The Video Team: Klaudia Lopez and Ayjai Watts, Oakland School for the Arts Digital Media Students "This project was really good preparation for what we will be doing in college, like a first commission. We had a deadline we had to meet and this felt like a professional environment.The people at the jazz club really got into it because they knew they would get national exposure. We had done some of our own 30-minute documentaries but the prompts weren't that specific. We looked at social issues. On this project, it felt like everyone wanted to make this good as opposed to us just doing our own thing.

On the set, we had some interesting challenges. We had to move around the audience and make sure we didn't get in the way. Also, since we were on location, technical difficulties were sometimes hard to handle. This was the first time we worked in an environment that was live and active. Things were unpredictable because it was live! But we got it together and produced what we think is a really strong work of art." Ayjai Watts and Klaudia Lopez two of the Oakland School for the Arts students who worked on the 57th Street project