{"id":26190,"date":"2020-04-03T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=26190"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:42:19","slug":"aer06-the-clash-of-the-halls-movie-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2020\/04\/03\/aer06-the-clash-of-the-halls-movie-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Aer06: The Clash of the Halls Movie Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clash of the Halls 2020 kicked off on Monday, March 9th, bringing a flurry of events including the first daily riddle, Think Tank, and the hall movie showings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every year, each hall puts together a movie to showcase their theme. The official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1dC0SZZvM-hCL9BauL2plEGQeHLiwOwchu34rcnp3RAQ\/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g30bdabbd10_0_5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clash of the Halls 2020 Agenda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> states that the movie \u201cis a chance for halls to showcase their creativity and filmmaking skills, all in a 2 minute video.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judges, appointed IMSA faculty and staff, quantitatively score the movies using a preset rubric, which determines the movies\u2019 placing. Then all seven movies are shown to students, and the judges\u2019 rankings are announced. Since last year, the Campus Activities Board has introduced a student voting element, in which the most popular movie as voted by students gets a 75-point bonus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the hall movie showing, controversy arose over 1506\u2019s entry. With their theme of Aer06, 1506 had produced a comedic parody of the safety regulations video shown before an airplane flight. Students claimed that 06 \u201cpulled the script and screenplay verbatim\u201d from YouTube channel nigahiga\u2019s video <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cH4JWABeB9Q&amp;t=119s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honest Airline Commercial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nigahiga\u2019s and 1506\u2019s videos share many of the same concepts and even phrases, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The phrase: \u201cThis is your safety demonstration which none of you are actually going to listen to, but we\u2019re going to do it anyway so you don\u2019t sue us.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A list of annoying airline passengers: \u201cthe person who didn\u2019t learn shapes,\u201d \u201cthe overly friendly guy who talks the whole flight despite seeing you trying to sleep,\u201d etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A scene with the luggage handler talking about a game that\u2019s \u201clike the Mini-Olympics, but with bags.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1506\u2019s movie can be viewed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Va08olTUQBLIzGBv7hzZTOUNFroXGgt6\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (All seven hall movies can be viewed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1Fquo0OO_h-jPl9ywvu3yNVjeIhj7W2B-?fbclid=IwAR28VcT0v-864qYUeSSVnmz0Qq3NFfo6J94Ga0Ka3SLYViOzdSCPcp5lEwo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1506 went on to receive first place for hall movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All hall movies concluded with a credits roll, which usually includes music artists, image credits, and actors\u2019 names. The nigahiga video does not appear on 1506\u2019s movie credits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Clash of the Halls agenda states, \u201cAll contest entries must be purely the work of students of your own hall\u2026 Each contest should reflect the ability of a hall to create and perform <\/span><b>on their own<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d It also contains a rubric for grading the hall movie. The first category is \u201cOriginality and Uniqueness,\u201d which counts for 10 of a possible 40-point score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coordinator of Campus Activities Ms. <\/span><b>Amy Woods<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> stated that she did not believe 06\u2019s movie violated Clash rules, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as there is nothing written that says you cannot draw inspiration from other movies. If it did, several previous movies would have violated that rule.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citing the Clash rules, an anonymous student in 1503 called 06\u2019s movie an act of plagiarism, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think 06 should have gotten first place, and I think Student Life and CAB should deduct points from them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A second anonymous student, who declined to have their hall named, stated, \u201cSince the scores haven\u2019t changed, it looks like Student Life is tolerating plagiarism in Clash, which is just supposed to be a fun contest. Are they also going to allow plagiarism in schoolwork now?\u2026 Rules are rules.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And a third anonymous student compared the controversy over 06&#8217;s movie to 1502&#8217;s theme of the Chocolate Factory. They said, &#8220;A lot of people in 06 are calling [02&#8217;s theme] plagiarism, because they use elements from the original Willy Wonka in their hall decs and stuff. But borrowing elements and borrowing an entire script verbatim are not the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Various students claimed to have informed the Campus Activities Board (the student organization in charge of Clash) and Ms. Woods about the alleged plagiarism. Amy Woods verified this, saying that \u201ca student mentioned [the video similarities] to me as students were leaving after the hall movie event.\u201d The Clash score standings remained unchanged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Erin Yoo (\u201821)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> stated that 1506\u2019s uncredited use of nigahiga\u2019s content was \u201cunfair.\u201d However, she concluded, \u201cI think at the end of the day, most halls understand that 1506 didn\u2019t really get first place, because they cheated.\u201d She pointed out that although 1507 received second place in hall movie (behind 1506), they were still voted \u201ccrowd favorite\u201d at the movie showings, proving for Yoo that \u201cthe official [Clash] standings are less important than what the students think.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy Woods added that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAB has discussed putting more rules in place regarding what is and is not acceptable in hall movies. Next year&#8217;s CAB will ultimately make those edits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most students interviewed requested to remain anonymous for fear of community response to their views.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clash of the Halls 2020 kicked off on Monday, March 9th, bringing a flurry of events including the first daily riddle, Think Tank, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":26076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019],"tags":[1562,1561],"coauthors":[2747],"class_list":["post-26190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews","tag-clash","tag-coth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26210,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26190\/revisions\/26210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26190"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}