Verbal Description:

visual elements in our two-minute video

introducing VSA VT’s mentoring program Full Movie: Mentoring Program

Overview: main visual elements:

Opening Artwork: An easel pad page hand lettered in blue marker,

What Makes a Good Mentor?

A circular panning of a table with oil pastel crayons, some loose on the table, some in trays,

a yogurt container full of paintbrushes and

several bottles of paints.

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are gathered at a round table that is littered with containers, brushes and plates placed

on top of newspaper.

An adult with close cropped hair except for

a ponytail on top, wearing a blue plaid shirt

and a name tag that says, Toby, wheels away

in a chair, hand covered in white plaster.

A quick scene with many plastic cup containers with variously colored paint, the VSA Vermont logo overlaid.

Red tinting over the imagery when the text

of the narrator is shown as captioning.

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Other interspersed artwork and interactions:

See end for detailed description.

Speakers: in order of their first appearances,

each identified on a red banner overlying the image

at the start of their first appearance.

Kate McSweeney, Burlington High School

Student, is a young adult seated outdoors

on a green lawn, the stripes of a flag blowing

gently behind her, trees in the distance.

Kate has shoulder length blond hair pulled off her

forehead with a barrette. She wears a blue top

with pale stars. She hold up a colorful, beaded bracelet when asked what the best part of mentoring was.

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Nicole Villemaire, VSA Mentor, is an adult seated in a home living room, dressed casually

in a green t-shirt with purple abstract designs

of dancing figures.

Nicole has dark brown hair pulled back from her face and wears glasses. She is seated

in front of a sunlit window with a blue patterned

drape on a yellow wall with a wooden desk and

the edge of a bookcase at the back right

of the scene.

There are three pieces of artwork on the wall

which are seen indistinctly. On the desk are

two plants, a desk lamp and a radio.

Sasha Ross-Becker, VSA Mentor, is an adult seated in a red cushioned chair, speaking

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in a library with round wooden tables and

wooden chairs, filled bookshelves in the

background. Sasha wears a blue top with ruffles

and a black sweater. She has shoulder length

brown hair, on one side tucked behind

her ear.

Toby MacNutt, VSA Vermont Mentoring

Program Coordinator, is an adult seated to speak, whose head is shaved except for the very top, wearing glasses, earrings and a plaid shirt. Toby is sitting inside in front

of a doorway, through which we see a window,

a computer monitor and the large curve of

a round, indistinct piece of artwork

on the far wall.

Melissa Steady, Burlington City Arts Education

Director, is an adult with shoulder-length wavy blond hair who is seated in a library in a room

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with round tables and book shelves. She wears

a black and white patterned short-sleeved top.

Thomas Steele, Winooski High School Special

Education Teacher, an adult with red hair, is wearing a blue polo shirt, and is seated

in a room with a computer desk to one side, and brightly painted cabinet panels behind

him, filled with abstract landscape shapes,

stars, human figures, some orange flames,

all in many colors.

Judith Chalmer, VSA Vermont Executive

Director, an adult seated for an interview in the same place as Toby, in front of a doorway,

etc. Judy is a woman with wispy gray hair and glasses. She wears a pink jacket with black

piping and a black blouse.

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Michele Bailey, Vermont Arts Council, Senior

Program Director, is an adult with long blond hair falling below her shoulders, wearing a blue blouse. She sits in a gallery space with an exhibit of landscape paintings behind her. One that is seen most clearly contains a dark

mountain range across the bottom seen

in silhouette only, with a band of light above it,

and a vast, dark sky above that. A small circle

of light is seen just below the horizon. Another

painting shows the fork in a river at the bottom,

with a similar band of light above a dark horizon,

a dark band above that and clouds forming at the

top of the painting.

Peter Kriff, Vermont Statewide Independent

Living Council, Executive Director, is an adult with gray hair and a gray beard and moustache who wears glasses and a striped

gray and white shirt. He sits in a wing-back

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cushioned chair with abstract geometric patterns

in front of a large palm plant.

Sequence: Opening artwork and titles, then

interviews interspersed with artwork and visual

representations of interactions.

Highlights:

Kate demonstrates the motion of knitting when she

says the word.

