{"id":1956,"date":"2023-05-09T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:42:42","slug":"celebrating-tomorrows-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2022-2023\/2023\/05\/09\/celebrating-tomorrows-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Tomorrow\u2019s Filmmakers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At a Monday awards ceremony, seven TV & Media students were honored for their outstanding performance in two large-scale competitions. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Yahney-Marie Sangar\u00e9<\/p>\nEditor<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

TV Media students do a lot more than just produce the morning announcements. This year, students from ACHS\u2019s TV & Media Production classes placed in two major contests: SkillsUSA\u2019s national Broadcast News Production competition and C-SPAN\u2019s Studentcam documentary competition. On Monday, May 8, a ceremony honored the seven students who placed. Attendees included Superintendent Dr. Melanie Kay-Wyatt and C-SPAN Director of Education Craig McAndrew. The event was emceed by senior Jacob Sanchez.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the SkillsUSA competition, juniors Bel Delnegro, Gryphon Magnus, Sarah McBurney and Mia Mervis placed first at districts and second state-wide. Delnegro and Magnus were the anchors, McBurney was the director and Mervis was the floor director. The district competition was held in Arlington, where their win moved them forth to the state-wide competition in Virginia Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was interesting working with [the team] in a way that is different from what you\u2019re used to. You get to know people; it was nice,\u201d said Delnegro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The segment is recorded live in the studio during the competition. At the state level, McBurney also filled in for Mervis, who was unable to attend, as the floor director.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juniors Gryphon Magnus, Sarah McBurney and Benjamin Delnegro stand in the TV studio with their temporary medals. Each of these students was honored for their performance in the SkillsUSA competition. Mia Mervis, floor manager, was unable to attend Monday\u2019s event <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all run TMA in the past, so we have a lot of experience with that,\u201d said McBurney. \u201cIt\u2019s cool to have this as an award to say that I\u2019ve done something — a physical way to show the work that I\u2019ve done and the knowledge that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI loved the SkillsUSA experience as it helped me develop my TV Media Production talent as well as working with my classmates . . . We worked hard to create a wonderful piece of work that ended up getting first place,\u201d said Mervis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had a really great time. It was fun; it\u2019s always good to exercise my broadcasting abilities,\u201d said Magnus. \u201cI see this as another thing to add to my portfolio. I can show that I can professionally do this broadcasting thing. Even though broadcasting isn\u2019t necessarily what I want to go into . . . This is still a good step in doing what I want to do in life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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The SkillsUSA participants were rewarded first and received temporary medals as the formal ones had not yet come in. The medals were presented by former ACHS TV & Media Production teacher Benjamin Lyon (left) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThe competitions that we participate in is a confirmation and affirmation for the students that what they\u2019re learning here is worth something. So winning that is just a drop in the bucket, because for me, as far as they\u2019re concerned, they\u2019ve won when they produce and create the programs that they\u2019ve done. That already is an affirmation that they\u2019ve arrived,\u201d said Zefran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senior Jacob Sanchez introduces the SkillsUSA medalists at Monday\u2019s ceremony\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the presentation of the SkillsUSA participants, McAndrew introduced the three students who received honorable mentions in the C-SPAN Studentcam competition. Sophomores Leo Dienstfrey and Marisa Vidal and junior Lashelle Sakyi were among nine groups in Virginia (out of over 3000 competing internationally) to be honored in the competition. Their six-minute documentary, Modern Day Slavery<\/a>, addressed human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sophomore Leo Dienstfrey, junior Lashelle Sakyi and sophomore Marisa Vidal stand in the TV studio, awaiting their certificates and answering questions about the documentary they produced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHuman trafficking is something that\u2019s so huge, and it\u2019s in everyone\u2019s neighborhood; it\u2019s everywhere. It\u2019s something that\u2019s just not discussed, so we really wanted to touch on that and get perspectives out, because everyone should know about it,\u201d said Vidal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTV Media is my thing. This project . . . is my first big project where I realized this is going to be a lot of work, and a lot of work that I love, and a lot of work that I\u2019ll enjoy doing in the future, and for the rest of my life,\u201d said Dienstfrey. \u201cI genuinely love TV Media and film production, and this project showed me the work that I put in and the work I\u2019d get out of it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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C-SPAN Director of Education Craig McAndrew delivers a speech about the importance of student film-making and involvement in global issues before presenting the honorable mention recipients <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cTV Media is not only about TV and film; it gives you broader topics . . . It gives you friends who have been in different situations; it\u2019s a great networking place. It gives you an amazing situation where you can make great friends and do what you love,\u201d said Sakyi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Lyon, a former TV Media teacher at ACHS who still often comes to help with the TV Media classes, was also honored for his time at ACPS during the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lyon was introduced and commended by Zefran. He gives a brief thank you speech to the audience, including his former students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After the event, honorees and guests celebrated with cake and tea. Looking forward to next year, the TV & Media Production classes will continue participating in these contests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to continue having these opportunities for students who are . . . visual artists, because if you\u2019re just writing, if you\u2019re just looking at lectures, you\u2019re not really developing yourself. You need to be able to produce, and create, and the other half of that, which I keep telling my students, is the idea of viewership. They need to be able to communicate to their audiences what they\u2019re saying in terms of visuals; it\u2019s not just translated but also confirmed with the audiences,\u201d said Zefran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cake read \u201cCongratulations C-Span and Skills USA.\u201d After the honored students made the first cut, attendees, including parents and guests, celebrated in the adjunct room <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing opportunity, because . . . if you do [anything] enough, you kind of forget what a big deal it is. I really love that they have an opportunity to throw themselves up against not just their peers in Virginia or on the East Coast; it\u2019s really just everyone in the United States and internationally. So to do this well against your peers on a global level, that\u2019s really huge, and it kind of proves [for them], \u2018Oh wow, I\u2019m good at this,\u2019\u201d said Lyon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


All photos by Yahney-Marie Sangar\u00e9 for <\/em>Theogony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image caption: Award recipients and student crew pose for a photo in the TV studio. From left: sophomore Leo Dienstfrey, sophomore Marisa Vidal, junior Lashelle Sakyi, junior Gryphon Magnus, junior Benjamin Delnegro, junior Lester \u201cRocky\u201d Hernandez, junior Sarah McBurney, senior Max Rocchio, senior Alison Avelar and junior Aidan Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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