DOT – introductory video (1-2 mins)
Draft script for D.O.T. promo video – for translation
Generally, a new line or gap indicates we switch speakers.
It’s about when you move from primary school to secondary school, and suddenly everything’s different
And maybe your best friend went to a different school –
and now there’s all these new people to figure out.
It’s about when you’re having a bad time at home
or a bad time at school
or just a bad day
It’s about when your emotions feel …
…all over the place!
Or when the guy next to you seems to have so much on his mind,
but nothing to say
It’s about what makes us feel
connected
and what makes us feel
disconnected
Es heißt, “Die Offene Tür”
D… O… T…
“Dot”.
and it’s about opening the door to our minds
and holding open the door to let everyone in…
An organisation called
the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
has got together a load of boffins
from a bunch of different places
to figure out:
what helps us feel safe
and supported by our peers?
It’s called ‘social connectedness’
which means the quality of relations
that I have with you
or we have with…
…me
And it might just be the key
to staying healthy and happy
in our increasingly complex social worlds
The boffins are talking to experts
teachers,
psychologists,
doctors,
parents
and they’re talking to kids
lots and lots of kids
and, using the latest technology
they’re creating a brand new online platform
with games
and tools
to help us learn to strengthen
our social wellbeing
plus a system that
connects us
with other young people
having similar experiences.
and to support all this
a whole new programme for the classroom too
And by trialling all this stuff with us
they’re going to try to answer a simple question:
“What makes a difference
to our lives?”
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Deadline: early Jan
Platforms: youtube, website, to play at presentations
Purpose: provide a quick, vivid, engaging insight into what the project is all about. Inform & excite.
Audience: broad – specialist and non-specialist
Language: German (with parallel English version? Or English subtitle option?)
STYLE: Generally, I am leaning towards a more ‘organic’ approach, with young people at the heart of the video, rather than heavy use of computer-generated graphics and animation. Something playful, inventive, a bit magical...
IDEA ONE
A group of children in a classroom explain the idea to us! Quite stylised, cutting from one kid to another, with some fun visual twists.
Will need to leap into action to get (1) location; (2) a group of suitable kids - aged c. 11; (3) a mini-crew to do a day's shooting.
(Imagining we work with a secondary school in Vienna, who supply the kids and a classroom on a weekend)
See (very rough) script at bottom of document...
IDEA TWO
Live drawing / arts-and-crafts / 2D cut-outs. In sped-up form, we see children’s hands drawing, writing keywords, cutting out figures and layering art/stationery materials to illustrate the project while a voiceover (either child or adult) explains it.
Maybe a pay-off where we pull back at end and see the kids who've been making the artwork and the mess all around them.