Dan Duffy's thoughts on RRTV 2010...

Message from RRTV Student, Dan Duffy...

I am going to be telling you about my experience of going to SPNN's Summer Reel Reality TV class. This is a class that helps get kids credits for high school. In this class you are paired up with a couple other kids and you make a documentary. It is up to the class to choose the topics for the documentaries. My group was then given several days to research facts and opinions on our topics, we also searched for people that we could go out and interview on our topic. Once we had a good idea about our topic we took to the streets to ask people about their opinions on our subject and we received views from all over the spectrum.
Once our group had several interviews and B-roll shots compiled we imported it all onto the computer. As soon as we had all our footage we started assembling our documentary. We continued to polish our documentary until it is perfect and ready to be screened in SPNN's main studio.
I have learned a lot about how to create a documentary from the ground up. This class is 2 credits and is all i need to graduate, I am very grateful that this class is around.

Real Reality TV 2010 BEGINS!!!

ON June 15th 2010 youth came to SPNN's youth media lab to begin an adventure in documentary making though the St. Paul Connections Program. This year two 10 minute documentaries will be produced, directed, shot, edited, and distributed by youth about issues they care about.

RRTV 2010 screening will be held on July 2nd at 2pm in SPNN's main studio.

Youth Spaces Day-5 Last Day

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Today is our last day and Our WORLD PREMIERE!
AS we like to call it !

This is what we have to say:

What was the most valuable lesson you learned from this class?
The most valuable lesson learned was that a real team speaks up about problems or concerns!

What will you miss the most after today?
What I will miss the most after today are the people, because when i came here the people were just so open and we all worked together as a body! ( If you know what i mean.) LuLuAs!-

Any advice to others about getting into video production?
The advice i have for you if you want to get into video production is that if your not already patient you need to learn how to cause it can get long and without patience you might not get through it!

Women's Media, Day 5

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Q: What was the most valuable lesson you learned from this class?

• Never judge a person from his/her image. They can become good teammates.
• How to use the camera and the accessories that go with it. Learning what kind of angles and shots are ideal.
  
• Teamwork, getting used to people I don't know.
• Production is way harder then it seems.
  

Q: What will you miss most after today?

• Working with the cameras in a designated teen Filming Space.
• Everything and everyone.
• Being here with everyone.
• The teamwork and the people I worked with.
  

Q: Any advice to others about getting into video production?

• Patience have patience and a clear mind, pre-production can be stressful otherwise.
• Pay attention, be nice to the instructors and do your best! You'll have fun.
• You don't have to be super smart to use a camera.
• Do not slack off people do your best and be as creative as possible.
  

Women's Media, Day 4

Q:What did you like most about shooting/production today?

A: I liked being the camera guy for a small amount of time.
A: I liked being the Mic Person for some of the shots, I also liked being the director
A: Acting as a news reporter and being a camera man was hard and fun.

Q:Each person list one valuable comment given to your group during the Pre-production critique.

A: At critique time, our classmates said that our attention-getter was really good, also that our tag line was really catchy. Our body was alright and that our topic was broad.

Youth Spaces Day-4 Shooting!!!

Today waz REALLY FUN!!!

Everything was very successfull and we worked together really well!
Today the atmosphere within the whole group was happy and creative overall the days was straight up dope!!!!!

By: Steve, Mark, Aubri


What Did You like most about Shooting/production today?

Mark- " I liked the Acting part of it"
Steve- " I liked the whole thing!!"
Aubri- " My favorite part was being camera person!"

A valuable comment given to our group

* It was very creative
* It was good
* You work together as a group

Day 3 Real Reality T.V.

Women Media Music

What is one thing to improve?

• We the students, Be on time.
• We the students, Bring more energy to class.

What is one thing you enjoyed most about the class?

• Good group communication.
• Coming up with good ideas.

Youth Spaces

There are a lot of things that the we in this group enjoyed here are a few specifics:

Mark enjoyed researching statistics applying to our topic
Aubri enjoyed working on the story board for filming the PSA
Steven enjoyed writing the script and developing the ideas.

over all we all are having a good time and look forward to filming and viewing the final project!