By Courtney Yanks

“I think it made people pay attention. They were a lot more interesting than previous years’ videos. I think we presented them in a way that was fun and exciting for students to actually sit and listen to.” –senior Jake Ryan said.

The Wildcat TV crew spent weeks creating enrollment videos for BSHS students. The enrollment videos were made to better explain classes to take for the next year of high school. Creating these videos required a large investment of time and creativity.

“There were about two to three weeks of preparation, then about two weeks of filming, and then a week or two of editing,” Matt Marble, Wildcat TV adviser, said. “We started our project in the beginning of October and got done only a couple days before showing them,” he said.  

Production students agreed that the time frame for creating the videos required a lot of planning and careful organization. They had plenty of time, starting back in October, to plan, film and edit.

“We had a good three weeks to plan out what we were going to do, and what we would need in order to make the videos,” senior Jake Ryan said.

Together, Marble and his students discussed potential ideas for the enrollment videos.

“There was a lot of sitting around in a circle around a whiteboard and using process of elimination,” senior Austin Calvert said.

Advisory teachers showed the enrollment videos during the first and second week of the second semester, where students watched “Ferris Bueller,” “The Office” and other movie and TV based videos in which the Wildcat TV crew acted in themselves.  

“The science was based off of “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” social studies was based off  “The Office,” and our math was based of a thriller horror type movie,” Marble said.

The enrollment videos were made to grab students attention and to inform them while having fun with it, and the Wildcat TV crew thought they achieved that goal.

“I think it made people pay attention. They were a lot more interesting than previous years’ videos,” said Ryan. “I think we presented them in a way that was fun and exciting for students to actually sit and listen to.”

Students will begin to enroll for next years classes on Monday through their social studies classes.