Venice - Education Notes
We invite you to take a look at what's been going on inside and outside the walls of Venice High School.
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For several weeks, students went out into their community to capture their personal hotspots from their maps. They interviewed family members, store owners, themselves, and even random people off the street. It has been an amazing experience to see...
This week, the Venice High School students began to record their hotspots for their My Neighborhood & Me project. Everything has come to this moment. Students now know the various multimedia production tools - photography, cinematography, interview techniques, and sound...
One of the most unique and engaging elements of a Departures installment is the production of the interactive panoramas. While photographing the significant people and places, the Departures team manipulates and composites the images to represent a visual interpretation of...
The Departures Youth Voices team of educators and student producers went out to SPARC for the second day of production. SPARC stands for The Social and Public Art Resource Center and is an amazing place that restores and produces public...
After weeks of teaching students at Venice High School the various media production tools, we went out on our first production day and visited the historic Venice Boardwalk. Even though not all the students are from the Venice area, they...
The exploration of sound often gets overlooked in multimedia production, especially in K-12 education. The emphasis on visual representation often overshadows sonic literacy. Perhaps this is due to the world of graphic design and cinematography involving such complex concepts like...
The second multimedia production workshop at Venice High School covered video interviews and portraits.
Students at Venice High School's New Media Academy have focused on learning various multimedia production tools in preparing them to become Student Producers for Departures: Venice.
During the initial phase of Departures: Venice educational curricula, students were asked to critically examine their neighborhood on geographical, social, and personal levels. What is the make-up of your neighborhood? Where do you find excitement, peace, community? Are there...
Distance Learning has taken on a different connotation here in Venice. The students travel from all over the city via public transportation or school buses, instead of it being a walk down the block.
The Departures Educational Program teaches multimedia production tools and helps students to develop their voice.
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Hill Street Cafe & Cigar
By Mabel Chan Hill Street Cafe is a cafe in a plaza on Hill Street. It initially opened for patrons of Best Western Inn, but it attracts many people young and old. This is the only cafe in Chinatown that...
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