View
student produced videos in Quicktime!
Generation To Generation
By Lila, Rachel, and Riva
Never Again
By Ari, Eli, and Michael
A Continuation of Life
By Rachel and Moriel
Liberation & Rebirth
By Brett and Gershom
Project Bloopers!
By Riva
Over
the course of their seventh and eighth grade years, the South
Area Solomon Schechter Day School (SASSDS) graduating class of 2006
produced seven hour-long videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors
and four original movies about their experience for the school's acclaimed
L'Chaim Project.
The project began during the 2004/5 school year, when multimedia artists-in-residence
Jennifer Audley, Natasha Freidus of Creative
Narrations, and Tim Wright of BlinkTank
trained all thirty-one seventh graders in videography, interviewing, and
media literacy skills.
Then in May 2005, with support from SASSDS administrators, teachers, parents
and the artists, student production teams completed seven interviews,
mostly filmed on-site at survivors' homes. The student teams worked cooperatively,
sharing responsibility for directing, interviewing, camera work, sound,
and production management. Additional selections from the interview footage
and behind the scenes photos can be viewed in Quicktime
here.
“If people said that it might be hard for seventh graders then I think they were wrong. It really wasn’t hard, and it was good for us to learn because we don’t have as much experience as older people with the Holocaust, and this was a really great first experience.”
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Students' learning and experiences were documented with journaling, still photography, and video throughout the process. The first year of the program culminated with a presentation of student-designed reflective projects at SASSDS's Annual Meeting in June 2005. The next year, as eighth graders, ten students participated in an intensive out-of-school workshop focused on helping them showcase their personal interpretations of the L'Chaim Project. In small groups, they searched interview transcripts and their journals for themes and then developed storyboards and voiceover scripts. They then used digital editing equipment to integrate their voices, music and photo selections with clips from the interview footage. The resulting multimedia reflections are featured on this page and have also been compiled on a DVD, "L'Chaim: Stories of Survival." |
This project was made possible by a Creative Schools grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. For more information, or to
order a DVD please contact: |
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