Sasha and a young man with thick, curly black hair, Noah, sit at a table making sculptures with brightly colored pipe cleaners. Noah wears a

green t-shirt with printed letters that say, Never Stop.

Above the print is additional hand lettering, spelling

the word, Vampire, in pastel puffy fabric paint. Noah,

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wearing red ear inserts, taps his chin when

considering a new idea. Noah puts on his pipe cleaner glasses and smiles with delight for a photo that Sasha takes of him.

A close up of a hand dipping a piece of gauze

in plaster, followed by Nicole’s face smiling with pleasure. In a later scene, we see Nicole standing to show the completed plaster cast, smiling

this time with pride.

Fingers wiggling, people sit in a circle, smiling.

Toby and a student seated in a circle high-five, huge smiles on their faces.

An open white shirt billows out from behind a student as he moon-walk dances.

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Other artwork and interactions, interspersed:

An adult bends over to apply plaster casting to the leg of a young person wearing a baseball cap.

In a similar scene, an adult bends over a table to dip a

piece of gauze tape into a plate of plaster, a bare foot seen ready a few inches from the table. This is

followed by a young person wearing a baseball cap

smiling as she holds up the dried and empty cast of a foot.

Paint brushes, painter’s tape and paper plates on a table covered in paint splashes, with bottles

of paints nearby.

A group of adults stands around a conference style table with bottles of paint in varied colors lined up

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on the edge and a large blank piece of brown paper

taped to the wall on the other side of the table.

A special-effect scene that has been rounded

as if seen through a thick ship’s window. A seated person with short hair wearing a blue vest over a white shirt with blue stripes, uses a long handled paint brush to add to a brown paper mural

covered with multi-colored painted swirls, hearts, leaves and abstract marks. Another person, seen

from behind, wearing a dark skirt and print blouse,

stands close to the mural, touching its surface with

her hand.

A group of adults stand around a table with many bottles of paint. As the camera sweeps around

the circle of people it zooms in on one woman laughing with pleasure. This scene quickly changes

to a scene with two round tables where people

are applying plaster casting to each others’ hands.

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Sasha in a library with book cases, first listens,

then breaks into a smile as she talks.

Nicole gazes with pleasure at her hand which is being plaster cast by an adult wearing a salmon

colored polo shirt. This is followed by quick scenes

of Nicole talking and fist pumping with a look of determined pleasure on her face.

Toby, kneels on the ground with students, exploring ground level movement.

A close up of hand prints on a brown paper mural,

in bright orange, purple, green and pink.

Toby, leaning back in his chair to snap a photo

of a large brown-paper mural with his phone.

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Hands attach ripped paper strips with words including learning, friendship, nothing and community, to a standing cardboard structure.

Toby holds up an open hand, which we then see is copying a photograph of a large sculpture of two open hands.

Toby speaks from his wheelchair at the front of a proscenium stage in an auditorium with a semi-circle

of students behind him on the stage.

A young man wearing a red shirt and cap dances on a stage. An audience member watches from a

wheelchair.

Two adults select paint colors from a table filled

with paint bottles to use on a brown paper mural

in the background.

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A woman with cropped gray-brown hair, wearing a name tag that says, Helen, sits smiling and laughing with delight while talking with another

person whose hand we see held up in the center

of the screen.

Two young men dressed in white shirts, ties and

hats sit on a stage beating drums. A young woman in a gray and black patterned dress stands with them, clapping.

Four young adults hold hands, circling.

Students walk in a line, holding flowers.

Adults sit at a conference table listening,

as Melissa Steady, talks in an animated way, gesturing with her hands.

A hand, holding a blue pencil, draws an expressive face of a man with

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a wrinkled forehead.

Two adults sit at a table filling out forms. Seven

adults sit in a circle, talking, listening, smiling

through a conversation.

Eight students and their teacher, Toby MacNutt,

stand or sit in a line to hold up a long blue piece of gauze fabric.

A student seated in a wheelchair smiles as she is turned in a circle by another student.

Toby, seated, uses a long handled paint brush

to add to a brown paper mural covered with

multi-colored painted swirls, hearts, leaves

and abstract marks.

Six adults sit in front of a table with painting supplies,

to admire a brown paper mural.

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