Last April my partner Shelby McLeod and I won 1st place in the Algonquin & Lakeshore Catholic District School Board 2011 World Water Day Video Contest. We filmed and edited the water Public Service Announcement (PSA) titled “Water Is A Human Right Don’t Let That Right Be Taken From You!” last year in our grade 11 Com Tech class. The importance of this video is to show people that water should not be something people have to pay for. It also tries to remind us that a lot of people in the world have a limited access to water and have to rely on collecting it from alternative and sometimes unclean sources such as puddles or rain. To film the PSA we had to find different sources of water to get our point across. We filmed in the Holy Cross cafeteria and hallways, in my house, by the pool in my back yard and numerous places downtown around city hall including, the fountain in Market Square and the Kingston harbor. The PSA was filmed with a standard tape camcorder and edited in Final Cut Pro on a Mac Desk top. It was an amazing experience because we had full control of where we filmed and the fact that we worked so well together as a team. Our goal was to do the best we could in putting our point across about water being a human right and the fact that everyone should have access to clean water, we never imagined we would win this contest. We just wanted people to understand our thoughts on the topic.
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