Verbal Description:

visual elements in our two-minute video

introducing VSA VT’s mentoring program

Trailer:Mentoring Program Short

Overview: main visual elements:

  • Interviews:
  • 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.

  • Toby, an adultseated for an interview, whose head is shaved except for the very top, wearing glasses, earrings and a plaid shirt. Toby is sitting inside in front of a doorway, through which

we see a window, a computer monitor and

the large curve of a round indistinct piece

of artwork on the wall.

  • Sasha, an adult seated in a red cushioned chair, interviewed in a library with round wooden tables and woodenchairs, filled bookshelves

in the background. Sasha wears a blue top with ruffles and a black sweater. She has shoulder length brown hair, on one side tucked behind

her ear.

  • Kate, a young adult seated outdoors on a green lawn, the stripes of a flag blowing gently behind her, trees in the distance. Kate has shoulder length blond hair pulled off her forehead with a barrette. She wears a blue top with pale stars and a colorful, beaded bracelet.
  • Judy, an adult seated for an interview

in the same place as Toby, in front of a doorway, etc. Judy is a woman with wispy gray hair

and glasses. She wears a pink jacket with black piping and a black blouse.

  • Artwork:
  • 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.

  • A special-effect scene that has been rounded as if seen through a thick ship’s window. A seated person with short hair wearing a blue vest over a white shirt with blue stripes, uses

a long handled paint brush to add to a brown paper mural covered with multi-colored painted swirls, hearts, leaves and abstract marks. Another person, seen from behind, wearing

a dark skirt and print blouse, stands close to

the mural, touching its surface with her hand.

  • A woman wearing a sweater turns to apply plaster casting to the foot of a young person who is seated, wearing a baseball cap.
  • Red tinting over the imagery when the text of the narrator is shown as captioning.

Sequence:

  • Interviews, artwork described above, interspersed.

Highlights:

  • Kate demonstrates the motion of knitting when she says the word.
  • A close up of colored hand prints on a brown paper mural, in bright orange, purple, green and pink,layered over one another in a circle with the finger prints spread out along the edge like the rays of a sun.
  • Nicole, holding out a finished plaster cast in her hand, smiling with pleasure.
  • A woman with cropped gray-brown hair, wearing

a name tag that says, Helen, sits smiling and

laughing with delight while talking with another

person whose hand we see held up in the center

of the screen, her hand covered in white plaster

casting, only a bit of her shoulder and chin visible

in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

  • Sasha in a library with book cases, first listening to, and then smiling and talking with a young man who wears green pipe-cleaner glasses, also smiling and talking. The young man has thick curly black hair and wears a yellow T-shirt that has been hand-lettered with the word, Vampire, in pastel colors with puffy fabric paint. Part of an empty wooden loom is visible in the background.

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