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Show IM, Page 1C A South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, March 2, 1983 Tell These Stfudleints t Switch Television Today 40 to 50 students learn how to fade, record, and film, using the switches, monitors, and mixers that are all part of the audio and sound equipment. And now Viewmont High has the proud distinction of being the first school in the state to have its own broadcast studio. Viewmont has been a pioneer in the field of radio and TV broadcasting being taught in By CHERYL ARCHIBALD - Review Correspondent BOUNTIFUL As television cameras stood strategically in their places waiting to roll, lights were perched above amidst tangles of cords, giving the exact lighting to the set and curtains hung behind the desk forming a blue backdrop for the performer yet to take his place. Inside the control room as five or six Viewmont High School students gathered their books and headed to their next class, Brent Bangerter, instructor of the schools vocational TV and radio broadcasting course, introduced Ken Isaacs, a student of the trades and industrial class. Isaacs was to show some of the video tapes that the class had made while Bangerter taught stagecrafts on two-ye- the high schools, said Bangerter. The trades and industrial class, or T&I, is the class for advanced students and according to Bangerter, the class has won superior honors and a string of awards for their productions at the University of Utah competition which is sponsored by the Utah Journalism Education Association. ar the Viewmont High stage. As Bangerter. had explained earlier, It all began about 10 years ago. We converted an existing classroom into a broadcast studio, and we had a couple ' Bangerter said that the categories of programs entered include documentaries, entertainment, and news. He is modestly proud of the students accomplishments especially because they .still work in their original converted studio. As we watched a video tape surplus black and white cameras and a control so small you could set it in your lap. of that the class had just assembled for the district, a slide presentation about vocations that had been smoothed into a video program with sound and music, Isaacs described the schools program. It includes a year of classroom instruction in basic language and functions of the equipment, and then two years of advanced training in actually operating the studio and producing programs. The classes are offered to 10th, 11th and 12th graders and Isaacs said that there are more and more girls signing up. He said he plans to go into producing as a career and said he is most interested in making the instructional programs that large companies such as Skaggs use. He said he knows of students who have a desire to be disc jockeys and are learning how at the schools radio station. It is commercials and announcements for a radio program and then are graded on their work. One project involved doing the whole radio program in a foreign language, Isaacs said. Another T&I student, Mark Lee, said that he would like to go into directing and producing for television. Bangerter had explained that the schools placement program has been successful in placing graduates in all three local television stations. Many have gone on to four radio stations in Utah and one in Idaho. They have the ability and are prepared, said Bangerter. An example of the professional work that the classes produced is a film used at Viewmont to describe the different vocational classes to the student body. Done with a feature format, the film was made two years ago in color with a lively complete with turntables, musical background for the timikes, and even the On The tles and credits. Air sign over the door. Hosts Donna Abboud and The students are often given Chris Platt greet the audience an assignment as a term project in front of Viewmont High and of picking out music and doing host a tour of all the vocational classes in and outside of the of busy stuschool. Close-up- s dents working in the classes are shown. Two students of graphic arts discuss how their shop prints labels and tickets, and then the tour goes to the wood shop to see the power tools TODD GARNER, about drafting and see the children in the preschool operated by the child development class. The tour finally ends at the career center. The computer that offers more information about the vocations available to the students is shown. Isaacs explained that in many instances the district or someone tells us what they want and we do it. An example of that was a Burton Elementary School production, Our Country Tis of Thee. We were told about it a day before we went out there, said fe. mmmms practices his roll as a cameraman for one of the high school's television MARK LEE , t V productions. The studio is equipped to broadcast and tape the productions. & yf 'VO AiV ...; i Or Ar1 li Jfc W' ' i i . 0, V . ;'i .OvV tpY: ,. - ' - ' or' J H vf t . Y J i. . it. " CV7 Were returning to the good old days and rolling back prices! t-- T 'H1- f iff t Of' or.-r-jW fJ 7, - O f- - ... - ' ' t W-- A"' H 4. o O , tzz t . i i ' 4h V t aizozis ' . vo ,. V P I. t .ft t t o O Vv " o - rs -- v,..- Vfc - part, commented Bangerter. ; arr ; " w v. V; w rv had used our two brand-necameras, and it was kind of experimental. We learned a lot about the equipment. The program was very well done on their The film was copyrighted and Ruth Roberts, who composed and wrote the production, gave permission to use the tape on Channel 12, the cable TVs Community Access Station. We came up with ideas of our own too, like the Bridge Crunch, Isaacs said in explainoperating. Donna and Chris say they ing one of the classs latest prowant to show a house that the jects. An annual event for Viewconstruction class is building, Bangerter. mont, the Bridge Crunch inso they walk to the automotive The had re- volves students making bridges shop to get a car as Chris exp- hearsed the musical for months and then a contest to see whose lains that hes thinking about before they performed it for the bridge can withstand the most having them do some repairs on PTA and parents and then we weight or pressure. Isaacs said his car. After all, the shop does were asked to film it. Bangerter that the T&I class will be maktune-up- s and lube jobs and even said that his T&I students ing a tape of the event this year changes tires for some of the loaded their cameras and video and hopefully it will be aired on students. equipment into a district van Channel 12. The class is planning many and took it to Burton where it They hop in a little Volkswagen and drive out to the con- took them about 45 minutes to tapes in the future for Channel 12 in an interactive program struction site where the frame set up the lights and cameras. of a house is shown. Donna and As the kids performed in their with the Community Access Chris explain that a house is costumes of red, white and blue, Station where Viewmont would be a broadcasting facility for built and sold every year and one camera did the close-up- s the workmanship is of the high- and the other filmed straight on the district. est quality. overall. Jay B. Dansie, of the Davis Then they drive to the It was about like television County School District, said schools farm where agricul- in the fifties and sixties where that the cable company will put ture, landscaping and livestock you shoot live and hope for the in a reverse line and Viewmont are taught. Viewers even get to best, he said. Back at the will be able to send out live see the schools black and white studio the class edited it all to- programs to homes from the horse before heading back to gether. schools studio. fifth-grade- ypr- a student at Viewmont High School, runs a control board in the school's unique learning laboratory. It is the only high school television studio in the state. We were really challenged the campus where viewers see displays of metalwork, learn because it was the first time we U V; You will find bargains reminiscent of another era; prices reduced to the days when your dollar really had lots of value! 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