GATEWAY TO NATIONAL PROMINENCE PRESS CONFERENCE 12-13-06
Mission and Vision Of Gateway To National Prominence
Our mission is to educate and inspire undeserved New Haven children and teens from ages 11 to 17 to achieve their full artistic and career potential by teaching them valuable digital video and computer graphic skills. These skills will equip them to go on to college and work in the rapidly expanding universe of jobs in this digital age or train and prepare them with the discipline and vocational training to explore options in the field of media communications and production.
Objectives
Video skills taught to our undeserved youth will empower them at a critical social development period in their lives and give them the self-confidence and self-respect to effectively identify opportunities, help them to seize them and pursue short term goals that will create increase social, educational, financial, and mental growth with in their daily lives. They will develop the ability to think critically, invent and improvise. But, most importantly, they will be able to show and tell the stories of their lives, their feelings and their environments.
The Target Group And Service Size
The age group served will be ages 11 to 17. The programs would be at Stetson Library. We would initially have twelve students per course and expand class size up to eighteen depending on demand and funding. The Advanced Video course would be activated after students took Basic Video.
Phase I Operation Dates
The program will be conducted starting November 1, 2006 and continuing in till June 1, 2007. The total programming would span the course of seven months and would be conducted a minimum of three days a week. Other focused times would be during the Christmas, Winter and Spring school breaks.
The Courses Curriculum
- Basic Video: Learn to use digital cameras and computers to make a video presentation edited in iMovie.
- Advanced Video: Use digital cameras, professional lighting and mics to create a short production and/or music video and edit with Final Cut Pro.
- Making A Movie: Learn basic script writing then use digital cameras, professional lighting and mics to shoot a short movie and edit with Final Cut Pro.
- Introduction To Computer Graphics: Learn to use Adobe Illustrator to draw and Adobe Photoshop to work with photos to create computer graphics and designs such as advertisements, labels, CD covers, brochures, posters, etc.
- Basic Digital Photography: Learn to use a simple digital still camera, light and compose shots then enhance and alter images in Adobe Photoshop.
Vocational Training And Advancement
After graduating from the video and computer graphic courses, the students would be prepared to work as interns for local TV stations and could work part time and summers at SEA~TV and other local video companies. They could also be employed as teaching assistants in this video program. Additionally we will approach Gateway, SCSU and Paier College for Art for scholarships for our graduates.
Phase I Total Program Budget: $60,035
Media Program Budget for November 1, 2007 to May 31, 2007
Total months of programming: 7 Total projected days of Programming: 94
Total Students to service: 20 Total number of Project Productions: 3
Estimated cost for each student to participate in this program for the duration is $2,500.
Based on the researched conducted by CTRIBAT Committee on Research and Assessment the students selected for this program reside in households who have a total yearly income below $25, 000 and do not have the means to afford the required fees. CTRIBAT will provide the services of this program and seek additional funding sources to provide the service fee of charge to these students.
CTRIBAT and SEA~TV have formed a partnership to use video production and computer graphics to enhance the effectiveness of CTRIBAT programs for at-risk youth and to expand them by publishing them on DVD and the internet. SEA~TV will be the exclusive video and computer graphic arm of CTRIBAT, covering all major CTRIBAT events and documenting them on video. The footage obtained will be used to create public service announcements as well as promotions for fund raising and future events for CTRIBAT. They will also serve as instructional and training presentations.
Chip Croft, owner of SEA~TV, met Shafiq Abdussabur, the founder of CTRIBAT, while working on a SEA~TV documentary about the murders of Jajuana Cole and Justus Suggs this summer. “Early on in our research we found that Shafiq’s organization had the most measurably and effective program in the city for helping at-risk youth,” said Croft. “We also noticed how the children in the Dixwell neighborhood were fascinated by our camera and the production activities. As a result, we also decided to work with Shafiq in developing an out-of-school video education program for the youth in the area.”
CTRIBAT and SEA~TV are now pursuing funds for the program and developing the curricula. “This will be a strong creative magnet for at-risk children and teens,” says Abdussabur. “It will provide at-risk youth a safe haven and that can literally save many lives. They will gain self-confidence and self-respect and be motivated to go on to college or pursue jobs in other trade oriented careers. For very talented youth it will serve as a gateway to national prominence that might have gone forever closed.”
SEA~TV has been producing documentaries and instructional videos for over twenty years and has won three film festival awards in the past two years. Chip Croft is also a professor in the Communications Department at Southern Connecticut State University, teaching video production, script writing and computer graphics. WWW.SEA-TVPRODUCTIONS.COM
Shafiq Abdussabur is a Community Patrol Officer with the New Haven Police Department. He is the Founder and Creator of CTRIBAT Youth Development Program which services approximately 55 young males ages 9 years old to 17 years old. It offers them effective programs such as the trademark Interactive Life Skill Workshops and its hallmark CTRIBAT Leadership Retreats. He is also Founder/President of the New Haven Guardians Inc. and Founder of BOLDMINDS Cultural Art Accents and BOLDMINDS Urban Arts Initiative. Shafiq holds several certifications to include Yale Child Study Fellowship and NRA Law Enforcement Firearms Certification. Shafiq is also a nationally recognized author who has written several research articles on youth development.
CTRIBAT Youth Development
Leadership Retreats (seasonal) –Males, Leadership Retreats (seasonal)-Females
Enough is Enough-Movement to End Youth Violence in Educational Facilities
Interactive Life Skills Workshops, Interactive Career Workshops
Sea TV
Visual and Audio Media Arm of CTRIBAT
Film Production and Multi-Media for Distribution to the Public.
Career and Vocational Training for youth and Apprenticeships
BOLDMINDS Cultural Arts and Literature
Art and Literature Arm of CTRIBAT
Will train youth for Apprentice Discipline in select Art Median
Will serve as a resource to advance Literary Skills and finished works for publication
Urban Arts Initiative-Arts in Schools, Correctional Facilities and Neighborhoods
Affiliate Youth Programs
Nation Drill Team
Shall serve as primary Female component for Outreach
Supplemental After School Programming
