Our idea for a creative, relevant and do-able video project is centered around the story of student veterans and their experiences transitioning to college life. The video footage will consist of scenes from "Write a Note, Get a Float!", which is an week-long event occurring on West Mall (starting 11/5); it is an event where students write appreciative notes to American soldiers for their service, and receive root beer floats in return. We think there will be plenty of interesting video roll to capture at the event, considering the general lively activity of West Mall and the expected popularity of the cause.
We are looking to interview students writing notes at the event, and also actual student soldiers (or veterans) - most likely outside of the event on our own terms. Throughout the video, we would have a few seconds of the interviews playing (to show the faces of the interviewees and make it more personable) and then transition to b-roll, while the audio from the interviews continues to play and compliment the b-roll. The general theme would be an analysis of Student Veteran Services, and how comfortable student soldiers feel attending The University of Texas at Austin after experiencing service abroad. How smoothly can the transition from solider to student go?
Sounds like a timely event, which may generate interesting visuals but the key thing is to ask deeper questions -- and there are a lot of possibilities!
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