Real World and Service Learning Clients
Nothing provides a richer learning experience than creating a project for a real world client with tangible needs. IU Media School MS Documentary/nonfiction students can take on a project for T576, T584, or as part of their capstone body of work. P354/J560 students can create animated PSAs and informational videos.
Check out the organizations below for opportunities.
If you take on a client video, it's important that you:
- Proactively communicate with the organization, and copy your instructor on key emails (starting project and concluding it).
- Communicate with your instructor, Jim Krause, who will do whatever he can to help you produce a successful project.
- Give time to refine and revise the project. When a first draft is complete, send a copy to your client organization for approval and make whatever changes they request.
- In your reflection or summary critique, please add a few paragraphs about what you learned about the organization and how you changed or grew from working on the project.
Client organizations in need of video projects:
- Lotus Education and Arts Foundation would like a few videos. One for recruiting volunteers, showing volunteers before, during and after the festival. Another need is a splash video like this one from Festival International that would give people a sense of the Festival. For more information visit the website and contact Kathleen Clark-Perez (317) 500-0866 media@lotusfest.org.
- Harmony School is looking for videography to help tell the story of their mission in a memorable, engaging, and shareable way. They would like a longer video to be made to feature on their website and that can also be broken up into smaller clips for social media and advertising. This video should include clips of students, staff, life at Harmony, short interviews/quotes, and even possibly clips from field trips. Contact Fern Goodman, CFO Harmony Education Center (812) 334-8379 fern@harmonyschool.org
- MyMachine - This project will create a documentary that tells the story of students from different schools working together to bring a dream machine to life. It will start in Linton, Indiana, where elementary school students will use their imagination to invent a "dream machine"—a creative and fun invention they come up with all on their own. From there, the film will follow the process as university students from IU's Eskenazi School take the idea and design a prototype to show how the machine could work. Finally, high school vocational students in Shoals, Indiana, take that design and build a full-scale, real-life version of the machine.
The documentary will highlights how students from different grade levels bring their own skills to the project: elementary students dream big, university students turn those dreams into a technical design, and high school students use their building skills to make the machine a reality. It shows how each group plays a special role in making the project come to life and how teamwork and creativity can lead to amazing results.
Here is an example from an undergrad class from 2022.
Contact: Jonathan Racek jonracek@indiana.edu. - PALS - People and Animal Learning Services https://palstherapy.org
- Contacts: Christine Herring, Executive Director, chris@palstherapy.org & Devin Coryell, Director of Marketing and Communications, devin@palstherapy.org
- Target Audience: The video must be completed by the last week of April and will be shown to attendees of our 25th Anniversary Gala fundraising event in early May, The Mane Event. This includes current and potential donors, volunteers, community partners, and supporters of PALS.
- Objective/Purpose:
The purpose of the video is to:
- Celebrate 25 years of PALS’ impact in the community.
- Showcase the transformative power of the human-horse connection.
- Highlight PALS’ mission, programs, and success stories.
- Inspire viewers to continue supporting or start contributing to PALS through donations, volunteer efforts, and partnerships.
- After watching the video, viewers should:
- Clearly understand PALS’ mission and the depth of its community impact.
- Feel emotionally connected to PALS through compelling stories and visuals.
- Be motivated to support PALS financially or by getting involved in other meaningful ways.
- Reference Videos:
Here are links to videos that align with the tone, style, or message we’d like to achieve:
https://youtu.be/0WCCuv1CGWY?si=cM4nBBuhHREJe8DNhttps://youtu.be/BPFFl2CiCHU?si=pc4_IW1KbCe1H6Ee
Additional Context: The video will be a centerpiece of the gala, setting the tone for the event and emphasizing the importance of community support for our next chapter. If possible, we’d like to include testimonials from program participants, volunteers, or staff to personalize the message further. Footage of our programs in action, the sensory trail, and the horses themselves would add an engaging visual element.
There are more opportunities available through CITL's Office of Service Learning
Contact Michael Valliant, Service-Learning Program Director to find out more. (812) 856-5686 mvallian@iu.edu.
