- Funding for this program has been provided by... (upbeat rock music) Hi, I'm Olivia, and welcome to "Young Creator Studio."

This season we're coming to you from Mount Cuba Center in Delaware.

Kids from all over Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware have been hard at work creating new student films.

So stick around and see what we have in store for you today.

- [Mora-lee] I started playing the violin in the fourth grade.

(violin music) - My name is Willy, and my job is a chef, cooking at my cart.

- [Interviewee 8] My brain keeps me entertained.

My brain is built different.

- My favorite part of teaching definitely has to be that moment when the student actually gets the camera, and understands like everything that we've been talking about.

It's like a light bulb goes off above their head.

(upbeat rock music) - POV.

You wake up, and the first thing you think is, "I can't wait to watch all the amazing student films on 'Young Creator Studio.'"

Then you wait patiently all day long until your favorite show finally comes on WHYY.

Pretty wild that I knew that about you, right?

Well, guess what?

Today's student films all showcase a different point of view or a day in the life.

So, stick around.

(texts scratching) (gentle classical music) - My name is Mora-lee Moore.

I am 18 years old, and I'm a senior at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

I started playing the violin in the fourth grade and that seems kind of early.

I was like 9 years old, 10 years old, and for some people that would be like, "Wow, that was a long time."

But most advanced musicians start playing at the age of three or four years old.

For a long time I knew that I wanted to pursue a career in music.

But what was holding me back was that fear that I would not be good enough, that I would not be good enough, and that the progress that I make wouldn't be enough.

(gentle classical music) In the fifth grade I joined a program called the Community Music Scholars Program at Boyer College, and there are like different levels of orchestras, and my conductor was Ms. Ashley Vines and my conductor was Ms. Ashley Vines and she was a Black woman.

But as I started to join more advanced orchestras, that's when I started to see that lack of diversity, and that's kind of when it became more discouraging.

As I became more advanced, things got a lot less diverse, and I started to see less people that looked like me.

(classical music) Being in these, like, music communities, I have been able to I have been able to be a lot more expressive, open and vulnerable.

Music is such an expressive, and human, and vulnerable thing, and I'm just very grateful that I am able to do that, and to form that kind of connection with other people.

It's been very inspiring for me to see successful women of color in music, to see successful women of color in music, and I'm very excited to also, like, and I'm very excited to also, like, be that as well.

(graphics scratching) (stairs creaking) (footsteps thumping) (light switch clacking) (light humming) - Highest grossing films of all time.

Well the price tag is dropping on several Tesla vehicles.

And an iconic four-wheel-drive (indistinct) is hitting the auction block.

Ed Piper has the story- - My name is Willy, and my job is a chef, and my job is a chef, cooking at my cart.

What inspire me to start my food cart business actually, I want to become the actually, I want to become the owner of a small business, even the small one.

(clock ticking) - My name Esther.

We have own business - My name Esther.

We have own business for serving breakfast and lunch.

(Esther swallowing) I live at America almost 25 years.

I live at America almost 25 years.

(Esther sighing) (floorboards creaking) Beginning from my friend when I used to work at 10, nighttime, night shift.

He apply this spot from city He apply this spot from city He apply this spot from city is lottery system.

is lottery system.

So he told me for apply for it because why not?

So he told me to apply for it because why not?

Who knows?

Maybe I get lucky to get the spot.

Who knows?

Maybe I get lucky to get the spot.

So from him I apply So from him I apply and fill up all the application to city to join the lottery to get one of the spots, to join the lottery to get one of the spots, what the city offered.

And we lucky from maybe around And we lucky from maybe around 1000 appliers, I believe, so... (door squeaking) 4:30, we have to leave from the house, go in the garage and then set up everything.

(plastic rustling) (ice clattering) (machines whirring) (bottles thudding) 5:25 from the garage, 5:25 from the garage, we must leave from the garage and going to the center city to our spot.

