Arts Explorer # 10 Community Arts Project

The organization our chose to support was The Canadian Hearing Society.  We chose to support this organization because as Early Childhood Educators, we have been involved in the lives of many hearing impaired children and collectively felt that spreading the awareness of hearing impairment was an issue we wanted to address.

The Canadian Hearing Society's mission is to remove barriers to communication.  We decided to address issue by creating a carton video with mostly music and some test.

The premise of our video revolves around animals communicating to one another nonverbally to warn each other of danger that is coming.  In showcasing this idea, we want to send out the message that there should be no barriers to communication (nothing stopping people from communicating) therefore helping an organization like The Canadian Hearing Society which provides services those who are hearing impaired can help all people communicate better with one another.

We chose to create a video to promote this awareness because our world has become completely technologically advanced and the internet has become pretty much a necessity.  By shooting a video, one can only hope that it would go viral and could be shared through networking websites.  This would also allow for the video to be seen worldwide and out message to be spread all over the world.

In order actually create our video, we would need a video camera to shoot the video, once all drawings for the cartoons are completed.  Paper, pencils and markers would be needed to draw the cartoons and color them in.  Music would be needed for added effect and a video editing program would be needed to edit the video so that timing is correct between scenes.

Our video concept would consist of eight scenes for promoting this mission:

Scene 1

Fish are happily swimming about under the sea.  They swim naturally in line. They use their body movement to communicate with others.

Scene 2

            Suddenly, screen shakes and fishes scatter.  It seems they sense something will be happened.  They begin to warn each other.

Scene 3

            One fish jumps out of water very smartly and lands right outside ant hole that hear the shore.

Scene 4

            At that moment, the last ant who is close to the shore and get the message from the fish.  Then the ant uses his antennae for passing the message that he gets it from the fish.

Scene 5

            In the middle of the art line, the rabbit gets the ant message.   Right the way, the rabbit tells the other rabbit about the danger will be coming.

Scene 6

            Few minutes later, “danger will be coming” this message spread to the whole forest.
Scene 7

            Silence, no music background.
Screen shows first message:  

Scene 8

            Screen shows the second message:

                                      The message is from The Canadian Hearing Society


We have created a take away for the audience, with our little slogan.

I believe this idea will be popular in all the ECE center because it can also be transformed in to real life as people can act out the roles of animals to form a larger production.

For reviewing our presentation, I suggest the stakehoulders part should be presented by the PowerPoint.  Also, making a video is more attractive than role play.