Media students earn a trip to Boston with a street-smarts video
Cole Bouchard, Aaron Charest, Leandro Belicio, Trent Barboza and Max Forges show off their awards with their teacher Robert Perrotti. Source: Robert Perrotti
Cole Bouchard, Aaron Charest, Leandro Belicio, Trent Barboza and Max Forges show off their awards with their teacher Robert Perrotti. Source: Robert Perrotti
Five Dartmouth High School students recently won first place in the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s annual Safe Streets Smart Trips High School Video Contest.
Creating a minute long video about crosswalk safety and how to properly cross a street, the students created an award-winning film.
Junior Cole Bouchard said they took a “seriously unserious” approach to the project, inserting mini jokes and taking a comedic approach as they created their video.
Media teacher Robert Perrotti said that the entire class was invovled in the project, which made it a “class effort, in a way.”
“We actually had complete cooperation from almost everybody in the groups, that was very, very nice and impressive to me,” Bouchard said.
In the video, Coach P, played by Perrotti, teaches his students how to properly cross a sidewalk. He directs them to stay within a crosswalk’s lines and what they should do before stepping out on to the street.
Bouchard said there were some hiccups in the filming process, with weather often coming into play.
“Of course the one day we want to go film this the weather was just not it,” he said.
Regardless, it took the group about three weeks to shoot the film, edit the content and submit the project to the contest.
Perrotti noted that it was also an additional project the stdents chose to create, having already completed the assignment for class.
“This one kind of went over the top,” Aaron Charest said.
Placing in the video contest, this project brought the media students to Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s annual conference where they watched videos created by students at other schools, enjoyed meals and learned they won the grand prize in their category.
“Seeing the videos, I really do think we deserved first, and I felt that we really earned that win as a class and a group,” Bouchard said.
The video will appear as a commercial on the dhstvmedia YoutTube channel, on Dartmouth Community Media and on the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s website.
