VCHS television and video students produce a wide variety of video projects, including the daily live televised newscasts, live sports webcasts, and video podcasts. Students create many other independent video productions, including video news reports, documentary shorts, public service announcements, the annual video yearbook, and much more.

As a senior video student, recent KVCH-TV and Video graduate, Jake Viramontez, won first place in a prestigious International competition (STN) for his documentary on humanitarian aid to civil war-torn Ivory Coast, West Africa. Jake won his first Film Festival award for a documentary video on firefighters, "Behind The Flames.".

With extensive contacts in the television and new media industry, KVCH-TV trains students not only through hands-on experience, but also through guest lectures and real-world internships. Any student interested in the visual media will grow quickly in our program, from initial concept development all the way through project completion and distrubition.

World Class Facility (and Students)

TV/Video students do postproduction editing on their projects in a state-of-the-art video editing lab using 18 Mac G5 computers with Final Cut Pro Studio video editing software. They produce our live daily newscast in a fully functional TV broadcast studio and control room. They produce live sports webcasts using a professional mobile "flypack" control room. VCHS video students learn by doing, obtaining hands-on real world experience every day.

Students in Valley Christian Television and Video courses learn a full range of professional skills in the craft of visual communication. We prepare them to become effective communicators of the Christian faith and morals found in the Bible. They learn to translate personal understanding of faith into communicating the values reflected in the life and teachings of Jesus.

Quest for Excellence in Visual Communications

VCHS students hone verbal, written and technological skills for effective multi-media communication. By covering news stories and doing creating video documentaries, students are taught to cultivate the ability to think critically, solve problems effectively, and draw conclusions from research, investigation, and personal analysis. They synthesize what they find and communicate it with the skills they learn.

By working in groups of video production teams, VCHS video students learn, and practice, the core interpersonal skills needed to work cooperatively and effectively with others in the modern workplace. Students acquire the technological and life skills needed for success in the 21st century business environment.

With an operating Television studio, multiple radio recording studios and more than 40 Apple G5 computers running the latest media creation software (Pro Tools, Adobe Suite CS2 & Final Cut Pro Studio), students have all the tools necessary to produce award winning video and multi-media projects.

Students in the Advanced Television Production class produce live broadcasts, along with a year-long video yearbook. The student crew of KVCH-TV produces five-minute daily newscasts, which are cablecasted to every class in the high school at 10:55 each morning. The newscasts are updates on what students need to know each day at Valley Christian High School, along with sports and school events highlights.

The Advanced TV students also produce regular webcasts of selected school sports home games, including all home football games; they also do live webcasts of selected school events, such as plays, dance shows, poetry slams, etc.. On-demand video files of these webcasts can be found on the Webcasts page.

Students in the Intro to Television, Video and Filmmaking class produce a number of different video projects, including Public Service Announcements, News Stories, Video Documentaries on Social Issues, and Music Videos.

[BACK TO TOP]