UPDATE!

These are some of the first year video students :)

A LOT has been happening. So, I have completed my first month at Colegio America.
I have two groups...One is a video class for Juniors and the second group is called "Imagen Estudiantil", which is more closly linked to my proposed project. Here is the link to the Colegio America website and there you can click on the video under "Imagen Estudiantil". It is just a promotional to get students involved with the project. http://www.america.edu.pe/gen/

The first meeting for "Imagen Estudiantil" will be on Monday, September the 1st. There I will describe the aim of the project and hopefully get them committed to experimenting with video!

With the juniors we have written one page scripts based on the difference of people their age who go to school and don't go to school. We started shooting this week. I will post the videos, when they are done. It is more of an exercise that will warm them up for a bigger project. I am happy I started them off with these short scripts because they are learing how to plan better, act, how to take direction, and give direction.

With this group, because they are more advance in video making, I want to make a ten minute narrative short film with them. Long story short....the concept is JUSTIFICATION and how that can bleed into feeling "right" when morally you know you are wrong. I am writing the narrative but they will fill in the dialogue, shoot it, and act in it. I will divide the juniors into five groups and give them each a scene. The point being that it has to look as if one person created the film, when in reality a group of students created it.

The Juniors are truly wonderful and very funny! They are all so charming and different. I love it!