Mount Baker TV (MBTV) is a window into the world of the local high school and brings to light some of the different student activities of which the average outsider might not be aware.

Grade 12 students Darren Adams, Kaio Kathriner and Brian Morrison film various activities around the school, from the athletic to the artistic, and through various segments let high schoolers voice their opinions.

Each member of the trio has his own special talents and interests, allowing MBTV to come together the way it does. Adams co-edits the show with Kathriner and is also co-host with Morrison. Adams is described as the one everyone looks to for ideas.

Kathriner also does all the camera work and is rarely seen on the other side of the lens. As co-host, Morrison is the one who is always ready with a funny quip.

For the next episode of MBTV (Episode 14) the guys are doing a segment on the Mount Baker Secondary School production of Footloose, which runs May 12-16. MBTV also has student profiles, highlights activities at the school and describes different charities the students support throughout the year.

The MBTV producers feel exposing what really happens at Mount Baker can only be good for the school and the community.

“I think it gives a better image of Mount Baker around the community. We’re kind of considered punks who steal things,” Adams says. “We’re trying to show we’re more.”

Morrison said he thinks a lot of the students show their parents episodes of MBTV and it hits the wider community that way.

Much of MBTV’s programming is humorous, like the segment called Mic’d where Morrison asks students and teachers questions while bumping the microphone into the subject’s face.

Adams, Kathriner and Morrison cover serious subjects too, like the haggard state of the Mount Baker building. The trio says Episode Five — We Need A New School was their favourite to make. The crew filmed and described some of the parts of the building that really show the school’s age.

They have been putting MBTV together since September, with a goal of doing one episode every two weeks. They credit Citizen of the Year and drama teacher Rod Osiowy with helping them learn the ropes.

“He gave us the opportunity to excel at it and learn for ourselves and from there it took off and grew,” Adams says.

The three met in their Drama, Film and Television class last year, discovering they worked well together. Since then, they have also entered different shorts in film festivals and just this year submitted four entries for the B.C. Film Festival.

Although they hope the community sees what goes on at Mount Baker through MBTV, foremost they make it for their fellow students.

“We try and make it for our peers, we try and find stuff they will find interesting and stuff they’ll laugh at, and then we make it for the community,” Adams says.

As for after they graduate, Kathriner says he plans on pursuing film. Adams says he will continue to write scripts but wants to teach and Morrison said he is considering getting into a trade.

MBTV is shown on Shaw Cable over the weekends and all the episodes can be viewed at www.youtube.com/mbtv2010.