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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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CTVN’s Studio Gets a Make-Over

We have been given the amazing opportunity to receive a studio make over at CTVN by the folks at the Down and Dirty with Frank Fontana show! “Down and Dirty with Frank Fontana”, a DIY home and work redux online television series, sponsored by Craftsman and Kenmore, is remodeling Read more…

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The Reasons Behind the IndieGoGo Campaign: Hear what a current Intern has to say.

A current Hard Cover Intern shares her passion for CTVN and how the IndieGoGo Campaign will directly benefit not only her life but others in the future. We had the opportunity to sit down with one of the current Hard Cover interns, Brittany Douglas, to discuss the impacts this campaign Read more…

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Help us breathe new life into Hard Cover with our IndieGoGo Campaign!

Join us on Indie GoGo to help upgrade our Hard Cover production studio. This week we are launching our first IndieGoGo campaign to upgrade our onsite Hard Cover news production studio. Indie GoGo is a crowdfunding site used to raise a little bit of money from a lot of people Read more…

By admin, 12 years12 years ago