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High Schoolers Make Video for PSA Competition
You can watch and vote for a video online created by four Southampton High School students to combat distracted driving.
Four students are raising awareness about distracted driving while showcasing their talent as filmmakers.
Seniors Remy Schiffman, Collin McNamara, Nick Acquino and Christian Feinberg were recognized in a statewide competition for their distracted driving public service announcement. The students, from Maria Clinton’s 12th grade literature and film class, submitted a video highlighting the importance of human life over the futility of sending a text message.
Their PSA was selected as one of the top 30 videos out of 159 submitted videos in a contest held by New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
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The video competition had a theme of distracted driving and the group chose texting while driving because, “it is probably one of the biggest problems out of all of the distracted driving,” Collin said.
Collin, Christian, Nick and Remy took time in and out of class to create the video. Christian and Collin said they enjoyed filming while Remy said she spent her time editing the PSA on one of the two computers at the school that has advanced film-editing software.
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The students said one of the hardest parts was to keep the film under 30 seconds, which was one of the requirements for the competition. "We kept going over the time limit," Christian said. "It made it really difficult because we had to cut bits and pieces out."
Clinton’s literature and film class has been making public service announcements, music videos and documentaries for the past few years now, but this is the first year that they have entered this PSA competition and they are looking forward to support from the community.
Now that the film has been selected as one of the top 30 films in the competition the students are in the running to win $500 and have their film be in a commercial. To win they will have to receive the most “likes” on YouTube by April 30th.
To vote for this video: First, click on this link, then watch the video and click the thumbs up like button. The link also gives access to the other videos in the competition. Anyone can share the Southampton High School students’ video on Facebook, Twitter and other social media after hitting the “like” button.
