Video Story: Holi

Eva Frederick, Jeanette Perez, Alicia Colon-Jimenez

Story Idea

For the video project, our group is going to do a story on the UT Holi festival, which is taking place Sunday, March 30. We plan on interviewing people at the festival, as well as a representative from the UT Hindu Association. We want to provide a brief explanation of how the holiday started, and then talk about it in relation to UT. Hopefully we can shoot some video of the colorful festival without ending up with a colorful camera!

Structure

1.     Intro and context: explanation of Holi, and the story behind it

2.     Hindu Association Member interview: how/when did the Holi start at UT?

3.     Interview people at the festival for opinions, close

How the video works with the text component

This topic works well with the multimedia component of storytelling because it is such a colorful and visual event. Narration/text is needed to explain what is going on and why, but Holi is the festival of color, and it meshes perfectly with the video component. The event involves flying colored powder that will be captured in full action through video. We should be able to shoot rich B-roll of the festival and the environment. Moreover, at least one of our interviews will be with a colorful, happy participant, which will be eye-catching and perfect for this assignment.

 List at least three potential organizations/subjects to interview and why:

1. UT Hindu Students Association

            -tell us about the festival, how it started at UT, diversity
2. Someone at the Holi Festival (new and returning participants)

-first time at the festival, religion, etc
3. Someone to tell the story behind Holi