Video Workshops and Artist Interviews
Workshops to be conducted in the class of Mr. D.J. Ashford, Studio Art Teacher.
Room A-1, Burnett Middle School, 850 North 2nd Street, San Jose, CA
What interested you about participating in the Japantown Mural Project?
What was your inspiration for your mural design?
Can you share your creative process and the media that you used?
What was the most challenging part of creating this piece?
What is your advice for young people exploring art as a career?
(students will brainstorm additional key questions to ask)
October 15th: James William Moore (1:30-2:30) & Michael Foley (2:30-3:30)
October 18th: Yurika Chiba (1:30-2:30) & Ronald Y. Nakasone (2:30-3:30)
October 19th: Curt Fukuda (1:30-2:30)
October 24th: Francisco Franco (1:30-2:30)
October 25th: Kathleen Elliot (1:30-2:30)
November 1st: Artifact video/Corinne Takara with Sonoma State Anthropological Studies Center loan of Heinlenville artifacts (1:30-2:30)
November 2nd: Emo Gonzales (1:30-2:30)
November 7th: Michele Guieu (1:20-2:30) & Juan Carlos Araujo (2:30-3:30)
November 8th: April Gee (2:30-3:30)
November 9th: Lacey Bryant (1:30-2:30)
Students reflect on the process:
Room A-1, Burnett Middle School, 850 North 2nd Street, San Jose, CA
- Prep: Select your mural artist to interview. Frame your interview: Who is the audience? What do you want audience to know? Craft your guiding questions. Familiarize yourself with your artist's mural. You can see it on the Japantown Mural Project website. Final edited videos are to be 5 minutes long.
- Location: Video interviews will be conducted at Burnett Middle School during the school day in October and November 2012. The time slots are either 1:30-2:30 or 2:30-3:30. Dates will be coordinated via a google spreadsheet:
- Sample questions to ask the mural artists (think of some of your own):
What interested you about participating in the Japantown Mural Project?
What was your inspiration for your mural design?
Can you share your creative process and the media that you used?
What was the most challenging part of creating this piece?
What is your advice for young people exploring art as a career?
(students will brainstorm additional key questions to ask)
- Editing: adding titles, music, still images, and credits. Review of Creative Commons licensing. We will be sharing with the interviewed artists to give them an opportunity to make reasonable edit requests. Tamiko Rast of Rasteriods Design will review final videos for approval and inclusion into the Japantown Mural Project website. Rushton Hurley of Next Vista for Learning will review videos for inclusion into the Next Vista online video library.
- Final videos will be featured on www.nextvista.org as well as on the Rasteriods Japantown Mural Project Website ( as embedded videos from the Next Vista site)
October 15th: James William Moore (1:30-2:30) & Michael Foley (2:30-3:30)
October 18th: Yurika Chiba (1:30-2:30) & Ronald Y. Nakasone (2:30-3:30)
October 19th: Curt Fukuda (1:30-2:30)
October 24th: Francisco Franco (1:30-2:30)
October 25th: Kathleen Elliot (1:30-2:30)
November 1st: Artifact video/Corinne Takara with Sonoma State Anthropological Studies Center loan of Heinlenville artifacts (1:30-2:30)
November 2nd: Emo Gonzales (1:30-2:30)
November 7th: Michele Guieu (1:20-2:30) & Juan Carlos Araujo (2:30-3:30)
November 8th: April Gee (2:30-3:30)
November 9th: Lacey Bryant (1:30-2:30)
Students reflect on the process: