Hi everyone,Last week, when I showed you the Youth for Human Rights videos on the UDHR, many of you said you wanted us to make media too. Today we will brainstorm possible ways we could create media about Human Rights. Please visit School Tube (click on link) and look at the videos made at Newcomers High School in the media center.
Watch at least 5 films.
Then in Google docs, please answer the questions below:
- How do you feel about the videos you saw and why?
- If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what would you like the topic to be?
- If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what format would you like to use (newscast, acting in the studio, documentary, voice over still photos, interviews, public service announcements, etc.)?
Post your answers to our class blog. Then respond to two other students' posts.
1. I felt happy because now at least I know other people also care and fight for other’s right. Also it is good to know that my School (NewComers H.S) has participated to it.
ReplyDelete2.Now, if I had a chance to make media about human rights, the topic that I would like it to be is Alabama’s new immigration law. The reason I choose this topic is because too many immigrants in Alabama are suffering from it, and also because the Americans are getting rid of the illegal immigrants for a job that they do not even want and can’t do at all.
3.If I Had another chance to make media about human rights, the format that I will use will probably be Public Service Announcement. The reason is because Public Service Announcement in my opinion, are easy to make and can easily transmit the message to the audience.
I checked out bunch of videos and I feel that the videos that Newcomers made is awesome. Especially the serious ones, like when Marcelo Lucero came to our school, that video was awesome. Racism video was also awesome. It gets through the point and make a meaning. We couldn’t just watch it together, I think each student has to spend some time watching it. Otherwise, they won’t get the meaning. If I have the chance to make a video about human rights, I would definitely do something similar to the Racism video. I would give a topic about stereotypes because it could hurt lots of people. If I have that chance, I would make it in a format of an interview. If we could, the people around the school, the deli, etc. In fact, interview or “unedited interview video” would give the most meaning.
ReplyDelete1- i feel so happy to see more people who care about human rights and would like to work together to make the globe better. In my opinion i guess if we make some videos about human rights this will be cool.
ReplyDelete2- about stopping hate crime for example Marcelo Lucero and how the poor guy got killed because he was an immigrant.
3- I would like acting is better or even Documentary to show people facts and it will be more interesting and they will be able to understand what we are trying to tell them or what message we are tying to send.
>ChRiS: I agree at what you just said. I mean if we all watch it together like you said , we will probably not stay focus on the things that really matters on the video but the little small details instead.
ReplyDelete>Luay: I don’t really agree with the acting part because P.S.A is much more faster and easier to do. Especially when it comes to a serious case.
When I saw these videos I felt touched. The story of Marcelo Lucero’s story the brother is not angry or want revenge from the kids that killed his brother just because he was Ecuadorian (Immigrant), he is telling his story and sharing it with the rest so they could learn not to hate. Also there was a video of an old student at Newcomers high school telling his story to the rest of the students. His story was touching and very dramatic he had to go Thur a lot of things when he was a kid, but as he said that made him grew faster.
ReplyDeleteIf the class of Human Rights had the opportunity to make a video, I would like to make it about stopping hate acts, and bulling. I really think those two topics are very important and we should all be ware of it.
If we had the chance of making it, I would like the format to be with photos and a documentary. I think these are the best options because we an show a real life situation and learn from that experience.
@ Tojo:- I agree with you and may be we can make it Documentary so the people will understand it and may be will do something to help.
ReplyDelete@ Chris:- i agree with you too chris because we should interview the people and see who knows about what's going on around the world and who doesn't and try to teach them or even just give them some info about it.
@Tojo: I somewhat disagree with your idea about public service announcement. I personally don't check public service announcement videos. I found it quite boring. We get the message, but not many people want to really watch it.
ReplyDelete@luay: Yes, I think video about each human rights would be great. We give specific example of each just like what the http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/ created.
*1.. I feel really happy because i saw that students from newcomers H.s are getting involved in human rights. The activities that they did was amazing, that emphasize the encouragement that students have to get education about human rights and also to educate others with their work. I feel very proud of my school and the students too.
