Make Your Mark Video Transcript
Upbeat music plays.
The Purdue Fort Wayne Day of Giving graphic fades from black.
Female voice-over: Purdue University Fort Wayne‘s Day of Giving is going to be big.
Cut to video of a student running up to Tusky the Mastodon mascot and posing for a photo. White brushstroke graphics appear throughout the video, framing the footage on the left and right sides.
V.O.: and we want you to be a part of it.
Cut to a student and professor working in a chemistry lab.
V.O.: Our Mastodons are big thinkers and dreamers.
Cut to a student swinging in a black-and-gold hammock.
Cut to photo montage:
The Purdue Fort Wayne Day of Giving graphic fades from black.
Female voice-over: Purdue University Fort Wayne‘s Day of Giving is going to be big.
Cut to video of a student running up to Tusky the Mastodon mascot and posing for a photo. White brushstroke graphics appear throughout the video, framing the footage on the left and right sides.
V.O.: and we want you to be a part of it.
Cut to a student and professor working in a chemistry lab.
V.O.: Our Mastodons are big thinkers and dreamers.
Cut to a student swinging in a black-and-gold hammock.
Cut to photo montage:
- A student wearing a mask sits in a classroom.
- A student wearing a mask poses in the Skybridge.
- A student, wearing a mask, looks through a microscope in a biology lab.
- A group of students apply makeup during a theater class while a professor watches.
- A student in a mask and face shield measures chemicals in a chemistry lab.
- A student smiles while using surveying equipment.
- A group of student-athletes talk while wearing masks outside.
V.O.: They‘re doers who turn possibility into reality.
Cut to a Purdue Fort Wayne men’s basketball player dunking the ball during a game, then a runner putting her feet on the starting block.
V.O.: They test limits, tackle real-world challenges,
Cut to a professor explaining a piece of equipment to a student, then to a group of students performing the musical Grease onstage.
V.O.: pursue their passions, and make big things happen.
The words “make big things happen” appear on a gray background.
V.O.: on campus, in our city, and around the world.
Cut to montage with text overlays following the V.O.:
Cut to a Purdue Fort Wayne men’s basketball player dunking the ball during a game, then a runner putting her feet on the starting block.
V.O.: They test limits, tackle real-world challenges,
Cut to a professor explaining a piece of equipment to a student, then to a group of students performing the musical Grease onstage.
V.O.: pursue their passions, and make big things happen.
The words “make big things happen” appear on a gray background.
V.O.: on campus, in our city, and around the world.
Cut to montage with text overlays following the V.O.:
- Video of a batter hitting the ball during a game
- Video of an aerial view of downtown Fort Wayne
- A map showing study abroad locations
- Photos of students posing in various locations around the world
The white brushstrokes change to gold for a montage of students stating their intended professions:
- Male student, standing outside: “I‘m a sociologist.”
- Female student, sitting at a table with a robot that speaks: “I am a computer scientist.”
- Female student, sitting in a lab: “I‘m an engineer.”
- Male student, wearing PPE in a chemistry lab: “I‘m a chemist.”
- Male student, in a library: “I‘m a teacher.”
- Male student, in a ceramics classroom: “I‘m an artist.”
- Female student, sitting by a window: “I‘m a counselor.”
- Male student, standing with a hand on a piano: “I‘m a musician.”
- Female student, sitting at a desk with a laptop: “I am an accountant.”
- Female student, standing outside a computer lab: “I‘m an entrepreneur.”
A grid-pattern montage of all 12 students appears, with the words “We are all Mastodons” in the center of the screen.
All students: “We are all Mastodons.”
V.O.: When you Make Your Mark,
Brushstrokes paint on the Make Your Mark logo, with the words stamping in time to the voice-over.
V.O.: Mastodons everywhere can make theirs.
The Make Your Mark logo disappears, replaced on a gray, brushed background by the pfw.edu/give URL and Day of Giving logo.
V.O.: Go to pfw.edu/give to Make Your Mark.
All students: “We are all Mastodons.”
V.O.: When you Make Your Mark,
Brushstrokes paint on the Make Your Mark logo, with the words stamping in time to the voice-over.
V.O.: Mastodons everywhere can make theirs.
The Make Your Mark logo disappears, replaced on a gray, brushed background by the pfw.edu/give URL and Day of Giving logo.
V.O.: Go to pfw.edu/give to Make Your Mark.