There are open captions throughout this video in white text at the bottom of the screen. The video starts with a student, Dan Souza - an actor in the play beat boxing on-screen in Spingold theatre. He is not paying attention to the camera and is beatboxing.
On-screen horizontal text appears and reads: “Brandeis."
Next, vertical text moves on to the screen. By using the “e” in Brandeis the on-screen text now reads: “Brandeis gets."
The letters in “Brandeis” transform into the word “creative."
On-screen text appears “the Bacchae – Euripides."
Upbeat music fades in. A series of quick shots that vary between close and wide angles of students performing in the Bacchae performance play to the beat of the music. Rosemarie Archer, a student and lead performer, speaks on-camera. Along with the open captions, the on-screen text identifies her – “Rosemarie Archer."
Rosemarie: “In the show I’m playing Dionysus with Dan Souza.”
There is another quick montage of students performing on and off stage.
Rosemarie: “I really loved acting from a young age.”
More shots of rehearsal performances and on-stage acting are seen.
Dan Souza shares the lead with Rosemarie. He begins to speak off-camera while another quick montage of student performers acting in the Bacchae play in the forefront.
Dan: “I was looking for a school specifically that would give me the opportunity to act in college.”
Along with the open captions, the on-screen text identifies him – “Dan Souza." There is another quick montage of students performing on and off stage.
Rosemarie: “But I came into Brandeis saying I’m going to be a computer scientist.”
This is followed by another quick montage of students performing on and off stage.
Rosemarie: “Here at Brandeis you can be a theater major,” [speaking on-screen] “You can be a global studies major,”
[speaking off-camera as a new montage of the play begins] “ … you can be a business major.”
A series of quick shots that vary between close and wide angles of students performing in the Bacchae performance on and off stage play to the beat of the music.
Rosemarie: “It makes for smart artists.”
A series of quick shots that vary between close and wide angles of students performing in the Bacchae performance on and off stage play to the beat of the music.
Rosemarie speaks off-screen: “Theater without boundaries.”
The screen fades to white. The on-screen text reads: “Brandeis.edu." The screen fades to very brief shot of Dan onstage being goofy. The screen fades to black. Music from the Bacchae play fades in.
The on-screen text reads:
“special thanks to the cast and crew of The Theater Arts Department
video produced by
Tarah Llewellyn”
The screen fades to the last shot of the entire crew at their final dress rehearsal giving a bow.
The director speaks in the background: “Yeah. I think that’s the one. Nice, guys.”
The music and the video fade to black bringing the video to an end.