Getting Started

Awesome! You're thinking about creating a lip-dub with your Year 12 grade. Let us say that it's one of the coolest things you'll ever do.

Organising a lip dub is a huge project. But if you've come this far and still determined, you're definitely up for the challenge!

As a side note, if you really like the process of organising stuff, event or project management may be a great future career path for you.

To organise your video, you're going to need to have a neat-freak-streak - but be able to control it. You'll also need to be quite social, creative, and be able to command respect from your Form a small committee of influential students, so your project can pull more weight.

5 Starting Steps...

1. Decide if it can really happen
   Can you realisitically envisage a lip-dub happening at school? Trust your gut feeling.
2. Get the idea out there
   At your next year-meeting, be brave, stand-up and tell everyone that your grade should film and show a video for graduation. Heaps of schools already do it. Your grade is awesome, so therefore you guys should do it too!
3. Approach your Year-Advisor.
   Run the video idea past your year-advisor first. It may be best to disclose facts in this order: the video idea first, then the fact that it's a lip-dub, then the fact that it's a large project involving most students. Rockstar are happy to chat with your Advisor too. Please ask them to give us a call on 1300 782 901.
4. Approach your Principal.
   Your Principal is responsible for everything that goes on at school grounds. You're going to need their permission to film a lip-dub at school. Your Principal may bring up issues of filming at school, and liability. Here is some information (not legal advice), that you should consider. There are no Australian laws that prevent filming of minors (under 18 years of age) - we live in a free society. Thus, written consent is not legally required based on the sole fact that you are under 18 years of age. In other words, you can't take someone to court for taking a respectful photo of someone in public who is under 18.
   
   If a student does not want to participate in your video, they don't have to. Anyone in your grade may opt-out and not participate at any time. The important issue you should consider about filming, is that the school grounds are considered private property (owned by the State or private organisation). As guardian of the grounds, your Principal has the right to set any rules that they so chose to set. This includes preventing the filming of students. These rules they chose to set themselves - independently of laws (that do not exist).
   
   When chatting with your Principal, let them know the "opt-in" nature of your video. If students don't want to be involved - they don't have to turn up. If it really must be, participating students under 18 years of age could have a parent or guardian signing a permission slip. If your Principal decides to play the "fun-police" and NOT allow a video be filmed, let them know the truth. We don't have to remind you that you're about to graduate and leave from some of the best years of your lives. Your video will be an uplifting and positive reflection of your days at school. This can only be good forwarding thinking public relations for any school. Rockstar is happy to chat with your school principal, and we have also prepared a letter outlining how exactly such a production would happen. Ask us for a copy!
   
   
5. Share and get your friends' ideas about your video!

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