Courtesy of Toga Tech Commission

A snippet of the 2025 Homecoming reveal video filmed and edited by the tech commission.

As one of ASB’s four commissions, along with rally, spirit and dance commissions, the tech commission is tasked with creating videos for school events and causes; the group is a key part of publicizing and pumping up events.

The team includes seven members this year: seniors Mindi Hendley, Milani James and Orion Tamas King and juniors Kathy Bui and David Huan; seniors Christina Labban and Ian Johnson serve as co-heads. While the team consists mainly of seniors who have years of media experience, it also incorporates juniors who the leads hope can help grow sustainability for the team. All of the members have been in the Media Arts Program since freshman year.

The team is known for its dance reveal videos and also handles audio management at rallies. However, most of the team’s work serves to raise school spirit. For example, the team is known for their spectacular dance reveal videos such as the Homecoming dance reveal at food truck fest.

The Homecoming dance reveal featured characters from each grade’s theme, acting out a small scene to reveal the theme. The skit followed the Justice League who were unable to open a pickle jar, and introduced characters from each theme as the video went on. For example, senior Ava Cai acted as Barbie receiving a call from the Justice League, revealing that her grade’s theme was Barbie’s life in the dreamhouse show. 

For hype videos, generally one person will write the script of the video. For the previous homecoming reveal video, Labban wrote the script by herself, since it was one of the first projects the new commission did together. 

Later, Labban and Johnson met with the newer commission to film the video together and teach them the video creation process. Finally, since most of the commission is experienced in editing, one person will usually edit each video. The team will take turns editing each video to ensure the style of each video is consistent. Most of the work takes place outside of their second-period class.   

The tech commission is working on a video for the upcoming Homecoming football game to urge people to come and support the team.

Generally, a member of the tech commission will bring their cameras to the games. As a team, they take turns taking video for each event for efficiency. Sometimes, the entirety of the tech commission will also be there to capture the game from different angles and create a large variety of clips to edit from.

In the future, the team also hopes to cover lesser attended female sports such as field hockey and lacrosse in order to increase their attendance.

“We have a good team dynamic and we like filming and working together. Football games specifically are really fun to film together,” Labban said.