Lights, Cameras, Action at Eagle Valley Student Media

We’re taking a moment to spotlight Eagle Valley High School on our Community Technology Blog - the CLOG. 

EVHS has been a longtime partner of ours. The Eagle Valley Student Media club is a hard-working collection of Intro to Journalism and Advanced Journalism students who produce web articles on eaglevalleystudentmedia.org and weekly episodes of the broadcast news show, EVTV. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VASm4H-6Q

EVTV episodes are submitted to High Five Access Media for playout on local cable Channel 5/Live on Five, so we are able to share their reporting with the community. Their student journalists are often tenacious enough to cover topics that affect the community at large, and getting the message out beyond the high school community provides these students with valuable, real-world credentials to add to their resumes. 

One of those students is Emit Brown, whose packages on Roundup River Ranch and Eagle County Teacher Pay were selected to screen with the Vail Film Festival’s inaugural Youth Filmmaking Program this past December.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=960YVRJSyug

EVSM also profiles Eagle County Veterans every year for the Veterans’ History Project. The 2-minute interview videos profile local veterans from all branches of the military, sharing stories that highlight the members of our community who chose to make the ultimate sacrifice. We share those videos each year as well. 

We’ve also judged the Daredevil Film Festival for several years in a row. Hosted each spring, the Daredevil Film Festival challenges participants to create a film in 24 hours. Groups of students are tasked with writing, shooting and editing a 2-5 minute film that incorporates key elements that are revealed to all participants at the start of the competition: things like a genre, line of dialogue, object or other parameters must be included to prove that the film was created solely within the 24-hour time period.

The next day, EVHS invites students, friends, parents and the community to watch the films, and High Five sits on a panel of expert local judges, also usually including the Vail Film Festival’s own Corinne Hara. We’ve always loved participating in the festival, seeing the films, and helping the young filmmakers think critically about their work and consider how they can push themselves to the next level creatively.

You can watch EVTV episodes, the Veterans History Project and Daredevil Films right here on highfivemedia.org.

https://www.highfivemedia.org/evsm

If you’d like to get involved with High Five Access Media, first become a member and sign up for educational workshops.