Recently middle and high school students from the Ventura County’s Straight Up program collaborated in the CAPS Media Center studio to create and produce Public Service Announcements. The Straight Up program engages and educates students and their parents about smoking, alcohol and drug abuse through media. The students learned their way around the cameras, lights and green screen and came away with informative and entertaining Public Service Announcements.
The Ventura County 4-H Youth Development Program is also taking advantage of the resources at the CAPS Media Center. Beginning with a podcast program on KPPQ (the CAPS Media Radio station at 104.1 FM) the students are learning to become producers and hosts of their own podcast to be aired on KPPQ. During the 3-session training program the group is acquiring the technical aspects of recording, engineering as well as performance behind the microphone and interview skills. They are putting together a well-produced podcast to go on the air and support the Ventura County 4-H program.
Students in the CAPS Media/El Camino High School media internship program are completing another year of award winning journalism. The primary focus of the ECTV program is immigration. The ECTV crew has conducted personal interviews and recorded life histories with émigrés from Mexico, Uruguay, Germany, Belgium, Canada and Franco Spain. All of the stories air on CAPS Channel 6 and are archived on the CAPS Media website under www.capsmedia.org/videos/
CAPS Media is collaborating with Community Council organizations throughout Ventura to record and air the neighborhood meetings. CAPS covered the East Ventura Community Council meeting on April 18th which included presentations by Ventura City Council Members Erik Nasarenko and Jim Friedman. The event airs on CAPS Channel 6 and will be posted on the community council website. CAPS will return to the Eastside on May 16th for the next meeting and will also cover the Westside Community Council meeting on Wednesday, June 5th. If other community council groups want CAPS Media to record their meeting they should contact CAPS at [email protected] or call 805-658-0500.
Are you interested in documenting your family history? Come to the free Family Treasures workshop on Thursday, May 30, 4pm to learn how to create a personalized and professional Family Treasures video – using family member stories, interviews, photos and memorabilia. The workshop will be held at the CAPS Media Center, 65 Day Road in Ventura. Workshop space is limited; reserve your spot today by emailing us at [email protected] or calling 805.658.0500.
The CAPS Mission is to create an engaged and informed community through participation in electronic media. All of the resources and training at the CAPS Media Center are available to the entire Ventura community. To find out more go to capsmedia.org/events, sign up for the next orientation class on the first Thursday of the month and discover that for a low annual membership fee of $25 you can receive hands-on instruction in videography, video editing, radio production (additional fee required) and more. Then you will have access to CAPS Media’s state-of-the-art facilities including video cameras, editing systems, the fully equipped television and radio studios. Don’t miss out. All of the information is online at capsmedia.org, or you can call 805-658-0500 to get complete information.
