Plotless and stubbornly resistant to conventional narrative structure, the movie has its camera follow students around the halls and grounds of a high school in Portland, Ore., for a day, until violence erupts.
There are 12 computers in the school library, a computer lab with 20 PC's, and a digital video camera that students can use with the Macintosh iMovie program.
WHEN we last met Heather Joyce, not quite two years ago, she was running around the Aura elementary school in Elk Township sticking a video camera in students' faces, helping them to create a sometimes ridiculous, sometimes touching morning newscast.
This unusual and remarkable film has a premise so simple that, in the abstract, it borders on the banal: plotless and stubbornly resistant to conventional narrative structure, the movie has its camera follow students around the halls and grounds of a high school in Portland, Ore., for a day until violence erupts.
Student B drops the object from that height (also from the chair, if necessary), etc. Note: If you have access to a video camera, have students record their experiments then watch the spray in slow motion, and later have them discuss their observations.
Now, there are 110 Sony digital cameras for students to check out for their school projects.
On the contrary, security experts and administrators who use the cameras say, students and teachers seem to appreciate the increased sense of security.
Most schools don't provide cameras for students and have concentrated on providing computer labs with Photoshop and other imaging software.
By going in front of a camera [the student] has challenged traditional thinking that if something happens to you, then you don't say anything.
The woman accused of terrorism keeps her face turned away from the camera; the student doesn't appear on screen at all.
