Youth Action Committee

The Youth Action Committee (YAC) is a diverse group of youth active in youth media programs at SPNN or alumni of SPNN Youth programs. The purpose of the committee is to:

1. Ensure a youth voice at SPNN

2. Increase youth involvement and opportunities at SPNN

3. Develop youth leaders

4. Raise awareness of youth media in festivals, online, and in the community. 

5. Raise awareness of broader youth media and community issues 

If you are a youth or know a youth who has been a part of SPNN before that would be interested in joining the Youth Action Committee, please contact Joua Lee. 

 

 

Most Recent YAC Meeting Minutes:

 

YAC MEETING – February 21, 2012

Present: Ari, Nicola, Darartu, Destiny, Sammie, TT, Damian, Kyle, Joua, Darwesh

Ice breaker: Change 1 thing

Discussion: Youth Space
            Media Lab: Put food cabinet near entryway where seats are.
                               Moving board to a more central location.
                               Moving computers to an “L” shape.
            Small Studio: Once cameras are moved out, get been bags and small 1-seater futons.

Announcements
            Video Poetry Class: Spring break, 1-5pm
            TCYMN Summit Planning Team: Sammie, Ari, Kyle, Damian, TT,

Project Work:
            Continue pre-production for Connections & SOL Workshop Promo videos

For Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 28^th

Food: Subway
            Filming as soon as done eating

Promos: SOL Workshop Group
           Someone bored walking through skyway, sees a sign “Fun this way”,
           opens door to media lab, sees animation, opens another, sees poetry,
           opens another, sees short film, opens another, sees a PSA.

 

 

YAC Meeting – Tuesday, February 7^th, 2012

Check-ins: Sammie, Destiny, Michelle, Joua, Mikael, Damian, Darwesh, Andrew, Kyle, Darartu, Kevin, Nicola

Announcements:

TCYMN Screening: This Saturday, February 11^th, 1pm. Be at SPNN at 12pm for a ride.
TCYMN Summit: The summit will be on Saturday, May 12^th, who wants to join the planning committee?  -- Sammie is interested
Promo for Master Control: Promos have been images in the past, Taj & Michelle want to put faces on the screen. Who is interested? – Destiny, Kyle, Andrew, Mikael.

PROMO VIDEOS:

Video Poetry Connections Classes –

• Footage: Clips from last video poetry class
• Skit, Motivational, Informational inside promo, Sharing poetry, A lot of B-roll and voice-over, Footage of YAC members putting together a video poem

• People who might be interested: Writers, musicians, curious people
• Video: B-roll of everyone putting together a video poetry and voice-over of information.  – Sammie, Andrew & Damian
• Ideas: Text, music, images. Simple but informative. Someone performing a piece about the poetry class.

SOL Workshops

• Footage:Speak to viewers: “Do you want to…? Get up! Sign up today!”
• Main character morphing through different formats: First does poetry, then becomes an image moving through stop-motion, short film &PSA.

• On-Screen: Kyle
• Stop-motion portion: Destiny
• Rest of group: Darartu, Darwesh, Mikael

Ideas:

• Montage of all types of video
• Each type of video feeding into another. Example: Someone performing poetry, putting down pencil, pencil moving around, writing a PSA, etc. Keep people guessing until the end.
• A person doing poetry in animation, later pops out into real life and performs poetry, person gets sucked into a dramatic scene, scene stops and person gives a PSA.
• A person driving and seeing billboards with messages
• Someone bored walking through skyway, sees a sign “Fun this way”, opens door to media lab, sees animation, opens another, sees poetry, opens another, sees short film, opens another, sees a PSA.

 

 

YAC Meeting – January 24^th, 2012

Present: Joua, Destiny, Sammie, Michelle, Darartu, Darwesh, Kyle, Andrew, TT, Damian, Mikael

Announcements:

• Outreach & Distribution Assistant application due today

Visibility Projects:

•  Vlogs: post to Facebook
• Facebook: how would YAC like to get involved with the FB page?

1.     “Like” the SPNN Youth & SPNN
2.     “Share” and “Like” stuff on the SPNN Youth page
3.     “Checking in” at SPNN while here

•  Twitter: one person updating twitter constantly at YAC meetings

How Facebook Operates:

•  Time: More recent posts will show up
•  Affinity: the more often you interact with a person/page on facebook, the more often their posts show up on your feed
•   Interactions: The more people who like or comment on a post, the more likely it will show up on the news feed

Larger Goals:

• Watch videos
• See what we’re doing besides making videos
• Get more people to sign up for programs

Tactics:

• Video contest
• Giveaways
• Posting Vlogs
• Posting resources
•  Checking in @ SPNN

Specific Goals

• Everyone should “Like” the SPNN Youth page.

• Interact w/ page once each time we are here (for anything)

• “Like”, Post photos, tagetc.

