{"id":3699,"date":"2015-04-17T19:07:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T23:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/a-documentary-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:29:49","slug":"a-documentary-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-documentary-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A documentary of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"4-14-15<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope Ogunsile, a Furman University junior majoring in film and business, parlayed her skills into an internship last summer with the Riley institute at Furman, the Charleston YMCA, and Camp Hope.<\/p>\n

She presented a poster and video\u2014the result of her internship\u2014during FurmanEngaged! The video also is posted on YouTube and is being used by Mozaik, a team of the Riley Institute\u2019s Diversity Leaders Initiative that created Camp Hope in Charleston.<\/p>\n

Leaders from all sectors of South Carolina, nominated by DLI alumni and invited to apply, take part in the Initiative, an interactive program where participants learn to understand and celebrate their diversity and try to find their \u201cblind spots\u201d and suspend assumptions about others. They create projects in their home communities and come away with focused decision-making skills and deep knowledge of how to effectively manage and lead increasingly diverse workers, clients, and constituents.<\/p>\n

The Camp Hope video, running a little more than five minutes, \u201cwas my first hands-on project without someone behind me,\u201d said Ogunsile, a Greenville native. \u201cIt was interesting. I definitely learned how to make a documentary-type film.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day I hope to be an analytical producer, which doesn\u2019t now exist,\u201d she said of her career goal. She said that job would be analyzing video, figuring how out to best use it, and teaching businesses how to use film in their marketing.<\/p>\n

Basically, she said, that\u2019s what her video of Camp Hope does. The evening camp in Charleston is designed for low-income, high-risk children aged about 6 to 13. They have interactions with police officers, learning how police can help them and the trouble they can find themselves in with gangs. The youngsters learn various skills, take boat rides on Charleston Harbor to learn about the history of the harbor and the city, and attend baseball games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey find shelter at Camp Hope,\u201d she said. \u201cThe children learned that there\u00a0are police officers who\u00a0will take care of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many, she said, \u201chad never been on a boat or even swimming.\u201d Camp Hope gives them opportunities to see a different life and realize they can do something different from what they see in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Ogunsile also learned much during her internship. She became more proficient in pre-production, production, and post-production, she said, learning how to develop questions, interview kids, keep them on target and help them speak in complete sentences to say what they wanted to express. She also learned to blend into the background and how to edit out good material that didn\u2019t match the video\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

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