STUDENT EMMY NOMINATIONS ARE OUT!Read about them here. Abbass is a double nominee for cinematography. He’s like WDHS’s Steven Soderbergh Today at 1pm is the production meeting for Mr. Bonkers Saves the Day. It will happen on Zoom. Department heads have been invited through your email, but you can also login using the link: https://zoom.us/j/230107592…
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Our video program is nominated for seven Student Emmys! We have three movies up for best movie! Read about it here: https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/video/2020/03/26/dearborn-high-school-is-nominated-for-seven-student-emmys/ We’re really proud of our program and our work. You may not realize it, but WDHS is one of the best film and TV production programs in the country. It does not succeed…
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Electric Oddity is nominated for four awards including Writing, Tristan Nunez; Editor, Abbass Karnib; Photographer, Abbass Karnib; and for Short Form – Fiction. Tristan and Abbass share this nomination with producer Angel Krawczyk, 1st assistant director Will Kirk, and star Gwen Voice. Girlfriends is also nominated for Short Form – Fiction. Director Jozelyn Hunter shares…
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It’s time to make another another announcements video. The script is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LS1qkF3-EDzSLeRI4r3eI5ppvgWze418k9_bfuD1JU/edit?usp=sharing. The script will likely be updated a few times in the morning. It’s due tonight at 11:59pm and you have three options: Submit a video of you reading the announcements, which means we may use the video and audio. Submit audio of…
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Very few of you filled out your availability for the Mr. Bonkers production meeting. We scheduled it based on the answers those four provided. The meeting will be on Friday March 27th at 1pm. You can join the meeting through Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/230107592. As you can see above, the Detect!ve production meeting was a smashing…
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Let’s open our next critique into a discussion. Watch one of the seven movies below. As you’re watching, think about how the filmmakers are saying something about being a teenager. Remember to think in terms of the ways we critique movies: dialogue, plot, character, performance, cinematography, music, sound, and editing. Then add a reply on…
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Please remember to fill out your availability for production meetings for Mr Bonkers. The Detective! meeting is today at 1pm We’ll have these on Zoom. These are super, super important. Whoever is most in touch with Elijah Fischer, make sure he’s checking this stuff! Otherwise, continue to work on your objective correlative project (Google Classroom…
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In case you didn’t notice, our out of school time was extended by 1 day. The earliest we’ll return is April 14th. All the more reason to be prepared! If you’re a department head on Detective! or on Mr. Bonkers, we need to have a meeting on Zoom. Fill out the survey linked above, which,…
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Today, you have a few things to think about. Your critiques of each other’s miniscripts (https://classroom.google.com/c/NDEzMzQxMTU3OTda/sa/NTM5MDM3MTAyMjNa/details) were due last night. I’ll be checking them today. Very few people responded to indicate they either watched the update video or attended the Google Meet. Respond here: https://classroom.google.com/c/NDEzMzQxMTU3OTda/sa/NTQ2MTUyOTQxMjda/details Also, we are setting up Zoom meetings for Detective! and…
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I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about what great people did during their quarantines. Isaac Newton invented calculus and his laws of motion. Shakespeare wrote King Lear. What will you do? Students at the high school I graduated from have recreated our high school in Minecraft. Read about it below. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/high-school-students-build-replica-school-minecraft-host-69684622
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