CineAtlas 60 | Week 3 — Silent Film | [Methodist General Hospital Ituk Mbang/Uruan City]

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I actually felt emotional after watching the silent film because it reminded me of the emotions conveyed when this event happened. Tears of joy, happiness, feelings of loneliness, and completion were what was in the air. If you watch the video, the first 30 seconds will make you emotional if you're a mother.

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So I decided to visit a nursing campus at Uruan in Ituk Mbang, Uruan LGA, Akwa Ibom State, to celebrate with the nursing students on their sign-out as they were writing their final exams. This place is a hospital that has a school for students, midwives, and nurses to learn and practice in the hospital facilities.

It's the only general government hospital in this local government area, and students from different LGA are schooling here. So the place I'm pinning on my map is the hostel area inside the hospital and not the school premises.

So I'll say it's a hospital called Methodist General Hospital, Ituk Mbang, Uruan. This place fits the mood of my silent film because in the video, you can see student midwives in their white uniforms, writing words with markers on their fellow midwives who just signed out. The place is a school environment and a hospital as well, and the mood or emotions in my silent film show the graduation from learning in the school environment to working in the hospital as a registered midwife—from school to hospital.

So it just fits perfectly. To complete a 4-year course in school of nursing is no child's play. This hospital really shaped the students in my film because as they are studying on campus, they are seeing their future in view, which would make them even more serious. And now, they just made it. Who wouldn't scream?

Place	Nursing Campus in Hospital
Name of place	Methodist General Hospital, Ituk Mbang
City	Idu Uruan
State	Akwa Ibom State
Country	Nigeria
Steem-atlas	[//]:# (!steematlas 4.91943262 lat 8.0392538 long Methodist General Hospital, Ituk Mbang d3scr)
Location	Google Maps

Micro-Film Video (20–60 seconds) – Silent Story

Background music	Two songs ... Simple Things & Beautiful moments
Title Card	The Sign-Out Designed using canva
Duration	0.57 seconds
Clips	Three clips

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Description – “What is the silent story?”

The silent story is the happiness and emotions conveyed by registered midwives on their last exams as they sign out from being students to the main RM.

In the video, you can see student midwives stop the car of their fellow midwife, who is a married woman and carried her pregnancy even when studying and writing their final exams. They were just so happy for her that she survived the stress even with her heavy nature. If she could reach the stage of completing her studies in this condition, how much more so without a family to take care of and in such a condition? You can see these students forced her to come out of her car for them to sign out.

"Signing out" is a style Nigerian students adopted whenever they write their last exams. The writing of markers on the uniforms or clothes of their colleagues is a testament that they are done and done. It's evidence that they have achieved a lot after surviving the stress for years. The next clip shows friends who have been together since their first year and now are signing out together. That feeling is just on a different level. I know of people who started with others but didn't end with them.

The last clip shows the lecturers, who are nurses too, signing their uniforms to validate their achievement. The happiness, chaos, laughter, and moments of tears and sadness were just avoidable.

How the viewer can understand the story without dialogue

The viewer that's a Nigerian will know that it's the signing out of student finance for midwives as they wrote their last paper. It's always a day of joy, expressing feelings of gratitude, laughter, tears, and success. The body language of these students shows that they are not grieving.

To those who are non-Nigerians who don't know what's happening, they will still know that it's a celebration of success, achievement, joy, and happiness and discern that these are students. They'll know that these students are happy for something; probably they passed an exam or something. At least they can discern that the silent film shows people that are happy and purposeful.

You would definitely want to hear the video with voices; hearing these students scream will only make you scream too, but the silent film will make you emotional as I am right now.

Conclusion

The beginning and end are when the emotions are mostly expressed and seen.

Comments on other people's posts

Comment 1	Ohhh no, don't know if you can amend this in your video before you're reviewed or scored because the rule says it must be a silent video, but I love the way it's arranged. Like, the person who arranged this can arrange his life.
Comment 2	You know the best selection of songs for a silent film and that makes a lot of sense. The sari sold here and baby wears are just so unique and arranged in an adorable way. I can perceive that the fashion showroom is classy and sells original materials.
Comment 3	The lighting and video quality is ohkay. I love the night sight. Even at night, your video is still sharp and clear. It would have been best if you added sound to your video. A video is interesting when there's a sound even though the voices of characters of background noise isn't heard. But it was optional sha. Still good. ✅✅ Your post is so detailed. Best of luck.

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