Blair Video

Currently available to view online:

• Heather Who (Fall 2010)
• The Youngest Headmaster (Spring 2010)
• The Random Show (Fall 2009)
• Project Green, There’s No Place Like Home (2009)
  Part 1; Part 2
• Green Cup Challenge PSA (2009)
• Eternal Motion of the Stopless Mind (2008)
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sleep (But Were Too Tired to Ask) (2008)
  Part 1; Part 2
• The Godfather Part 4, Tina the Goddaughter (2007)
• Gus Grigsby’s Day at Blair (2001)

Offered since 2000 as both a fine arts elective (Video Production, Freshman Video, and Meaning and Media) and an after-school activities option (fall and spring), Blair Video continues to produce a variety of videos including documentaries, experimental works, and fiction films. The Blair video curriculum covers both technical and theoretical aspects of the production process, from planning and shooting to editing and post-production. Our students develop practical skills alongside a mastery of a visual language.

Our video facility includes a light studio, a sound-recording area and an Apple editing lab outfitted with Final Cut Pro. Students borrow cameras, lights and sound equipment to produce every part of their films themselves – from sharing their scripts online to designing the covers of their DVDs.

Outside of the classroom, the Blair video lab facilitates numerous independent student-produced works, including the Senior Video Yearbook, a film that features every member of the senior class. In the after-school video program, students take on the roles of a complete film crew to produce a short that is screened for the entire school.

A unique part of the Blair program is its multi-disciplinary nature: our students make video installations and integrate their video work with music and performance art. This year, the video production course will use web design software to make an interactive “Choose Your Own Adventure” online game.

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 Nina Yuen at yuenn@blair.edu, (908) 362-6121, ext. 5690.

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