Video
Taft's video department is housed in the Treehouse, a spectacular "classroom" equipped with multiple
editing stations and facilities for teaching the art of film making. Taft videographers film with professional quality, three chip cameras and edit on high-end Macintosh
computers with Media 100 and Final Cut Pro editing software. Additional graphic software enables students to produce 3-D modeling, atmospheric and landscape graphics,
and other special effects.
Each year, student filmakers film on location throughout the U.S. and in foreign countries. Students have filmed in Norway, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle,
in the Highlands of Scotland, in England, and in the British Virgin Islands. In recent years a number of Taft students have been nominated for Regional Emmy Awards, and
student films have been broadcast on PBS.