Do you have a passion for music videos?
Are you interested in filmmaking?
Focused TV is a brand new Reel Youth program for participants in Alberta and British Columbia! Here, participants will plan, shoot, and edit meaningful music videos.
You can work with a musician that you know and make them a video or you can find a piece of copyright free music you want to create a music video for to expand your video portfolio.
In addition, your work will show on Telus Optik TV that will show to million plus people! Plus, you will receive a $200 honorarium for your participation and completion of the program!
This program is entirely online and no filmmaking experience is necessary.
In this FREE program, you will:
• Learn how to plan, shoot, and edit an impactful piece of focused TV
(up to 1 hour in length), all from home
• Receive a $200 honourarium
• Work creatively with a small group of peers
• Share a place or experience that is important to you
• Learn and have fun!
Parts of your films will be featured at a virtual gala after the program and distributed on TELUS' Optik TV, YouTube, and the Reel Youth website.
You are:
• Excited about filmmaking and interested in trying something new
• Between the ages of 14 and 24
• A BC or Alberta resident
• Available for all 6 program sessions listed below
• Available for course work outside of the session times
• Able to access a computer or laptop that can run Zoom (details) and Adobe Creative Cloud (details).
We welcome any level of experience, and youth who are Black, Indigenous, POC, female-identified, LGBTQ2S+ or who have disabilities or face systemic or structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply and will be prioritized. Applicants from Medicine Hat and Penticton will also be given priority.
This program has 6 sessions and full attendance is required. Sessions will be held Mondays and Fridays, 4:30PM to 6:00PM. Session dates are as follows:
Monday, April 8th 4:30 – 6PM Pacific time
Friday, April 12th 4:30 – 6PM Pacific time
Monday, April 15th 4:30 – 6PM Pacific time
Friday, April 19th 4:30 – 6PM Pacific time
Monday, April 22th 4:30 – 6PM Pacific time
Friday, April 26th 4:30 – 6PM Pacific time
Date and time TBC: Online premiere screening!
In our work we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world—a just humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully and without fear. A community where no one is exiled or silenced because of gender, gender expression, race, color, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual/affectional orientation, age, class, physical character or disability. We believe in the power of storytelling to make connections across difference.
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