3rd Annual PAWS Movie Night
Another year has gone by quickly. It seems as if it was only yesterday when the 2nd annual Paws Movie Night event took place. I’m proud to announce the third annual Paws Movie Night that took place on May 3, 2007 has been a success! The Social Hall, in which the event occurred, was literally packed!
In fact, some people had to watch from outside by peering inside the door. It was amazing to see how many people wanted to see the movies that had been produced by the high school students of CSDR. In the Social Hall there was about a total of 320 people inside and about 50 standing outside.
The evening opened with the Star Spangle Banner in ASL by our three Master of Ceremonies; Ellen Auman, Melinda Murphy, and Liz Escandon. Afterwards, our superintendent Mal Grossinger gave a welcome speech. Students of Yoon Lee, a T.V. production teacher here at CSDR, worked very hard on trying to make movies to give an important message to their peers and to others as well. They slaved over their movies for about four months. Hours of script writing, filming, and editing has graciously been captured on film. It was truly an enjoyable experience to see students, parents, teachers, siblings, and people who are currently learning ASL come from different locations to see the movies.
2nd Annual PAWS Movie Night
The Second Annual Paws Movie Night was presented on May 18, 2006. Once again, the event was a huge success for CSDR. More than 300 people attended the event. Six classes, worked for four months on their projects. Mr. Yoon Lee, our TV Production teacher, guided them in making six wonderful movies.
The first step in the process was to decide what the movies should be about. The classes had five subjects to choose from: horror, romance, thriller, lesson-teaching, or based on a true story. That was the hardest part, getting the students to decide what their movie would be about and to agree on the story theme. After three weeks of negotiating; the classes settled on their story themes. As soon as the final decisions were made, one student took over writing the script for the whole story. Then deliberations began again, making sure everyone in the class agreed on the script. When the script was finalized, the class started discussing what clothes to bring for the next six weeks. They had to make sure they didn’t change one little thing in their appearance. If one person dyed their hair or changed their nail polish in the middle of shooting, then it had to be added to the scene in the script.
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1st Annual PAWS Movie Night
On May 19, 2005, the first annual Paws Movie Night began at CSDR’s Social Hall. Six TV production classes produced at least a 15-minute movie each. All the classes competed against each other for the best movie award. Who were the judges? Here is a hint: they are Deaf and famous in the Deaf community. They are: Bernard Bragg, Terrylene, Jevon Whetter, Joe Josslyn and Wayne Betts, Jr. They were chosen to choose the best movie from all six.
In the duration of four months, the students worked on their movie within their class. First, they came up with what kind of movie they would like to produce. Second, they discussed the movie script. Third, they shoot the different scenes; it was tedious for many people because they had to bring the same clothes for a specific scene, and sometimes they forgot to bring the school closed down and then, some students can come and save the school. Later on, we realized that it was not a good story since it doesn’t have the pow-wow we needed. We changed it and decided to base the movie on a true story. We were having so many great ideas with the story, and it ended up a great movie. We hosted the Paws TV movie night, took care of the tickets and the seating chart, the judging papers, certificates, and so on. It was nerve wrecking for us because not only did we have to make a movie, we also had to host the Paws TV movie night event, but we made it through very well.