For next time:

• Promo for SOL Workshops & Video Poetry Connections Class

 

 

YAC Meeting 01/10/2012

Present: Kyle, Andrew, Damian, TT, Michelle, Darwesh, Destiny, Darartu, Joua, Kevin

Check-In!

Announcements:

            Michelle is looking for an assistant. Peer Mentor Apps available.

TCYMN Showcase Curatorial Session

            Reviewed youth videos from Perpich

 

 

YAC Meeting Minutes 11/29/2011

Checkin

 Announcements:

 Youth Media Market Debrief:

• Natalia: cool exhibits, fun interactive piece
• Damian: watched a 21 minute-long video of a burger king cup cap?
• Breon: watched BK video. Showed work to professionals and got suggestions on how to do it differently next time.

 MTN Budget Cuts – How do we address this?

• PSA
• Silent film

 PSA Idea brainstorm:

• Not sad & cheesy like Sarah McLauclin videos about homeless dogs
• Studio shoot – suddenly lights start shutting down, dark, emphasize the unwanted & unexpected shut-down of MTN
• Catchy jingle
• Yelling the whole time to keep attention
• “Budget Cuts” written large on screen after fade-out.

 PSA Outline:

VISUAL	SOUND
Studio staff is setting up studio	Count-down to recording: “5, 4, 3, 2, 1”
See camera people in studio shooting anchor-person	Upbeat music
Lights and camera shut down suddenly, only light left is on anchor-person	Music fades. Sound of lights clicking off loudly
Camera people walk off	Silence
Anchor-person looks confused	Asking questions in confusion
Final light turns off, darkness	Silence
One light comes on, shining on a new person who explains the situation.	Person talks about: -         What MTN is -         Budget cut issue -         How to help
Fade-out	Silence
Info screen: MTN’s contact info	Silence or soft music
Info Screen: Brought to you by YAC at SPNN	Silence or soft music

 

YAC Meeting 11/8/11

 

Present: Andrew, Darartu, Nicola, Sami, Damian, Kyle, Michelle, Kevin, Darwesh, Joua

Check-in: Rose, thorn, bud

Announcements:

Youth Media Market hosted at Walker Arts Center, Saturday, Nov.

                        Held by TCYMN

                        Sample of work can be workshopped by professional media-makers

                       Meet up at SPNN at 12:30pm to get ride to Walker

                       Individuals interested in going & Showing work: Breon, Sammie, Damian, Kyle

Miss Representation: documentary about women in media

                        Wednesday, November 9, 7pm at Metro State University

 

What is YAC?

Andrew: YAC is a place where youth can voice their ideas and concerns to the youth department and SPNN as a whole. A lot of the ideas he saw on paper a long time ago is a reality now.

Sami: YAC is a place to say what you feel and make videos to be known. Also do activities like the youth summit.

Nicola: youth voices are important to SPNN and to the community

 

YAC Projects

Self Promotion

                       Create an outreach schedule (2x a year: YAC updates fliers and puts them up. 1x a year: new video promos)

                       Better promotion of screenings

                       Cool/funny YAC/SPNN Youth commercial

                       Redesign SPNN Youth logo

                       Youth Open House/Networking event

                       SPNN Youth Giveaway: pins, tattoos, snap bracelets

Increasing Knowledge

                       Bring experienced media makers to SPNN to talk about their/our work

                       Field trips to other media places

                       Partner with other SPNN departments

Branching Out – Bigger Picture

                        YAC presentation to SPNN Board

                        Attend AMC Conference

                        Youth presence @ conferences & community media events

External Outreach & Collaboration

                        SPNN in schools

                        Flash mob

                        YAC-led workshops

Social Networking

                        Social Media strategy

                        Documenting our work

                        Weekly/monthly video blogs

                        Daily tweet

                        Youth vlog/ update integrated into monthly newsletter

 

Characteristics we want for our logo:

                       Silhouette of a cameraperson & camera (mural)

                       Colorful

                       Young & hip

                       Cool font

                       Ideas: creativity, empowerment,

                       More white & black added to colorful “SPNN” part, or add more baby blue

                       *same style as SPNN Youth mural, but just change the text to match to current SPNN logo

                       Large text w/ images inside letters

 

Feedback about meeting:

                       People shouldn’t be shy to talk 2

                       Pizza Luce next time / Chinese food one of these days

                       Liked coming up with visibility goals – they seem doable

                       Next meeting: get started with some visibility projects.

 

 

YAC Meeting 10/25/2011

Present: Destiny, Breon, Darartu, Kevin, Joua

Game of Ninja – Master Ninja is Joua!

Reflections of Showboat Event:

            Destiny: favorite part of the showboat was the food and talking to people

            Breon: favorite part was the food and getting to hang out and meet to new people towards the end.

            Joua: favorite part was the youth booth and Breon’s speech

Making October Highlights video with iMovie

            Notes: the project was started and saved but disappeared as a file. Michelle had to start from scratch on Final Cut.