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SHOWCASE: AWARD WINNING TEEN VIDEOS
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The following videos represents several years of award winning entries in DIVA's Youth Visions' Teen Video Challenge. The competition is limited to young people ages 13-18 living in Lane County, Oregon.
A list of national and international online sites with additional examples of teen produced videos can be found at the bottom of this page.
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My 4 Extraordinary Years of High School (2006). Julian Thieme from North Eugene High School took the first place prize of $200 for his comic video in which an unhappy freshman finds his life taking a dramatic turn for the better after he's exposed to secret goop created by a crazed science teacher. Click2View. |
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The Perfect Suicide (2006). A team of students from South Eugene High School took the $150 second place prize for their animated story of an agonizing suicide attempt, ironically titled "The Perfect Suicide." Nathan Arbuckle, Michael Osborn-Grosso, Aaron Rocha and Faye Tyson created complex animation in which each scene was a brilliant contrast of light and dark, motion and stillness. Click2View |
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In Passing (2006). Brendan Albano, South Eugene High School, is the first student to be a two-time winner, taking home the third place $100 prize for this hallway musical. Albano wrote and directed a musical score for two students who are attracted to each other but afraid to say "hello." In a fantasy sequence, they sing about their true feelings for one another. Click2View. |
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Corridors of a Troubled Mind (2006). The audience awarded Roman Flock of Thurston High School with the "Peoples' Choice" for this movie in which a medium enters the mind of a murderous adolescent, only to have her own mind overtaken by his evil thoughts. Click2View. |
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Double Take (2007). Second Place and Peoples' Choice award went to a pair of seniors from Churchill High School, Mary Needham and Amy Dennis, for this film featuring a classroom of goofy characters, the film portrayed an "evil" twin standing in for her more normal sister to give a class presentation. Click2View. |
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When the Sun Sleeps (2007). Third place prize in the live-action category was awarded to Kolby Schnelli, a senior at Springfield High School, for his music video. This skillfully filmed black and white drama told a frightening tale of a jilted lover who is chased and beaten by his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. Click2View.
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Alien Hunter (2008). First place and Peoples' Choice were awarded this science fiction tale of hi-tech hand-to-hand combat by Josh Miller, Eric Dawson and their team from Churchill High School. Click2View. |
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The Cruiser (2009). This first place film-noir type live action production by Justin Crow and Zane Miller is about a mysterious vigilante driver who cruises the streets at night dealing with wrongdoers. Click2View |
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The Chase (2009). Daniel Hart and Katie Hart produced this second place winning film about a humorous backyard romp that explores the relationship between a dog that loves the thrill of a chase and a taunting squirrel that enjoys outwitting him. Click2View |
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The Kings of Eugene (2009). Marty Leowenthal, Dylan Parker, James Nemeth, and Cord Heideman won third place for this video made in the style of a Charlie Chaplin film in which skateboarders caught in a "no skateboarding" zone, find themselves trying to hide the body of a security office who was accidentally killed when he fell while in pursuit. The task results in a comedy of one error after another. Click2View |
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Penciled Percussion (2010). Daniel Hart produced this cleaver video featuring a rhythmic study of pencil tapping on desktop objects. "Penciled Percussion" also won the Audience Choice Award. Daniel is a Home school 9th grader. Click2View |
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Vents (2010). Kyle Starner, a senior at the Martin Luther King JR. Education Center School. Click2View |
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Will You Go Out With Me? (2011). Both the $200 Jury First Place and $50 Audience Jury Award went to this music video by Jonathan Lymath and Adrion Trujillo from the Academy of Arts and Academics. The filmmakers also received a membership in the Mid-Oregon Media Arts Production Network awarded by the organization's President Erik Talbert. Click2View |
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Horseman Day 1 (2011). The first assignment for Horseman who challenges the world of corruption. This film by Toby Keffer, Addison Chappel and Kyler Scott form the Academy of Arts and Academics won second place. Clck2View |
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Extreme Exterminators (2011). A short film about two goofy exterminators and their first day on the job. by Daniel and Katie Hart, which won the Jury Third Place award. Click2View |
SHOWCASE: TEEN VIDEOS - FROM ONLINE SOURCES
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AMI The New Media Lab at the Appalachian Media Institute encourages students to create, using Flip video cameras, a series of profiles to try and represent their communities through a collage of video. |
