Video Project

300 Points

Length: 3 weeks

Objective:

You have three weeks to produce a video in one of the categories related to the Teen Digital Reel Showcase in May. You must prepare all of the “deliverables” listed below.

1. Perspectives on the Environment

Are you concerned about the health of the planet? Perspectives on the Environment will give you the opportunity to speak out on an issue that will affect humanity for generations to come. Topics may include, the air we breathe, the water we drink, bio-diversity, endangered species, the effects of commercial development on the natural landscape, overpopulation, our role as planetary stewards, and any other topic about our relationship with our natural environment.

2. Public Service Announcement or Commercial

Highlight a particular social issue, advocate an idea, promote a business, demonstrate a technology, advertise a product or offer a service real or imagined. Demonstrate and market what you feel will bring value to your people’s lives.

3. The Art of Partnership

Address what cooperation means to you. What does it mean to live by working creatively with others? Show how partnerships can bring out the best among people, influence our lives and help us achieve our goals. Everywhere we look people combine their talents and abilities to improve our lives, society and the economy. Partnerships may include anything such as those in school, community, family, friends, business and the media arts.

4. Experiencing the Wonder of Sound and Music

Your audio track can make or break your media project. Good sound design - voice, sound effects, music - all add to the success of dramatizing visual imagery, creating feeling, understanding and a sense of beauty. Original audio track and sound effects offer the most intense challenge to new digital artists.

5. A Short Story (the entry length may be up to 5 minutes in this category only)

Create and tell a compelling short digital media tale! Story is the foundation of successful media producing. Great media makers tell great stories, first and foremost. Any future in producing media requires skill in telling a story. Special attention will be paid to the script writing and format in this category.

Teen Digital Reel Deliverables Checklist

EACH OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS MUST BE ARRANGED IN A 1” BINDER

COVER:

• Name of Partnership School or Community Based Program

• Production Name (Title)

• Cast and Crew Listing

• Promotional Poster (optional)

INSIDE:

•Completed Showcase Entry Form (Click here to download)

• Treatment

• Script

• Storyboard

• Shot List

• Cast/Crew

§ Student profile (100 word Bio: name, age, interests, inspirations, aspirations, experience)

§ Job Descriptions (What specifically is expected of this person to met the goals of the project?)

§ Basic Work Log (what did each person do and when?)

§ Journal

§ Any sketches

                                    -Location

                                    -Wardrobe

                                    -Characters

§ Problems

§ Solutions or alternatives to problems

§ Successes

Self Assessments (1 per crew member- Please give complete explanations)

                        -How well did I perform my job according to my job description?

                        -How did I meet the goals of the project?

                        -How could I improve on the next project I work on?

§ Actor Releases

§ Signed Consent Form to provide Tower of Youth rights to publicly exhibit, disseminate and market the production on a non profit, educational basis.

§ List of all licensed material sources that must be documented with signed Waiver Form of non-liability for infringement of any copyright material.

§ Signed Consent Form to provide Tower of Youth rights to publicly exhibit, disseminate and market the production on a non profit, educational basis.