Behind-The-Scenes #17 - Shooting Video!

Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at what it take to make a video. Here, they're shooting video for the Dialogue project. Don't they look professional?!

Video: Dialogues (Syracuse Scholars)

Here's the Dialogues video for the Syracuse Scholars. Aren't they great?!

Video: Dialogues (NYU Scholars)

For our third video of the program, we stayed focused on college and careers, but added dialogues as well. In these videos, we added a sound person (those air conditioners can be really loud) and we had TWO actors working together.

The students will tell you that it's not easy to remember what to do and when to do it. We had a least two takes for each scene. And that's nothing compared to Hollywood! This is our NYU Scholars and their awesome video!!

Video: "When I Grow Up..." (NYU Scholars)

For the second video, the NYU Scholars focused on college and careers. Aren't they getting good at this?!

Video: "Why I Want To Go To College, Part II" (Syracuse Scholars)

Part II of the Syracuse Scholars second video!

Video: "Why I Want To Go To College, Part I" (Syracuse Scholars)

For our second video, we talked about the main focus of the "Volar" summer program - careers and college! The Syracuse Scholars filmed each other talking about why they want to go to college. Listen to some of these excellent answers!!

Why do you think it's important to go to college? Write something in the comments below.

Field Trip! New York Hall of Science!!

For our first field trip, we headed out to the New York Hall of Science. It was a really hot day, as you can see, it didn't stop the students from playing in their

Click on New York Hall of Science to learn more about this great institution! And try to go back again to see the things we missed!!

Before you do that, though, look at the photos of these great students at a fun science museum.