Isaiah Freedman - Newton, MA
WOW Intern at National Parks of Boston
Double Major - Biology and Environmental Studies
Title: “Field Research on Peddocks Island”
This video has open captions throughout the entirety of the video.
This video starts with positive and hopeful music.
For the first 00:00:25 seconds there is a fast/dynamic montage of moving images taken from the island that blur and transition from one to the other with some animated text.
The on-screen text reads: “This Summer” – the motion graphic bursts into small circles and expands on the screen.
A drone shot of the island appears on screen.
Isaiah speaks on screen: “This summer I'm working for the National Parks of Boston out here in the Boston Harbor Islands as part of my WOW Scholarship.”
The island/harbor montage intersperses with the on-screen animated text which reads:
“Brandeis Students - get to work - with World of Work - here at - Brandeis – Hiatt Career Center”.
The next shot is of a wave splashing on the screen shot from underwater followed by a bright white flash transitioning to the student intern, Isaiah Freedman, traveling on the ferry to the island (Peddock’s Island) where he is conducting field surveys and research. He then walks with other researchers on the island shore.
The on-screen text reads: “Isaiah Freedman – National Parks Service – WOW Internship”.
Isaiah speaks off camera: “The Environmental Studies Program at Brandeis has really helped prepare me for doing surveys of the intertidal zones that have high levels of erosion where climate change threatens places of great significance.”
Footage of him documenting data on the island beach is seen on screen as well as shots that demonstrate the effects of erosion on the island banks. He holds a live crab up to the camera.
Isaiah: “We want to study these areas so we can get a better idea of topography and what kind of life is here on these beaches.”
This is followed by a drone shot of the island’s shoreline.
Isaiah measures the tideline.
Isaiah continues to talk off-screen while shots of him working and the general environment of the island are showcased on-screen. Isaiah continues to take data.
Isaiah: “We are measuring the biodiversity from in between the high tide line and the low tide line.”
Isaiah speaks off and on-camera: “Due to climate change sea walls will probably be built on a lot of these sites within the next 10 or 20 years. So, we want to get a baseline of data that we can use once these seawalls are built.”
Isaiah continues to collect data while he speaks off camera followed by a shot of the crumbling seawall from the beach of the island. There is a drone shot of the island including some of its historic buildings. There is a slow motion shot of a wave crashing on an old seawall as he speaks. The camera shows the shore of Peddock’s Island from the moving boat followed by a moving drone shot of the Boston Harbor and the island.
Isaiah speaks off-camera: “Conservation and protection of natural resources is really important work especially in the face of climate change.”
While Isaiah speaks off-camera more shots of the island and ocean environment and Isaiah working in the field appear on-screen including the tidal zone and beach grasses.
A crab scuttles across the lens of the camera followed by another drone shot of the island.
Isaiah continuing his research in a tide pool.
Isaiah speaks off camera: “The island hosts a very specific, unique diversity of life.”
The shot is of a mussel shelled beach landscape which cuts to three quick shots of the trees off the shore.
Isaiah speaks off camera: “Tons of trees grasses plants and also lots of marine life found on the shores and just offshore.”
After another drone shot of the island the screen changes to a timelapse of the students and researchers collecting data on the beach. This is followed by the research group walking to their site followed by a slow motion shot of tide coming in and out on the shoreline.
Isaiah speaks off camera: “They were formed by glaciers receding about 10-12,000 thousand years ago and it formed this habitat that's called a submerged drumlin.”
Another drone shot shows the islands landscape.
He finishes this sentence on screen.
A view of the shoreline including the ocean and a seagull is the next shot. More aerial shots of the island continue.
Isaiah speaks off screen: “It's the only submerged drumlin that's found in the United States. It's one of only three found across the entire world.”
Isaiah speaks off screen: “So, it makes it really really important for both protection and study.” More shots of the shoreline and Isaiah collecting data continue.
A second timelapse of students and researchers appears on screen as they collect their data before a group shot of them walking off to their site.
Isaiah speaks to the camera: “I'm really, really glad that I got this opportunity to work out on the Boston Harbor Islands this summer because I really am having the time of my life.”
A few fades of Isaiah and the shoreline blend together before the screen dissolves to a white slide that reads: “Brandeis.edu”
The slide fades and the end credits appear.
The on-screen text reads:
“Additional Footage:
Mossy Frog Studio
Mike Cheney
Produced by Tarah Llewellyn”
The music fades to a close while the screen fades to black bringing the video to an end.