Television production prepares students to operate TV cameras, recorders, and editors as well as the associated audio, video, switching, and processing equipment. Many students go on to complete their studies at a university or specialized technical school following high school graduation. Student leadership and independence are stressed as students employ program proposals, scripts, and storyboards to produce and refine professional productions.
Application Information
Specialty program applications will be accepted November 1, 2024-February 1, 2025.
Visit the Specialty Programs Application Process website to learn more about the application process.
Who can apply?
Applications for this program are open for rising 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students who attend one of the following schools:
- Colgan HS
- Forest Park HS
- Freedom HS
- Gar-Field HS
- Hylton HS
- Potomac HS
- Woodbridge HS
Learn More About the Television Production Program
Program Information
Transfer Program
Students participating in this program will transfer to the program location for all courses and activities.
Express bus transportation is available to accepted students living outside the program location boundaries through Specialty Program Transportation.
TV Production at Hylton
Mr. Tony Lilly, Department Chair
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Mr. Jonathan Balsamo, Instructor
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About the Program
School Focus
The Television Production Specialty Program at Hylton High School provides students with the skills needed for a school-to-work transition. This episode of School Focus spotlights first-year students as they learn how to produce 3D Animation Videos.
The Benefits
Students participate in a 3 to 4-year program of studies that introduces them to the field of multimedia communications, technical training, and how to apply this training to real life experiences.
Students receive hands-on training from industry prepared professionals teaching a college-level television production class. the training facility is a modern high-tech laboratory built for training and implementation of communications solutions.
Students are well trained in communications applications and are motivated to reach the technical levels necessary to become a professional in communications field. Following graduation, students move naturally from their high school experience into technical schools/college communications and television majors and/or directly to work.
Future Career Opportunities
- Executive Producer oversees one or several programs or program series.
- Producer oversees an individual production including technical and non-technical production elements.
- Technical Director oversees all technical setups and operations during a production.
- Lighting Director oversees studio and field lighting for large productions.
- Camera Operators or Videographers operate studio and field cameras.
- Video Operator or Video Engineer adjusts the camera controls for optimal camera pictures.
- Videotape Operator operates videotape recorders during the production.
- Video Editor operates video editing equipment.
- Screenwriter writes video scripts.
- Sound Designer oversees "designing" the sound track of a complex production.