo and make it vibrant using a specialized keyboard and program. After that workshop, the students learned another process they rarely dealt with in North Penn – post-production of sound and music. The professor credited his wide array of work on scores in movies and showed the students, using a project he was working on, how to take the suggestions of his superior and create something that he would be pleased with.
In the final workshop of the day, the students moved into one of Drexel’s small acting spaces to watch a college student direct a scene played by professional actors while other college students shot it with cameras. The high school students could see on a side screen what the shot looked like in a TV screen, and the connection between seeing what people do to get a great shot and seeing it on screen was interesting to put together.
Walking over to the DUTV studio, the students got to see how Drexel’s control room and set was set up. College students and professors explained how to use the technical director board, the sound board, and other equipment in the studio.
The NPTV students learned about the different aspects of film and television in Drexel’s highly enriching television workshops and will take back the information to North Penn to continue improving their productions.