The Alternative Television and Film Club, a registered student organization where students have the chance to craft their creativity in video production, sound production, writing and editing, is still flourishing.

Mical Bennett-Gray, a senior communication studies major and one of the co-presidents of the newly formed organization, said the club is open to anyone who is looking to find an outlet for their talents. 

While he learned a great deal about video production through his courses, Bennett-Gray said WEIU was one of the only places where his skills could be applied. 

“This club is for students who like filming but don’t like news,” Bennnett-Gray said.

Most of the content being produced for Alternative Television and Film Club is short. 

Bennett-Gray said when they put together all of the shorts they have been working on for months, their programming will look like a different version of “Robot Chicken,” the commercial-free program on Adult Swim. 

John Pinto, a senior communication studies major and the other co-president, said the variety show chock-full of different clips that have no relation to each other will resemble something like “Robot Chicken “ or even “Saturday Night Live.”

Pinto recently finished working on a spoof of “Paranormal Activity.”

In the two-minute video, where Pinto plays the main character, a man that has been cheating on his girlfriend. His girlfriend then dies, and her spirit begins to haunt and torture him. 

Bennett-Gray is working on a video titled “Memoirs of a Drug Dealer.” 

The premise is a journalist stumbles upon a clue that will lead him to an infamous drug dealer and land him the most jaw-dropping news stories of his career. 

Filming will take place sometime after Thanksgiving. 

Pinto and Bennett-Gray are hoping to have enough content to air on WEIU in the spring.

Bennett-Gray encourages students who want to use their talents to the full extent to practice as much as they can, and seek out organizations like Alternative Television and Film Club. 

“We’ll take you in and find something that suits you, something that you really enjoy,” Bennett-Gray said. 

Jaime Lopez can be reached 

at 581-2812 

or jlopez2@eiu.edu.