Colégio Dante Alighieri This project can be extended to TV The selected videos to be presented during the graduation ceremony

What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded What Is Success? As members of the staff of a publicity agency you have been hired by the school to create a clip, from 2 to 3 minutes long, which will be exhibited during the graduation ceremony of the 3rd grades, “ensino médio”

Since you have achieved excellent results in previous tasks, your team has been chosen, among others, to work in this project. In a group of 5 people, each one has a specific role to cope with (director, producer, photographer, art director, sound technician) and everyone is responsible by the result, the final product. Therefore, take good care of the process while developing that product; after all, live up to your reputation.

We are going to work with an adaptation of the real professional roles and functions. Roles Assignment of professional roles Assignment of roles when setting up the clip Director Creates and directs the clip. Responsible for the whole schedule; script, text edition, processing, time limit (5 minutes) and finished clip. Producer Supervises the entire production of the film. Responsible for the organization of the entire process, accomplishment of the roles and communication between the group and the teachers. Art Director Responsible for the sets and special effects. In charge of pictures and soundtrack accuracy. Photographer Photographs the clip. Responsible for the selection, organization and the working up of the picture file. Sound Technician Works with the soundtrack and inserts the sounds in the clip. In charge of choosing one song among all the ones suggested by the group, having in mind its adequacy to the theme. Inserts the song into the clip.

We all know that filmmakers are very creative. And to reflect about the contents of a film script is as absolutely necessary as to be creative. This is the challenge you have to face, and it’s essential to have this idea in mind during the whole process. We thought about four activities aiming at help your team to develop a clip with a meaningful message related to the selected theme for this piece of work. Your goal is to take relevant elements out of each of those activities with the purpose of reflecting about the real meaning to be conveyed in your clip about graduation.

Read Aristotle’s text The Kinds of Friendship and extract from it at least 5 topics that you and your partners regard as essential to give philosophical support to the clip. Read the poem If I Knew by Kimberly Kirberger and build up 5 propositions to be established as fundamental to improve the opportunity of living at current time in a peaceful, enjoyable and intelligent way. Research in the indicated web sites : epigraphs, phrases and poems that you recognize as adequate to enrich your product. Choose one epigraph, 1 phrase and 1 poem in order to improve the quality of your clip. To add two more new or contrasting features to show the best quality of your job, watch the videos suggested in resources. All the texts are supposed to be handed in in English within the deadline stipulated by the teacher. All the texts are supposed to be handed in in English within the deadline stipulated by the teacher.

IMAGES Considering the importance of the visual part in a presentation, it’s the moment to search for inspiration and get into the task of selecting and filing pictures and images to illustrate the clip. The cooperative work will be essential regarding the image file supposed to be shown in perfect harmony with the topics, propositions, epigraph, phrase and poem you worked with in the previous steps of the process. We will make use os the Movie Maker software to build up vídeo. After selecting the images, insert the of pictures ( JPG?GIF/BMP) in the video file.

SOUND Having the contents and images in mind, you’re challenged to think about the soundtrack of the clip, being aware that all the different steps of the process will be, from now on, considered as a whole, as one single element of creation. Still making use of the Movie maker, insert the soundtrack selected by group in the file. Dont´t forget thet this file has to be in MP3.

Films (Sunscreen) (The Secret) Indication of sites to research about epigraphs, phrases and poems that make reference to the theme graduation Philosophic and literary texts to improve the ability of being sensible, reasonable, and introduce discussions about topics such as companionship and respect.

During the elaboration of the clip you can become aware of the topics that will be considered for the final evaluation. Remenber that besides being worth, the selected videos will be exhibited during the graduation ceremony. Therefore, take care of it!

PerformanceProducer Definition of roles ( 0.50) Met deadline/ Suitable division of roles Met deadline/ Suitable division of roles/ Each member of the group accomplished only his own part Met deadline/ Suitable division of roles/ All the members of the group were completely involved in all the tasks Text analysis ( 0.50) The text is not adequate considering the purpose of the activity The text is adequate, but not in line with the pictures and soundtrack Complete harmony among text, pictures and soundtrack Selection of pictures (coherence) ( 0.50) The selected pictures are not adequate considering the purpose of the activity The selected pictures are only accurate towards the video Pictures and soundtrack are in line with the contents 0.50 Song choice ( 0.50) Inadequacy of the soundtrack to the theme The selected song is just partially adequate to the theme The selected song is totally adequate to the clip Edition of sentences ( text) (0.75) Incoherent text not synchronized with the soundtrack Correct text, but just partially synchronized with the soundtrack The text is totally coherent and synchronized with the soundtrack General video accuracy ( 0.75) Video lacks harmony Images and sound are in perfect harmony, but the text is not synchronized with them Complete harmony among text, pictures and soundtrack Self evaluation (evaluating your own work)) ( 0.5) A few people worked for the final product. Incoherent text, images and sound are not accurate Each one did his own part, not caring about the final result. Text, images and sound could be improved Accomplishment of roles. Involvement of all members. Text, images and sound are coherent. 0.50

I would listen more carefully to what my heart says. I would enjoy more... worry less. I would know that school would end soon enough... and work would... well, never mind. I wouldn´t worry so much about what other people were thinking. I would appreciate all my vitality and tight skin. I would play more, fret less. I would know that my beauty/handsomeness is in my love of life. I would know how much my parents love me and I would believe that they are doing the best they can. I would enjoy the feeling of “being in love” and not worry so much about how it works out. I would know that it probably won´t... but that something better will come along. I wouldn’t be afraid of acting like a kid. I would be braver. If I knew You know how you always hear people say, “If I knew then what I know now...” ? Have you ever wanted to say... yeah... well...go on... So here we go I would look for the good qualities in everyone and enjoy them for those. I would not hang out with people just because they’re “popular”. I would take dance lessons. I would enjoy my body just the way it is. I would trust my girlfriends. I would be a trustworthy girlfriend. I wouldn´t trust my boyfriends. ( Just kidding) I would enjoy kissing. Really enjoy it. I Would be more appreciative and grateful, for sure.

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