Background music plays.
Usman Hameedi (off camera, speaking in slam-poetry style): The world needs you...
Video on screen: Four female students sit on the Great Lawn talking and laughing [inaudible].
Text on Screen: world needs you
Hameedi: to blossom into Phoenixes...
Video on screen: Close up video of female student sitting in an orientation circle.
Hameedi: and soar with the wingspan of your genius. Never fear...
Video on screen: Darkening sky with a sliver of moon and a balloon arch.
Text on screen: wingspan of your genius.
Hameedi: flying into the unfamiliar.
Video on screen: Tight shot of the back of an orientation t-shirt that reads "Brandeis 'Deis Week" and the side profile of a female student.
Hameedi: The fact that you are sitting here now...
Video on Screen: As darkness begins to settle, a student looks directly at the camera while talking (inaudible) and sitting in an orientation circle with classmates.
Text on Screen: right now
Hameedi: means that the magic within you is already stronger than Expecto Patronum.
Video on screen: Tight shot of a luminary (white paper bag) with a blue candle inside. In the distance a row of similar luminaries are in view by a balloon arch outside of Shapiro Campus Center. Shot then pans to the Great Lawn where three orientation groups are sitting.
Text on Screen: already stronger
Hameedi: Because it is Emet, Truth unto its inner most parts. So be Brandeis bold.
Devise your own Dumbledore Army.
Video on screen: In a shot out of focus, the line of luminaries are seen again with a group of about 15 first-year students walking slowly by.
Text on screen: truth unto its inner most parts
Text on screen: Brandeis bold
Hameedi: Develop ambition...
Video on screen: Male student looks at camera and shows battery-operated candle with the word "hopeful" written in black ink on the base.
Hameedi: Define altruism...
Video on Screen: Female student holds lit battery-operated candle and looks down at it.
Hameedi: Defeat apathy...
Video on screen: Male student holds lit candle looks down, smiles and then looks back at the candle.
Hameedi: Dream absolute...
Video on screen: Female student holds lit candle looking directly at the camera
Hameedi: JK Rowling taught us that childhood does not end when books become...
Video on screen: Students slowly walking by camera smiling and talking (inaudible) and waving at camera.
Text on screen: childhood does not end
Hameedi: palms pressed together.
Video on screen: Three quick shots of three different groups of students looking up at a stage (off camera), listening.
Hameedi: Childhood ends when we stop believing in the magic in each heartbeat, the magic in being alive, the magic in defying expectations.
Video on screen: The entire Class of 2021 stands looking at the Light of Reason (an on-campus art installation comprising over a dozen oversized street lamps) in the dark with their backs turned to the camera. Slowly, they raise their candles above their heads.
Text on screen: Magic
Text on screen: Magic
Text on screen: Magic
Hameedi: You...
Video on screen: Female student smiles, with blue candlelight illuminating her face.
Text on screen: You
Hameedi: are the protagonist of your own story.
Video on screen: Class of 2021 stands together looking up at a stage.
Text on screen: your own story
Hameedi: Cast Stardust across the heavens and...
Video on screen: Slow pan of crowd holding up candles to reveal the Light of Reason also with the lights on.
Hameedi: glisten like the midnight Robe of Justice.
Video on screen: Tight shot of candles being placed by students at the base of the Light of Reason. Tight, moving shot of candles at the base of the sculpture.
Hameedi: Class of 2021, welcome to Brandeis University.
Video on screen: Tight shot of candles flickering at base of sculpture.
Text on screen: Class of 2021
Hameedi: This is Our House.
Video on screen: Light of Reason with the lights on and no one filling the space.
Text on screen: this is our house
Text on screen (fade to black): Welcome home. Brandeis University
Text on screen: Slam poem by Usman Hameedi '12 "Brandeis the Original Hogwarts" (This is our House 2017)