How did we get here?
Click on these links and dive into their 5th to 7th grade media journey and read the blog below!
5th Grade PMA ComicCon
6th Grade Avatar Project Science Fiction Short Story Multimedia Art Videos
7th Grade Photography
7th Grade PMA Music Videos
5/27/24
THE FINAL CURTAIN: 8th Grade Final Culmination, PRODUCTION!
By Luzviminda Uzuri “Ms. Lulu” Carpenter, 5th-8th Performance & Media Arts (PMA) Teacher
Please join us at
Rainier Arts Center - 3515 South Alaska Street
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2024
5:00 pm (4:45 pm doors open)
to honor our lovely 8th graders as they share
their directed, produced, filmed & edited movies!
The last culmination of their SGS CAREERS.
This will be the final curtain call! Fade to Black! Cut! That’s a Wrap!
CHECK OUT THE CLASS OF 2024 PRODUCTION WEBSITE!
Tonight, the graduating class of 2024 will celebrate one to four years of media and technology education through the viewing of four collectively created films. There will be some who may laugh, others may cry and others will just marvel at how far they have come, but all will come to eventually call this film their “legacy movie.” Their last gift to the Seattle Girls’ School (SGS) community will be the “final curtain call” or their final culmination. We hope they will come back to watch this legacy movie many years from now.
Currently, it is a tradition that has been passed down from year to year; some of the tales are what legends are made of. Our development team has started to invite alumni back to watch their middle school antics as they act out tragedy, drama, comedy, and mystery. Today, during a special community meeting, we held our annual all-school Honors Assembly and watched the movies that they spent one whole semester on, but planned for since 6th grade by learning various media skills in Performance and Media Arts (PMA). They executed and managed this huge project that required their 21st Century Core Skills. They were Producers, Directors, Budget Managers, Logistics Managers, Equipment Managers, Props & costume managers, Screenwriters, Video Editors, Cinematographers, Peer Mediators, Continuity Managers, PR & Communications Managers, and Poster Artists AND performers! They were a full-fledged team motivating and cheering each other on, but most of all struggling and resolving problems to reach a common goal, making the ultimate film to appease the community buzzin with anticipation. Every day in class looked like a film production office with the mess and organization of creativity and problem-solving!
Some of them started as 5th Graders creating superheroes, sheroes, and queeroes for their ComiCon Culmination. Others started in 6th Grade, as Science Fiction characters for their Avatar Multimedia Projects building worlds, writing short scripts for short videos, and acting out improv scenes. In 7th grade, some new students came and learned audio engineering basics to record parody songs and make music videos using DSLR cameras for the first time. Others started just this year bringing their humor, skills, and willingness to join a tight-knit community and struggle through Winter Intensives, “Filmmaking Bootcamp.” Whether they came this year or started in 5th grade, they were unified in their collective struggle. This year they learned consensus decision-making, genre picking, plot drafting, screenwriting, acting, directing, producing, editing, and finally, marketing!
Please RSVP Here so we have an accurate count of our guests for seats in the theater and ice cream for your bellies afterward. See you soon! Lights, Camera, Action…. And then fade to black… The credits are rolling soon, as Graduation peaks around the corner. May they continue to struggle with love over the things they care passionately about and hold their heads proudly at the end of a long process. Their culmination is a build-up of all the culmination before. Their final product shines as brightly as they do when the lights go down and their film is on the screen before them. Fade to black, that’s a wrap!