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| directory of teaching artists: RHEA & DREW ALLEN |
| Drew and Rhea
Allen have successfully built their own video and media production company based on their combined 25 years of experience. They met while working at a local TV station in Boise, and later moved
to Seattle. Drew was schooled at the prestigious Art Institute of Seattle earning a degree in Video Production. Rhea completed her Master's degree in Business Administration from Capella University and worked for the Fox station as a Newscast Director in Seattle. Both decided to move back to Boise bringing their big city experience home. Drew and Rhea are members in good standing of the Better Business Bureau.
As rostered artists, Peppershock has created short films with students where a variety skills are taught meeting Idaho's Humanities requirements such as: story boarding, writing, scripting, blocking shots, time math, and visual displays. Their stories come to life on the big screen. Describe a transformative process that has occurred in your own practice as an artist or in a past residency as a teaching artist. We are producing a short documentary video with 6 kids from the Boys & Girls club. The kids participate and take turns being the director, photographer, and interviewer and are going through the raw footage and selecting the best clips to use and have been putting the script together with our help. One participant is an 11 year-old name Cameron; he told us that he now wants to be a video professional when he “grows up!” Cameron’s enthusiasm affected the students, teachers and audience members who are all participants in making the project a success. When have you been able to recognize learning taking place? Learning takes place at each step in the creative process, from pre-production, production to post-production. The students learn how to work together to accomplish a common goal. They also learn about video production gear and terminology used to produce video. What excites your imagination and in turn how does your work excite imagination for your audience? The kids are all very eager to participate and then show off their work to their peers. The video presentation provides proof that they were involved with something exciting. The audience watches the videos knowing the kids put it all together. The outtakes and behind the scenes footage or “extras” show their level of participation in creativity at its best! What characteristics mark a successful collaboration for you? When the parents and teachers or administrators are involved, they see the learning outcomes from the kids in the videos that they help to produce. This signifies success. How do you foster creativity, both in your own work and as a teaching artist? Listen carefully to what the objectives are in a project and find the creative ways to implement the process, from brain storming, outlining, scripting and then putting the plans in action. Three key understandings in this discipline are:
Three Idaho Humanities Content Standards that correlate
with the core concepts identified above:
Vocabulary words that relate to music: Video, media, DVD, story telling, story boarding, writing, directing, producing, photographer. Subject areas outside of the fine arts that relate to potential residency work include: Create a short film based on a story, have art class make backdrops. Have history class re-enact time period, have costumes made with another type of class. Have or create a short film festival, and make the videos (short film) & have an audience to watch the “films.” References:
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 Discipline: Visual Arts Phone: (208) 461-5070 Email: rhea@peppershock.com Website: www.peppershock.com 
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