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Lessons in Celt video production courses MHS art show winners
carry students far beyond the classroom
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Despite taking video pro-
duction classes for all her
four years at McNary High
School, Liv Pond isn’t plan-
ning to study fi lm in college.
That doesn’t mean what
she’s gleaned from her time
in teacher Jason Heimerding-
er’s studio room will be going
to waste.
“I want to travel the world
and teach. These classes
taught me how to learn, be-
cause there’s always one more
new thing, and they’ve taught
me how to teach others and
work with people,” said Pond.
Because of her time in
video production classes she’s
performed almost every task
there is to do, including help-
ing produce video announce-
ments and the Celtics’ new
news segments dubbed CNN
(Celtic News Network).
“There’s not one part I
like the most, I like it all. But
one of the things you can do
here is take all this knowl-
edge and apply it to every-
thing,” she said.
Senior Nick Wolfert is no
stranger to the camera. He’s
directed his own short fi lms
in his spare time, but his du-
ties as a line producer for
CNN are quite a bit differ-
ent.
“With this, everybody is
doing their own thing. It’s so
much more a collaborative
effort,” Wolfert said. “I also
get to use a lot of high-end
equipment, like a tricaster
which allows me to switch
between cameras on the fl y.”
Heimerdinger hopes to
expand the scope of what
students do within the pro-
gram with a successful
Knight of Arts fundraiser Sat-
urday, March 7.
“We’d like to be able to
install a closed-circuit cam-
era system in the auditorium,
which will allow us to fi lm
productions from multiple
angles and direct the fi lming
as happens,” Heimerdinger
said.
Students in the video
production classes also take
part in community projects.
When the district was look-
The winning artists for the Mc-
Nary High School Art Show at Keizer
Art Association, which runs through
Feb. 28, were announced recently.
In acrylics winners were:
• First place, “Big Red” by Deanna
Saukov.
• Second place, “Seattle” by Janice
Nelson.
• Third place,“Peacock” by Altagra-
cia Enriquez.
• Juror’s Merit Award,“Tribal Skull”
by Rachael Morrow and “They are
Called Flowers” by Ashly Hernandez.
In three-dimensional art, winners
were:
• First place, “Daisy Love” by Syd-
ney Hunter.
• Second place, “Fortune Cookies”
by Brittany Brannen.
• Third place, “Small Vase” by Eli
Purser.
• Juror’s Merit Award, “Pop Up!”
by Julia Lewis and “It’s the Weiner” by
Isaiah Hess.
In graphite art, winners were:
• First place,“The Beatles” by Adde
Cooper.
• Second place, “Bruce” by Niko
Jackson.
In graphic art, winners were:
• First place, “Portland” by Alyx
Peterson.
• Second place, “Gatsby Billboard”
by Haley Turner.
• Third place, “Mt. Hood” by Alyx
Peterson.
• Juror’s Merit Award,“Pop Illustra-
tion” by Aimee Williams.
McNary’s annual Knight
of Arts is slated Saturday,
March 7. The event features
student work and a play
alongside silent and oral
auctions. Proceeds cover
costs not covered in school
budgets and scholarships
for arts students. Tickets
are $10 and on sale at
the McNary main offi ce.
Check-in for the auctions
begins at 5:30 p.m., the
event begins at 6 p.m.
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Top: Jedidiah Hunter and Gloria White record segments for the
Celtic News Network. Above: Nick Wolfert oversees taping.
that revolve around CNN
productions.
Since graduating from
McNary last year, alum
Zach Cushman – one of
Heimerdinger’s most prom-
ising recent students – has
been tapped to come back
and help out with the fi lm-
ing of theatre projects.
“Before I started taking
classes, I had worked fi lm-
ing my own things, but it was
pretty sloppy,” Cushman said.
“I learned how to use more
expensive cameras and how
to make things look good.”
That was one of the rea-
sons he was called back to di-
rect the fi lming of McNary’s
recent musical, Legally Blonde.
For some students who
tend to fl y under the radar
for any number of reasons,
Pond said the classes help
bring them out of their shells.
ing for someone to produce
a kindergarten orientation
video, they turned to Mc-
Nary students.
“It’s not just about get-
ting things done on time, but
about doing them well,” said
Courtney Lutz. “What the
courses have really taught
me is time management. We
don’t just stand around try-
ing to fi gure out what we
want to do. We have a plan
before we even start shoot-
ing.”
Like Pond, Lutz can han-
dle most of the operations
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Watercolor winners were:
• First place, “Sunset Flowers” by
Rachel Morrow.
• Second place,“Birds and Bubbles”
by Kaeleigh Dunn
• Third place, “A Walk” by Cindy
Gayton.
• Juror’s Merit Award, “Bike with
Flowers” by Emily Biondi.
• Honorable Mention Award,“Tree
of the Night” by Courtnie Wilson.
Winners in color photography:
• First place,“Eyes” by Mariah Ny-
gard and “Rock Becomes Me” by Hai-
ley Cunningham.
• Second place, “Café 22” by Kimi
Ito.
• Third place, “Summer Daze” by
Hannah Waldner.
• Juror’s Merit Award, “Colton” by
Kortney Gillett.
• Honorable Mention Award,
“Black Boots” by Gabriella Martinez,
“5 AM Sunrise” by Karen Hernandey,
and “Fantasy Forest” by Charlotte Brat-
tain.
Black and white photography:
• First place, “Spider Girl” by Syd-
ney Farr.
• Second place, “Truck Girl” by
Sydney Farr.
• Third place, “Train” by Alex de-
Meurers
• Juror’s Merit Award, “Inside the
Mind” by Charlotte Brattain.
• Honorable Mention Award,“Jew-
el on the Tracks” by Emily Biondi and
“The Light and the Dark,” by Char-
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