My first assignment for my IT 5730 class was a re-cut of a movie trailer. Instead I chose to re-edit this video I shot over a year ago for another video class. Our assignment was the re-cut and post to our blog site. I made the project for the Denver Family Indian Resource Center (DIFRC). They are a non-profit and provide assistance to Denver Indian children and families. This is the second version of this video. I still feel like I need to do more editing, please post your feedback so that someday I might finish this video and hope that it maybe useful for DIFRC. You can contact them at (303) 871-8035, they also accept donations that will help the projects and services for the Indian community. You can find them on the web at http://www.difrc.org/.
The video is about a poem that was found on the Internet written by a native girl who was addicted to Meth. The Program of American Indian Youth Leaders (PAIYL) were responsible for researching the effects of Meth on Native youth and report their findings during a radio program at KGNU. I was filming them at the radio station and thought it would make a great Public Service Announcement on film, so DIFRC and the PAIYL members agreed, so we shot the video.
Wow – very cool video! You must have done some interesting work on that last year.
Did you get clearances for all these folks? I imagine you did, since it’s a remix of prior work. That can be one of the harder things to manage, getting explicit permissions in the right way, to show people’s interactions.
I’m excited you’re doing cool stuff in that class. Kevin is a great resource for our program. You’re lucky to have his experience in the classroom!