Adobe Systems India on Thursday (August 2) celebrated the tenth anniversary of Adobe Youth Voices Programme (AYVP) at Jawahar Bal Bhavan with social activist and film maker Suresh Heblikar as the chief guest.

Director of Adobe Product Tridib Roy Choudhary said the AYVP was a programme in which school children are encourage to participate in various activities such as documentary film making, animation and multimedia books. Students used Adobe tools and digital technology and Adobe employees volunteered to help students and teachers to  train.

The AYV programme which has introduced in 14 schools in Noida (Delhi) and Bangalore will be extended to 25 sites in both the cities during the second year. 

The programme gives youth the opportunity to express themselves and make positive contributions in their communities.

The following schools in Bangalore participated in the Adobe Youth Voices Project: Government High School, Adugodi, Government High School, Barlane, Government High School, Jyothipura and Vivekavardhini High School
Artistic impulses

Each school sent two teachers and about 20 students for the workshop. The students were split into two groups to work on two different projects — animation making and Documentary movie making. The workshops were done in two phases handled by two different partners.

The workshop unleashed the students’ artistic impulses as they drew multiple frames, animated them and created a running movie. Each of them worked on a community-related topic like afforestation, dowry and girl education and each of the movies was a duration of 20-30 seconds. The movies involved funny animations but then communicated penetrating messages.

The students involved in documentary movie making used camcorders to collect video footage and then learnt to edit it. They created story outlines and then shot footage for the pre-production stage.

The students from the Adugodi school came up with the story outline of a poor girl child being unable to study because of lack of facilities and financial strength.

Project and more
A charitable institution that caters to all of her interests then comes forward to help her. The project involved collecting the information, taking video footage and interviewing the girl. The intricacies of camera placement, stable shooting, and interview techniques were all lucidly explained. The students were then given training on video editing — the toughest and the most interesting phase - post-production. The Adobe Premier elements were used to edit.  Students were shown how to take notes on the footage and compile the most compelling shots to construct the movie. Footage had to be reviewed, cut and archived. The students have created DVDs of their documentaries which will be shared with their school community as well as local government officials.

A screening of the movies made by school children was presented at the Bal Bhavan. These include animation films: Raju the athlete by Government GHS, Adugodi; Golden egg by GHS, Barlane; Global Pollution by Christel House.

The documentaries were on Mid-day meals  by GHS, Jyothipura; Child Labour  by APSA; Waste Management by Christel House and Water is our right by Slum Jagathu. A multimedia book on Sacrifice in Devanahalli was made by Samvada.The documentary on Child labour by APSA was won the first place with second place for the animated film on global pollution and third place for the documentary of mid-day meals.