Brandeis AAAS 50th Commemoration
Transcript
This video begins with “feel good” positive music and fades into the AAAS 50th COMMEMORATION logo with a green background. The logo increases and then decreases in scale to the beat of the music.
Throughout the video there are a variety of transitions using shapes, bright flashes, and frame push dissolves.
The 50th AAAS COMMEMORATION logo translates to another logo created for the event. A text list of important events and people who have been involved in AAAS through the course of its history are designed in a way that they form a fist in African associated colors – yellow, red, and green. On screen text at the top right of the screen reads: “AAAS 50th COMMEMORATION”.
The next slide is an introduction to the 1960’s.
Martin Luther King Jr. is featured here and the on-screen text reads: “1960s – Martin Luther King Jr. VISITS CAMPUS”.
The screen transitions to the next slide featuring a protest at Brandeis which shows students marching with signs. The on-screen text reads: “RIGHTS FOR ALL!”.
The screen transitions to the next slide featuring two pictures of Angela Davis. There is a picture on the left of her from 1977 and on the right from 1965. The on-screen text reads: “Angela Davis ’65”.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text, “Fannie Lou Hamer”, describes who is displayed in the photo.
The next slide’s on-screen text describes the primary photo reading: “Ricardo A. Millett ’68”. In the background there is a photo that has a negative photo effect on the rest of the screen displaying students protesting at Ford Hall.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text, “FORD HALL PROTEST”, describes the image - screen.
A new slide transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture with a light-leak effect that shows students protesting at Ford Hall in 1969.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “AAAS established 1969 – Ronald Walters – named department chair”.
A bright flash transition brings the video to the next slide where two pictures, each featuring two students from 1969, are highlighted with purplish light-leak effects.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: Professor Wellington Nyangoni”.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture with a bokeh effect that shows two students in conversation. The on-screen text reads: “1970s” which begins to show the history of AAAS in a new decade.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture with a light leak effect showing students on campus during the ‘1970s. The picture zooms in and out to the beat of the music.
A picture of two students from the 1970s slides in from the left with a brief blur effect. There is a light leak effect and the scale of the picture decreases slightly in size.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture with a light bokeh effect showing a group of female students on campus during the ‘1970s.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide featuring a larger and smaller image of two students. They are both the same photo but the smaller photo has a negative film effect.
A picture of a group of students from the 1970s slides in from the left with a brief blur effect. There is a bokeh effect and the scale of the picture decreases slightly in size.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Vere Plummer ’74”.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture, as well as a similar smaller picture in the upper right corner with a negative film effect. These two pictures are highlighted with a light bokeh effect showing two students in each photo in the classroom.
The slideshow jumps to a picture which is highlighted by light-leaks and decreases in scale which shows a group of students at commencement in the 1970s.
The screen dissolves to a group of three students moving from the bottom of the photo to the top highlighted by bokeh effects.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a slide featuring two of the same photos differing in size. One is larger than the other. The smaller photo slowly increases in size. This slide is highlighted by bokeh effects.
A new, moving picture appears of students highlighted by a bokeh effect. The on-screen text reads: “1980s” which begins to show the history of AAAS in a new decade.
A blurred transition features a new picture of Congress Woman Shirley Chisholm.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a slide featuring a group of students highlighted by a bokeh effect.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “1990s – Wellington Nyangoni – Ibrahim Sundiata – Michael West”.
A photo of two students slide in from the left of the screen highlighted by bokeh effects.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “the 2000s Cory Booker – COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER”.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Ibrahim Sundiata – Professor Emeritus of History”.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Professor Faith Smith”.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Chad Williams – Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History”.
A new, moving picture appears of a group of students highlighted by a light-leak effect. The on-screen text reads: “#FordHall2015”.
A picture slides in from the left with a blurred effect. The picture zooms in showing students protesting. The on-screen text reads: “#FordHall2015”.
The screen transitions to a slide featuring two pictures of Anita Hill, one alongside Kerry Washington. The picture on the left has a negative film effect. The on-screen text reads: “Kerry Washington – Anita Hill”.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture highlighted by bokeh effects. The students are marching on campus in front of the Louis Brandeis statue.
The next slide transitions from top to bottom with a blurred effect. The image scales from larger to smaller highlighting Nyah Maclin ’16 singing the national anthem at Commencement.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Julieanna Richardson ’76 – ’16 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER”.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Black Lives Matter Symposium”.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Gitler Prize Winner – Beverly Tatum”.
A new transition brings the video to the next slide where the on-screen text describes the photo reading: “Freeman Hrabowski – 2018 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER”.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture of a group of smiling students on a move in day.
A bright flash transition brings the video to a full-screen moving picture of a smiling graduating student on commencement highlighted by a light-leak effect.
The screen fades to the AAAS 50th COMMEMORATION logo with a green background. The logo increases and then decreases in scale to the beat of the music.
The 50th AAAS COMMEMORATION logo translates to another logo created for the event. A text list of important events and people who have been involved in AAAS through the course of its history are designed in a way that they form a fist in African associated colors – yellow, red, and green. On screen text at the top right of the screen reads: “AAAS 50th COMMEMORATION”.
The music fades out as well as the image.
The final slide has on-screen text reading:
Special thanks to:
Chloe Morse-Harding,
our Reference and Instruction Archivist.
Photo Contributers:
Julianne Brown
Mike Lovett
Music Composer:
Vital
Produced by:
Tarah Llewellyn