Tonight, the Maine West TV, radio and film students and their families celebrated a year of success at the annual Maine West Film TV & Showcase and Awards Night. The evening featured select student-produced films and honored a number of students who, throughout this school year, have demonstrated excellence in the media arts and leadership in the Maine West TV, radio, film and WMTH programs.
Congratulations to all of the students who were involved in the media arts this year...you did incredible work! Congratulations, as well, to their dedicated teacher, Ms. Rebecca Fisher on all of her students' accomplishments, and a big thank you to her for organizing tonight's celebratory event!
A huge thanks to all of the family and friends who came out to tonight's Maine West TV & Film Showcase. Your support of our students is so appreciated!
More pictures from tonight's showcase can be found HERE.
We recently learned that several Maine West students are receiving recognition for their work in our Media Arts film and TV program!
Several Maine West film students have received National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) award nominations. These are also considered "Student Emmy Awards," and distinguish these students as some of the best student filmmakers in the Midwest. In order to be nominated, these students' projects placed them in the top 2-5 projects in the submission category.
The students will learn whether or not their project win the category at the upcoming Midwest Media Education Association Film Festival on April 26th. Student Emmy winners receive a crystal pillar and will be invited to the NATAS Silver Circle Dinner on May 3rd to be presented the award. They will also be eligible to move on to compete nationally.
The following Maine West Students are nominated for a Student Emmy Award:
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We are very proud of these student's achievements this year! Congratulations to all of the student filmmakers, as well as their incredible teacher, Ms. Rebecca Fisher!
On Saturday, October 21st, Maine West students participated in the 2nd Annual Media Career Day sponsored by WMTH and the Media Arts program, organized by Ms. Rebecca Fisher and funded by the Maine Township High School Foundation!
Students toured the studio spaces, as well as the News Nation spaces, with WGN producer (and Maine West parent) Adrienne Balow. We saw several control rooms, Bozo's dressing room, editing rooms, and several studios! Students had the opportunity to watch the Saturday morning anchors record their show live.
Upon returning to Maine West, students heard from a panel of speakers from the media industry about their experiences in their career pathways. Students heard from the following speakers:
Adrienne Balow- Producer at WGN and Maine West Parent Alejandro Marin- Freelance Cinematographer Brian Swanson- Editor
A huge thanks to Ms. Rebecca Fisher for her tremendous efforts in organizing this experience for Maine West students.
A special thanks to Ms. Adrienne Balow for affording us access to WGN!
Thanks to WGN for welcoming Maine West students into your studio spaces so they could experience a professional TV studio!
Thank you to the Maine Township High School Foundation for supporting this wonderful educational opportunity through your transportation grant!
Thank you to the parent chaperones who helped make the trip a success!
More pictures from the 2nd Annual Media Career Day can be found HERE.
The work of several Maine West film students recently received recognition from two prestigious film organizations: Midwest Media Educators' Association (MMEA) and The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS; the organization behind the Emmy Awards).
We are so proud of these students and their film teacher, Ms. Rebecca Orr, for their achievements!
Congratulations to the following students:
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Student Production Award Nominees (LINK)
Ash Carmichael - Arts and Culture Nomination: Expressing Identity Through Art
Addie Webb - Serious News Nomination: Banned Book Week at Maine West
Russell Adaya - Public Service Announcement Nomination: Be Kind PSA
Midwest Media Educators' Association Award Recipients (LINK)
Kris Modi - Recipient of the Lucas Palermo Scholarship
The Fine Arts and English Departments have engaged in an interdepartmental creative project between student filmmakers and poets. Students at West typically study poetry and write poems to perform at the annual Poetry Out Loud event in February. This year, student filmmakers have joined in the fun! Typography films are becoming an increasingly popular genre of film, and the poetry unit offered the perfect opportunity for artistic collaboration.
Student filmmakers who are in Ms. Orr's Digital Video Production, Broadcasting, and Advanced TV and Film classes are working on creating films for each poem. These students are learning important tools of the trade, like elements of fonts, how to animate and key frame text, how to edit color, font and space, and using movement to enhance meaning. In addition, these students are having to analyze each poem in order to find ways to amplify the meaning of the text, thereby learning about important language considerations for poets.
Collaborations such as this create deeper learning opportunities for all students involved! Thank you to Ms. Orr and to the English teachers for working together on this project!
If you would like to look at some of the typography videos, click THIS LINK.
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