Typical classes at Timber Creek is where a teacher stands in front of a class and tells them what to do but theres one class that isn’t that way, Wolf TV. Wolf TV is a class here at Timber Creek where the students are in charge and get a taste for what’s to come in the real world after they graduate. After watching behind the scenes and talking to the teacher, Mr.Stevens and also a couple of the team members, there’s definitely something special about this team Mr.Stevens put together.
Mr. Stevens talks about how much he wants his students to be prepared for the real world. “In our news cast everyday we use industry certified equipment such as certified cameras, lights, microphones, and editing software,” Stevens said. By giving his students all the top of the line, industry certified equipment he gets them ready for their career after college. With being on Wolf TV it lets students get ahead of everybody else before they even get to college and start their official TV, news, or editing career.
Senior Soren Sinelli, one of the seniors that have been working on wolf TV for three years now says, “Being apart of Wolf TV has given me opportunities to learn technical aspects of production that no other class or experience has provided.” With being in Wolf TV students have the chance to get certified using adobe premiere, one of the top movie and video editing softwares and get other certifications students may use to further their careers.
Another way this class gets students prepared for the real world is teaching them how to work as a team and work as one. While watching the team behind the scenes I noticed that everything flows so smooth. There are multiple cameramen that wear headsets and these headsets allow the director of the show to talk to them from the techroom to tell them types of shots, angles, and techniques to be put onto the show. In this techroom there’s multiple TVs to allow the director, lighting person, and audio person to see where everyone is and how the shots look. From here the director tells what lights to go on, go dim, turn off and tell audio to lower or raise what’s going on.