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sty mi community Our Media Arts Program has always been con with the access of students to ideas pcrsonali lies and current ethnologies and the access of Ihi communities wo serve to our facilities technologies and students determined early to use the kind of equipment thatiswidelv available l video slide sound production units encouraging students to use those relatively inexpensive technologies In theatre music the electronic media and film This makes us to public sen ice organ nations small businesses with limited resources for media use elementary and secondary schools where we complement the work of the teachers and their visual department and provincial and regional government agencies students receive a thorough grounding in media production photognphy cinecamera operation production planning sound recording and video assembly as well as elective choices in graphic design theatre experience play productionand music The range encourages students to explore new new combinations and applications of abilities Students initially concerned with film making will the other media and the performing arts ex a mining the interrelationship of these other arts with dim This development will be faculty directed initially lo provide a basis for production experience but will increasingly reflect the expectations of the students and the communities to which they address thcmsel Our graduates can be round working with major TV networks film production houses and operating freelance media companies An increasing num ber of them arc able to continue their work in the com munity and can be found with school boards with cable TV companies and with the audio visual departments of corporations and government 8 agencies In lime we expect our graduates to make a unique contribution to the evolution of the media in this Sheridan country Media students come from a wide range of backgrounds and reflect a diversity of interests They ire recent graduates of secondary school or adults developing the skills for a second career Each per ceives the integration of the media and his or her own capacities in a totally individual The best way to Student Don Instructs Grade students from Pauline Street Public School Toronto on dim ItiR techniques touch on this diversity is to examine the activities background and expectations of some of our students urn is Heather joined the Media Arts theatre elective after two years in Theatre she has an impressive range of theatrical education and production experience The Banff of tine Arts The Ontario Youth Theatre Executive Heather has experienced considerable frustration with Sheridan s limited facilities and its hurry up and perform to theatre But in the process she been thrown into production situations w a wide ran of people photographers slide and sound pro grammers film makers sound technicians most of whom arc more interested in their contribution to a media production than with the stress by an actress or director It s i humbling experience for but to her credit Heather Is aware of her personal growth in the Media multimedia environment To the actor the Media Arts program seems film and TV oriented As a result I have developed great awareness of the potentials of media technology and have enjoyed the all toorare opportunities to work with students and staff altitudes and skills are so different to mine Students and staff here are willing experiment and learn and this impresses me have seen some of the potentials that film and photography have in the theatre on my creative awareness has been heightened bv this recognition I have realized that there is much more to preparation than my own work onstage NOT JUST I- nil Laurie McAllister now in her final of Media is a graduate of T Kennedy S in She selected the Media Arts program for the ran ge of production media offered Laurie his produced and directed film written and performed original music tor other student productions and is currently working with the System Research Group on video tapes used in its employee training Laurie is about to discover that media so far has been i mile sdoimiu We think she has the potential to that s complain about on her back Not Dang Berry ue film laud and video in elective la Media Arte have pursued leads on jobs companies gave me replies the working conditions were too hot or ilirlj or production wis something a woman would not want to follow as a One stated that women are not enough to the heavv equipment required a fcrmle odd pounds of equipment ice since came have v class to help me carry equipment or do little Ihiny like open doors always been verv fastest the highest jumper If anything since coming hen strength has improved so has m good Doug Berry is pari of the Preliminary Year Elective of Media Arts That special elective allows students with scry little pracUcal experience in production lo enrol in specially organized courses in the fundamentals of film sound photo and video production While initially Interested in expanding his skills in music and recording Doug has increasingly himself involved in related areas community theatre arts work with elementary school dents and film making I came to with no real experience in production The concept of communication fascinated me but I was always on the receiving end In my few months in Media Arts I have been exposed to view points about communications and lo opportunities to work in several mediasuper film sound photography videotape I ve also had an opportunity to work with performing arts people as a technical a I ve found the atmosphere here informal and exciting good leirning environment Don Wicklcy is the elder statesman of the Media Vrts student body At he has maintained an open of altitude energy level and enthusiasm for exploring new situations that is a working model for students and faculty alike Don is president of the student senate maintains honor standing in his courses and spends three half days a week in elementary schools as a volunteer In addition he received an Ontario Arts Council Grant for work in broadcast TV and has several productions in the initial planning stages that will Don experience with children and the media has been used teachers in Metro Toronto Windsor and Detroit as part of profes workshops Don is currently orginizinc the efforts of other Media Arts students to take film TV cartooning and Dm aire workshop out to the community I want Sheridan to open up even more Most of us in Media Vrts think that community colleges should really be community resources not just the preserve a few enough to be to afford full time education The real potential for the colleges is with the adult not for long programs but for high ly and intensive workshops the kind of work a person cm apply to his job or leisure time right I think the media will have an increasingly important role in opening up education Film TV are universal languages that break up tradition structures like age sex social and economic When the kind of work in video 10 year old kid can do after a few hours vnu know that you re w ith r inge of fundamental human skills and not the unction of a creative elite Don tame to to develop set of skills in and TV acquired many of those but in the Sheridan environment become more concerned with miking those skills a resource for other people One of the most satisfying things being discovered Media students is that re not alone in our ipprnach media Wove begun exchange visits student productions and course outlines with people at Simon rastr University New York I Rice in Houston the ilm and Telev School as well as with individual film TV and media artists across the country re likely to be even mere outgoing In the years lo come 1 1 seems thai the Medio Arts community is even larger than we suspected Prospective students or organizations interested in using facilities may direct their inquiries to the Media Arts at Tor onto Clarkson Burlington