(machine whirring) - [Willy] And then after that on the spot we preparing all the food, serving the customer and then we ready for serving customer.

And then we turn around three o'clock, two o'clock, two o'clock and then three o'clock and we pull our cart and then bring to the garage and then we clean it up.

That's it.

Our job is only like that.

(footsteps pattering) (cars whizzing) - Do you have egg roll every day or do you run out?

- Okay.

- Alright.

That's okay sir.

Thank you.

(grill sizzling) (bag rustling) - [Willy] $13.

And seven, your change.

Thank you so much.

- I used to work for different factory.

- I used to work for different factory.

Mostly factory.

Yeah.

With all the colors.

See, do you see?

- Hmm?

- Atlee Burpee.

All flowers, beautiful clothes.

- Yes.

My previous job is become a sushi chef.

For seven years working with 7-Eleven, working at the Atlee Burpee company.

- [Esther] And this is Burpee.

And this is Burpee.

We used to work at here.

Lunch break, in the lunchroom.

Working for yourself and working with somebody else is different challenge.

So working for yourself, So working for yourself, you have to dedicate yourself for how to improve, and how to better serve to the customer.

- Yes.

Working at the food cart is more better Working at the food cart is more better than my previous job because I have my own business, my own, we have become my own boss, you know.

So about the money, of course we got more money than previous job.

(tool scraping) - The positive, this is because our own business - The positive, this is because our own business we can manage our own time.

Especially since, we start this business when I have still little two children, when I have still little two children, they are toddler.

The dangers is mostly from the stealer, The dangers is mostly from the stealer, from the people disturbing us from the people disturbing us as a small business.

as a small business.

- The high school kid, the kids from school is somebody, sometime they're coming to stealing and homeless some day sometimes they make a problem.

- And then while we call the cops, cops didn't respond right away.

cops didn't respond right away.

because I believe it's a lot more dangerous because I believe it's a lot more dangerous than what was happening for this small business vendor like us.

- [Interviewer] So- Maybe like, if you could look in the camera lens and just say, like, message for yourself in the future.

- Message for the future for myself.

If you want to doing it at the business more better, something like more bigger in this small business, settle good, and then we could do into the next step.

- Hi, I believe people think working - Hi, I believe people think working have hot dog cart or breakfast cart is easy have hot dog cart or breakfast cart is easy and that is true, it's easy, but very sacrifice.

and that is true, it's easy, but very sacrifice.

I will encourage all for people I will encourage all for people who open the business, don't make easy something because you just need passion and perseverance.

because you just need passion and perseverance.

Never give up and then you will be enjoy.

Just keep it up, never give up.

Thank you.

Just keep it up, never give up.

Thank you.

(Esther laughing) - Can I sleep?

- So how would you describe your brain?

(soft music) My brain?

A working warehouse is how I would describe my brain.

I think my brain, I view it as of like, I dunno if you've ever seen that SpongeBob episode where there's a whole bunch of little SpongeBobs and they have like compartments, a lot going on.

But I feel like I'm very organized.

I have a lot of emotions as well, but overall I think that my brain kind of looks like a file compartment that has like a whole bunch of files.

- Brain kind of reminds me of Jello.

Squishy.

- I describe my brain as like a computer with a advanced processor and storage, with a advanced processor and storage, but it has like a normal amount of RAM.

There's just so much happening in my brain that it's like I gotta sort through all the thoughts and pick out which ones work.

I could just like, I don't know, do something stupid.

Like I could just get up and just like do something ridiculous to represent what my brain is like.

But no, I have to like sort through all of the possibilities of, like, what my brain is saying to do, and go with whatever is more palatable for people.

- I would say my brain is probably a little anxious and a little bruised, but I think, I think it's learning every day.

but I think, I think it's learning every day.

Probably about self-love and creativity Probably about self-love and creativity and self-expression and yeah, and self-expression and yeah, I think it's just helping me be my best self.

