LVTV PRODUCTION

LVTV: What is it?

LVTV is a student run in-house television studio that broadcasts live every weekday from 8:40-8:50 a.m. sharing school and community-related information with student body and staff members, alike.

Program Mandates

TO INFORM the students and staff of LVR regarding:

• Daily announcements
• Special school-related & community events
• Sporting & extra-curricular events
• Important & relevant issues

TO ENTERTAIN while keeping in mind the importance of:

• Quality
• Good taste
• No harassment

Duty Roster Responsibilities

   

• Students are expected to sign/volunteer up for two weeks per month; the schedule will be posted on the control room door;
• It is the responsibility of the student to keep track of when they are scheduled and for what position they are scheduled;
• Students must ensure they find a replacement if they know they will be away;
• If you are sick, please phone in and let Mr. Yaz know so a replacement can be found

Semester-Long Positions

Sports & Athletics Anchor

• must be knowledgeable in sports
• must have good interpersonal skills and be entertaining
• must be prepared for scheduled broadcasts with appropriate scores, information, updates, etc
• add interesting features to the broadcast: trivia contests, bloopers, etc.

Arts & Entertainment Anchor

• must be knowledgeable in the area of school and local arts & entertainment scenes
• must be prepared for the scheduled broadcasts with their own material

Assignments

Once a year, in either the first semester (Sept-Jan) or second semester (Feb-June) LVTV students (working in pairs) will be required to produce at ONE special feature that will be aired on a future broadcast. Students will be shown how to video and edit a 90 second (1- 1 1/2 minute) 'finished' video piece. Listed below are a number of possible topics. Some topics may only be used once. If there are topics not listed, but would be relevant and appropriate to LVR students/staff, please come and see me to discuss your idea(s).

• Interviewing students new to LVR (Grade 9’s, International students)
• Interviewing staff new to LVR (Mr. Angus, Ms Rebitt)
  
• Community Issues (backyard burning, raising chickens in town, bear aware projects, etc.)
• School-wide Issues (recycling, littering, community garden, etc.)
• Current Global Social Issues (Afghanistan War, Middle-East uprisings, African famines, etc.)
• Grad 2012 (preparation, thoughts from grads, event itself)
• Unique Events (presentations, workshops, visits, guests, etc.)
• Student Government activity promotions
• Special School events (Terry Fox Run, Remembrance Day, Talent Show, Milk Run, others?)

Contact and Information

If you have any questions please feel free to come and see Mr. Yasinchuk (Yaz) in the library or contact him at jyasinchuk@sd8.bc.ca or (250) 354-5400 at school.



Production Roles

1. On either daily and/or weekly basis students are expected to work their way around all the positions except for anchor positions (for which an audition is required)
   
2. All LVTV staff are to be properly dressed to work on the broadcast, especially the anchors. We do have ‘sport coats’ available if you want to ‘dress it up’. Feel free to bring your own professional 'flare' to the anchor desk.
   
3. The various production and broadcast roles include:

• Director: responsible to coordinate all others working on the daily broadcast, makes sure all equipment has been checked and is working: arrives by 8:10
• 'Toaster' Operator: responsible to switch between cameras & DVD player, creating and managing on-air graphics; does equipment check before the broadcast: arrives by 8:15
• Audio switcher: responsible for maintaining consistent audio levels and switching between mics; completes sound check before broadcast; arrives by 8:15
• Teleprompter operator: inputs daily announcements and controls announcement scrolling during broadcast; arrives by 8:10
• Music: selects appropriate play list and runs music before and after broadcast: arrives by 8:15
• Graphic operator: runs intro graphics, credits at end and brings up necessary graphics during broadcast: arrives by 8:10
• Camera 1: runs camera during broadcast, will also take stills of pictures to be shown during broadcast: arrives by 8:10
• Camera 2: runs camera during broadcast, will also take stills of pictures to be shown during broadcast: arrives by 8:10
• Anchor 1 (students must audition): reads announcements, introduces guests, promotes events: arrives by 8:15
• Anchor 2 (students must audition): reads announcements, introduces guests, promotes events: arrives by 8:15
• Floor manager: works inside the studio and coordinates cameras, special guests, and anchors: arrives by 8:10

Evaluation and Assessment

Student evaluation for each semester will be based on the following:

• The frequency that student signs up and works. Are you a regular contributor? Do you have to hounded
  
• The number of different positions covered. (Do you just do the same positions each time?)
  
• The level of competence demonstrated in each position. (Have you shown that you have learned the position?)
  
• Quality of your video assignment. (a special rubric will be designed for this)
  
• Willingness and ability to work with all other staff. Are you a team player?)
  
• Level of professionalism (Having fun? We hope so. But are you doing it with a degree of appropriate behaviour and maturity?)
  

There will be both a student self-evaluation and teacher evaluation component to each of the criteria listed above.

Semester One Student Self-Evalution

Please complete the Semester One Student Self-Evaluation by clicking HERE. The deadline for completion is Monday, January 25th.