27th April Human Rights Video Analysis

Today we worked on writing up analyses of human rights videos made by young people. We looked at some on the Adobe Youth Voices website that were music videos about identity, respect and being a good role model. They were made in the USA and New Zealand.

We wrote down what they were about, things that worked well and what was less successful about them. We also wrote which articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights they relate to.

We then began to watch some of the adverts made by previous year 10 students.

Starting Human Rights before Easter

Firstly we all met in 915 to introduce the Human Rights Media element. We looked at photos, found out more about human rights and the tasks set, such as comparing our lives to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights list. We then divided up students into photography and film.

The film students came downstairs with me to look at some human rights films on these websites:
http://www.hrw.org/en/iff/youth-producing-change-2009
http://essentials.youthvoices.adobe.com/stories/video.aspx

We discussed which ones we liked and why and had a think about films we could make.