Project+Description

A description of the project by one or two of the students involved, in their own words (a brief summary of the project, what they learned, what they liked or disliked, what they discovered, the obstacles they encountered and the solutions they found, etc.).

** The project was a long and tiring task. Part of our project was about creating a Christmas Concert DVD and producing a quality movie that parents would be willing to purchase and be able to enjoy with their family and friends. The important part of our project is to be able to do something for the community and help other people that are less fortunate than us.

This project involved 9 students in grade 6 who are part of the SWAT Team and many steps. First we needed to communicate with Priory parents about our project so we sent home a letter explaining who we are and what we were doing. We also advertised in school and outside in the playground while parents were picking up their children. We then had to film the concert and take photos. We also created a unique DVD cover and once we spent many hours editing, producing and creating the DVD we made copies of the DVD, printed the covers and wrote the name of the students on the envelope so they can go home. We had various problems such as only having one battery for our video camera which would not last the entire Christmas Concert so we came up with a plan. We decided to film parts of the dress rehearsal and edit the scenes in later on. We also did not have working software for burning the discs, so we used the Internet to find something reliable and free. We downloaded the software and installed it on most of the computers in our ICT class so we can use 14 computers to make copies. During the process the most difficult problem we encountered was "time". The Christmas Concert took place on Friday, December 11, 2009. We all knew that there was going to be many hours of editing, making 67 copies and printing out the DVD covers. We also knew that the DVD's needed to be distributed before the last day of school, just one week later on December 18th. The dilemma was: Did we have enough time to do it all? We knew that working during our morning recess and lunch recess break wouldn't give us enough time to complete the project. Not only did we have to work quickly as a team and help each other out we knew that in order to get it all done we needed to ask the art teacher and phys. ed. teacher if we would be able to use art class and gym class to work on the project. Luckily they said yes. Those were just a few of the many problems we had along the way, but all the problems we had, we conquered or improvised. Not only did we succeed but we learned many things along the way, such as how to sell a product, film a show, how to burn discs and how to divide our tasks so that we can work efficiently.

The team loved the outcome of all of our work and the way we made people's eyes glow with happiness and joy. Many parents and families were pleased with our work along with sister Dianna from St. Gabriel's Food bank. We discovered hidden talents in each one of us and we worked together to do something technical which we all loved and at the same time raise money for families that need help.

Written by Matheus & William **