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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 2020 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 5B
Film and Video Production Technology
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Chattahoochee Tech
Press Release
Today’s skilled workforce
includes an increasing need
for video production profes
sionals who are trained to
meet the growing business
demand for digital content.
“This is the way the world
is moving, with so much dig
ital content being used online
and in marketing and brand
ing,” said Meredith Muse,
the lead instructor for the
Film and Video Production
Technology program at Chat
tahoochee Technical College.
“People underestimate how
much video shooting and ed
iting, making graphics, and
being able to tell a com
pelling story is now part of
our world.”
The Film and Video Pro
duction Technology program
at Chattahoochee Tech has
expanded its scope from tel
evision production to include
a focus on high-demand dig
ital content creation skills.
Students gain hands-on expe
rience in industry-standard
editing software that includes
Adobe Premiere Pro, Davinci
Resolve, Photoshop, and
After Effects. They also gain
experience in working with
an assortment of professional
cameras that range from
Electronic News Gathering
(ENG) cameras to fixed lens
and 4k cinema cameras.
“Our program prides itself
on being hands-on. Students
will be writing, shooting
video, creating graphics, ed
iting footage and polishing
products from their first se
mester to their last,” said
Muse. “Graduates will leave
here with practical knowl
edge that is translatable to
numerous fields in the media
industry.”
Program graduates are
qualified to work in news
broadcasting, sports broad
casting, post production, so
cial media marketing, content
creation, and freelancing. Re
cent graduate Matt Crowder
works as a freelance videog-
rapher for WSB-TV Channel
2 in Atlanta. Fie also stays
busy with professional as
signments for an assortment
of clients. A graduate of Cass
High School in Bartow
County, Crowder worked for
many years as a Cobb
County Deputy Sheriff be
fore enrolling at Chatta
hoochee Tech with the goal
of making a career change.
“I chose Chattahoochee
Tech because my wife grad
uated from the college’s nurs
ing program, and I had heard
a lot of good things about the
college’s TV production pro
gram,” said Crowder. “I
chose this program because
I’m a huge sports fan, and I
saw it as a way to get closer
to live sports and find a ca
reer in doing something that
I love.”
Based at the Chatta
hoochee Tech Mountain
View Campus in East Cobb,
the college’s Film and Video
Production program cur
rently has just over 140 stu
dents. These students can
earn a diploma or an Associ
ate of Applied Science de
gree. “We are seeing a lot of
demand from students who
are wanting to be content cre
ators,” said Muse. “They
come into this program with
a lot of creativity, and they al
ready have experience in
video because they’ve been
able to edit photos and videos
off their phones from a very
young age. We get them to
hone those skills and show
them a professional way to
do it.” These students are
guided in becoming efficient
Photo / Chattahoochee Tech
Students in the Chattahoochee Tech Film and Video
Production program gain hands-on skills to become tech
nically sound professionals across a variety ofplatforms.
editors and compelling story
tellers while being grounded
in the skills necessary to
make them become techni
cally sound professionals
across a variety of platforms.
“Not everyone knows
how to do this type of work.
It’s a commodity, and we
treat it as such,” said Muse.
“What our students are learn
ing is a skill that is above and
beyond what other people’s
day-to-day knowledge is of
this topic. It’s a specialty.
And if you have people doing
it who don’t have a lot of
training, it can be done
poorly. What we’re teaching
our students is how to do this
work well.”
For more information,
visit www.Chatta-
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hoocheeTech.edu.
Chattahoochee Technical
College awards certificates,
diplomas and associate de
grees in more than 50 pro
grams ofstudy for students to
become highly skilled profes
sionals in some of the na
tion s fastest-growing,
high-demand career fields. A
Unit of the Technical College
System of Georgia (TCSG),
Chattahoochee Tech is the
largest technical college in
the state with eight campus
locations serving the counties
of Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb,
Gilmer, Paulding, and Pick
ens. The college also offers
customized workforce train
ing, continuing education
classes, and adult education
programs that include free
GED prep. More information
is available at www.Chatta-
hoocheeTech. edu.
and help a neighbor
Radon test kits purchased from UGA Extension at
www.UGAradon.org in November will come with a voucher
for a free kit that can be shared with another Georgia res
ident.
By Cal Powell for
CAES News
With many Georgians
spending more time at home,
it’s important to monitor your
home’s indoor air quality.
Radon is the leading cause
of lung cancer in nonsmokers
and the second-leading cause
of lung cancer overall.
Radon levels are highest
in the cooler months and can
concentrate to dangerous lev
els indoors. This year, more
than 800 Georgia residents
will die of radon-related lung
cancer. These deaths are pre
ventable.
“The best thing you can
do is test your home,” says
Pamela Turner, a University
of Georgia professor and
UGA Cooperative Extension
specialist. “Radon is an invis
ible, odorless and tasteless
gas, so testing is the only way
to know if the radon gas level
in your home is high.”
Testing your home for
radon is easy and inexpen
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tension.
Each kit purchased from
UGA Extension at
www.UGAradon.org in No
vember will come with a
voucher for a free kit that can
be shared with another Geor
gia resident.
Non-Georgia residents
should visit
www.EPA.gov/radon to find
their local state radon pro
gram contact information.
Cal Powell is the public
relations coordinator for the
University of Georgia Col
lege of Family and Consumer
Sciences.
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