电视制作学生开始播出新闻

Emilie Jenson, Public Information Office
10/24/2023

Iowa Central’s TV Production students have launched a new way to share campus happenings at Iowa Central.

一个新的新闻节目，被称为Tritoncast，每周五早上录制，并通过爱荷华中心学生的眼睛突出事件和新闻。

电视制作班的学生主要是大二的学生，他们一起构思故事，写剧本，然后把剧本变成实际作业。

“The students do their own script writing,” said Nikki Rasmussen, TV and Radio Production Program Coordinator. “Participation and submission are a huge part of the class, but they (students) also listen and discuss, what are our students talking about on campus?”

The stories are then turned into scripts, and like a real-life television station, are placed on teleprompters for the week’s anchors to read while on camera.

该电视台最近在文理大楼一楼的一个空间里找到了一个新家，这个空间以前是艺术教室。 它配备了传统电视新闻编辑室的所有设备：摄像机、提词器、录音机和主播台。

“We’ve been in our new location for about a month,” Rasmussen said. “It’s worked well for us; we were able to make use of an empty space and get the studio and anchor desk down to a more visible area on campus.”

在每周五早间新闻节目中，学生们轮流在制作工作室中扮演不同的角色，以获得主播、录音、编辑和操作幕后设备的经验。

“Everything is hands-on, they’re getting real, firsthand production experience,” said Rasmussen. “You can read about it, but these are skills you can’t learn from a book. It’s all trial and error, learning as they go.”

“They can’t just teach this in class,” said sophomore Devin Robinson-Smith, who was one of the anchors in a recent Tritoncast episode. “It’s all real-world experience, you have to do it to learn it, that is what I like about it.”

“It’s been a fun learning experience so far,” said Leynie Alfaro, a digital media major. “Running a teleprompter was easier than I thought it would be.”

“Having a student run newscast was an idea that had been in the works for a number of years,” said Rasmussen, who is in her second year leading the TV and Radio Programs. “Digital Media is a growing area and this year we have enough kids that we were able to make that happen.”

The Tritoncast can be seen on the student media YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@IowaCentralTritonStudentMedia with new episodes added weekly on Fridays.