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Published: January 18, 2009 12:11 am
COMPETITION: Promoting character
Wilson senior Shaun Paduano creates video for national contest
By Joe Olenick E-mail Joe
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
BY JOE OLENICK
joe.olenick@lockportjournal.com
WILSON — Shaun Paduano has an idea of how character counts.
Paduano, a senior at Wilson High School, is a finalist in a national video contest for Character Counts. In the contest, students had to create a video centered around one of the “six pillars of character,” which according to Character Counts, include trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Paduano said he wasn’t very interested in the contest at first.
“Until I had an idea,” he said.
Paduano’s idea was to create a video based on trustworthiness. In the two-minute video, the story follows a group of kids who are giving away keys carelessly to anyone. Some of the people who receive the keys go and unlock different things they shouldn’t be opening, such as doors and chests. One person doesn’t, and in fact, keeps the keys to herself.
“It’s symbolism,” Paduano said. “The keys are secrets and people are just giving them away. But one person keeps them safe, and they’re trustworthy.”
Paduano didn’t just come up with the key idea for the video, he wrote the script, directed, filmed and edited the whole thing. He also wrote the music, which plays the entire two minutes the video runs. Paduano is also the only student from New York state in the finals.
Paduano’s media arts teacher, Lynn Bewley, said the contest was replacing a media literacy event at Niagara University as the class’ main focus. The event was canceled this year, but she received information about the Character Counts organization’s video contest. The contest had a $500 grand prize and it was a national competition, which Bewley liked.
“It was a good opportunity,” Bewley said. “The kids were totally on board.”
Character Counts received nearly 300 videos from all over the country, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Portugal. There are separate competitions for elementary school students and secondary school students. About 10 percent of the videos were chosen to be finalists. Now the public will be able to weigh in. The videos are graded from A (the best) to C and the input will have a big impact on the winners. Character Counts will then choose the top three videos. The major factors the organization bases its decision on is how clear and powerful the message of the video is, creativity and originality in promoting one of the character pillars and overall quality of the video.
Bewley said people have to be fair in their voting, as Character Counts is asking people to grade each of the finalists’ videos. Votes with only one grade, or votes in which only one video gets an A grade, are thrown out. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m., Feb. 15.
Making videos and media arts aren’t the only creative thing Paduano is involved in. He is also involved with show choir, musicals, yearbook staff, school newspaper staff and is the president of the drama club. Paduano said his interest in media arts began many years ago.
“It started really when I was young, I wanted to be a video game designer,” Paduano said. “I took this class and I really liked it.”
To help Paduano’s cause, the Wilson School District has a link to the voting site on its Web site, www.
wilson.wnyric.org. Bewley also put a link on the her Web site for the class:
imaginedigital.org.
Contact reporter Joe Olenick
at 439-9222, ext. 6241.
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