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Mr. Marshall from San Marcos CA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Capturing Senior Year

My students need 2 lenses, for the cameras we already own, to shoot a documentary about their year.

  • $650 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students are really excited about this project - as far as we know the first of its kind. We are going to record a senior year in short video clips from smart phones, mixed with more professional shots and interviews, to tell the story of this emotional year in life - senior year.

My students are a self-selected group in a charter high school in California who have already begun making this film - they are working really hard on the story concept and want to begin shooting!

They are independent, driven, and incredibly smart. I had the idea for the film, but they have taken it and run with it - working really hard to get the story straight and tell it from their unique perspective: inside the hallways, the events, the joys, the heartbreaks, of senior year.

My Project

These lenses will enable us to actually utilize the cameras that we have to get the shots we need to tell this story. They are DSLR cameras - used increasingly to capture "real-life" scenarios on TV and in film. This is our M.O. - to get inside the experience and film it the way that professional filmmakers never could: from inside the experience.

How great would it be if you could actually capture the experience of your senior year of high school - when everything changed?

These kids have the plan, the story idea, the motivation - now we just need to put it into action. This film will be submitted for consideration to professional film festivals, and made by high school students. Thank you for making our dream a reality!

Mr. Marshall
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II SLR Lens • Amazon $199.00 2 $398.00
SquareTrade 3-Year Camera Accident Protection Plan ($175-200) • Amazon $36.84 2 $73.68

Materials cost

$471.68

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $43.16

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$551.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$97.40

Total project goal

$649.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $649.32

8 Donors

-$320.25

Donations toward project cost

-$275.96

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.29

match offer

-$324.66

Match offer toward project cost

-$275.96

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.70

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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