40-3330 Community Media: Mentoring Through Sports

In this service learning course, columbia students will act as mentors/supervising crew for high school students from local community media non-profit Free Spirit Media on a variety of sport-related multicamera productions. Columbia Television students and students from FSM will work as a team in scouting, planning and executing live-to-tape sports events. Advanced television students will use their experience to help train FSM students in the use of the multicamera School of Media Arts production truck and will gain experience in creating sports programming. They will also interact with members of various Chicago neighborhoods and gain experience in working in a non-profit community media environment.

3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing