Our students come to NTC’s Video Production Program from all over the world with different life experiences and goals. Here are just a few of the stories that graduates of the program have shared with us over the years.

CARLY

Self-Proclaimed ‘Fan Girl’, Carly is a multi-talented, multi-media creator from Wausau, WI. Someone who feels an unquenchable need to create and has a desire to figure out how to bring the things in her imagination to life. During her time at NTC in the Video Production Program, she exercised her creative muscles in a variety of different disciplines from audio to camera operation, directing, acting, lighting, editing and visual effects. 

Typically working as a team of one, Carly developed new collaborative relationships with her instructors and peers which elevated her work to a new level. She also discovered the creative potential of VFX and Motion Graphics software, adding a new tool to her video post-production workflow.

MATT

Matt came into the program curious about content creation and was quickly immersed into the tools and techniques of Video Production. He continued to progress each semester in the program and his interest soon morphed into an insatiable hunger for more knowledge and bigger challenges.

Matt thrived in a program that gave him the knowledge he needed to go out and experiment, hands-on, in his own creative way.  He found a passion for the work he was doing, for learning and improving himself and he saw a path to turning this passion into a career.

MEGAN

Megan came into the Video Production Program with an interest in creating video content for YouTube but lacked the technical knowledge and confidence to take the next step. Over the course of her two years in the program, Megan gained the self-confidence to take on complex video projects and to master the technical skills needed to start her own freelance business.

She learned the importance of collaboration in video creation and built lasting relationships with her classmates. She sees a career in video as a chance to learn, explore and continue to be confidently creative as she goes out into the world.

REX

After suffering an injury on the job after twenty-four years working at a sawmill, Rex took a brave leap to come back to school at Northcentral Technical College to pursue a career in Video Production. Returning to school with younger classmates and little computer experience was intimidating for Rex, but he pushed himself outside of his comfort zone and found himself thriving in an environment where his creativity was no longer stifled.

Rex learned an enormous amount in two years, developing lifelong friendships along the way, exploring his creative side and building the foundation for a new career in video.

BRITTANIE

As a kid in the small, rural town of Colby, WI, Brittanie had experimented with video and graphic design but wasn’t sure that she could develop her technical skills and make a career out of her passion here in Central Wisconsin. After starting her college education at a four-year university, she discovered the Video Production Program at Northcentral Technical College and transferred.

While in the program, she found a smaller, passionate community of filmmakers and received more dedicated hands-on time with equipment and instructors. She surprised herself with just how much she learned in two years. The relationships she built with her classmates and the pride she felt in watching all the wonderful work they made together at NTC inspires her to continue to create.

HUE

After spending 4 years in the military, Hue felt he had lost his creative touch and decided to revisit an early passion for film and video by returning to school at Northcentral Technical College to study Video Production.

While working with cameras, audio equipment, post-production software, and collaborating with his peers, Hue rediscovered his creativity and is applying these techniques to a career in Video Production.

NOAH

External expectations sent Noah to a four-year University to study History, however, while there, he found himself lost and in search of a purpose.  Ultimately, he decided to transfer to the Video Production Program at Northcentral Technical College to pursue something that he really loved: making people laugh using video and his unique sense of humor.

At NTC, Noah found an opportunity to experiment with video tools and techniques, comedy, storytelling and connecting with others through his work. Along his journey, he found purpose and direction and a career that will give him the opportunity to do something that he wants to do every day.