Regan Igoe, Abigail Kalin, Lincoln White, Ashton Gaishin – Hamlet Act I
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
My teammates and I created a video to summarize Act 1 of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" for our Honors English 11 class. We spent about 2 hours filming and 2 hours editing. We took creative liberties to modernize "Hamlet" for our assignment.
Silas Lorenz, Ella Gable, Ivan Moreno, Amanda Nyugen – Hamlet Act 5
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
For English class we created a video about the final act of the Shakespeare play Hamlet. It took us about 24 work hours with 4 of us planning, filming, and editing the video.
Nick Strickler – Doom or Glory: The Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Humanity
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
I made a video describing what I learned about AI through my research. I tried to make it informative and entertaining. I spent around 4 hours making this video on top of around 10 hours of research and writing.
Jasmine Alpert – Petra: The Rose-Red City
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
This was a mini-documentary based on a research paper I made for Honors English 11. I used imovie to create the video and filmed portions myself. The assignment was to create a video under ten minutes that introduced our research topic in an exciting, informative way. In all it took about 2 months to research for the project and a couple days to create the mini-documentary.
Kate Caplea, Ellie Smith, Gavin Hardy, Harsh Gupta, Abby Berry, Camille Radenbaugh – Lord of the Flies Project
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
The assignment was to create a short film about a theme in the book "Lord of the Flies." our team chose to portray how Piggy's glasses played an important role throughout the novel. We used Wevideo to create our film and used outside the school to film during class hours.
Stella Rusk, Jonathan Kwon, Chloe Cluff – Hamlet Act IV
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
The assignment was to create a video to encapsulate the fourth act of hamlet (including as much or as little from the narrative as we choose). We spent about five to six hours on it, working mostly in the time we were given in school. The video is silly and humorous by design to turn the depressing narrative into something humorous and easy to understand. We had a lot of fun with the costuming and filming and we all hope you enjoy!
Joshua Conley, Katelyn Caplea, Ellie Smith, and Breanne Pratley – Hamlet Film Project
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
This project was created using google docs and wevideo to produce a short film about Act 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The assignment was to make a movie about this act and to display the act in a more personal tone. Our group spent multiple hours on this film project.
Hayden Flynn – Whiplash Analysis
Sponsor: Mrs. Klusendorf
The assignment was to write free choice writing essay. I chose to write a video essay about my favorite scene in my favorite movie, Whiplash. I created it by rewatching and analyzing the movie. I then wrote the script and created the video using clips and music from the movie. It probably took me 25 hours. To me, the video is less of an analysis and more a love letter to a very influential movie in my life.
Maddy Cleveland – Eating Disorder Research
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
I created it using IMOVIE and used our school databases to sift through research. This was my Honors 11 research project and it means a lot to me. I put a lot of hours in it, working 2-3 hours a week for a month on it. I picked this topic because I was suffering from an ED at the time and wanted to learn more about it.
Tess Kapelke, Charly Shell, Megan Painter – Marketing Commercial
Sponsor: Mrs. Mellott
Our project was a commercial for Sprite in our marketing class. We used our phones to record, and some empty bottles. We first made a script online, then directed it. Including the script creation, filming, and editing, it probably took around 3 hours.the assignment was to make a successful commercial that was both entertaining hit the marketing stratagies.
Victor Reyes, Abby Berry, Mason Hanks, Ava Zendher – Hamlet Act 3
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
Using our phones as cameras and WeVideo as editing software, we masterfully created a movie summarizing act 3 of Hamlet. We spent about 2 ours total on this.
Kevin Rutz – Big Government
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
The assignment was to create a video/movie correlating to the research papers we had written a couple weeks prior. I assembled and edited the movie entirely by myself (using WeVideo). It took 5 to 6 hours total and the silent style of the movie contributes towards its message.
Alyssa Hyska – History of Barbie
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
This was a video I made last year for Honors English 11 for a research paper I produced based on the History of Barbie titled, "Life in Plastic: the Doll Who Shaped our Childhoods"
Aubryanna Waterhouse, Ryann Kragt, Alyssa Hyska, Gail Vaikutis – Gatorade Commerical
Sponsor: Mrs. Mellott
In our marketing class, we made commercials to sell our product and my group and I did it about Gatorade.
Grace Lafayete, James Diamond, Breanne Pratley, and Josh Conley – The Kid Who Cried Bestie
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
We read Lord of The Flies and then created a film reenacting some scenes.
Amelia MacEachern, Isaiah Desta, Ella Rimes, Daniel McGinnis – Hamlet Act 3
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
This was a group project; Trey (Daniel), Ella, and Isaiah wrote the script and came up with the overall plan for the scenes. We all acted in it-- with a few others in misc rolls-- and I (Amelia) edited this video. I used imovie and it probably took me roughly 5 hours to edit. In total, roughly 10 hours were put into this.
Benson Holleman, Trey McGinnis, Choe Cluff, Abbi Kalin – Beowulf
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
My group and I worked on this movie interpretation of Beowulf for approximately 6 hours. We acted out the battle of Grendel's mother and Beowulf.
Chloe Cluff, Abbi Kalin, Max Taylor, Isaiah Desta – Lord of the Flies
Sponsor: Dr. Culver
Group project done in English.
Matthew Hutchinson, Audrey Osborn, Ben Catania, Jett Newton, Justin Gibson – The Test
Sponsor: Mr. Culver
This film was created as a collaboration between 5 members of the SJHS Film Club. It tells the story of John's (Matthew Hutchinson) quest to restore his grade in Mr. Burkelwitz's (Ben Catania) class. He finds help along the way in his lifelong friend Jeremy (Justin Gibson) and the mysterious Justin Burkelwitz (Jett Newton). This was filmed using an iPhone and edited using Adobe Premiere Pro. Writing, rehearsing, filming, and editing took a total of around 8 hours.