The time limit and budget are there to give you some sense of reality. In the panel critique, we will try to bring out some of the production issues, including budget, to help you complete the picture. Small groups came up with ideas from 90 second rock videos to full story lines. Teens are the hardest to create for. Money is a big concern.
Grants only go so far.
Kids are used to MTV, whose videos cost 100s of thousands of dollars. The offered ideas would be good for the youth to do. Like seminary exegesis, the value is in what they learn doing it, not what they hope to use it for. Internalization, etc. is learned this way. So the value of the media production is not to sell it, but to do it.