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KETC/Channel 9 is offering free digital storytelling classes designed to teach participants how to edit video using Apple’s Final Cut Express. The course gives community members an opportunity to develop a better understanding of the current media landscape and how they can become more engaged citizens empowered by new media. Participants will learn how to become fluent in the language of the digital age by using video to build a story. Class graduates will then become part of a network of community producers who can be deployed for KETC initiatives that address relevant community issues.

The topic of the current series of classes is immigration and how we as a community should deal with this complicated issue. Class participants will be loaned a small digital handheld camera and asked to interview people regarding their opinions about immigration; they will then turn these interviews into a digital story that may be used online in association with the Homeland project (visit www.explorehomeland.org).

About: The classes are held at KETC, 3655 Olive St. in Grand Center. No experience is required. Students are supplied with everything necessary including the use of equipment during class and lab hours. Footage for the courses is associated with KETC’s new multiplatform initiative, Homeland. At the end of the course, students will have produced a video, from 30 seconds to 3 minutes in length.

Schedule:

Saturdays in September

9/11, 9/18, and 9/25

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

September 13 to October 1

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.