Introducing: Community TV Network!
Produced by students from Loyola University, this video features video instructor Dan Mihail and CTVN students explaining what Community TV Network is all about.
Louder Than A Bomb At Prologue: Hard Cover News
Prologue Early College poets in Vedran Residbegovic’s Video Production class offer their perspective on Louder Than A Bomb, the largest youth poetry slam in the nation.
Black Owned: A Documentary About Small Business and Community
The Youth Visions at Chatham Academy After School Matters program created a documentary about the black-owned businesses on 75th street in Chicago.Featured businesses include Soul Vegetarian Restaurant, Brown Sugar Bakery, Authentic Cooking Catering and KMT Health Food Stores.
Local Residents and Businesses Weigh In On ‘the 606’ in Hard Cover Segment
Residents and local business owners express excitement, hope as well as uncertainty in a recent segment on the Bloomingdale Trail, produced by Humboldt Park-based Community TV Network (CTVN)’s award-winning show, Hard Cover. Dubbed “The 606”, the Bloomingdale Trail is a project over a decade in the making, designed to add Read more…
Documentary: Youth and Music in Chi City
Youth produced short documentary about about teenagers trying to break into the music industry.
Hard Cover News: Humboldt Voices
Humboldt Park is a neighborhood known for its talent and activism. Hard Cover Youth journalist uncover how they are connected for two of Humboldt’s own, Adam AD and Miguel Rodriguez at neighborhood organizations King Lizzy and Graffiti Zone.
Students Take on Police-Community Relations in a Video Project
Rondell Freeman in the role of a Chicago Police officer. Over 90 percent of the project was filmed using green screen.
Prologue Early College students spent the months of October and November brainstorming, writing, storyboarding and filming an instructional video on what to do when interacting with Chicago police officers, tentatively titled “Know Your Rights, But…”. The video came about as part of collaboration between the Video Production class taught by CTVN’s Vedran Residbegovic and Art of Communication class taught by Prologue teacher Dr. Virginia Boyle.
Pedro Albizu Campos Greenhouse
At Pedro Abizu Campos High School, students grow their own food and make their own compost in a Greenhouse. Watch this short documentary to learn more about this unique, hands on classroom at Pedro Albizu Campos Academy in Humboldt Park and how to make your own compost tea!