Dig Deeper Activity Descriptions
Dig Deeper Video Editing Room
Overview
Are you a budding Steven Spielberg? Pull up your director's chair and find out as you edit together a video about attitudes towards smoking. A team of cameramen have been pouring all over campus and gathering footage of teens. This is no scripted soap opera: these are real people, with real words expressing how they feel about all the pressures in their life.
Meet Chelsea, a skateboarding dare-devil who meets all her risks head on. Eduardo says he's tough, but is he tough enough to avoid getting hooked on cigarettes? Theresa looks like a Hollywood starlet, with real Hollywood attitudes on smoking. And Charles has the big picture in mind--and in this picture, smoking's nothing compared to other teen pressures like violence and drugs.
 What can you say back to these teens? A video is worth a thousand words ... and a video made up of the right words and scenes, picked out from the footage shot around campus, can send the right message back to them using their own words.
Our editor will walk you through the controls of our state-of-the-art Dig Deeper video editing machine, and show you how to cut and then connect together clips from our footage. String together a series of short quotes, or show a longer scene to develop your ideas. The possibilities are endless, and your finished video will be featured on our Dig Deeper website. Your unique short film will find its way to teens everywhere! We have a blockbuster on our hands!
Students build skills of debate and making a point while discovering four underlying attitudes and beliefs that could lead some teens to smoke. The student becomes increasingly familiar with the task of editing a video as s/he works. Social factors influencing tobacco use are exposed.
Learning Objectives
- This activity will help students recognize the social factors that influence the use of tobacco and expose the motivations of tobacco companies.
- But beyond a cognitive understanding of these factors, our goal is to model a way of thinking and talking about smoking and other health-related decisions.
- Not all of the interactions between our characters results in a firm decision to forever avoid tobacco; however, we do expect that exposure to this activity will help students reflect on their own choices and discuss their decisions with others.
- Student will be able to identify attitudes and beliefs that may underlie teenagers' decision to start using tobacco products.
- Students will be able to select statements that challenge those attitudes, and thereby help them to develop new reasons, or reinforce existing reasons to avoid tobacco.
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