StudentCam Contest Winner Interview

Brendan Michaelsen talked about one of the middle school section second prize-winning videos, Violent Video Games, that he produced with Carl Sonnefeld, a fellow 8th-grade student at Lora Batchelor Middle School in Bloomington, Indiana. He was interviewed by telephone from the C-SPAN newsroom by Erin Patton.

C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam video documentary contest was a national competition in which middle and high school students produced a documentary exploring a current political topic using some C-SPAN footage and covering multiple viewpoints. The local cable company was Comcast Communications.

A video clip was shown. To view students' complete videos, go to www.studentcam.org/Winners08.htm. close