February 11, 1980
The South Bend Tribune,
Next Generation Page

GAYLE CARTER, a LaSalle, High School student and member of the Junior Achievement company that produces Beyond Our Control, may be so talented with the TV camera that she doesn't even need to look through it. The TV program will launch a new season at 6 pm. today on Channel 16.



13th zany year to begin for Beyond Our Control.
Blast off!

By JULIET UTTER
LaSalle High School


Driven by insanity and a thirst bigger than the great outdoors, 32 area high school students write and produce their own television show, Beyond Our Control.

The show, featuring zany humor and satire, will launch its 13th season at 6 p.m. today on Channel 16. It will run about 13 weeks and will finish the season with an hour-long program featuring the best segments of the year.

Beyond Out, Control (BOC) is a Junior Achievement company. Its 32 members come from all over the area, and start their trek to rehearsals from as far as Galien.

A BOC week begins at writers' meetings. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, the company's comedy minds get together. And, within WNDU station offices, they succeed in composing meaty morsels and fragments of scripts.

These scripts are introduced at the regular Junior Achievement meetings on Wednesday nights when members try out for the parts. Some find out they aren't cut out for acting and, after weeks of going home, throwing themselves on their beds, and brooding themselves to sleep, they find their future in camera work, audio. floor managing, technical directing, videotaping or other areas.

The final Step is the Saturday taping sessions at WNDU. After the early crew has put up the sets from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., the rest of the company arrives, picks up a sequence sheet at the door and blindly meanders into the studio.

About 7: 10 everyone gets to work. The technicians take their posts between trips to the vending machines and getting "change for dollar." Actors take their positions, and production begins.

"Tape is rolling. Quiet in the studio," the floor manager yells. The tape is run until someone says, "Cut!" or in most. cases, "Kill it!"

There are fringe benefits. BOC members get first-hand experience in producing a television show. At WNDU, members also have a chance to meet TV personalities and radio disc jockeys.

Tryouts for Beyond Our Control are held twice a year. Students come from miles around to try out for the group.


EXPLORING THE WNDU studio, LaSalle student Lili Gibson wonders about the weather. She's one of 32 Michiana area high school students in the Beyond Our Control company. The members travel from as far as Galien for meeting and videotaping of the TV program.