WCAP offers students a variety of courses to further their education in film, video, and television. View a commercial for video courses at Broughton!

VIDEO PRODUCTION I
This course is an introduction to using video as a communication tool. Students learn how to write scripts, use camcorders and other production equipment, and learn the basics of digital editing. A genre study offers insight into the common formats of motion pictures and teleivsion. Students take part in several production-based projects.

VIDEO PRODUCTION II
This extension of Video Production I is designed to offer students a workshop situation. Students produce the daily live broadcast of Capital News and write, shoot, and edit segments for the show. They also stretch their creativity producing a narrative and a documentary project.

IB FILM
This high level course fufills a Diploma Programme arts requirement. The course surveys how meaning is constructed through filmic language. Students study various cinematic traditions from around the world, while working on film projects. Broughton was the first (and only) school to offer this course in the state of North Carolina!

FACILITIES
In December of 2002, WCAP's video studio was completely gutted and rebuilt as part of Broughton's $30 million renovation.

The new studio features a control room/non-linear edit suite, 2 isolated non-linear edit suites, and a computerized lighting grid! WCAP has made the conversion to digital videotape (no longer using analog S-VHS) to preserve productions for years to come.

Our facilities offer a Canon GL-1 and a Sony DCX10, both used as studio cameras. Students produce location-style segments using Panasonic AG-DVC7 camcorders.. An army of microphones and lighting accessories are also available.

To bring students the latest technology, two non-linear edit stations equipped with Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum and DVD burners, and the control room station features Vegas and Premiere Pro with the Canopus ACEDVio capture card. We have DVD creation capability. The control room features a Videonics switcher, Videonics Titlemaker C/G, A Zenith DVD player, CD player, a Sony DVD recorder, and a Mackie soundmixer. An ETC lighting board controls over 20 studio-caliber ETC and Altman lights. Our amazing news set was donated by SAS Institute. Our newsdesk features a Gateway flat panel monitor so talent can monitor themselves on air. The Capital Foundation made it possible to purchase a set of 2 teleprompters in the fall of 2006.