Full Duck Productions

Federal Guide describing early warning signs that may lead to aggressive rage or violent behavior

Faced with the Columbine High School crisis in a neighboring school district, the DPS psychology unit responded with a training video, taped by DPS personnel and Full Duck and edited by Full Duck, for teachers and all employees in the school to help them identify students who exhibit warning signs of becoming violent. Furthermore, the video illustrated positive steps that personnel should take to help the student and prevent school violence.

Challenge: Create a training video for all adult personnel and volunteers in Denver Public Schools that shows the 22 signs of violence an American student can exhibit as defined by the U.S. Department of Education in A Guide to Safe Schools. Also show the appropriate responses of adults and staff members to these signs, including the proper paperwork and its routing through the Denver Public School system. Demonstrate as well as explain each violent sign and each step the adults and staff should take.

Solution: Working with a script provided by DPS, Full Duck Productions used actors, teachers, and student drama classes to enact each type of student violence and then how a teacher responds, completes the paperwork and walks it through the proper routing. Full Duck used a professional narrator to describe scenes of violence and character graphics to illustrate each type of violence and each step the responsible adult can take. The viewer hears and sees the step acted out, narrated and reinforced by being spelled out by the character graphics.