(interviewee laughing) - What is my brain like?

I don't know, but I guess it's just like a big organ that just is there.

It's very valuable, you know.

Things can happen to it.

Strokes, tumors, aneurysms, there's a lot.

Strokes, tumors, aneurysms, there's a lot.

The brain is very delicate.

All of your organs in your body are, like, supporting your brain and your brain is, like, telling your organs what to do.

My brain is funny to me.

My brain is funny to me.

My brain keeps me entertained.

My brain is built different, My brain is built different, and, I don't know, I'm very thankful for my brain.

- Yeah, I think my brain looks like kind of like a map.

And so then like if I look at it And so then like if I look at it from like a bird's eye view, it looks kind of like a city.

But then if I'm walking through the city, then it looks like a path in the woods and at each little stop there's, like, and at each little stop there's, like, a different emotion or feeling or memory that I can, like, enter.

But then I can just walk through the path and it's like a pine tree.

and it's like a pine tree.

There's many pine trees.

- [Interviewer] What do you want?

Like what do you want at this very moment?

Like right now?

- [Interviewee 1] I want- - [Interviewee 2] I want- - [Interviewee 3] I want- - [Interviewee 4] I want- - [Interviewee 5] I want- - [Interviewee 6] I want- - [Interviewee 7] I want- - [Interviewee 8] I want- - I want happiness.

(graphics scratching) (upbeat jazz music) - My name is Emily Hildenbrand and I'm an intern for WHYY's Youth Employment Program.

The program was founded in 2019 and pair students with professional business partners.

The goal, the program, is to show young people what working in media might be like and to encourage them to follow that path in the future.

I'm partnered with WHYY's Media Labs at St. Malachy Catholic School in North Philadelphia.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, WHYY hosts an afterschool program for the students interested in media production, which gives them the chance to work hands-on with different equipment.

Media labs are hosted in 40 different schools all throughout Philadelphia, South Jersey, and Delaware.

Beginning this school year, St. Malachy began offering media labs to their students.

- I think it's really cool - I think it's really cool that the kids get some real life application.

Like they're not just, you know, they get, they do a whole thing start to finish, right?

They plan it, they film it, then they are editing right now, I think, I just think that's really cool.

(jazz music continues) - So my favorite part of teaching definitely has to be that moment when the student actually gets the camera and understands like everything that we've been talking about.

Because having them listen to one thing and then actually doing it are two separate things.

And when they actually get the camera in their hands, it's like, it's like a light bulb goes off above their head and it's great to watch it happen.

I think the students definitely get excited to come in here and use the equipment.

And then learning just so happens to be a part of what happens in here because they don't like to sit down.

They're more of an energetic group of kids, which is great.

Which means that they're actively like, "Okay, what else can we do?

What else can we film?

What else can we figure out to use the camera for?"

And then getting them to edit is another thing entirely, but at the end when they see the product, they've realized that the whole process has been a really cool thing.

- My favorite, interviewing, like I like learning how to edit and stuff, interview what to say properly and stuff.

That's been my favorite lately.

- I don't really, like, use cameras a lot, and I, like, had the chance to use them during Media Labs.

- My take on Media Labs is that it's a good experience is that it's a good experience for kids that wanna grow to be photographers, journalists, and people that just get paid to edit videos for certain people.

- The thing is that I have learned so many things to the point I want it to like end, like never end.

- Yes, yes.

I will definitely continue.

I will like, you know, tell people about it, 'cause I already tell my mom a lot about it and tell her what I learned, and she got this camera for me now because of Media Labs.

because of Media Labs.

So like, I gotta say thank you, 'cause now I have a passion for editing and stuff now, and y'all taught me a lot.

- I strongly will motivate anybody else - I strongly will motivate anybody else to start media and even if they feel as though they're not gonna be good at it, I will strongly advise them to do it.

