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| Video Voices Documentaries 2009
MTN has been a partner with Minneapolis South High since 1989 in the Voices program. Voices is a social studies class at South, but a vital part of that class is the partnership with MTN. MTN trains students in the Voices class in camera and editing, and the students make documentaries and PSA's on important social issues. VOICES stands for Values, Options, Issues and ChoicEs in Society. Here are this year's student produced documentary projects. "21 and Under: The TCU and the Minneapolis All Ages Music Scene," and "Vinyl Records: Striving to Stay Alive in the Digital Age" "Dinomights: Hockey in the Hood" and "The G-Team: A Family" "Responding to Emergency: The 35W Bridge Collapse," and "City Of Skate," and "Give Me Shelter" "Autism in High School" and "What is Title IX?" "Creating Our Own Education: It's Our Responsibility," "Drinking Age in Minnesota," and "Intermedia Arts" "Text Me" and "A Beginner's Guide to Facebook" "South High Fashion" and "Rising Food Costs" Voices Students Create Documentaries Fifteen new documentaries produced by high school students are showing on MTN this summer, and on mtn.org. They were produced through a twenty year collaboration between MTN and a Minneapolis High School, South. This collaboration brings media literacy and social issue documentary-making to high school seniors. The Video Voices program begin in 1989, when two teachers at South High joined forces with MTN and the Humphrey Forum to begin a class that combined English, Social Studies and video production. The Humphrey Forum, a museum at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, dropped out of the program when Museum Director Steve Sandell left the Forum three years ago. But MTN and South have maintained their special relationship, and are only looking to grow the program in the coming year, the twentieth year of Voices. Chris Nordenson, a 2009 graduate of St. Thomas University, will join the MTN crew of John Akre and Hamil Griffin-Cassidy to work with the Voices students starting in the fall. He is an Americorps Member and will also be working to build MTN's youth training division. And South High teachers Neil Anderson and Suzanne Kehr will be back to teach the class and help merge MTN's video training with a deep look at society and communication. The school year is over and that means that students in this year's Voices program have finished their final project documentaries. Those videos will be showing on MTN Channel 17 on Monday nights at 8 p.m. You can also find them all at www.mtn.org. There are seven half hour shows featuring 15 student-produced documentaries on topics like the all-ages music scene, the drinking age, youth hockey, the 35 W bridge collapse, animal shelters, Facebook, texting, the responsibility of students for their education, and many more topics. The seventy-five Voices students this year worked in groups to conceive and produce these documentaries. Earlier in the year they learned camera, editing, and storytelling for television and produced Public Service Announcements, and trailers for their documentaries. The students checked out MTN cameras and used MTN's iMovie and Final Cut Pro systems to create their videos. They were assisted by many other MTN staff-members, including Doug Cain, Fanuel Tsehaye, Art Roy, Ashley Siebels, Beth Peloff, and Jim Derks.
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