Micro-Documentary for Jewish Nonprofit
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Introductory information
A few words almost your organisation and personal responsibilities
True to the comcomcomcommission Statement of Hillel SV, we form meaningful Jewish experiences for students at a time when they are making significant decisions that will like the rest of their lives.
Our staff form situations for Jewish students to interact socially, increasing the likelihood that they will meet Jewish life partners. We prepare training and support for students to rest up over anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on campuses.
Additionally, we conduce to campus cultural life by presenting programs featuring Jewish/Israeli music, arts, holidays, customs and values. We are a multi-campus Hillel that actively supports Jewish student groups at five local campuses and welcome any college age students in Silicon Valley no substance which school they listen.
Submitted by: Sarita Bronstein, Executive Director and Mitch Reitman, Assistant Director
Desired goal
What issue was the preparer supposed to deal with?
Fog Coast Productions?Pre-origination, story-boarding, filming, adding background footage, post-origination.
What were your objectives for this project?
The goal of the project was to form a micro-documentary to use in its fundraising activities, aggregation and student promisement, and to create name recollection for Hillel of Silicon Valley.
We wanted a documentary that can be shown at Hillel SV’s leading fundraiser, L’Dor V’Dor in February, 2020, host on the structure’s website, and show at numerous introductions almost Hillel SV throughout the year in order to:
1. Explain that Hillel of Silicon Valley (SV) serves the students at San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, Foothill College, De Anza College, and West Valley College, as well as any undergraduate or graduate student in Silicon Valley not served by another Hillel.
2. Illustrate Hillel SV’s comcomcomcommission and purpose.
3. Convey Hillel SV’s pressing responsibility as a Jewish educational institution within a little window of occasion to help students navigate anti-Semitism and anti-Israel agility so they will want to live safely, proudly, and confidently as Jews and supporters of Israel.
4. Convey Hillel SV’s program access in deepening student’s junction to Jewish life by providing meaningful experiences to acquire almost Judaism and Jewish life, increasing the number of students who promise in exploration and experiences that connect them to Israel, integrating students into the biger Jewish aggregation.
5. Show how Hillel SV educates Jewish and non-Jewish students almost the history of Israel and its locate in the intricate political landscape of the Middle East and how we help students to effectively answer and advocate on side of Israel.
6. Use the documentary to help us in the raising of additional funding to opposed drops in institution and Jewish Federation support.
While our hearers is very supportive of Hillel SV as an structure and underrests our comcomcomcommission and the types of programs we prepare, it is beseeming more and more hard to get athwart the urgency of securing the forthcoming of the Jewish aggregation, willingness of young Jewish to express their Jewish oneness and support of Israel in these times of increased anti-Semitism and anti-Israel thought.
The funding challenge becomes more of an effect see year owing we are serving more students and programming costs are rising, but our proceeds is not increasing in adaptation to our expenses.
7. Provide a definitive interaction into the aggregation almost the pluralistic essence of Hillel of Silicon Valley. Religious nation may ponder our programs are not pious or “Jewish” sufficient, Israelis may ponder that we are too pious. Some may discern us as too Zionist in centre.
The fact is that Hillel SV forms many points of entrance for students to explore their oneness and junction with Israel. We are very diverse (Jewish affiliation, family background, Jewish experiences, multi-cultural, interfaith, Israeli).
Provided solution
What were the reasons for choosing ?
We attended two companies. We had one referral. We reviewed correspondent types of videos.
Describe the video(s) and the process in detail.
The pre-origination phase of this project consisted of concept outgrowth, scheduling shoot dates, formulating colloquy questions based on the comcomcomcommission, scheduling crew, location scouting.
Production (August through December 2019): The origination for this project took locate over a four-month span and consisted of capturing colloquys of Jewish professionals, aggregation leaders, and additional/choice footage to follow soundbites.
Post-Production (January-February 2020): The post-origination on this project will initiate behind all the certain footage is captured. Post-Production consists of logging footage, editing, hue grading, stabilization, music, lower thirds, ship, upload, delivery and archiving.
Delivery of micro-documentary (Rough cut January 15, 2020, terminal rendering February 1, 2020)
Show documentary at L’Dor V’Dor Fundraiser (February 9, 2020)
Show documentary at other fundraising opportunities (February through December 2020)
What was your vendors', project treatment or feedback process?
Andrew at FCF was the leading producer. The team worked with us on separate rounds of feedback.
Results accomplishd
What results did you accomplish unitedly with ?
Hillel of Silicon Valley had the big enjoyment of working with Andrew Klein and his team at Fog Coast Productions. We needed a mini-documentary introduction almost the work of our non-profit in order to make the case almost the realities, opportunities, challenges that our structure faces in our work with college students.
From the very exploratory stages, Andrew was very reassuring that he can form a story board that takes both facts and emotions. We needed something that demonstrated the many programs our structure offers while at the same time expressing how we must vanquish challenges. We wanted a video that would not only help us adjoin the significant work we do, but also to help us in our fundraising efforts.
Andrew and his team came separate times to film footage of activities. On many occasions we takeed interest that we didn’t know how they were going to take the challenges we wanted to show. Andrew continued to rally us that he had a good feel on the story board.
Ahead of schedule, the leading rendering of the video was completed. We were pleasantly surprised that the video had the right tone, takeed the story weigh we were seeking. We were given the occasion to bestow a day with Andrew to good tune the interaction, and make any adjustments.
We establish Andrew pliant, kind, and open. The video was previewed to our aggregation at our annual fundraiser to rave reviews. Our donors and leadership said that they acquireed new things almost our programs and challenges.
We believe the video is a terrific vehicle to meet our goals of increased visibility and fundraising. We are delighted to review Fog Coast Productions to any structure seeking to attend a correspondent project.
How do you rate the interaction and interaction with ?
Communication was feeld very effectively via phone calls and emails.
What precisely do you attend to be the key specialty of ?
Their team was resigned, underresting, reassuring, efficient, and helpful throughout our work unitedly.
What should be done better, if there are any desired improvements?
None.
