The digital video production workshop at Oxnard College is preparing a new centerpiece show for the OCTV channel.
The name of this program, fittingly, will be “OCTV.”
“We’ve never really had a centerpiece show,” said Professor Andres Orozco, an instructor on film and television for Oxnard. “It was really important that we did this right.”
The program will have a number of different segments, including a look at local music, student reviews of local restaurants and movies, as well as a highlight of events on the campus.
All of the segments will be directed and written by students in the Introduction to Digital Filmmaking class (TV101), the Advanced Digital Video workshop (TV104) and Digital Video Production (TV102).
Jorge Pineda, a TV and film production major, is working on segment called “Yayo’s World,” where they focus on a disabled veteran’s attempts to find work as an actor.
“He’s got great spirit,” said Pineda. “So that’s just motivation for everyone that works with him.”
Pineda has started writing the introduction for the segment, and said that the veteran is still very functional; it’s just that “he has some problems getting his ideas out.”
Natalie Tejada, a graduate from Loyola Marymount with a communications major, is in Orozco’s TV101 class with a hope to one day become involved with television and film production.
Tejada says that the she has enjoyed the class so far, and has enjoyed the guidance of Orozco, who helped steer her in the right direction after she told him she wished to find a career in production.
“He’s been very helpful,” Tejada said.
Along with fellow multimedia instructor Professor Kitty Merill, Orozco helps to organize the annual Digital Youth Film Festival, which has gone into the planning stage for this semester.
Orozco helps students make films, but he also believes he instills in them something deeper than that.
Writing, directing, and editing a film all require the ability to make a plan and follow it to the end, something that can teach students skills that will come in handy later in life.
“It’s all about problem solving and follow through,” said Orozco.
“OCTV” will be screened publicly in mid April after Spring break.
