Starting a youth media team
I have been trying to lead youth media teams for roughly 2 years now. I have failed alot and in someways have been successful. I think one of the reasons the teams have failed in the past is due to a lack of clear expectations and goals. It’s easy for a band to practice every sunday and then play later that night and be able to quantify that experience. It’s rather difficult however to quantify a team that creates projects one week and does nothing the next. I sat down with our student media team today at lunch and we finally decided to set some clear sustainable expectations and goals for our team.
Expectations
1. Be a team that is always learning (1 hour a week minimum)
a. students can come into the office and observe or work on a project and learn the craft of film-making
b. students can tag along during shoots and learn things such as holding a boom, setting up lights or running a camera
c. students can also learn outside or at home by creating projects or training on lynda.com
2. Be a team that produces projects as a team (1 project a month)
a. students are encouraged to create a project by themselves with minimal assistance
3. Be a team that thinks long-term
a. currently we are working to create a short film this summer which means working on the script, storyboard and pre-production now.
- Just to be clear
- Training media volunteers
- Thinking and planning ahead
- Planning ahead
- Student ownership in your ministry
