[vvp/teen] Making a Story!
Well last Thursday, I led about 40 minutes or so of the workshop. Basically I showed them Alex Chan's "French Democracy" machinima, and asked the group a few processing questions. I guess in the beginning I panicked a little because I really did not know what the workshop was about nor did I have a copy of the actual workshop. But, it wasn't too hard to ask questions that were relevant to us after watching the movie. I spent a lot of the time going over the story, and what techniques were used. I thought it was more appropriate for us to discuss that in depth because it will most likely come in useful to us when we are filming and editing. But yeah, the worst part of setting up everything was getting the right dongle and speakers to work. Otherwise, everything went pretty smoothly.
I think we made pretty good progress later on too. I thought it would be a good idea to show four stories/injustices occurring in the different countries we researched before, and making short movies on the struggles from each country. Then we can connect them to the laws that were violated by not allowing the children to have equal access to education. Then someone added the idea that it should be connected to when these children that faced injustices are growing up, in terms of time frame. Vanessa strongly thought that they should be college students because it made it significant that although they struggled, they still elevated in the end when it came to education. I think this is a pretty interesting way to portray the message we are trying to depict. Thein brought up a good challenge we might come across as well...he thought we might have difficulty connecting them; I think we can get some ideas of how to connect these stories through a similar movie I watched with Global Kids on education around the world.
I don't remember the name of the movie exactly, but it basically followed one child from several countries around the world (including Japan, India, etc) and what kind of education they received. Although children in Japan had the best education provided to them, and a girl in India was not culturally required to be educated the stories were still connected through the overall theme. I think if we watch two or three clips from the movie we might be able to better understand how to connect our stories too. But overall, I think it was a productive day!
