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Press Release
Coweta County Schools
Date: January 6, 2012
Central Educational Center’s video program Receives Emory Business school donation
The Central Educational Center’s Broadcast Video program has received a significant donation of camera and studio equipment from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
The donation consists of studio-equipped cameras and a Sony digital video switcher, valued at approximately $30,000.
Alan Pogue - Director of Media Services at the Goizueta Business School, and a Coweta resident – facilitated the donation to CEC. “At the business school we emphasize social enterprise, in particular educational partnerships, and we had an opportunity to support this program,” said Pogue. “CEC has a very strong broadcast video program, and this donation will hopefully be very helpful to these students.”
Pogue has worked with Michael Britt, the director of CEC’s Broadcast Video program, on programming when Britt was a producer at Georgia Public Broadcasting.
“This equipment that they have donated is advanced equipment that is rarely found at a high school,” said Britt. “It opens up opportunities of new levels of experience for our students.”
CEC’s Broadcast Video Production I and II classes teaches students basic camera setup and shooting, script writing, storyboarding, basic editing. The second-tier class expands upon those skill sets and adds advanced editing, advanced camera, and lighting. As a part of their class work, students produce airable material such as music videos, videos about a particular class at CEC, and public service announcements.
“In general, we teach students how to tell a story using the medium of video,” said Britt. Britt’s program also partners with Newnan-based digital media company NuLink, among others, and NuLink houses its local production studios on the charter school’s campus.
Emory’s donation to the program is the latest major boost the CEC’s broadcast video program. In late 2011, Georgia Public Broadcasting donated studio set pieces from its Atlanta production studios to the student videography program, including set walls, windows, doors, and artistic stage pieces that had been used at GPB for various television productions for the past 20 years. CEC was also recently awarded a Georgia Career Academy Project grant of $150,000 to upgrade the school’s video and recording equipment.
“With these opportunities, we’re basically building a small television station here. That will provide significant opportunities for our students,” said Britt.
The Central Educational Center’s Broadcast Video has received a donation of camera and switching equipment, courtesy of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Above, left to right, are Alan Pogue, Director of Media Services at the Goizueta Business School, mark Whitlock, CEC of the Central Educational Center, and Michael Britt, the director of CEC’s Broadcast Video program.
