You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

See this teacher's page

This teacher needs your help!

Mrs. Nazareno from Los Angeles, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

See what Mrs. Nazareno is requesting

Illuminating Our Stories: Lights for Cinematic Elements

Help me give my students the best lights to show their analysis of techniques and original skills with film making.

  • $504 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Mrs. Nazareno has another project! Donate to Composing Reflections with Composition Notebooks to help her classroom.

$279 - complete this project and be a hero
Help Mrs. Nazareno

Mrs. Nazareno has another project! Donate to Composing Reflections with Composition Notebooks to help her classroom.

$279 - complete this project and be a hero

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Film allows us the view the world through the lens of other perspectives. The best movies share these points of view with camera angles, light, characters, and more. In my Film as Literature: Cinematic Analysis class, high school students of different ages get the opportunity to learn about these elements. This is the first time this course is being taught at this Los Angeles school, which primarily caters to Latinx immigrant populations. As a result, we have historically deprioritized the arts to focus on core classes. Since this is the first time exposing our students to the beauty of art in film, our lack of equipment has led to a passive interaction with cinematic elements.

My inspired students look for the opportunity to not only analyze film techniques, but to apply them in their own stories.

With your support, we can use the appropriate tools needed for a true analysis and application of storytelling. By using the right techniques, my students would get the rare chance to be as creative as needed in order to be the best filmmakers they can be.

My Project

All the best cinematographers convey mood or emphasis on characters or setting via lighting. However, many students have trouble conceptualizing this knowledge by just watching movies.

With the use of physical lights, my students will get a

hands-on opportunity to understand cinematic elements and to simply have fun with film, instead of doing another passive activity of analyzing someone else's techniques. Not only will they have to use the lights to demonstrate understanding, but also use them to show their own original ideas. I want to give my students the chance to have fun creating something new, something they do not ordinarily get the chance to do in their academic classes. By using the lights, they will apply what they have learned by using top lighting to emphasize subjects or back-lighting to create specific atmospheres--whatever they wish to get their own personal perspectives across in film.

Mrs. Nazareno Alliance Mohan High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mrs. Nazareno

Los Angeles, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

60 students impacted 7donors

Boost your odds

Add a profile photo in addition to your classroom photo. If you add a photo, it'll show up right here on your project page.

You are more likely to receive funding if you put a face to your name.

Upload a photo

Top rated for efficiency and transparency.

You donate directly to the teacher or project you care about and see where every dollar you give goes.

Expand the "Where your donation goes" section below to see exactly what Mrs. Nazareno is requesting.

See our finances

Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Aputure Amaran AL-MC RGBWW On Camera Video Light, CRI/TLCI 96+, Temperature 3200K-6500K, HSI Mode,Support Magnetic Attraction and App with USB-C PD and Wireless Charging • Amazon Business $90.00 4 $360.00

Materials cost

$360.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.94

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$428.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.59

Total project goal

$503.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $503.93

5 Donors

-$381.95

Donations toward project cost

-$326.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.28

match offer

-$119.61

Match offer toward project cost

-$101.67

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.37

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

View complete list Show less

Give the most requested basic supplies

See teacher requests

Give back to your community

Find opportunities to impact local needs by exploring a map of classroom projects near you.

See local area

Project Activity

Project Activity
Back to top

DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

As a teacher-founded nonprofit, we're trusted by thousands of teachers and supporters across the country. This classroom request for funding was created by Mrs. Nazareno and reviewed by the DonorsChoose team.

See how DonorsChoose works
{"pmaHash":"","showProjectRecommendations":true,"leadGenEnabled":true,"hideTeacherDetails":false,"schoolState":"CA","teacherPossessivePronoun":"her","PMsManager":null,"schoolGradeType":{"id":4,"name":"High School"},"TeacherPMForms":{},"completingDonationAmount":0,"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"proposalURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/project/illuminating-our-stories-lights-for-cin/6012350/","mayHaveReplacements":false,"numStudents":60,"teacherScreenName":"Mrs. Nazareno","isEquityFocus":true,"proposalHash":"-1996821898","isApplePayMobileOnly":true,"progressBarPercentage":100.00,"photosPublished":false,"queryString":"","DonorPMForm":null,"schoolCity":"Los Angeles","teachersOnPage":[7506378],"isTeacherViewingTheirOwnProject":false,"minimizedLeadGenEnabled":false,"proposalId":6012350,"proposalMessageFormModel":null,"numActiveProjects":1,"verifyShowPhotos":"","eligibleToBeCopied":false,"authorIds":{"7506378":{"owner":"Mrs. Nazareno","donationSalutations":{}}},"displayedPercentFunded":1.0,"proposalsOnPage":[6012350],"pmaId":"","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7506378_orig.jpg?crop=515,515,x209,y157&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1743005870373","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"currentWorkflowStatusCode":21,"teacherChallengeId":21657357,"isApplePayEnabled":true,"fundedByTarget":false,"activeProject":{"completingDonationAmount":279,"proposalURL":"project/composing-reflections-with-composition-n/9193966/","proposalTitle":"Composing Reflections with Composition Notebooks","proposalId":9193966},"donorIdsForImpactPhotoCheck":[],"teacherId":7506378,"schoolCounty":"Los Angeles","fullyFunded":true,"isStudentLed":false,"isExpired":true,"schoolStateObj":{"code":"CA","name":"California"}}