CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO. Hey Guys. The past couple of weeks I've been playing catch-up on emails, deadlines, etc. There is so much video footage that needs uploading, I can't even begin explaining...
Here's a recent piece I produced for
Rocketboom. (Yep, I did a previous piece on
Current TV where the sound was awful - still trying to clean that one up, live and learn I suppose. The clean version will be up in the very near future.) In this piece, after releasing my inner goofball, I had a chat with Amy Hattemer, a student who took part in an experimental documentary film called
Chain Camera. In it, High School students were given video cameras and asked to record their lives in and out of school.
Kirby Dick did a great job compiling and directing this film and I think it gives us a pretty good look into H.S. life in America. Ah, High School - those were the days... well, maybe not. :)
Some random facts on teens (granted, these are a bit dated):-Nationally, more than half of teenagers are virgins until they are at least 17 years of age (Sex and America's Teenagers, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York, 1994).
-The percent of students reporting street gang presence at school nearly doubled between 1989 and 1995, increasing from 15.3% to 28.4%. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice)
-Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before high school graduation.
(Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People, U.S. Surgeon General Report, 1994)
-Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 38.5 (American Family Research Council, "Parents Fight ‘Time Famine' as Economic Pressures Increase," 1990.)
