This blog entry from the always excellent David Strom describes the tools that a video production company is using these days to produce reality-based TV shows.
The California firm is using relatively inexpensive, off the shelf video editing software and hardware that is well within the reach of virtually any high school. Our kids should have the option of taking a year of video editing and production, but few schools offer that. This is especially important in rural areas, where jobs are scarce and there are constant complaints that the workforce does not have the right skills.
And it does not mean that everyone has to move to southern California to make a living. Video production is slowly spreading out across the country as broadband makes it easier to farm this work out to lower cost regions.
This kind of training should also be available in community colleges. As workforce needs change, displaced workers need a shot at learning Knowledge Economy skills. Video is driving all kinds of business activity, and we should be offering this kind of training as one of several options to our youth and displaced workers.