Colonias in Poverty

Written by Amber Najera

Ulysses Cano
Ashley Flores

RWS 1301
Vierra
The University of Texas at El Paso
November 29, 2018
DRAFT #1
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1 BLACK AND WHITE SAD MUSIC ☹
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“The Struggle of Colonias”

IMAGE: LA JORNADA BAJA CALIFORNIA

(2015)

2 “43% of colonia residents live in SAD MUSIC ☹

0:12 poverty”

SOURCE: CHAHIN (1990)

IMAGE: PROYECTO AZTECA (2015)

3 “Many colonia student struggle in SAD MUSIC ☹

0:18 and out of school”

SOURCE: ENGLISH (2013)

IMAGE: THE 74 (2017)

4 “Housing is said to be SAD MUSIC ☹

0:24 inexpensive”

SOURCE: RAMSHAW (2011)

IMAGE: LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS (2017)

5 “But lack running water and proper SAD MUSIC ☹

0:30 home structure”

SOURCE: RAMSHAW (2011)

IMAGE: RIO GRANDE GUARDIAN (2016)

6 “Texas has colonias categorized in SAD MUSIC ☹

0:36 ‘highest health risk’”

SOURCE: PARCHER AND HUMBERSON (2007)

IMAGE: GARY CONKLING LIFE NOTES (2014)

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7 BRING IN COLOR TURN THE MUSIC AROUND 😐
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“but there’s still hope.”

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NEWS (2018)

8 “there has been improvement, but HAPPIER MUSIC 😊

0:48 progress can still be made”

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9 “they need change” HAPPIER MUSIC 😊

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10 “Will it be you?” HAPPIER MUSIC 😊

1:00
IMAGE: TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD
(2017)

11 “volunteer at Colonias development HAPPIER MUSIC 😊

1:06 council or Lower Valley housing
corporation”

IMAGE: COLONIAS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

(2018)

IMAGE: LOWER VALLEY HOUSING CORPORATION

(2018)

12 “there’s no excuse. ACT NOW” HAPPIER MUSIC 😊

1:12
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13 Call (915)494-1454 or 575)647- HAPPIER MUSIC 😊

1:18 2744

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14 ROLLING CREDITS HAPPIER MUSIC 😊
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This PSA brought to you by:

Amber Najera

Ulysses Cano

Ashley Flores

IMAGE: LAYERACE (2016)

Final Cut Pro

Chahin, J., Caradenas, B., Estrada, J., Galan, H.,

Chapa, J., Madrid, A., …, Salinas, C.
(1999). Children of the colonias. Southwest Texas
State University: Southwest Texas State University

English, C. (2013). For hispanics, border

wage gap reflects education, english divide.
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Ramshaw, E. (2011). Major health problems,

many linked to poverty, plague residents of
colonias.  The New York Times  Retrieved
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CHIPS: A new way to monitor colonias along
the united states-mexico border.

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colonias-third-world-conditions-are-the-norm

https://riograndeguardian.com/niederstrasser-
shedding-light-on-americas-colonias/

https://www.dailynews.com/2017/08/10/texas-cuts-
aid-to-colonias-after-years-of-offering-help/

https://garyconklinglifenotes.wordpress.com/2014/07
/24/blessing-children-not-cursing-them/

https://www.the74million.org/article/solving-the-
rural-education-gap-experts-weigh-in-on-new-
reports-findings-tying-gap-to-prosperity/

https://www.utep.edu/newsfeed/campus/Miners-Build-
Rainwater-Harvesting-System-in-Colonia.html

https://www.twdb.texas.gov/innovativewater/rainwate
r/raincatcher/2017/LasPampas.asp

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rain-catcher-award-for-rainwater-harvesting-system

http://www.colonias.org/

http://www.volunteerelpaso.org/agency/detail/?agenc
y_id=10479
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Film Nomenclature
Here are some scriptwriting terms you can use. You need to use at least
one term in every scene.

ANGLE: Directs the camera to focus on a person or thing.

AD LIB: Instructs actors to make up and fill in dialogue in the scene.
CUT TO: To go from one scene, or element in a scene, to another very
quickly.
DISSOLVE: A film editing technique where one scene "melts" or fades
into another scene.
ESTABLISHING SHOT: Use to be used to give an overall perspective of a
scene.
EXT. Short for exterior, or outside.
FADE IN: This is the start of the screenplay.
FADE OUT: This is the end.
Fg: Stands for Foreground. Used to place an object or person in front
of the scene.
FREEZE FRAME: The image freezes on the screen and becomes a still shot.
INT.: Short for interior, or indoors.
INTERCUT: To go back and forth between to locations, scenes, or
elements in a scene.
INSERT: An item that is inserted into the camera view. Usually a note,
or picture is inserted so the audience can either read what is on the
note, or see the picture.
Master scene heading: Begins each new scene. It consists of three
parts: The LOCATION, PLACE, and TIME of the scene. For example:
* EXT. PLAYGROUND - NIGHT or
* INT. BEDROOM - DAY
MONTAGE or SERIES OF SHOTS: A number of different scenes shown one
after the other. Used to show a number of events passing in a short
period of time.
OS or OC: OFF SCREEN or OFF CAMERA. A character talks, or something
happens out of view of the camera.
OVER THE SHOULDER: A camera shot over the shoulder of a character.
PAN: A camera shot that pivots up and down, or side to side.
PLOT POINT: A turning point, or transition in the screenplay that
propels the screenplay forward.
POV: POINT OF VIEW. The perspective view of one character as they look
at another character or thing in the scene.
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REVERSE SHOT: When two characters are talking to each other and the
camera shifts for one character to the other.
SLOW MOTION: Self-explanatory.
SPLIT SCREEN: The location of the scene is divided in to two, or more
sections.
SUBLIM: A shot lasting less than a second. (The brief flashbacks scenes
usually done when a character is dying and their live flash before
their eyes)
SUPER: A SUPERIMPOSITION. One image merged into another image.
VO: VOICE OVER. Usually used by a narrator of a scene. The character
doing the VO is usually not in the same location as the scene.
ZOOM: A camera focus upon something in the scene.