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About the Authors
Phil Harris received a Bachelor of Science degree from East Carolina
University and Master of Arts in Technology Education from George Mason
University. He is also a graduate of Imero Fiorintino Lighting Seminars.
Mr. Harris’s professional production experience includes a wide range of free-
lance videography (from weddings to commercials), over 25 years as a freelance
theatrical makeup designer and artist, and experience directing more than 25
plays and musicals for community theater since 1979.
Mr. Harris brings over 34 years of teaching television production to this
book. As part of the program he taught, Mr. Harris created Digital Wave
Productions, a school-based enterprise that allows students to gain professional
work experience and raise funds while producing video projects for clients.
Mr. Harris retired from teaching in 2006, but remains passionate about
sharing his successful curriculum and facility design tips with fellow televi-
sion production and broadcast journalism instructors. He is well-known in the
career education fi eld as a convention speaker and is a session presenter and
contest judge at many conventions and conferences, including SIPA, JEA, STN,
ITEA, ACTE, SkillsUSA, and ASPA. Through his consulting business, Mr. Harris
assists school districts and individual schools design, develop, and implement
television and video programs, and provides training for teachers of these
courses. Mr. Harris has written over 40 articles for the emagazine School Video
News. He can be contacted through the Video Educator Training website
(www.video-educator-training.com).
Gil Garcia is a media arts instructor and an award-winning documentary
fi lmmaker with an extensive background working in fi lm production for adver-
tising companies such as GSD&M and LatinWorks Marketing. A graduate of
The University of Texas Radio Television Film Program, he is currently in his
ninth year teaching fi lm production and broadcast journalism at Stephen F.
Austin High School in Austin, Texas. Mr. Garcia is also a media education con-
sultant for the Austin Independent School District as well as the PBS NewsHour
Student Reporting Labs Project. Gil serves on the community advisory board
for KLRU, the Austin PBS affi liate, and volunteers his talents for Latinitas, a
nonprofi t organization focused on informing, entertaining, and inspiring young
Latinas to grow into healthy, confi dent, and successful Latinas. A leader in the
fi eld of media arts education, Mr. Garcia’s students have won top honors at the
national level and have been recognized or featured by the Obama administra-
tion, the National Student Television Network, National Public Radio, Texas
Monthly, the Austin American Statesman, the PBS NewsHour, the BBC, and
many others.