Sheeda The Angel

I am still in my dream of Ghana so I want you to be with me to share my dream for the time being. In the last term, JHS-2 (currently JHS-3) students worked on making video, which is the final destination of my activities and helped us make the film “Walk Together”, and their performances were very good in making video. And the current JHS-2 class tried the same job in this term, however since the academic performance of this class was pretty low, I’d been worried about their performance. And there’re some students who misbehaved in everyday life like cheating, stealing, braking school rules, so as a result 11 students (out of 18) could participate in making video in this term. Firstly students must pass the 50-Computer Terminology exam at the beginning of term to join my class, otherwise they have to continue to work on it until they pass it. This is my rule. Then students must behave properly in everyday life, following school rules because school is a place to learn right behavior in real society. This is education. Lastly students can harvest fruits of pleasure; “No pain, no gain”, without your efforts and decency, you wouldn’t be able to get anything in life.

And in the process of making video, there are 3 steps done by students: planning, shooting and editing. In the first step, students must discuss about contents of video such as story, action, location, actors, caption etc. and bring all the ideas to me. And the second step, shooting, is the most enjoyable for most students, except those who can’t memorize lines and act well. And in the last phase, students complete video by editing original clips, however there are a couple of students living in daydream with fairies in this class, who don’t need to play with such a metaphysical matter, so those students couldn’t handle the first and third steps, strictly speaking they didn’t “make video” but just “acted”; as a matter of fact, only 2 students could understand how to edit video, so we should’ve relied on the leaders. Making video is not such an easy job for some students.

And one of the leaders, called Sheeda, brought a story that first of all “dance”, then “dance”, and lastly “dance”. Well, I understand that it’s not easy for them to bring a story, but it’s not good enough to work on it, because they should be aware of feeling of audience. Even if actors and dancers enjoy it, if audience can’t enjoy it, it’s meaningless. Therefore I had to give them some ideas to make it interesting, which is a kind of cheating as a teacher, though. Based on their idea, I advised to add some trick to enhance fun. When some problem happens, an angel suddenly appears and gives a candy and starts dancing. And other people also follow her dancing, and when the angel thinks enough, she disappears and the problems are solved. It’s a magical fantasy of daydream. And fortunately some of members, Rafiatu, Amoabil, and Moidib, who can’t understand editing video, are daydreamers and the leader “Sheeda The Angel” is very good at computer and has her devotion. Thanks to the efforts of students and help of fairies, they could create an interesting original video. I think you can enjoy it, please take a look! “Show People for Fun”: http://youtu.be/iFWw83AAPKs

By the way, in Ghana, at least in our school, there is neither an event nor album for graduation; students keep memories of school days only in their mind. Ghanaians may have different mentality for such a thing, but I feel a little bit sad for the situation, so I make a graduation video for JHS-3 students. And I always carry a camera with me and take photos and videos for graduation video whenever I have a chance. There’re lots of cute and adorable scenes in the graduation videos that you would enjoyJ Anyway I also uploaded the videos on YouTube, so why don’t you give it a try!!

  

<< Graduation Video >>

A Seed of Tampopo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_LVnBDyWWM

Collaborate The all action Together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoKQC0-Mjfc

Live and Let Live:
http://youtu.be/NPXDyAJp3aE

 

<< Students' Video >>

 A friend in need is a friend indeed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q08EPSKAHCY

Peace as Deaf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7lfo80SIbA

Patience:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEMGF9AUdGk

Show Dance Azonto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0aZ2Vsdfw

 Show People For Fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWw83AAPKs
 

<< School Demo Video >>

 

Savelugu School For the Deaf Demo2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d2f_TmxyJQ