ReplyDelete*2...If i had the chance of make a media i will do it about stop hate crime, I will show many different situation about this topic to get into people’s feelings and make them grasp the message.
*3...I think that if i had a chance to make a media the format will be acting because I think that people will understand better by watching what constantly happen and they do not even know about it.
1- I felt excited seeing those videos, they are very well edited; and I think that we can get very good ideas from them to make our Human Rights videos.
ReplyDelete2- One of the topic that I would like to choose is racism, also bullying is a good topic to present in our school.
3- One of the format that I would like to use is acting in the studio, because I think that many people understand better by visual and acting stuff; in that way we will catch more attention from the public.
Chris: I agree with you 100% because the videos are truly amazing, and we can learn from them.
ReplyDeleteI Really like the idea of making media in order to teach others about human rights. It is proven that people learn more with what they see than what they hear; so, why not make something that can capture peoples attention and that they can get something out of it.
ReplyDeleteHuman Rights is a broad topic and I would like to explore more about several different issues. In my opinion we need to do something to encourage others to get out of their comfort zone and be curious about other cultures. Many people have stereotypes towards others but yet they have no idea about that person’s culture or life.
Documentaries are an excellent way to convey ideas, because you can add facts (so people can know about it), you can get reactions/interviews (to make people participate and be aware of the topic; and also you can learn a lot more about what are you are researching.
*PSA's and short movies are effective as well...
*@ Tojo..
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, i share the feeling of happiness by noticing that people care about they rights and they want to fight for it.
*@ Chris...
I agree with you, newcomers is awesome and I’m sure that you feel proud of been an student of this school as I do.
1. I feel really proud of all the persons who worked on those videos, specially because most of them are my friends, they worked so hard and put a lot of effort and it seemed that they had a lot of fun. Also it’s very nice that we can have the media center and all the materials that we need, surely all the cameras are very expensive and we are lucky to have them.
ReplyDelete2. There are a lot of topics that I would love to talk and film about but I have two topics that I really like and these are discrimination and bullying, I’ve been studying a lot about these topics and I’ve found a lot of cases where we see clearly how people discriminate immigrant just because they are different physically or their cultures, etc. I haven’t seen bullying yet but I’m very sure that most of the schools in New York suffer of problems related with bullying. These are really big problems and the most important for me.
3. I would like to do casting because people will understand easily with examples, if we show them what are we talking about acting I’m sure that they will get our point, also I’ve seen that our class has very good actors so it would be more easy and a great experience to us.
I feel impressive about the videos made by our school media team. The videos have high quality, they are great for a high school media team. I also feel proud that our school have great media equipments to support our media team.
ReplyDeleteIf I had a chance to make media about human rights, I would like to make a video about the topic of bullying because it exists in New York City high schools a lot even though our school is fine in this case. I think the video we will make not only posting in our school, it can be more influential to be distributed to other schools.
I like to use the format of documentary. because it can move people’s feeling more than other formats.
First of all I felt proud that the students in our school are using and making media to express their imagination /thought and experience . Also I feel like that us students in our school are really lucky to be able to learn and make media since there aren’t that many school in New York City that have a media center like us . Well since I am in the media team myself , I encourage all the students to practice or try making media since it could be a very important skill you might need in the future . If I had a chance to make a video about human rights , I would like make a documentary about the many human rights that are not use or being taken away from the people in my country . The majority of the people in my country are now living in fears because of the government . And because of that a lot of people are dying , living in poverty and mostly full of fear. I would like to share what I know with everyone and share my thoughts through media .
ReplyDelete@Chris: I really like your point of view, and I think that interviews could be a good way to catch others attention.
ReplyDelete@Tojo: It is nice to hear you idea about public announcement, I also think that they transmit a message to the audience very fast.
I agree with Luay about using the format of Documentary. it helps us to understand better and affects our feeling more.
