Still from the "We're Going To Be Friends" video, directed by alumnus Nicolas Hill for D-PAN.
Check out this beautiful video of The White Stripes “We’re Going To Be Friends” directed by Film alumnus Nicolas Hill for the Deaf Professional Artist’s Network (D-PAN).
In the video–which has been featured on The Today Show, CBS News and has received more then 330,000 hits so far on YouTube–deaf and hard-of-hearing children sign the lyrics to the Stripes’sweet song about finding a new friend at the start of a new school year.
Hill, who graduated in 2001, is a co-founder of Lucky Airlines film production company, a company that specializes in commercials, music videos and industrial videos. D-PAN is an organization dedicated to promoting professional development and access to the entertainment, visual and media arts fields for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
Head past the jump to see the video.
I absolutely LOVE the video! All of the students did a great job, especially the young girl who introduces the video. As a parent of a hard of hearing girl who is primarily oral, but who has also taken sign language classes, I found myself looking at the bottom of the screen for the captions as I do on the television at home. Why isn’t the video captioned?
There are captions. If you can’t see them embedded here, watch the video directly at YouTube and you should be able to toggle them on and off.