Animated Advertisement for Purdue Black Cultural Center

Storyboards I created for a 3D animated advertisement for the Purdue Black Cultural Center.

Transcript

5. DANA: Hey, you’re here for a tour, right? Great!
6. BOTH: Welcome to the Black Cultural Center
7. DANA: Hi, I’m Dana!
8. DAVID: And I’m David!
10. DANA: Today we’ll showcase the many different avenues of the Black Cultural Center, or as we call it the BCC.
11. DANA: or as we call it the BCC.
13. DANA: The BCC was established in 1969 as a result of the activism of the late 1960’s
14. DANA: and was a part of the University’s response to the societal changes that were going on across the country
15. DAVID: The mission of the Black Cultural Center is to enhance the community’s understanding of the cultural richness in the Black experience.
17. DAVID: Everything from the architecture to the artwork selections found in the BCC support that mission. Let’s get this tour started!
20. DAVID: Now, does anyone recognize what the front desk is shaped like?
21. DANA: Oo! I can answer that one
22. DANA: It is shaped like the hull of a ship. This is symbolic of the ships that were used during the Middle Passage
23. DANA: The Middle Passage was the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that carried Africans into slavery
24. DANA: Another unique aspect of the BCC is that it is covered in art
25. DANA: One of our prized paintings is the Black Boilermaker,
26. DANA: which was painted by Fordjour and gifted to the BCC
27. DANA: You’ll notice a lot of deeper details within the painting such as
28. DANA: the dates represented and the brick in the belt representing the bricks protestors carried to Hovde Hall in 1968
29. DAVID: And straight ahead we have the Spirit of the BCC
30. DAVID: painted by former assistant director, Robert Peppers
31. DAVID: Modeled after the opera, Porgy and Bess, this painting captures these ensembles
32. DAVID: The cast members are the New Directional Players
33. DAVID: The dancers represent the Jahari Dance Troupe
34. DAVID: The choir is the Black Voices of inspiration
35. DANA: The spatial design of the BCC is comparable to a West African village
36. DANA: This open area is considered the courtyard
37. DANA: and each of the rooms are the tribes
38. DANA: To my right, slightly behind me, is our Antonio and Betty Zamora Performing Arts Studio
39. DANA: This room is mainly used as a rehearsal studio for the Jahari Dance Troupe and the Black Voices of inspiration
41. DANA: The room is also available for groups and individuals to utilize for meetings or for class presentations
43. DANA: David, could you show us the formal lounge?
44. DAVID: Of course! Thank you Dana
45. DAVID: The Formal Lounge is our exhibition hall and space for receptions
46. DAVID: and monthly art exhibitions. For our 50th year, we have a special exhibition
47. DAVID: A 50-year retrospective of the BCC looking back on events that impacted
48. DAVID: the BCC from student research tours to scholars and artists who visited the campus
51. DAVID: The most striking feature is the portal, ‘keyhole’ shaped structure at the entrance of the building. The portal is significant because in many West African villages, the portals served as entrances to the village.
52. DANA: We like to think of it as the entrance to the African American community at Purdue.
56. DAVID: We are now at our Multipurpose room 2. This room is the rehearsal space for the New Directional Players and our secondary gallery
57. DAVID: And since it's a gallery full of pieces that artists worked hard on, we should not touch it
60. DANA: Haha my bad just thought this diamond was so beautiful
64. DAVID: Our conference room is another space for use, equipped with
65. DAVID: a white board, smart tv and projector
66. DAVID: This room is used for everything ranging from brainstorming sessions
67. DAVID: by executive teams across campus to bible studies
68. DAVID: We are a place for everyone!
71. DANA: Next, we will enter the informal student lounge
72. DANA: Because the BCC is at a centralized location
73. DANA: the student lounge is a convenient place for students to congregate between classes
74. DANA: This space is laid out to be modular and collaborative with our wall-to-wall white boards
77. DANA: We are now on the second floor in the computer lab, which is a twenty-station lab administered by ITAP
78. DANA: There is a tech available in the lab to assist with any problems that may arise
79. DANA: Having a computer lab in the BCC supports the academic mission of Purdue
82. DAVID: We are now in front of the BCC Library. The library has
83. DAVID: a large volume of books and materials about the African American experience
84. DAVID: The organizers who fought for the BCC’s presence on this campus wanted
85. DAVID: a library as part of the Black Cultural Center so there would be a repository where
86. DAVID: “black thought takes place in written and spoken form”
87. DANA: Ah! I just love spending hours here getting lost in the wide array of books!
88. DAVID: Really? I’ve never been much for libraries
89. DAVID: Get all of my information from the best resources like Twitter and Wikipedia
90. DANA: Ahh.. yeah now I can see why you failed English…
91. DAVID: Hey, come on now
94. DAVID: Across from the library in this corridor, we have some very important artworks
95. DAVID: On the wall to the right is a piece of Kente Cloth
96. DAVID: donated by former Purdue president Steven C. Beering
98. DANA: On the left is the piece titled Black Friday
99. DANA: which depicts the idea of slave trading that commonly took place
100. DANA: It’s a play on the commercialization of Black Friday in common
103. DAVID: Lastly, this is our Multipurpose room 3
104. DAVID: another space where we host workshops, meetings and the like
107. DAVID: We want to thank you all for coming by the BCC today!
108. DANA: We hope you learned something new and if you’re a student here, we hope you’ll come back!
109. BOTH: Bye!