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PROFESSIONAL TELEVISION YOUTH MEDIA PRODUCTIONS: PRO-TV
"Before this, I didn’t feel like I had any power to change my environment. Before, I didn’t feel like I had a voice. Now, I know I have a voice.”- Daniel Howard
Overview:
Established in 1978, PRO-TV is the most successful youth media arts training programs in the nation reaching out to underserved, inner city youth.
Using documentary filmmaking as its medium, PRO-TV provides positive, creative outlets for youth to address the critical issues that affect them or their communities on a daily basis. Through PRO-TV, youth develop critical thinking and decision-making skills and are provided with a bridge to higher education, self-advocacy, and employment in the media arts field and the workforce at large — opportunities from which they would otherwise be excluded.
PRO-TV pairs participating young men and women with professional artist/instructor/mentors who guide them through a rich combination of media arts training on state-of-the-art equipment, interaction, and collaborative peer critique. Students attend seminars on media literacy and the history of media arts; view and deconstruct completed programs in roundtable discussions; practice elements of design, lighting, audio, and storytelling; master camera and audio equipment and learn to use the most sophisticated non-linear computerized editing systems. In the process, students gain technical and professional proficiency and develop important analytical and decision-making skills.
PRO-TV provides the opportunity for young people to explore, speak out about and document the issues they care most deeply about.