Le Jardin Students Produce Own TV Show
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This summer, students at Le Jardin Academy got a dose of reality Reality 101, that is. In a new class, middle schoolers learned how to produce a TV program from start to finish.
“The idea ... was to introduce television production and allow them to explore that in whatever ways they wanted to,” explained Cynthia Manley, the academy’s PR director. She also taught the sixweek course, which met for two hours, five days a week through mid-July.
Students suggested as well as created the curriculum and participated in the activities they thought up. Manley said the group decided to learn how reality shows like Survivor are created.
A faculty vs. students game show evolved from that idea, and the students ran the competition after researching similar shows and testing it out prior to filming. “This required them to push their boundaries,” she said. “Some kids who were nervous in front of the camera had to stretch their comfort zone.
“They learned how to [make] storyboards and do all of the production aspects.”
For its second video project, the class produced a documentary about Kawainui Marsh, which is adjacent to the private school’s campus. The students interviewed Chuck Burrows there.
The documentary reflects their interpretation of environmental issues in their own community, Manley said, and it discusses efforts at marsh cultivation and the preservation of endangered plant species.
The students have put a lot of time and effort into these projects, Manley added, and have come to realize just how much work producing television entails. But they’ve also had a great time.
“I think it just helps open other ways and different avenues of being creative.”
The reality competition show aired at lunchtime at the school. OC 16 will broadcast the marsh documentary in August, and PBS will air it in October.
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