Ramstream TV - Cimarron High School Broadcast Productions

Cimarron High is a small school in rural Northern New Mexico. We have 70 students 9-12. Our broadcast team has been in existence for 7 seasons. Our team is made up of students 7th grade through Senior. This is a totally student run production with Executive producers, directors, up to five different camera angles, cg graphics, student created commercials and animations, replay and a live pregame show.

Check out our site, we might surprise you. We think we do something special.

When you go to the site, our past broadcasts are below if the live show is offline.

http://chsrams.org/tv

Welcome to the site!!

Thanks Andrew.

Looking good. Great job by your students. Lots of rich content and crazy ideas caught on tape. Well done.

Love to hear more about your work flow, cameras, PC, switcher (hardware or software), audio mixer, mics, etc.

Great example of what students can do with some coaching!

Thanks Tom for the comments.

Here is a sort of template of our workflow:

CONTENT:

I teach two other courses that are responsible for media content for our broadcasts.
- Our Video Production Course is responsible for all commercials, PSA's, news shorts, animations, pre game interviews, etc...
They utilize Final Cut, Motion and After Effects for development and output all work as a DV stream for loading in our Edirol.
- Our Graphic Design students are responsible for all logos, and graphics needed for Vid Pro projects or as Targg images to be imported into our CG.

BASIC BROADCAST EQUIPMENT (Just so you know, the kids and I ordered the customized desk and did all installation of the desk, control room cabling and equipment. This is not our original desk. Before we had everything on makeshift tables)
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*Switcher - Panasonic MX70 (Note that we get a one frame delay when switching on the same bus)
*Main Display - 2 Flat screen tv's with two quads to split out the screen.
*Buff instant replay that utilizes a small switcher to handle the multiple camera feeds.
*Edirol PR50 Video presenter
*Compix CG
*Presonus StudioLIve 16 mixer
* 4 Canon XL2's for most work. A small GL fixed on a mount for talent.
*Studio Tech 41 for IFB and 2 Model 210's for Talent
*Anchor Audio Communications (wired belt packs)
*Blackmagic H.264 Encoder (We use Livestream)
*Macbook Pro with Procaster


PRODUCTION ASSIGNMENTS (All student run)

Producer (Responsible for all aspects of show management, look and flow)
Technical Director (switcher)
Replay
Sound Director
Video Director
CG Director
On Screen talent/Play by Play/ Color
Court side Reporters
Cameras 1(Main View), 2(Role changes per event), 3(Floor), 4(Floor), 5(Wireless - Creative shots)

Pregame, all timeouts, halftime shows, etc..are scripted.

We have 70 students 9-12 and about 23 on the broadcast team (Four 7th graders included)

If you are interested in our philosophies, training techniques and more depth on the roles and responsibilities or any other aspect. Just let me know.