Showcase 2022

Theme:  That's Life

Prompt:  Tell a story that communicates something about the theme.  Your story must include each of the following items in a creative and visually pleasing manner.

1. Required Line: “This sign can’t stop me because I can’t read”

2. Required Character: Jacob, meteorologist

3. Required Prop: a shoe without the shoelaces

4. Required Technical Components: worm's eye view & montage sequence

5. Required Creative Challenge: 10 seconds of silence (silence must serve the story, not just be dead air)

6. Theme:  That's Life

Prompt courtesy of the DMA Class of 2021

DMA Showcase 2020

Theme:  Resilience

Prompt:  Tell a story that communicates the importance of resilience.  Your story must include each of the following items in a creative and visually pleasing manner.

1. Required Line: “I used to put myself in timeout.”

2. Required Character: Nils Bye, scientist

3. Required Prop: a toothbrush

4. Required Technical Components: Over the Shoulder shot (OTS) & Cut on Action

5. Required Creative Challenge: a barking dog or the sound of a dog barking

6. Theme:  resilience

Prompt courtesy of the DMA Class of 2019

DMA Showcase 2019

Theme:  Be Your Best

Prompt: Tell a story that communicates the importance of “being your best”. Your story must include each of the following items in a creative and visually pleasing way.

Digital Media: Close up  

Sometimes finding someone being their best is hard to find, you have to “zoom” in and look closely.

English:  A personified conscience.

A character has an Imaginary Friend, or any other character that only they can see, who acts as the conscience to them ­ suggesting to them the right thing to do, or perhaps reminding them of the wrongs they have committed.

Required Dialogue: “If you don't think, then you shouldn't talk” - March Hare in Alice in Wonderland

Animation: Bouncing Animation

Because sometimes you need to “bounce back” to be your best. To meet this requirement, you must animate something bouncing, or squashing and stretching.

Social Science:  A social justice activist/leader

To meet this requirement, you must creatively reference a current or historical figure that has sought to improve society.

Creative Challenge: Incorporate a bee

In honor of the 4 “Be’s” you must incorporate a bee into your video.

DMA Showcase 2018

Theme:  Use Your Voice

Prompt: Tell a story about using your voice. Your story must include each of the following items in a creative and visually pleasing way.

English: ​irony

A character in the video must either say something ironic or experience a situation that is ironic. Verbal irony​ is the difference between what someone says and what someone actually means. Situational irony​ is to expect one situation or condition, but then actually experience something opposite than what one expected.

Social Science: ​quote from a historical figure

People in the past have used their voices to impact change in the form of speeches, articles, interviews and protests. Your story should incorporate a motivational quote or phrase from a historical figure.

World Language: ​Incorporate an exclamation in another language.

An exclamation is ​a sudden cry or remark, especially expressing surprise, anger, or pain. You must incorporate an exclamation in another language in your entry.

Digital Media:​ Point of view shot

A point of view shot represents an individual’s voice or perspective in a visual way. You must include one point of view shot in your video.

Animation:​ A thought bubble

Incorporate an animated thought bubble. Before we speak we often think about our beliefs and how we will communicate them.

Required Dialogue:​ “If you see something, say something.”

Being an upstander is something we have focused on as a school this year which requires you to use your voice to speak out and report injustice or suspicious activity. You must incorporate this phrase to represent using your voice as an upstander.

Creative Challenge:​ Someone singing

An actor has to sing a line or chorus from a song, using their voice in a more creative way.

DMA Showcase 2017

Theme:  Unity

Prompt: Tell a story about unity. Your story must include each of the following items in a creative and visually pleasing way.

English: demonstrate a character having an inner-conflict
Social Science: Reference to a famous historical figure
World Language: Incorporate a flag from a different country
Digital Media:  A Close Up Shot
Animation:  Animated Text
Required Dialogue:  “Do the right thing.”
Creative Challenge:  Someone taking a bite of food

DMA Showcase 2015
Theme:  A helping hand

English:  The name and mission of a local non-profit
Social Science:  “Interdependence” – a scene of two characters being mutually reliant on each other.  A reference to a global example of interdependence.
Art: A street performer/artist (i.e. graffiti artist, break dancer, mime, magician, musician, etc.)
Media Production: Slow, steady panning shot of at least 180 degrees
World Language: Culturally appropriate greeting for a French, Spanish, or Japanese-speaking country.  (Only one is required)
Creative Challenge: Awkward Laughter
Required dialogue: “Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”

DMA Showcase 2014
Theme:  The Future

English requirement:  A reference to the the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (reference can either be spoken or visual)
Social Science requirement: A line of dialogue about an incident where history has repeated itself – must name the incident, which war, event, etc. 
Art requirement: Inclusion of one Futurist artwork somewhere in the video (reference must be visual)
Technical requirement:  a worm’s eye view (camera pointed up from the ground at a subject)
Creative challenge:  Someone must limp
Dialogue requirement: ”’Tis but a scratch”