Public voting for the Better Business Bureau (BBB) video competition will close on January 25 and will move on to BBB judges. Until then, the public is responsible for voting on the student made videos.
“I think the kids have an excellent shot to win, because they took the time to write a decent script,” EagleVision Sponsor Neda Morrow said. “They followed all the perimeters that were set up by the Better Business Bureau of what they wanted in their film and they did a good job of editing”
Sophomore Jeremiah Hernandez directed the video with sophomores Abigail Halme, Jaden Aragon and junior Tifani Kocsak. All members of the crew are new staff members, having only been in EagleVision for one year.
“This is a big deal for the new students to be able to become part of EagleVision by doing this project,” Morrow said. “The best way for us to fundraise is to enter film contests, and that’s what the new kids that come into the program do.”
Students were required to make a 60 second video that displayed one of the eight qualities of trust that the BBB defines as: build trust, advertise honestly, tell the truth, be transparent, honor promises, be responsive, safeguard privacy, embody integrity. Participants had to submit their videos by 9 a.m. Dec. 20.
“The hardest part was choosing from all the ideas we had, because all of them are really good ideas, but we had to choose only one,” Hernandez said. “I think we are going to win because compared to the other videos, ours is just better quality, the acting in it is just better overall.”
The podium prizes are $2,000 for the school and $500 for the students for first place, $1,000 for the school and $250 for the students for second place, $500 for the school and $100 for the students for third place. The last two years the Eaglevision teams have won first place.
“I thought it would be fun and I wanted extra cash,” Halme said. “I don’t think we’re gonna get first, but I think we could get a podium.”
The student led team was responsible for the entire production process. This includes the acting, filming, editing and more.
“My favorite parts were filming it, like getting to see how it really played out,” Kocsak said. “My least favorite part was the editing and making sure that all the audio was level and making sure that it lined up with the correct video.”
Community members can vote by searching up the BBB YouTube page and liking the most recent video entitled “Lindale High School.” The amount of likes that the video has will go towards its final ranking.
“This is very important to the students, because they’re building up, you know, they’re doing their own fundraising,” Morrow said. “We just need everybody to go to that link that we have on social media and click the like button.”