ReplyDeletewhen i saw this video i felt good and happy because i got the chance to see The story of Marcelo Lucero’s story the brother is not angry or want revenge from the kids that killed his brother just because he was Ecuadorian (Immigrant), he is telling his story and sharing it with the rest so they could learn not to hate. Also there was a video of an old student at Newcomers high school telling his story to the rest of the students. His story was touching and very dramatic he had to go Thur a lot of things when he was a kid, but as he said that made him grew up quicker.
ReplyDeleteone topic i would like to choose is the one that talks about the stopping of the crimes like the marcelo lucero one
...I think that if i had a chance to make a media the format will be acting because I think that people will understand better by watching what constantly happen and they do not even know about it.
By watching the video from School Tube, the Jumpstart Media Making I felt so nice to the students of NCHS who made the videos and also the media teacher. The students had really nice ideas about making the videos. It was creative and meaningful. Many school doesn’t have media team or club and I am proud to my school for having a media club.
ReplyDeleteIf I would have a chance to make a video about human rights I will like to make videos about bully and how can we; the school student can prevent bully. Also I will try to make videos about how can we prevent bully outside of our schools. I will like to act it out with the help of students and teacher because for me, I understand better by visual. Also I will like to interview someone about bully and I can come up with the question like-
> Did you ever have been targeted?
> What do you think bully is?
> How can we stop bully?
> What would you do to prevent bully?
> How can we tell other students as well our family members about bullying?
How do you feel about the videos you saw and why?
ReplyDeleteAfter watch the videos from school tube, i feel so proud that i am part of NCHS. And i also really admire the students who joined the Media team, and create these videos. They are so lucky to have the chance to make videos, and learn from this experience.
If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what would you like the topic to be?
If i have a chance to make media about human rights, i would like to let the topic be bullying.
If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what format would you like to use (newscast, acting in the studio, documentary, voice over still photos, interviews, public service announcements, etc.)?
One of the format that I would like to use is acting in the studio, because I think from the acting, people could know better about how students feel when they experience bullying.And that is more visual.
Watching all this video I feel inspired and proud of my friend and the school because we are lucky to have the media team and people there trying to make the difference so everyone. It is awesome watch all those videos. But the most I like were the digital stories of some students, about racism and when Marcelo Lucero came to school and those videos make us think about it and inspired to do it too.
ReplyDeleteIf I had the opportunity I would do it in groups because I am kind of shy. I would do some scene about the human right with my friend and show to every student to let they know what rights we have.
About a second chance maybe a video about people discriminating others like in the school or outside of the school.
1. i feel happy, because now a day we have people that fights for our rights and they care alot about it. before in some countries human rights were supported but now alot of country and people fights for rights.
ReplyDelete2.I would choose Alabama law. because i would want to show in the videos how hard immigrants work and suffer to get here and how hard they work to feed themselves here.
3.i would like to make documentaries to show people some facts and how some people in other countries are living and suffering, but no one here them because they dont have the freedom too even talk and fight for their rights.
By watching the videos in school tubes I feel very curious and every videos are very nice and the messages are very clear. If I had a chance to make media I think we can come up with different ideas that can media make about human rights. It can be the different issues or most important articles about human rights which we need to tell other people by making a story of short film. I would like to use interviews, voice over still photos or acting in the studio. The mostly I would want to make a video about discrimination, racism, bullying because these are the most important parts happen in every where and it will be easy to understand for everybody to remember. The message I want to spread to the people that everybody should know about it not only we the students in the school but also we have to tell the outsiders or our family, friends about it. In school I would interviewed other students those we don’t usually talk I could ask questions about discrimination, racism, bullying what does it mean to you? What do you think and how can you help yourself to prevent?
ReplyDeleteI feel good to see those videos because it’s important that our school care about human rights, also the students who always participate in this topic, they get involved and they can transmit the message to other people by doing this great job of making videos. It’s good to see our students fighting to pass the message to people around us. if I had a chance to make media about human rights, i would like to do it about no more racism, i would like to show people that we need to stop that, If I had a chance to make media about human rights I would like to use acting in the studio, because I think that people understand better by watching videos, i think is easy and better the visual way to catch people’s attention.
