Wash. Your. Hands. - ID# 460

West Chicago

Division: AA

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Entry Description

There's nothing sicker than skipping something so simple. Please, for all of us, wash those hands, high school students!

Recent Teacher Comments

• 3/8 4:03 pm - STRENGTHS - Really nice job of showing a story without dialog. Good composition and shots overall. The message is clear. Excellent concept! QUESTIONS / SUGGESTIONS - Only 50% of how many high school students? All of them? Or only at your school? Add a citation add the bottom of the screen.
• 3/8 11:25 am - I like to idea/concept. The green on the hands is a good way to show the germs or nastiness on them and how it can then go from person to person. I don't understand the ending. Is she blowing her nose? Why is she surprised that she is all alone in the room? Why is she alone? The sound effect at the end, is it s buzzer or the sink?

Judge 1

Positives: You had a good variety of camera shots and angles. Good job on making the message clear.

Improvements: You stayed on some shots a bit too long. We don't need to see her closing the door behind her, just move on to the next shot. Use some extreme close ups of her fingers putting food in her mouth. Even some extreme close ups of her licking the dorritos cheese off of her fingers would be effective mixed in with shots of her friends with their eyes wide and mouths gaping. I didn't understand why she was in class alone at the end. Is it because she didn't wash her hands so now her classmates are all out of school because they're sick?

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Judge 3

Positives: I liked the device of the green smudges to show vectors of infection. Nice natural performances. The music sounds like the score to the film Halloween, which gives the piece some humor.

Improvements: I followed the flow of most of the narrative, but why was the room empty at the end? Was everyone out sick? Dead? The girl wasn't obviously sick, so I didn't make the connection. Maybe if you showed all of the people looking at the green on their hands and realizing what had happened? Some sfx might have helped things along.

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