(upbeat music) - The project that I'm doing is a Philly flavor.

It's like basically we're talking about what we have in Philly.

All the things that we've been doing was trying to see like what is their favorite water ice and what they like in water ice.

My role has been, like, the person that asks the questions, mostly.

- Me and my friends, we all chose like different parts.

Like Emily sets up the camera.

I also set up the camera and stuff.

I got to like use the headphones on the microphone, and like we all switched around.

We're editing the video, we're almost done.

- I found my time at St. Malachy to be very rewarding.

The students there are extremely excited to learn, passionate about media, and so very energetic.

Thanks to Media Labs, the students were able to learn about different equipment and create a project that they were proud of.

Working with them was so much fun and I'm grateful for my time there.

- Hi, it's Olivia again.

Are you curious on how to make amazing videos like the ones you just watched?

Well, you're in luck because Steve, manager of Media Instruction at WHYY, has some awesome creator tips for you.

So check it out.

(graphics scratching) - Today we're going to talk about the difference between A-roll and B-roll footage, and why you need both to make a great video.

Think of A-roll as the main ingredient of your video like a hamburger patty.

It's the meat of your story, the essential information that you want to convey to your audience.

But a hamburger patty by itself is not very appealing, right?

You need some toppings and a bun to make it look and taste better.

That's where B-roll comes in.

B-roll is the extra footage that you use to spice up your video, like lettuce, cheese, and the bun.

It adds visual interest, context, and emotion to your A-roll.

It makes your video more engaging and dynamic.

In this creator tip, I'm going to share with you how to film B-roll to enhance your storytelling skills.

So let's get started.

(upbeat music) Hey, young creators, I'm Steve.

While the characters in your video captured through interviews can drive the story, another important element in storytelling is B-roll, because it conveys a sense of place, emotion, and the actions of your characters.

Before we learn how to film B-roll, first, let me explain what it is.

B-roll is relevant footage to accompany your A-roll or interview footage to prevent visual boredom and illustrate what is being said on the A-roll.

To begin, you need B-roll to help tell a documentary or news story.

And when filming, you need to capture a lot of it.

No, really a lot.

No, really a lot.

You'll never find yourself saying you have too much B-roll.

Trust me, no one wants to see a bunch of talking heads.

B-roll gives context to your sound bites, voiceovers, and fills visual void, as well as help tell and show your story.

For example, if you're doing a story on a clay studio, you should see artwork and the artist working with clay.

The interviews will provide us with the information needed to move the story along, while everything else you see is B-roll, which provides the supporting details to what is being said on the A-roll.

Now you know what B-roll is, but you still may be confused on how to capture it.

No worries, I'm here to help you with some simple tips to get you started.

Make sure the footage you shoot is relevant to your story.

Plan ahead of time when possible, and come up with a B-roll shot list to gather all necessary footage.

Don't just point your camera and shoot.

Use multiple camera angles, and try not to shoot everything at eye level.

When possible, shoot similar actions three different ways using wide, medium, and closeup shots.

Avoid any unnecessary movements such as pans or zooms.

Allow the action to unfold in front of the camera and remember to use a tripod.

Record natural sound within your B-roll.

It can help you create a more immersive experience for your viewers by adding an extra layer of audio that compliments your visuals.

And most importantly, remember to hold your shot for at least 10 seconds.

Shoot enough footage so that you have plenty of options when editing.

You may feel like this is a lot of work, but the more you practice and follow these simple tips, the better you will become.

And don't sit around waiting for a fancy new camera.

Whatever equipment you have available, such as the phone, will do the job.

I'm Steve, and I'll see you next time.

(upbeat music) - Thanks for watching another episode of "Young Creator Studio."

Films like these always remind me to consider other people's perspectives and lived experiences, and I hope they did the same for you.

To watch more student films, go to whyy.org/youngcreatorstudio.

I'm Olivia, and I'll see you next time.

(upbeat music)