Members of “The Black I,” the production unit of The Youth Media Workshop, get a lesson on how to use a digital video camera and shotgun microphone.  WILL’s Kimberlie Kranich, co-director of the Youth Media Workshop, taught the students what to do.   This session took place February 8, 2006 at Urbana High School.

Jay Walker, a graduate of the Youth Media Workshop, sat on a panel with six other young filmmakers as part of the seventh annual AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival, in Silver Spring, MD June 19, 2009. He showed an edited version of “And the Beat Goes On: The Spirit in the Legacy of the Douglass Center Drum Corps,” that he created in 2006 with other YMW students.

Jay, along with the other filmmakers, also talked on a panel about how they made their films, what they learned, and how they got connected to media making.

Jay Walker, a graduate of the Youth Media Workshop, sat on a panel with six other young filmmakers as part of the seventh annual AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival, in Silver Spring, MD June 19, 2009. He showed an edited version of “And the Beat Goes On: The Spirit in the Legacy of the Douglass Center Drum Corps,” that he created in 2006 with other YMW students.

Jay, along with the other filmmakers, also talked on a panel about how they made their films, what they learned, and how they got connected to media making.

Jay Walker, a graduate of the Youth Media Workshop, sat on a panel with six other young filmmakers as part of the seventh annual AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival, in Silver Spring, MD June 19, 2009. He showed an edited version of “And the Beat Goes On: The Spirit in the Legacy of the Douglass Center Drum Corps,” that he created in 2006 with other YMW students.

Jay, along with the other filmmakers, also talked on a panel about how they made their films, what they learned, and how they got connected to media making.