“Quiet in studio, quiet on set. Ready camera one, take camera one.”
Adam Dalle Pazze has become very familiar with these phrases over the past couple of months.
At the start of this semester, Dalle Pazze took on a new role — station manager of Elizabethtown College Television, ECTV.
Although he has been involved with the station since he was a first-year, the now second-year Communications major is stepping up as the head of the organization, a role he feels very ready for.
“I’ve always liked working with cameras and technical equipment,” Dalle Pazze said. “I did camera work, lights and sounds for my high school, so I’ve always had a passion for video production and ECTV was the next step to getting into the video production industry.”
ECTV is the student-run television station run through Etown’s Communications Department, established in the late 1980s. The station broadcasts a wide variety of events including the college’s sports, campus affairs and original series created and produced by students. Not only does it reach the student body of Etown, but it extends to over 25,000 homes in the Elizabethtown region.
If you’re looking to watch campus news, a livestream of Mad Cow Improv, or Jaypardy (a Jeopardy-like game show), the content can be found on the station’s YouTube channel, ECTV 40.
The program greatly impacted former station manager and fourth-year, Abigail Lindsay.
“During my first semester, I knew that I wanted to get involved in student media, but I always assumed it would be with the Etownian because I did our school’s equivalent in high school,” Lindsay recalled. “I remember walking into the studio for the first time as a student and feeling the same rush of excitement I had after writing my first news article in high school. The rest was history.”
Lindsay is weeks away from graduating from Etown, but her transition out of school has been made easier, thanks to ECTV.
“The skills I have learned in ECTV have translated into my internship with WGAL [the NBC-affiliate in Lancaster] through both the technical but also leadership skills,” Lindsay said. “The connections that I made through my involvement in student media and in the communications program as a whole with the professors and faculty, have also greatly aided me in getting opportunities outside of Etown.”
Along with the importance of presenting news, Dalle Pazze sees another advantage to the program for the college. The opportunities provided “shows their students’ creativity,” Dalle Pazze said. “At the same time, it is a gateway for students to the TV/media.”
As far as the future goes, Dalle Pazze expects to see continuing growth.
“I hope to get more underclassmen involved; we have a lot of seniors graduating so we need to get more people involved,” Dalle Pazze said. “With this large incoming first-year class and the current second-years taking the video production course, we can get a good amount of people interested in ECTV and create opportunities for them to get experience in whatever field they want to.”
