- [Announcer] Funding for this program has been provided by-- - 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 around Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey have been hard at work creating their student films so stick around and see what we have in store for you today.

- [Presenter] Words are not words, but lyrics.

The Philippine anthem, a language I could have spoken.

- [Presenter] Something that's thought alone can't be comprehended, but you know it to be there.

- [Presenter] Skating on a pond at the edge of the woods.

They never forgot.

- Being able to use video is such a useful skill, even if you don't go into the media field.

(upbeat music) - There are many different ways to tell a story, from a long epic movie to a short, simple haiku, like the one that I just made up.

Young minds wield the lens, filmic dreams are hard to express, watch as art transcends.

Pretty good, huh?

Well, today's filmmakers are experimenting with different ways to tell a story and you're gonna wanna tune in or else I'll just keep giving you haikus.

(light music) - [Presenter] Melodic sounds faint in my memory.

Words are not words, but lyrics of a Philippine anthem.

A language I could have spoken, a language I should speak.

My vocabulary is limited.

Songs on replay for hours, hoping for a miracle, hoping to understand.

Why didn't I learn?

Why didn't I try?

I learned the language of our colonizers before I learned our own.

I learned the language that twists my name, that is like the free Philippine eagle into a cage that holds me tight.

I learn and I speak the language that pokes, probes, picks, punctures, penetrates, and pierces my ears.

Learning, relearning, unlearning, relearning, unlearning, relearning.

Learning, relearning, unlearning, relearning, and learning.

- [Presenter] Head traveling faster than it can comprehend.

Grasping for words, I find none.

Any familiarity would be past welcome.

Are these new thoughts, old thoughts?

Have I felt this before or is now only linked to then by its unfamiliarity alone.

For this, I have no answers.

I frantically jot anything I can grab in a rapid river of blurred thoughts, hoping only for this page to make sense of any of it.

Trying to ground feelings and passing thoughts to something legible, and then maybe deja vu can lean to yes or no.

A test worthy outcome at or not, only hope for an outcome at all.

I see everything, everything passing at a speed at which it can't be recognized or comprehended as anything at all.

Only is one unknown, a black hole.

Something that's thought alone can't be comprehended, but you know it to be there and here I sink deeper, desperately trying to find something recognizable.

Slowly I lose my perspective, unable to tell if anything I say makes any sense at all not only to others, but to me as well.

And then I'm brought back.

My grasp on reality returns to what I think to be normality, but the blur is still present.

Never to disappear, only to fade.

Only waiting to take me away once more and have my perception of the world lost once again.

- [Presenter] December 1938, about suffering, they were never wrong.

The old masters how well they understood its human position, how it takes place while someone else is eating or opening a window, or just walking duly along.

How when the aged are reverently passionately waiting for the miraculous birth.

There always must be children who did not especially want it to happen.

Skating on a pond at the edge of the woods, they never forgot.

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course.

Anyhow, in a corner, some untidy spot where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturous horse scratches its innocence behind on a tree.

In Grupel's Icarus, for instance, harvesting turns away quite leisurely from the disaster.

(jazz music) The plowman may have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, but for him, it was not an important failure.

(jazz music continues) The sun shown as it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water and the expensive, delicate ship that must have seen something amazing.

A boy falling out of the sky had somewhere to get to and sailed along.

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I'm 17 years old from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

My first memories of writing are Taylor Swift's songs.

She always told stories in her music and that really inspired me to write stories.

I would write silly little books.

Like I wrote an autobiography when I was nine and from there, I really started getting into poetry and then eventually I started writing my own songs.

But recently, I'm mostly into journalism.

Since I didn't live in a city before Philadelphia, this is where all of my memories are.

This is basically like home to me since I've been here since I was like five coming into high school and actually being in the city more full-time.

I go to Kappa so I've been learning different styles of writing and discovering what exactly I really love to write.

So Kappa is a really big influence.

I think as of today, my biggest accomplishment in my art in writing would have to be starting to do a lot more interviews with artists and my goal is to spread the stories of artists in Philly and promote them and I've started doing that.

Only one, but it is a start.

I would love to be within the music industry and also the film industry.

I really wanna be in the midst of it all.

Don't necessarily want to be a big star, but I do want to be known for my art and my writing and kindness with my photography.

But I think most of all, I just want to create.

- Hi, it's Olivia again.

For this Creator Spotlight, you'll get to know an educator who is inspiring their students to become confident and creative video producers.

They're using video production in their classrooms to involve their students in meaningful and fun projects.

I can't wait to meet them so let's get started.

- Being able to use video is such a useful skill.

Even if you don't go into the media field, it gives them a place to go after school where they can do something that's productive and I think that was something that for a while, we were really lacking because I think the science, the social studies, that's only part of what we should be doing and that's only developing part of the child, but we have to have a variety of other activities and other places where their interests can be tapped.

And when you go into a classroom and you do a project, the students can get excited about it and yeah, it's hard work, but I think they really get...

I think the students really get proud of what they see at the end and I think that's the key and I think that's really the magic to it all.

- Hello, welcome to the fourth episode of Mayfair News.

My name's Amaya-- - And my name is Zach.

We recently celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

- I went into education because I liked working with kids.

And I mean, that was, at this point, a long time ago.

And as I've been in education for longer, I think developing kids is the most exciting thing about being in education, watching them grow, watching the kids that I've worked with in second grade, and you see them in seventh and eighth grade and you see them finishing school.

Like, that's to me, kind of what keeps me in education.

- Oh, that's how you like determine if it's like-- - Yeah, so-- - I think so.

- I think it's been a really positive thing for Mayfair in addition to looking for things for kids to get engaged in and I think it attracts a wide variety of kids and I think we've had a lot of girls involved lately too, which is important.

I like to have boys and girls.

It's been, I think, very positive because the kids get to see themselves and it's really interesting.

It's like they'll see the Mayfair news and they'll be like, oh, I know where that is and I know where that is.

It's kind of like the news from where they are.

When the kids get to use the equipment for the first time, they really do get excited.

I think sometimes it's almost like they're a little bit shy to want to do too much.

It's like, no, no, you can push the buttons on it and you can focus and you try to encourage them to do something.

I mean, one thing is we got a drone this year and the kids were like in disbelief when it was like wait a minute, you're letting us fly the drone, yeah.

I think it's a very effective tool for student voice because one of the things like at the beginning of the year, I find myself start trying to motivate them for stories and I find myself feeding them stories.

And then as you move toward the middle and the end of the year, one of the things I've noticed is that the kids will come to me, hey, can we do a story about this team?

We would love to find out more about how the school works, what's in the basement of Mayfair?

Is it haunted?

The students kind of are interested in different things and it gives them an avenue to try to look at what's going on.

One of the things I've noticed and this is not just with media, but with anything that you do, sometimes you approach a lesson in one way and it will get a certain set of kids that might not have been so interested in some of the other lessons and it'll get them really engaged.

And then you switch and you're doing something a little bit different and you have another set of kids and they're really excited about it and I think the more tools that you have in your toolbox, the more ways you're going to engage the kids because I mean, really, it's our job to engage everybody.

It's a powerful tool, but technology is a great tool because it meets kids where they are.

- Thanks for watching another episode of Young Creator Studio.

I don't know about you, but those experimental films inspired me to think creatively and push the boundaries of art.

To watch more students films, go to why.org/youngcreatorstudio.

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

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