Short Film Dossier Global Issues PBL: The Thin Line...

Love & Hate

A Short Film
SECTION 1: GROUP INTRODUCTIONS
Directions:

Your group will complete this document to prepare for the final product for the project, The Thin Line...Love & Hate

Your Driving Question:

Why is it important to understand the fine line between love and hate?

Your Problem Statement:

How do we as media makers create powerful short films so that we educate others about the realities of prejudice while remaining hopeful that
we can have a world with less hate and more tolerance?
Hate Crimes: Sexual Identity / preference

Groups Topic of Prejudice:

Group Members Names

Connor Odom
Harris Sigler
Kyle Hall
Mason Mikkelsen
Liam Braden

Various Resources for Research & Production

Rubric

Glossary of terms
for PBL

CISD Databases CIA Factbook

Fair Use

NPR News
website

Anti-Defamation
League

Global
Issues.org

Human
Development
Reports

Human Rights
Watch

Simon
Wiesenthal
Centerl

Ad
Council
PSAs

BBC
News

Amnesty USA

Universal
Declaration
of Human
Rights

United Nations
Human Rights

Childrens
Defense Fund

NAACP

SECTION 2: Names of responsible Learner in your group-- PSA/Short Film (Animated)/Music Video role for each learner (every learner must have a role)
Kyle Hall

Voice Overs/Researcher

Kyle Hall

Video Production/Videographer/Animator/Researcher

Liam Braden

Editing Film/Music & Sound for final package/Researcher

Harris

Storyboard/Researcher

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Connor

Equipment/props Manager

Mason

Script Writer/Researcher

Connor

Image Producer/Researcher

Mason

Rubric Checker/ Fair Use Policy Checker/ Researcher

Harris

Production Company Logo, click here for example

SECTION 3:
Directions: Each learner will read/watch and share out the 5Ws & H(Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How) of their 2 or 3 assigned resources as given out by the group.
Completion of this is critical for the beginning stages of your work. A minimum of 12 pieces of research is required for proficient with full analysis.
Learner
Name
Doing
Research
per Line

Resource
Name or Title

Live Hyperlink
to the
article/video

What it is about:
problem, things,
ideas...

Who are the

important
people
involved...

Why is it
important: cause,
reason, results,
conditions...

Where does
it take
place...

When did/does it
take place,
important dates;
past, present,
future...

How it began,
history or
function...

Biases or
inaccuracies
observed in
research(all
researched is
biased with a
point of view)

Connor

News.google

Article

Students not feeling

safe with there
sexusal identity in

Students

Students need to
feel safe when they
tell their parents

LGBT school
district

3/28/2016

Students not
feeling safe
about their

The article
writer

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there school.

their identity

sexual identity

Connor

News.google

Article

The pope saying

that teenatgers
need to accept the
body god gave
them

The pope,
Teenager

Because the Pope

is a very respected
man around the
world

He is talking
about the
whole world

April 11 2016

The pope
wanted to join
in on the
discussion

The Pope

Connor

News.google

Article

It was meeting of
LGBT people

Teenagers and
adults

Because they got

together to talk
about to politics

Scotland

April 4th 2016

They wanted
to come
together

The article
writer

Mason

News.Google

Article

Teenagers at the
risk in struggle of
sex identity

Teenagers

Because you need

to learn to accept
people's sexuallity
to peoples age.

LGBTI
School
district

3/22/2016

Started by
The Writer
complementing
on sexuality on
their age.

Mason

News.Google

Article

Bryan Adams
canceled his show
due to a new state
law that will let
people with
religious to samesex couples.

Bryan Adams

Because people
need to not be gay
couples.

Mississippi

4/12/2016

People were
arguing about
gay couples.

Kyle

News.Google

Article

Some people feel

better being the
gender of their
choice

Trans people

To be proud of
yourself

americe

October 2016

history

Kyle

News.Google

Article

Bulling lgbt people

and why they get
bullied

lgbt

To inform the
people who are
wrongly made fun
of

Whole world

2016

history

Kyle

News.Google

Article

Over 50 percent of
lgbt people recall
being bullied as a
kid while the others

Teens and
adults

Because you need

to be comfortable
expressing your
sexuality

america

2016

history

The Writer

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as an adult
Harris

News.Google

Article

Different types of
sex, man and
women.

The
presidential
canadense

Sexual assaults are

being handled on
college campuses.

