One Water Workshops

The One Water Workshop is designed to educate students on the issue of water conservation and environmental issues while teaching them the skills necessary to become effective communicators on using visual media/arts. PROGRAM DETAILS 1. 5-Day Workshop. The 5-day seminar will teach students to create effective messages for visual media, focusing on building the skills to author narrative elements and produce high quality images. Students will be challenged to construct innovative messages that communicate their own perspective on the issue of water conservation, and enlisted to contribute their own ideas on ways to best utilize social media for mass communication. Each workshop will have 15 students, divided into 5 groups of 3. These groups will each produce a 30 – 60 second Public Service Announcement designed specifically for distribution online and eventually on local television. 2. 10-Day Summer Workshop. The summer program is designed to augment an existing summer camp (e.g. the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation program). 150 students of all age groups will participate in environmental education and field trips commensurate with their grade level. For two weeks of the summer, 30 students (grades 8 and above) will participate in an intensive Film Production seminar that will build on their environmental education while providing hands-on filmmaking instruction. As described here the seminar has 30 students, divided into 6 groups of 5. Each group will produce a 4 – 7 min film to be distributed online, with the best films featured within the MWCC produced documentary. 3. MWCC Produced Broadcast Programming. To increase the impact and awareness generated by the One Water Workshop educational program MWCC will produce a 60 min documentary for television broadcast. The program will follow the experience of the One Water students as they learn about water conservation and build their visual media skills, and provide a frame to showcase the best of the student-created works. The finished projects will air through WPBT Public Television 6-8 times to an average audience of 60-90,000 households, and also has the potential to reach additional audiences with cable and DVD distribution.