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Beyond Borders. As a network for young filmmakers, Listen Up! has given the "green light" to 15 youth teams worldwide to produce short documentaries that courageously document some of most difficult aspects of their lives, examining what they most fear and how they create security in their lives. |
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Community Art Centers inc. This Cambridge, Massachusetts site has a short selection of videos by youth producers. Click on "gallery" to locate videos. |
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Listen Up! A youth media network that connects young video producers to resources, support, and projects with the goal of developing the field and achieving an authentic youth voice in the mass media. (HS) Source: PBS |
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One Minute JR. This site provides the opportunity to see films by young people from all over the world. Extensive archive along with the latest videos of the 10 semi-finalists from the global make a difference! video contest |
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Radio Diaries: Teenagers. Give teens a tape recorder and let them document their lives and interests. Here the stories of several teens from different parts of the nation and learn what teens face today. |
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Reel Grrls. This is an after school youth media organization in Seattle. Check out this organizations YouTube channel showcasing the video work by Reel Grrls participants. |
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Reel Works: Teen Filmmaking. Reel Works video productions on various topics such as race, drugs, immigration family, and other issues challenging at-risk-youth. |
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Reel Vision is an out of school time hands-on, filmmaking program focused on bringing arts, media literacy, and technology to urban youth from low-income areas of Boston. It provides participants with tools to "decode" destructive messages from the media and produce their own material aimed at presenting positive images and choices to young people. Their films address community concerns such as racism, violence, smoking, drugs, gangs and privacy rights. The program also introduces students to the myriad of opportunities in the communication industry, from cinematographer, to writing, to producing, to marketing. View: Documentaries and PSA's. |
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School of Cinema and Performing Arts. Sample teen work from SOCAPA's Summer Camps! They are also early works in terms of students' progression through the program. Most of their final films, which tend to be even more sophisticated, are too long to post online. Source: SOCAPA (HS) |
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School Tube Videos The nation's largest K-12 moderated video sharing website that provides students and educators with a safe and FREE video sharing website that is exclusively endorsed by leading education associations. Students can share media from school, about school or just for fun. They can showcase academics, sports and club events to family, friends and the world! Students can compete against with the best of the best for national awards. See also the video contest section. |
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Spy Hop Productions is a Salt Lake City based non-profit youth media arts and education center, dedicated to empowering youth (k-12) through multimedia. The filmmakers highlighted in this year's "Best Of" range in age from seven to nineteen, and selected films include documentary work, flash animation, fictional narratives, and claymation. |
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Teenage Diaries. Since 1996, the Teenage Diaries series has been giving tape recorders to young people around the country to report on their own lives. They conduct interviews, keep an audio journal and record the sounds of daily life—usually collecting more than 40 hours of raw tape over the course of a year. (HS) Source: NPR |
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Vancouver Youth Radio. VYR is part of The Hastings Media Lab Project. The Hastings Street Media Lab consists of 5 components: Vancouver Youth Radio, The Hastings Street Recording Studio, Hastings Street Graphic Arts Studio, Hastings Street Video Studio and the Hastings Street School of Rock. This project is aimed at youth who are interested in multi media and digital creativity. All of our programs are free. All of the VYR content is made by youth for youth and the VYR rotation is programmed by youth for youth. |
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YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary journal of youth life in the Bay Area. Featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages, YO! is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voice and visions need to be seen and heard. YO! is a bridge to the world of youth expression of young people - between the ages of 14 and 25 and offers a unique window into California's youth subcultures.. YO! stories run nationally and internationally over the Pacific News Service wire. |
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Young Americanos: Americanos is a project dedicated to the photography of young Hispanic and Latino youth. Photo competitions are held nation wide each year. |
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