San Jose Community Media Access Corporation

iCreaTV Summer Video Camp

Help low-income kids become filmmakers!

Scholarships will enable students to attend iCreaTV Summer Camp and learn video production from CreaTV award-winning producers. In the 2014 summer camp local teens put together two 30–minute shows that aired on CreaTV’s Classrooms Channel 28.

Peace of mind for low-income parents

Help local teens have a safe, enriching summer experience. While students are counting down the days until school lets out, their parents are loosing sleep over how to keep their kids occupied and safe during summer vacation, when a summer camp tuition is beyond their budget’s reach. That’s where you come in! Your contribution will give CreaTV an opportunity to offer a $400 value to local families.

Learning from the pros: professional and life skills

But it’s not just about the camp fees.

“You’re giving youth the opportunity to step out of the streets and step into a professional environment in which they can learn, but at the same time teach.” — Osvaldo Ruelas, City of San Jose’s Youth Voices Initiative Co-Lead

The student-driven summer camp showcases the students’ likes and talents. Students not only receive training in storytelling, field cameras, editing, on state of the art equipment, but also developed confidence being in front of the cameras and a sense of self through the project topic. CreaTV producers have deep roots in the local video and broadcasting industry and a love for nurturing the next generation of video makers.

“Storytelling is my strength.” (14-year old participant)

 

Decoding the Visual World

Because so much information is communicated visually, it is more important than ever that our students learn what it means to be visually literate. Whether they are images in a text or a picture book, news photos in the morning’s newspaper, or a digitally altered photo of a fashion model on the cover of a magazine—images are a major part of our world. Learning how to create videos teaches children how to be critical and informed viewers of all media.

About CreaTV

Founded in 2007, CreaTV San Jose is a member-based, non-profit community media center that helps the residents, businesses, schools and organizations in San Jose to effectively communicate their message to a broader audience using our public and education television and Internet channels.

 

Our Mission

CreaTV fulfills its mission to inspire, educate and connect San Jose communities, using media to foster civic engagement, by providing the free airtime and the low-cost training and tools that allow diverse and often under-served communities to tell their stories and express their views through video.

 

Our Members

CreaTV San Jose invites San Jose residents, businesses, schools and organizations to become members and take advantage of our video production facilities, equipment and media training available at our community media center in downtown San Jose.

Members have access to production equipment, studios and support staff to make a non-commercial video for San Jose’s cable access and CreaTV’s web channels. Airtime is free.

 

Our Channels

All four channels are available to 150,000 Comcast Cable subscribers in San Jose and parts of Campbell. Community Channel 15, Classrooms Channel 28 and Silicon Valley Channel 30 are also available via live stream and video on demand on this website. Limited programming on College Channel 27 is also available via video on demand on this website.

Community Channel 15

College Channel 27 – college content (CCN & SJSU)

Classrooms Channel 28: pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade

Silicon Valley Channel 30

 

Our Resources

 

Examples of classes available to CreaTV members:

Studio and Field Production

Flypack

Adobe Premiere Pro

Main Studio and Control Room

Robotic Camera Studio

Adobe After Effects

 

Equipment and facilities available to CreaTV members:

HD Field Camera Packages 

Three-Camera HD Studio A (600 sq. ft.)

Studio B (one to two guest maximum)

Portable Studio (Flypack)

Four Onsite Editing Suites

Three Portable Editing Suites

Conference Rooms