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JUNE 8 2012
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Susanne Murphy’s actions may have saved several other lives. See Page A5
Burnaby school on hit list
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Ryan Hirakida directed a lip dub video to help build community at Burnaby Central secondary when staff and students moved into the new building.
Central ‘lipdub’ creates school bonding More than 11,500 views on YouTube Wanda Chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
It’s perhaps ¿tting that Burnaby Central secondary’s lipdub video project (http://bit.ly/JMqYmh) started out as two small groups of students with the same idea banding together to make it happen. The result was the ¿rst such project at a Burnaby school, one which helped bond together 1,000 students and teachers during their ¿rst year in a new building.
A lipdub is a music video in which participants lipsynch to a song while the camera captures the entire thing in one continuous take, or at least appears to. Grade 12 Central student Ryan Hirakida, 18, director of the project, said he and members of the school’s student council thought of doing one after seeing the impressive effort by University of British Columbia students. That lipdub (http://bit.ly/ eo1NWl) has so far had 1.7 million views on YouTube since ¿rst being posted about a year ago. Central’s project got off the ground
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last fall when a couple of students from the school’s media class approached Hirakida with the idea to see if there were any student council resources available. “The main focus of ours was just to bring the school together,” he said. “We know it was a brand-new school and we wanted to showcase the building a little bit and also create that sense of belonging to the school, I guess. It felt like we were just students in a brand-new building that didn’t feel connected yet.” Planning culminated in two days of shooting, the ¿rst for three-and-a-half
hours after school and the second, which included all the teachers, for one hour during school time. It took some explaining what a lipdub is, Hirakida said, but ultimately, people responded to the call to “wear your craziest out¿t and just show up.” Hence, the dinosaur and Rubik’s cube costumes. One of the biggest challenges was managing such a large group of people, 200 in the main part of the video and over 1,000 during the bit at the end which was shot in the main commons area. Please see LIPDUB, A3
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A Burnaby school was on the hit list of Angus David Mitchell, who was killed in a shootout with police last week, according to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). Mitchell was the prime suspect in the double murder at Royal Oak Sushi House and the attempted murder of his former landlord, both in Burnaby. On Wednesday, a day after revealing Mitchell had the makings of a hit list of six people and six businesses in his minivan, IHIT revealed more details. While the names of individuals and businesses will not be released, said IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Jennifer Pound in a press release, they have been broken down by municipality. In Burnaby, he planned to target one restaurant, an individual and a school. In New Westminster, there was one person on his list. Surrey had the most targets, with ¿ve—a group home, a restaurant, a gym, a school and one individual. A White Rock security business was also on the former security guard’s list. In Vancouver, Mitchell was targeting a coffee house and one person. In Coquitlam, it was one person and a landscaping business. In Port Coquitlam, it was one individual. burnabynewsleader.com