By Karen Trinh
Before the start of the school year, the students of Baron Broadcast News devoted several days to training on Aug. 19-23.
BBN camp was a week of preparation for students new to the class. These newcomers were trained by those who have had experience in the class. Camp lasted four to seven hours each day and consisted of lessons taught by the student producers.
“[BBN camp] is a great camp because the students have an opportunity to teach each other and learn from each other.” BBN adviser Sean Ziebarth said.
Lessons taught by producers Kris Nguyen (‘15), Hoang Nguyen (‘14), and Tue Duong (‘14), who covered many areas in the process of creating the biweekly episodes. The new trainees were taught skills such as story-boarding, composition, how to use camera equipment, and editing.
“We do BBN camp because we want the BBN students to already know what to do once they dive into school,” Duong said. “We want to introduce BBN to the school like, right away and if we don’t train the BBN students beforehand, we might not have that episode for the first few weeks of school.”
Baron Broadcast News consists of video journalists who work together to create fifteen minute videos that are shown to all third period classes every other Thursday during SSR. The purpose of these episodes is to familiarize FVHS students with events occurring on campus along with happenings in the local community that may affect them, as well as entertain the student body with humorous clips.
“The biggest thing about BBN is to inform and entertain the students. Informing and entertaining sometimes don’t go hand-in-hand, but we have to try. That’s the big thing that we want to do, ” said producer Hoang Nguyen.
Although the new BBN trainees worked hard during camp to learn how to fulfill their responsibilities in the class, many are enjoying BBN and are excited for the new school year.
“I think [this upcoming year] will be wonderful. We have a lot of great students,” new student Tanya Wong (’14) said. “Everybody has a great sense of humor, and we all know how to work professionally.”
