Baker Lake (Feb 23/05) - A large number of fans in Baker Lake could not fit into the gym to watch a recent girls soccer tournament, so the Jonah Amitnaaq Secondary School Photojournalism Club helped them out.

Through an elaborate system of real-time video transfer, the club broadcast the games at the January tournament onto a wall in the school's atrium just outside the gym.

With a microphone feeding all of the game's sounds, "it really brought another textual layer to the visual experience," said teacher sponsor Craig Vincent.

The hometown Blizzard won the tournament in a dramatic overtime final, and the students say they received good feedback from the spectators who watched the video feed.

"Everybody liked what we were doing because they could see what was going on while not being able to go in," said club member and Grade 9 student Joshua Ford. "We were their way of seeing the game."

Most of the students joined the club when it began three years ago.

The group tries to evenly spread the work around as part of an emphasis in the school curriculum on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or Inuit traditional knowledge, Vincent said.

To reinforce the team atmosphere some of the girls playing in the tournament took time to operate the digital video camera.

With the game footage captured, the club is working to put a game of each team's choice onto a DVD.

Aside from shooting video and taking photos, the club prints a monthly newsletter. The plan is to eventually have some stories published in newspapers such as Kivalliq News, and Nunavut News/ North.

Grade 8 student Teal Kreuger has been thinking about working in journalism.

"You get to meet interesting people," he says of his attraction to the profession.