Studio Tour: The Bark - Mexico, MO

Studio Tours
Written By Dave Davis

They don't have a suspended light grid. They don't have a TriCaster. They don't even have a green screen! How can a student broadcast program tell good stories without super-imposed digital sets?!?

But the most important thing The Bark from Mexico High School doesn't have is the temptation of using their equipment as a crutch. They are forced to use old-school techniques like telling good stories, finding good characters, and engaging their audience with actual content.

So we tip our TriCasters to the crew from Mexico, Mo for reminding us that the tech is here to serve the content, and that if you get that backwards, you'll end up with a studio that makes us all jealous and a show that no one watches.

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Dave Davis

Dave Davis started a Broadcast Journalism class at Hillcrest High School in the fall of 1989. Since then, the school's student-produced show, "HTV Magazine," has become one of the nation's most-honored high school broadcasts.

In an effort to provide valuable, useful, hands-on instruction to broadcast teachers from across the nation, Davis founded ASB Workshop in the summer of 2000. Since then, the week-long workshop has provided training for hundreds of high school and middle school teachers from 47 states, plus Mexico, England, South Korea, and Japan.

In the spring of 2009 he was named the Springfield (MO) Public Schools Teacher of the Year. He lives in Springfield with wife Martha, and has two daughters who live and work in the area.

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