Blue Tube

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Blue Tube is a weekly, cadet-run video program coordinated by the Department of English. Episodes are no longer than 10 minutes and aired each Friday between classes. Unlike its cadet media counterpart, the Dodo, Blue Tube is seldom used as a satirical sounding board.

[edit] Course Description

English 365. Television News: Production and Performance[1]

Examines and uses the fundamentals of television production including: directing, writing and operating the various pieces of equipment necessary for producing television programs. Students write, direct, produce and perform in the weekly Blue Tube program, broadcast via closed-circuit television to the Academy community. Lab work stresses understanding the basic television production fundamentals and how to use the electronic technology to communicate to a mass audience.

[edit] History

Winter 1999: Professor John Farley completes the transition from analog equipment to a full digital suite.

[edit] Episodes

2002

Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5