Verbal Description:

visual elements in our one-minute video

introducing VSA VT’s mentoring program

Focus on Nicole: Meet a Mentor!

Overview: main visual elements:

  • Nicole: an adult, seated for an interview in a home living room type setting, dressed casually in a green

t-shirt with purple abstract designs of dancing figures. Nicole is adult with glasses and dark brown hair pulled back from her face. She is seated in front of a sunlit window with a blue patterned drape on a yellow wall with a wooden desk and the edge of a bookcase at the back right of the scene. There are three pieces of artwork on the wall which are not in fine focus

for this scene. On the desk are 2 plants, a desk lamp and a radio.

  • Scenes of art-makingin various genres including plaster casting of Nicole’s hand and wrist, a table full of oil pastel crayons loose and in trays, a yogurt container full of paint brushes and bottles of various colored paints.
  • Red tinting over the imagery when the text ofthe narrator is shown as captioning.

Sequence:

  • The film begins and ends with Nicole, interviewed in the home setting.
  • In between are various scenes of artmaking described in highlights, below.

Highlights:

  • A close-up of Nicole, resting her chin on her hand, smiling with warmth and engagement at someone off screen. Soon we see that her hand is being plastered with a brushin a sculpting exercise.
  • A circular panning of a table with oil pastel crayons, some loose on the table, some in trays,

a yogurt container full of paintbrushes and

several bottles of paints. The scene opens up

to a quick view of a group of adults working

together on a mural.

  • Nicole, seated, raising her arms, fists held high,

and smiling.

  • An overhead view of brightly colored

painted hearts.

  • Nicole standing with another woman with dark brown hair swept back from her face, wearing a name tag that says, Lisa, on her dark blue t-shirt,

in front of a floor fan where Lisa is helping Nicole hold her hand and wrist, covered in a plaster mold, in front of the fan to dry.

Nicole wears a teal colored t-shirt and a name tag that partly covers some lettering. We see only the word “Adventure” on her t-shirt. She and Lisa are standing ina large room with wooden floors, tall windows, an open French door, a brick fire place, a table and chairs in the back, and stacks of molded plastic chairs against the wall. One chair holds an open easel with lettering that is indistinct from the distance of the camera.

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