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Local Action Video Showcase Can Highlight Your School

by
Matt

Is your school doing its part to help your local river, stream, or the Chesapeake Bay? Is your school restoring a shoreline, replacing a parking lot with porous pavement, planting rain gardens, holding cleanups or doing other restoration work to protect your local waterways? Show the Chesapeake Bay Program in it’s first-ever Local Action Video Showcase!

Have your classes grab a camera and shoot a short video that shows what you’re doing at your school to help your local waterway or the Chesapeake Bay. The video submissions will be compiled to create a collective video that highlights all the local work being done throughout the Bay watershed – from New York to Virginia, West Virginia to Delaware.

The collective video will be shown to representatives and elected officials from throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed during the annual Chesapeake Executive Council meeting on June 3. The Chesapeake Executive Council includes Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty.

What you need to do:
Film a short (5 minutes or less) video showing how you or your group is helping the Bay or your local stream or river.

Make sure to begin your video by:
1.) Introducing yourself and describing where you are located,
2.) Name the local waterway you are working to protect.

Then show examples of what you’re doing in your community. Have fun with this part – do something interesting or creative. Here’s some other tips to help guide the creation of your video:

  • Make sure to get shots of people interacting with the environment
  • Feel free to interview active participants
  • Don’t include any background music – they’ll add that in for the collaborative video
  • You don’t need a fancy camera to make your video – a point-and-shoot camera or other small handheld video camera will do fine.

Check out this sample video for more ideas on what to include in your video.

Send a DVD of your video by May 14, 2010 to:

Chesapeake Bay Program
Local Action Video Showcase
410 Severn Avenue, Suite 109
Annapolis, Md. 21403

Get out there and start filming!!!

This post was adapted from the BayBlog.