During the fall of 2019 I was invited by Professor Rick Litvin from NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film & Television to meet Maximillian Re-Sugiura, the principle of NYC’s vaunted High School of Art and Design. Our goal was to engender activism and awareness on environmental issues by having students create Public Service Announcements (PSAs) which would be shown during Earth Day events at the Tisch School of the Arts. A few months after our initial meetings, COVID-19 entered the lives of every New Yorker.
Students were then given the option to use the pandemic in place of a traditional environmental theme. Working with their cellphones during an unprecedented global quarantine many wonderful projects were realized. Their full list may be found here. On this page are a few distinguished projects. In addition to discovering the creativity and talent of the students, I was introduced to some o fthe dedicated faculty who help to mentor and train their charges in the discipline of story-telling. Teachers rarely get the recognition which they merit. Mr. Hanan Harchol, a Film/Video Teacher at NYC’s High School of Art & Design is one such person. His students will be forever changed by his influence. In time, his students will change the world. — Peter Terezakis
Description of PSA:
A girl plays outside in a backyard, having fun. We later see what’s really going on and the sobering message that goes with it.
Equipment used:
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro
Gear: Manfrotto Compact Action Tripod
Editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro 2020
Asher Epstein is a Sophomore at Art and Design High School majoring in Film. In his free time, he loves learning photoshop and photography. He also loves mindlessly watching YouTube videos about absolutely any topic.
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Faces Behind the Statistics —
Public Service Announcement to promote wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elizabeth Maldonado (editor), Mikayla Pabon, Sam Smithyman. Senior Film Class…
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The importance of Social Distancing during pandemic.
By Carmine Romano. Senior Film Class.