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Life Is No CircusBy Rachael Victoria Zofcin
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InspirationM-term 2009: Circus School
Made two very good friends, Zouhir and Souad-Rhalla
Saw that these children were incredible and talented
Story needed to be shared with the rest of the world
While on the bus leaving the school, we all began to brainstorm about ways we could help the school when we returned to New York.
My Senior Project came into play.
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Evolution of an IdeaFundraiser at the Ross School
Container of goods over to the school
Bringing a circus performer child over from Morocco.
Difficult to come up with a solid way to support school
Hard to pull together a successful fundraiser last minute
At this point a little discouraged about Senior Project, but I wanted to do something for the school
Meeting with Frankle, Mrs. Cross and Devon Parkes gave me the great idea to make a book about our M-term experience with the Circus School
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Process: Creating A Book
First time creating a book
Unsure I would be able to meet my goals and aid the school with a book
Creating a book which incorporates but the cultural exchange aspect of the M-term as well as the photography aspect.
Book class- Using Booksmart.
A lot more than meets the eye to creating a book
Contacting people to help with book
Souad-Rhalla’s help with as my outside consultant
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Technical Design
Sifting through hundreds of photographs from my peers, teachers and myself.
Working on Bridge and Photoshop to edit my images.
ICC profiles simulate the images appearance when printed.
Learned how to resize and reformat images.
Dummy Book: to view the font and the sizing and layout of each section of the book.
Required more to tell the story than merely photographs.
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Writing Development
Discussing students stories with Souad-Rhalla.
Wrote down a lot of material, but was unable to tie my words to the images in the book.
Changing writing style from creative writer to a documentary style.
Gathering quotes from the photographers and members of the M-term trip.
Combining peers memories as well as my own newly developed journalistic recaps of our experience.
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Book Layout
After collecting quotes, where will they go?
Changing the layout of the book and placing the images.
Intended to be a well articulated story.
Not want a jumble of words and images.
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Skills Acquired
Photoshop, Bridge and Booksmart, book planning and creating.
Creative writer to journalist
Discovered how to relate my personal stories to others who have never heard them.
Managing my time and delegating to myself what needs to be accomplished.
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Technical Problems
Time management
Ordering books (making sure they arrive on time)
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Personal Challenges
Remember Amisep and the circus children.
Wanted a hands on project and was fearful the book was more of a solitaire project.
Worried that the book would not be successful in raising awareness for the Amisep school.
Found a way to aid school through selling book on Blurb.com
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What I Discovered
When you care enough about something, even the smallest thing you do makes a difference.
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Future After Book
Hope for this experience to lead me towards future cultural exchange experiences not only in Morocco, but across the world.
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Thank You!!My Parents
Kerry Sharkey-Miller
Amisep Circus School
Devon Parkes
Alexis Martino
Dr. Kimble Humiston
Vasil Gayler
Hannah Levy
Rebecca Kiembock
Sara Salaway
Lucie Kessler
Natasha Lovaas
The Ross School
Everyone who helped to make this book possible.
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