***WEB PREMIERE 2007***

WELCOME TO THE WORLD PREMIERE BLOG-CAST!
Nearly 50 people attended the world premier of Real Reality TV Summer 2007 at SPNN August 24th. Real Reality TV is a class offered through St. Paul Connections and SPNN for high school students. Welcome to the first simultaneous vlog and web premiere to happen along with an SPNN class. Below are three documentaries selected, researched, developed, shot and edited by youth during three weeks. Watch, read... and give your comments and be apart of the production.

"Censored Rap Music" -click play below


"Gothic Subculture" -click play below


"Places for Teens" -click play below

WORLD PREMIERE COMING SOON

You are invited by the filmmakers to be apart of the premeire.

Presented by SPNN and St. Paul Connections
August 24th 11am @ SPNN

***BEHIND-THE-SCENES*** -trailer

Tell Your Friends! Coming August 24th 2007!


Interview photos with Hamline Law Professor Robin Magee on Censored Rap music. The crew prepared so many interviews, that today they had to break into teams for interviews and editing.

EDITING, EDITING & EDITING

Now is the time crews hunker down and cut up the footage, find the music and begin to make a whole out of the pieces. Crews worked hard today building their movies. Editors had it pretty easy until today. The rough cut is due in a day and the motivation of a deadline is in the air.


During a break editors kept working. The rest of the crew shot a PSA to post on the Internet. The premiere of these three documentaries is on Friday Aug. 24th 2007.

STREET INTERVIEWS & EXPERTS

Teen Spaces group interviewed Marnie K. Wells with the St. Paul Mayor, Chris Coleman's, Parks and Recreation Department. Interviewer Audsha asked the tough questions to Ms. Wells to get her response to Mayor Coleman's proposed budget cut of Park and Rec. Centers while hiring more St. Paul Police officers.

Gothic Subculture group invited Pastor Bonnie Wilcox in for an interview. Pastor Wilcox responsed to a website claming God hates Gothics and provided her perspective on the role of Christianity and Gothic Subculture. Pastor Wilcox is unaffiliated with the website.

Censored Rap Music crew got down to business and edited interviews with rappers, radio stations, and folks on the streets. This weekend the crew prepares to cover the YO Hip Hop event at First Ave.

Project Updates!

Rap Censorship Update

Interviews with the the fly DJ's at B96 kicked off our project right! Tomorrow we will be interviewing a local rapper and next week we have plans to talk with the Urban League. We are trying to get press passes from Yo! The Movement who is sponsoring a crazy hip-hop event this weekend. We are learning the whole process is a lot more complicated then we thought, but it's fun!


This is us at B96 with Miss Shannon and Danni Starr.

Gothic Subculture
We took to the streets and the got some good opinions on the Goth culture. However, we seem to be having some trouble finding people who will talk about the issue on camera. Right now, we are just waiting for people to call us back.

Teen Spaces
Today we interviewed Patricia from the Search Institute. Next week we are headed to a youth center and taking to the streets to find out what kids really think!


Us with Patricia!

SNEAK PREVIEWS

"Why Does Gothic Subculture Get a Bad Rap in the Media?"


"Do Urban Communities Appreciate Censored Rap Music?"

***IN THE SHOT***

Because getting in the shot is important. Folks gotta know who's behind the camera...

RESEARCH & SETTING UP INTERVIEWS

Crews worked hard to research their topics and indentify community experts. Crews hit the phones to set up interviews and learned that persistancy is needed to get through phone selection menus, receptionists, commissions, program divisions and web sites to find the right people, the available people and the folks who know what they are talking about. Then and only then, can the crew set up an interview and begin to define shots and interview questions. Documentary video making is hard work!

Real Reality TV crews are passing the test. Look out community and experts, because this is where you are apart of production and your voice matters.

REASEARCH & INTERVIEWS

Behind-the-scenes footage was shoot today after crews researched their topics and learned about the foundation of successful interviewing.

Directors practiced guiding crews through design, set up, shooting, breakdown and feedback. Crews practiced on both sides of the camera while answering questions about why they are in the class and what they are beginning to discover while researching their topics.

It's clear there's a lot of work to be done when creating a documentary. The three crews of Real Reality TV are tackling the jobs of learning equipment, learning about each other and connecting with the world outside to make their documentaries dynamic and meaningful.

CREW WORK-DEVELOPMENT

3 Documentary Topics

Emerging out of dynamic conversations about communities, identities and media three documentary topics became Real Reality TV's production projects for the summer of 2007.

• "Why does Gothic Subculture get a bad rap?"
• "Do Urban communities appreciate censored Rap music?"
• "What is the time and place for teenage entertainment?"

Groups of 4-5 students met and identified a director, cinematographer, audio mixer, interviewer and editor. After this the crews worked hard, digging deeper and defining the main issues behind each of their documentary topics.

IN THE BEGINNING...

August 6th 2007, fourteen St. Paul youth began a journey into documentary filmmaking, storytelling and critical ideas about truth and reality on T.V.

The concept:
3 weeks
3 documentaries
2 documentary filmmakers
14 young people with a whole lot of opinions, energy and leadership
and a chance to create their own documentary videos.

St. Paul Neighborhood Network and the Connections Program are offering "Real Reality T.V." with documentary filmmakers Jenny Hanson and Joanna Kohler to St. Paul high school students. The project is putting professional cameras into the hands of youth to see what happens when they produce, direct and edit their own documentaries.