Center School students film and blog four-day Dalai Lama visit
The classroom was strewn with pizza boxes, donut containers and the occasional bottle of Jones Soda.
The students in the Center School's Film 3 class were getting a crash course in broadcast news reporting last weekend during the Dalai Lama's whirlwind "Seeds of Compassion" tour that brought thousands out to the University of Washington, KeyArena and Quest Field.
Students broke up into different groups. Some handled sound, others shot the camera and conducted interviews with "Seeds" attendees and event officials.
Center School senior Alyssa Suzumura had just returned from the university where she and fellow students Nathan Raible-Clark and Alyssa Piraino let the camera roll for two hours. Now they were busily eating pizza and editing it down into two two-minute segments: science and compassion, and the two forms of compassion, that reserved for friends and for everyone else.
"One of the main messages was that parents need to be compassionate," Suzumura said. "Parents are the best playthings for a child, the most influential."
The results of Suzumura's efforts and those of her classmates can be viewed at www.seedsofcompassion.org/youthvoice.
Suzumura's piece interweaves the audio of attendees with video of the event in which the Tibetan monk speaks with scientists about compassion takes effort among us creatures of habit.
"It's all been pretty awesome," said Suzumura who plans to study science at the University of Washington.
F3 instructor Erin Katz and KING 5 TV reporter Mimi Gan were advisors.
"Part of it was creating the media and part of it was creatiing the opportunity to give to the students," Katz said. "This was an amazing opportunity for them to have a real-world experience."
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