ReplyDeleteI feel good when I saw videos from Media Team because The videos show many thing that we can understand more easy and fast when the people are talk are acting there. The videos can help you with that image, because the image that it is in the videos are impressive and get attention from the people. If I have a chance to make a film about Human Rights, I would like the topic to be about hate and discrimination, because this two thing we have in this country. The discrimination and hate are bad. People are try to finish with this and we can help when we do the film about this. Also we can do documentaries to show the story from other people ( interview them) because this form we show how it is bad hate and discrimination in this country and in the world. This country is free.
ReplyDeleteI feel very positive about those video, I am glad that our school have a opportunity to do a videos and share them with others schools. Also it represent Newcomers High School in a very positive way, and it may make others students to be more interested in the human rights.
ReplyDeleteIf i would have a chance to make a video, I would make a video about one human right from the UDHR. Because we cannot use our human rights and fight against a discrimination or human rights abuse if we do not know them. Also we can make a video about how all of us are similar and we all are equal.
I think that the newscast would be a very good idea, to promote a human rights. It would be a good idea because it will show the importance of a human rights.
I feel very happy, because I saw many people pay more attention to the Human Rights, different from the past, people did not speak out at all and keep silence to accept every unfair treatments. And I saw people from different countries work together, it is shown a good very positive social phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteIf I have a chance to make media about human rights, I would like the topic to be aimed at racism, because I live in New York where is a big mixture of all the races.
If I had a chance to make media about human rights, I like to use documentary, because I think it’s very convenient to revisit and deeper the memory of people.
@Luay: Yes, it is a very good phenomenon that people from all over the world work together.
ReplyDelete@Megan: I agree with you Megan, we always can learn much by watching videos, there are always many things we can’t see and don’t know in the life before.
How do you feel about the videos you saw and why?
ReplyDeleteI felt very excited about the videos I watched. Because those videos are awesome and very easy to understand the message that people are trying tell us and teach us about the discrimination and the differences around the world that is leading to a big issue in today’s world.
If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what would you like the topic to be?
If I have the chance to make media about human rights, I would like to make something similar to stop bulling.
If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what format would you like to use (newscast, acting in the studio, documentary, voice over still photos, interviews, public service announcements, etc.)?
If I had a chance to make media about human rights, I would like to use the acting in the studio format. Because to me its better and easy to understand the message about human rights.
I agree with you Megan short movies are always effective.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea about making documentary Danling.
How do you feel about the videos you saw and why?
ReplyDeletei think this video is very great and i feel good through watch this video, because i never know in our school have a media center but now i know more information about our school.
2.If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what would you like the topic to be?
if i had a chance to make media about human rights, i will choose Alabama’s immigration right. i choose this topic because i want every Alabama’s people know that immigration people also could help your country. like, improve your country’s economic because they could do some job that Alabama can’t do or they don’t want to do it.
3.If you had a chance to make media about human rights, what format would you like to use (newscast, acting in the studio, documentary, voice over still photos, interviews, public service announcements, etc.)?
if i had a chance to male media about human rights, i will like to use voice over still photos because photos could help people understand what do i want to tell them,even though they can’t speak English very well.
I agree with Tojo, i also think Alabama’s immigration law is very terrible. we have to change this unfair law and set up a happy and safe place for Alabama.
ReplyDeleteI feel very happy, because now I found out more and more people concern about human rights, they changed, they did not speak out at all and just accept every unfair thing in the past. But now I saw people work together, no matter where they are from.
ReplyDeleteIf I have a chance to make media about human rights, I would like the topic to be “we’re all in one world”, because I live in New York and I saw there are many different cultures here
If I had a chance to make media about human rights, I like to use acting, because I think it can show the every detail about the play
1,I think the video make way for people to get a deeper understand about the idea. This make me strongly believe that we need make a video for our own class and teach students more about humans rights.
ReplyDelete2.I would like to make a video about the hate crime and bully in our school. Teach students about what we learned during ADL Training.
3.public service announcements is a good type for this project. we can make people aware about this situation.