This is an American Indian Proverb defining Empathy. Empathy is essentially putting yourself in someone else's shoes and seeing the world from their point of view. For my January project I have been so lucky to get to work with Cyndi Willenbrock and Marshall again! I am doing this because Cyndi and Marshall go to a lot of schools throughout the week and they can not get to everyone of them. By creating a video we can send over a link or C.D. with a mentor who will lead a discussion about empathy and then show the video.
Over winter break, December of 2013, I met with Cyndi and two other women about how we were going to come up with a video to get the subject of empathy across to students. I had an idea of keeping the same shoes throughout the whole video and having different characters being in the same shoes telling their stories. That was what sort of what jump started the project. After about an hour and a half to two hours brainstorming and many emails we finally had a storyline!
At the beginning Cyndi tells her story about how she got Marshall, and what he's been through using n. She then leaves her moccasins by his bed. After this students hold up different quotes about empathy and leave their shoes by Marshall. By the end there are a ton of shoes by Marshall, pretty much to show we can "empathize" with him and he's not alone.
This is one of my favorite projects because I got to make it my own. I had three cameras during each recording so we could have medium and tight shots of different activities going on. Because this is not an interview, and no one was talking, we had notecards being held up, I got to get creative and add different music and effects to the shots! I am really happy with how well this turned out. At the beginning I didn't think we'd have this good of an idea, and that I would be able to edit it this well! I am so excited to show it to Cyndi and for anyone who gets to see it!! Hopefully they will have a better idea of what empathy is.
Over winter break, December of 2013, I met with Cyndi and two other women about how we were going to come up with a video to get the subject of empathy across to students. I had an idea of keeping the same shoes throughout the whole video and having different characters being in the same shoes telling their stories. That was what sort of what jump started the project. After about an hour and a half to two hours brainstorming and many emails we finally had a storyline!
At the beginning Cyndi tells her story about how she got Marshall, and what he's been through using n. She then leaves her moccasins by his bed. After this students hold up different quotes about empathy and leave their shoes by Marshall. By the end there are a ton of shoes by Marshall, pretty much to show we can "empathize" with him and he's not alone.
This is one of my favorite projects because I got to make it my own. I had three cameras during each recording so we could have medium and tight shots of different activities going on. Because this is not an interview, and no one was talking, we had notecards being held up, I got to get creative and add different music and effects to the shots! I am really happy with how well this turned out. At the beginning I didn't think we'd have this good of an idea, and that I would be able to edit it this well! I am so excited to show it to Cyndi and for anyone who gets to see it!! Hopefully they will have a better idea of what empathy is.