Building Skills, Creating Futures: “It’s Really How I Want it to Sound”
Produced by Ben Wolff at 11:14 am on January 19, 2010 in Identity, StudentSpeak • Leave a comment
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In this StudentSpeak webisode, we follow Terrence as he uses the filmmaking skills he learned at the Digital Youth Network (DYN) in Chicago to land a gig creating a promotional video for his former tennis coach’s summer camp.
Terrence then takes us inside DYN and introduces us to other teens—sound engineers, photographers and filmmakers—who are creating their own media and building careers upon the foundation of the digital skills they’ve learned.
The ability to use digital media has become a valuable asset in many professions. But these students don’t see their creative and technical skills simply as a means to an end. Rather, what they learn is helping them to discover who they are.
“It’s something I love, it’s something that’s just part of me,” says Malcolm, an aspiring photographer. “It just really comes naturally.”
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