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Video
 Blair Video
Currently available to view online:
Offered since 2000 as both a fine arts
elective (Video Production) and an after-school activities
option (fall and spring), Blair Video continues to produce
a variety of videos including documentaries, mockumentaries,
interviews, short movies and public service announcements.
Blair students produce and edit an enormous range of interesting
work.
Blair Video began as an after-school
program for those who were interested in the process of filmmaking
and video journalism. The very first project was a video magazine
in the style of “60
Minutes,” called Blair in Mind. That program explored
issues and experiences that effected Blair life. Since then,
Blair Video has produced many more documentary projects,
four original short films, a set of public service announcements,
television parodies, a mock admissions video, and much more.
Last fall, Blair Video produced a 47-minute program about
sleep and dreams, Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Sleep (But Were Too Tired to Ask) which was a thoughtful
investigation of how sleep and dreams affect Blair students
and faculty. (Please note the link above for online viewing.)
Last spring, the after-school group
produced Eternal Motion of the Stopless Mind, a seven minute-long
stop motion project. It was created, shot, and edited by four
students using Final Cut Pro. It, too, is available for online
viewing. (See link above.)
Most exciting at Blair is how many individual
students as well as student groups are producing, directing,
shooting and editing video on their own. Showing these projects
at School Meetings and other gatherings has made video a new
and exciting dimension of Blair life for everyone.
Video Production Class
This course provides students with the opportunity
to learn the fundamentals of video production including formulating
a concept, organizing and researching subject matter, taping
footage and editing a completed short segment. Each student
participates in creating (at least) three journalistic
videos: the first, a public service announcement; the second,
conducting a random survey with questions devised by the
whole class; and the final project, a video segment on
a subject of personal interest. Beginning students work
on Apple G4, G5, and MacPro computers using iMovie HD while
the more advanced students are able to work with Final
Cut Express or Final Cut Pro Studio 2. With strong awareness
of visual considerations, the emphasis of this class is
on the organization and writing involved in the process
of producing a video.
Since its inception, Blair Video has
achieved recognition for various projects at the Toronto Teen
Video Festival, the Mill Valley (CA) Film Festival, Teen Screen! – the Atlanta
(GA) Film and Video Festival, the New Jersey Young Film and
Videomakers Festival, the Warren County (NJ) Teen Arts Festival,
the Berkeley (CA) Video and Film Festival, Black Maria Film
Festival (NJ), the Purple Violet (Kean University) Film Festival,
the International Student Film Festival Hollywood (CA), and
the Columbus (OH) International Film and Video Festival (The
Chris Awards).
For further information, please contact Director of Video
Studies Judith Kahan Kampmann at kampmj@blair.edu.
Please check with her during the course of the year at
(908) 362-6121, ext. 5690, for information about screening
times of the various projects.
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