Script

Slide 1

For me, education has always been about people. The friends I met at my k-8 school are the ones I still hold close today. In my 7+8th grade classroom, there were nine of us. (saint mary school videos) These nine people were truly my family and we still get together today for reunions (videos and pictures of being together)

Slide 2

When I went to highschool, that family atmosphere was missing. The halls were crowded and I felt like cattle being herded on their way to being slaughtered. I went from a class of 9 and a school of 150 to a class of 300 and a school of 2000. (overlapping chatter and voices and footsteps) 

Slide 3

I went from two teachers that knew me, my interests, hobbies, learning styles, and everything else- to teachers who didn’t know me. Some of them didn’t care to get to know me and immediately assumed the worst of me if I slipped up or made a mistake.

Slide 4

In these classrooms, I lost the family environment. I did not feel comfortable voicing my opinions or asking questions. 

Slide 5

When I started taking AP classes I regained some of the safety by being in classrooms with people who I recognized from other classes and teachers who expected more from me in the more rigorous classes rather than expecting the worst from me. 

Slide 6

I knew when I began searching for colleges that I wanted to find that same family environment that I had in my k-8 school and began to regain through AP classes.

Slide 7

 I wanted a small university where the teachers would know me and I would know them as well as my classmates. I knew if I felt safe with my classmates and professors I could not only excel in school but enjoy the process of learning again. 

Slide 8

My learning experience here has been invigorating and welcoming. I participate in classroom discussions and love studying with my friends and fellow classmates. Studying in a social setting keeps me engaged and motivated. 

StoryBoard 

Slide 1

Begin with an instrumental version of the song Pompeii by Bastille. Begin scene with a black screen fading in on a picture of Saint Mary school which will then zoom into the building. Zooming in all the way representing entrance of school will use zoom transition into clips of video from us working at art, which will crossfade into dancing. Music in the background will be

Slide 2

Fade to black to transition into high school clips of people walking in the hallways with sound effects of loud overlapping chatter, footsteps, yelling, pushing 

Slide 3

Fade to black to go back to saint mary videos of teachers and then crossfade transition into clips of empty teacher desks with muffled audio of yelling 

Slide 4

Fade to black clip of me looking uncomfortable in a classroom, not speaking, not looking up with camera panning around me in circles to signify suffocation 

Slide 5

Fade to black and pause in black for a moment before fading from black into transition of clip of AP class, lively safe discussion talking noises in the background 

Slide 6

Fade to black into fade out from drone footage of john carroll, to crossfade transitions of small empty jcu classrooms

Slide 7

Crossfade to me smiling in JCU classroom cross fade to me and friends walking crossfade to me and friends on quad 

Slide 8 

Crossfade to clip studying in the lounge circling in a 360 perspective fade out to black and music fades with it. Credits roll.

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