U.S.
Department
of
Education's
Office of Civil
Rights

April 12, 2016

History

The writer

Harris

News.Google

Article

Navy ceremony
moved over
Mississippi anti-gay
law objection

Navy

Stopped a ship
because of
Mississippi and
their anti-gay law

Huntington
Ingalls
Industries
shipyard in
Pascagoula

February 13 ,
2016

Because
people think
its wrong or
weird that two
men love
eachother

The writer

Liam

News.Google

Article

Assault of LGBT
people in georgia

Teenagers and
an older
boyfriend of
their mom

Because a pot of
scalding water was
poured on two gay
guys

At a home

March 19, 2016

Liam

News.Google

Article

Scientific debate
over same sex
marriage over.

Nathaniel
Frank

Because it shows
that same sex
parents have the
same effect on kids
as normal parents.

Anywhere
with a same
sex couple
raising a
child

2013 (posted in
Apr 13, 2016)

SECTION 4: Pre-Planning for Media

1. What message are you trying to portray or
make clear to the audience? Is the message
persuasive? - Connor
2. How will the producers use persuasive words,
assigned vocabulary and images to get across
their message? -Mason

The Writer

When same
sex couples
adopted kids

Answers for questions here

We are trying to inform people on how other people are transgender, young adults, talk to LGBT.

Write the normal script and then go through it and add vocabulary words
Desecration
Coexist
Harassment
Assault
Bullying

The writer

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3. How will the visual representations add
meaning to the message? Liam
4. How will you maintain a sense of hope while
working with serious topics?

We are gonna have bullies harassing him. And then assaulting his best friend for standing

By putting some jokes in, but not too obvious so it doesnt sound weird while still helping move the plot forward and
making sense.

5. How will you make the connection between

your media and what learners gain from Global
Issues?Kyle

We will connect it to current events about transgenders because it's a topic that's talked about a lot
Love that is forbidden like in romeo and juliet is like this in real life
hate towards trans and love towards friends

6. What is the ultimate message you want the

audience to gain by watching media? - Connor

Is that nobody should discriminate against people who dont sexualy identitfy as what they would like them too.

7. Did you read the rubric? How will make sure

your scores are advanced?

Show people, like family members, and ask for feedback. Practice.

SECTION 5: Interview

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Advanced Scoring
Link to text or resource of an interview that
was conducted with persons who are
1. impacted by your cause
2. working for change in your cause

SECTION 6: Additional resources per genre, only complete 1 of these for your genre
Outline for Short Film or Animated Short Film
1. Setting/s: describe the setting that this story will take place in/at
etc...

School, schools playground, or a house

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2. Characters: describe each character by name and their role,
protagonist & antagonist

Protagonist is the person we are interviewing

Antagonist are bullies

3. Story Arc: what is the beginning, middle, climax, turning point,

and conclusion of the narrative

Beginning - Protagonist is going to come out to the whole class

Middle - Protagonist gets bullied
Climax - Protagonist almost kills himself
Turning point - Protagonist gets friends that help with the bullies
Conclusion - Protagonist gets friends and stops bullies

4. Character's Goal: what is the goal of the protagonist

To share their story of how they got threw the bullying

5. Conflict: what is the issues between protagonist & antagonist

Getting made fun of because of there sexualitity

6. Narrative Resolution: details on how the character is brought to

final conclusion

The protagonist tells the teacher about the bully so many times that the teacher finally has a
teacher parent conference with the bull and his parents and he gets kicked from the school or the bully and
the protagonist become friends

7. Goal: What is the message that you want your audience to get
and lead them to action?

Just because they are different than you doesn't mean you are better then them

8. Props/Costumes/Makeup: What are the specific things needed

for your filming; divide them up by scene, if used?

Green screen, Microphone, Camera(Connor, & Mason's mom),

9. Examples of Exemplar
Examples of Exemplar
Animated Short Exemplar
Animated Short Exemplar

SECTION 7: You add the live links for checking, give Boyd & Bence editing rights
1.
Live link to groups
media storyboard w/ editing
rights:
2. Live link to groups media
script with editing rights:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yb84m3YqRJoz9TFTjSBtkKWLLBUot_2
r669hvJv2h_4/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Zp0fAGp3Oibc423HarEVGmU98F9gMFq0BVK_C5IUI/edit

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SECTION 8: FINAL PRODUCT LINK
3. Live link to groups final
YouTube link for media:
I Like

I Wonder
How to make sure it is serious and isn't jokes and corny.

Next Steps
Focus on the entire thing and not one part of it.