About
the show
The Craft Room is a student led talk show made by C.R.A.F.T. Inc. at Miami Norland Senior High School. It gives real conversations, creative perspectives and powerful stories from our school and our community. Students take the lead on camera, behind the scenes, and in the stories we choose to tell.
Student Led
From hosts to camera crew, our students run the show.
Real Topics
School life, culture, mental health, arts, careers and more.
Community Voices
Conversations that matter with students, educators and guests.
Creative Storytelling
Filming, editing and producing by the C.R.A.F.T. family.
Featured
episodes
Suicide Prevention and Awareness
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Students went out to the yard and asked one question: what would you do if a friend told you they were going through something?
Hype or Value? The Sneaker Conversation
Every year there is a new pair everybody has to have, and every year somebody’s mama is looking at that price tag. Are they worth it, or are we getting played?
The Power of Creativity
What making something does for a person, told by the students who make things every day after school.
Our first episode is about suicide prevention. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Free, twenty four hours a day, and a real person answers.
Host
auditions
Six students, one chair. Forty seven seconds from the auditions.
We are choosing the next host of The Craft Room, and the audition is built to find one thing above all else: someone who listens. A host who can ask a good follow up question is worth more than one who reads well, because most of this job is reacting to something you did not expect.
- Slate and introSixty seconds, no script. How comfortable are you as yourself?
- Light cold readEnergy and camera presence, and whether the funny lines land.
- Serious cold readTone control. The hardest skill on this show.
- Live interviewThree minutes with a guest. This is the part that decides it.
- One improv questionAsk something real, then react to whatever comes back.
The host is one of ten jobs on this show. Tell us which one interests you, because our best editor is probably auditioning for host today.
Get involved
On camera, behind it, or in the edit. C.R.A.F.T. is free to every student, and the next episode needs a crew.