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- Leadership Track240 youth participate in the CTVN Digital Media Leadership Track each year, completing after school apprenticeships at the Youth Media Center and at two Chicago Public Schools, and gaining the opportunity to do more advanced work. This after school program offers the following opportunities for youth leadership and advancement in the arts: Apprentice: Learn basic camera operations, including support and maintenance, and media literacy. Learn the conventional three-phase production cycle (pre-production, production, and post-production). Advanced Apprentice: master camera operations, support and maintenance, and learn sound recording and digital editing. Intern: Works on production team for all 24 episodes of the Hard Cover TV show. Manages strategy and maitenance for the social media channels Executive Producer: Works on independent video productions and mentor other youth as they move up through the program. On-the-job trainees: work with professional filmmakers on video shoots for CTVN’s social enterprise, Video Services. Shoot and high-quality projects for a wide range of clients.
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Is This the Promised Land? (1992)

In the 1960’s, The Freedom Movement took Chicago by storm and started a campaign for civil rights to also be noticed in the north. Dr. Martin Luther King and his family resided in Lawndale while he pushed for better housing in Chicago for African-Americans. In the decades since, Community TV Read more…

By admin, 4 years4 years ago

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. Be sure to follow and like us!

By admin, 10 years7 years ago

Documentary: Youth and Music in Chi City

Youth produced short documentary about about teenagers trying to break into the music industry. Be sure to follow and like us!

By admin, 11 years10 years ago

Stray Bullets

Stray Bullets is an original music video produced by CTVN After School Matters Apprentices. It portrays how stray bullets can take an innocent person’s life and the negative effect on the community after a life is taken. This video sheds some light on the effects of gun violence in Chicago Read more…

By admin, 11 years11 years ago

We Part of the People Too

Miles Johnson, CTVN’s exceptionally talented young producer from Prologue Early College, wrote and directed this powerful music video. As Miles puts it in the video: “…bright intellectuals, now it’s the time. Time for what? For the positive grind”… Music: “I dunno” by grapes, released under Creative Commons By Attribution 3.0 Read more…

By admin, 12 years12 years ago

Screenprinting at Gallery 37

Join students at John Houston Academy as they take a trip down to the Loop at After School Matter’s state-of-the-art Gallery 37, when teens from all over the city learn about screen printing, creativity, and technique. Be sure to follow and like us!

By admin, 13 years13 years ago

Hard Cover: Day of the Dead

First episode in a series celebrating Hard Cover’s 25 year legacy of documenting the people’s history. This video re-releases “Day of the Dead”, produced in 1999, that tells the story, through the testimonials of youth, artist and Pilsen residents of this Mexican holiday and its roots in the community. Be Read more…

By admin, 13 years13 years ago

Hard Cover Trailer: Kuumba Lynx

Kuumba Lynx (KL) is an Arts and Education Organization founded in 1996 by three women, J. Villegas, L. Garcia, & J. Bullie. Their mission is working to provide access to programs that preserve, promote and present urban arts & culture. KL seeks to empower youth and their communities by employing Read more…

By admin, 13 years5 years ago