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When creating a cloud video, for example, ���I can speed up the video and see the way clouds move and form. It���s an intriguing way to explore these processes in nature.��� Bart feels most successful when he finds images and videos made by professional photographers and filmmakers and is able to replicate them while adding his own creativity. By borrowing high-quality lenses and video equipment from Latin, he can create the kind of project to which he aspires. Ross��� students, whether in class or an independent study, are required to present their work to an audience in video, film or through the advanced photo slide show. Some students will submit to the highly competitive Chicagoland High School Film Festival that Latin hosts each May. ���For the two or three minutes that their video is playing, everyone is watching ��� something that is much more immediate and focused than if their photo is hanging on a wall,��� said Ross. ���This pushes them to want to create their best work.��� Audrey Lee ���15 is taking a video production class with Ross this fall. Not tied down by the constraints of her drawing or painting skills or limited by only having one medium in which to work, video gives Audrey new freedom to express herself. For one project, she produced a short film called ���The Adventure of the Average Crane.��� Using stop-motion animation, sparse text, music, photography and other tools, she assembles and then follows an origami crane as it travels around the school and outside. ���The editing process allows me to keep going back, changing things that don���t work, using different approaches,��� Audrey explained. She feels empowered by the tools and effects that are at her fingertips and allow her to tell her story. To Ross, multimedia offers visual arts teachers at Latin one more way to fulfill their mission of guiding students as they find and develop their creative voice and strive to make great art. ���I want them to think big and not be afraid of a challenge in multimedia, just like in any other art form,��� she said. ���If you expect a lot, then you get a lot.��� n Watch ���The Adventure of the Average Crane��� at www.latinschool.org/arts ���For the two or three minutes that their video is playing, everyone is watching. This pushes them to want to create their best work.��� ��� Betty Lark Ross, Visual Arts Department Chair LATI N SCHOOL OF CHI CA GO 21