The Shane Show is one of the many student-made additions to our campus community. The show is a questionnaire between students of San Juan Hills, starring Shane Joseph Roberts as the host of the segment for the Mane Event. The development of this segment in the Mane Event brought interest to student news broadcasting
Beginning in middle school, Shane Joseph Roberts was a part of Community Roots Academy, helping out with his peers by making the school news videos for campus. From there an idea came to mind, a far reach at the time which was a game show. The teacher took a chance with the idea alongside support from students, leading to the creation of the show.
This small pitch idea helped bring in students who were younger but also brought interactions to the community at his middle school. Students themselves found enjoyment within the show as it came out with the school news.
The Shane Show started off slowly, interacting with students for around a year. The program went through to San Juan Hills , coming up more often now during his junior and senior year. This came to be due to the growing popularity of the segment alongside the graduating classes of 2025 and 2024 moving onward from video broadcasting.
The show itself is a lengthy process, usually taking about a week to be executed. It begins with the choosing of contestants, which helps with deciding the questions. He examines what the contestants have in common to make questions revolving around them.
“I try to find a list of things, maybe classes they’ve taken in the past, like everyone’s taken biology,” said Roberts.
Each question created by Roberts is made with consideration of the contestants themselves. No questions are asked if only one student can hold advantage over the other.
“Let’s say they’re both on the tennis team, I could ask a tennis question so that way it’s something that they’re both equally versed in,” said Roberts.
Once finished with the shooting comes the editing process. Shane takes lead and edits his own segments.
“It takes a few good hours to edit it afterwards. I’d probably say about two or three hours.,” said Roberts.
Most of the camera framing comes from only three cameras, two side cameras focusing on the contestants with one in the middle to be the center shot.
Shane takes pride in his show, along with his own self dedication towards making it. At times he takes it home for more revisions allowing the show to be best for viewers.
“Part of it is giving that attention to detail to make it the best it can be. I mean, you could do it in quicker times, it just won’t be as good,” said Roberts.
The Mane Event continued to grow, which led to a club under its name. It was founded as a way for the community to reach out and bring ideas into the show alongside the class. Students are able to discuss with Shane what they enjoyed about the show alongside learning what video broadcasting is or to help as well if they want to.
Currently the show is to continue on production, making more segments for the Mane Event. No one is expected to take the reins of the show once Shane graduates, nor has Shane made a decision on what to do afterwards with it.
“I feel like now is the standard that anyone who would ever decide to give their hand in the future would compare it to. So if something like the Shane Show were to be explored in the future, I don’t know if it would be like… It would have to be something different,” said Roberts.
Shane does believe that the show can be continued on with another section that brings interest to the class of video broadcasting. For now, however, Shane himself continues to produce the show during his last year at San Juan Hills, spreading joy with his beloved segment.
