Professional Example

1. It doesnt stick with one scene for too long which makes it easier to watch even though its educational. This technique works because when theres one thing on the screen alot or something interesting isnt happening then your crowd often loses their attention and dont get everything your video has to offer.

2. The message is to talk about whats happening under the sea like the wildlife, and the archetecture of the rocks and the sea floor. I know because its what the whole video is talking about

3. This is intended for anyone who is interested there is no set age limit. You know because its not over simple and its super complex, a third grader can learn something and its complex enough for a high school student to learn something from it.

4. They all flow together nicely and gives off the message in an easy way to understand and fun to watch.

5. Facts that flow together to sound un scripted, it was used to make a topic more interesting and more educational so you arent bord while learning about whats going on under the water.

6. I chose this video because its from national geographic which is a company thats famous for its documentaries about animals and wildlife and i thought it would be a great video to get some ideas from. Why not take some tip from the best right?

Newspaper and Media Saves the Beach

In the newspaper we covered how to write a current informational article to get all the info out to the reader in the easiest and least amount of words. For media saves the beach something that i can use from the newspaper is getting all my ideas out quick and to the point to make my project more enjoyable. I learned how to make things sound more interesting than they really are with word choice and placement as well. If i decide to make a documentary word choice wont really help that much but getting all my ideas out quick is something good i can do. Bottom line getting info quick and word choice will be something useful for most of the different products that i could do.

Media Saves the Beach People Groups and Organizations

surfrider http://www.surfridersd.org/BWTFabout.php

Donna Wolf
she is the volunteer coordinator, she would know alot about volunteering to benefit the beach and what people can to do help.

San Diego Coast Keeper http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/

Alicia Glassco, Marine Debris Coordinator
I presume that she would know the most about trash and waste in the water


Bruce Reznik, Executive Director
Seeing as how he is the boss of the company its safe to assume that he knows a great deal about what his team is doing to help the ocean and how the organization works.




Council:

Sherri Lightner http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd1/

she is the council member for district 1 and she wants to to preserve and enhance our quality of life, to protect our coastline and other natural spaces which is what our project is about so she will be pleased to see our final products.


Kevin L Faulconer http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd2/index.shtml

works in the fields of tax dollars and coastal services and protection. and is passionate about it.


Donna Frye http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd6/index.shtml

judging just by her page she is mainly serving the ocean and its well being and knows a lot about how to save it

Media Saves the Beach Plans, Ideas, Critiques, and more

From Brent's blog questions, i saw the idea of interviewing people of their thoughts when they saw what was happening instead of what they know about what is going on. On my own project i was just thinking of asking people if they know whats going on not how they feel about it. if i end up doing a documentary i will take their feelings into consideration.

http://bspringer-brent.blogspot.com/2009/10/msb-questions-and-resourses.html


From D'Vaughn's blog, I realized that we aren't just limited to beach protection organization and people on the beach for interviews. we can use government and people of power to strengthen our arguments. If i end up doing a movie or even a photo essay it would be valuable to get the input of someone on staff for the city.
herewego-dmccrae.blogspot.com

From Hallie's blog, I realized that it wasn't only fish and small bird being affected by the pollution in the water. Her blog posses the question of how does the trash affect the larger animals such as whales and i never thought about that because they aren't as often talked about when it comes to pollution. If at all possible i might change one of my questions to have something to do with trash in the larger animals.

http://halliechavis.blogspot.com/

Possible Media Saves the Beach Products

Photo Project:

A photo project that answers the question of the seriousness and effects of the run off in san diego.


good example: mediasavesthebeach.org photo essays yoselin lopez.



Her artist statements are all pretty good and on track and most of them are to the point and don't drag on. They look like each one went through numerous critiques and fine tunings to get them where they are on the final product. Each picture looks well thought out and planned none really look staged.



Documentary:

I prefer not to work with movies but if the photo essay doesn't work out then i will do a video documentary of everything that happens when it rains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5xBCrbax0s

This documentary is easy to watch because its fast paced. on my documentary what i can do is have music going in the background the whole time just to keep people listening. Its good in a movie to have movie instead of the whole thing be talking. this has interviews with a wide variety of people normal and professional.

Media Saves the Beach Questions and Resources

How serious are the affects of runoff and littering?

how does littering affect us as humans?
how much does runoff affect the overall quality of the beach?
ways to lower damage done by trash and runoff

http://www.portofsandiego.org/environment/stormwater.html

http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/12-05/water-pollution-effects.htm

http://www.cee.vt.edu/ewr/environmental/teach/gwprimer/group18/urbanr.htm



i know that i want to do a picture project because there is less room for technical errors. the three articles give me info on what is run off, what are the different types of it, what worsens and helps it and how we can do to stop it. its a small but good collection of articles to start out with

Industrialization and Coastal Environments

"In a striking change of direction, the California Coastal Commission yesterday voted 8-4 to give San Diego its third exemption from pollution standards set by the federal Clean Water Act."


Issue: California Coastal Commission voted giving San Diego third exemption from pollution standards.

Whats missing: theres only 1 interview from someone who voted and she cant speak for everyone. this article needs to have in my opinion at least 3 or 4 of the people who voted interviewed.

Follow up: What san diego is going to do next. are they going to go at it again with another vote are they just going to accept that it got declined, are they going to raise the san diego standards a little but not enough? theres quite a few things that they could write about next.

Questions Media Saves the Beach

1. Effects of trash on animals linking to humans. I'd like to talk about how the animals are trapped and injured by our trash in the ocean and how the animals we eat out there can affect us after being affected by trash.

2. Sunset cliffs on the residential area. I don't really know too much about it so I want to know what the big deal is and I know that most people don't know whats going on either so its a good opportunity to inform people whats happening.

3. Chain reaction of trash on the street with the rain and the ocean. Everyone is talking about it like its a huge deal but i want to do some research and find out what is really going down.

Civil War Still Happening

“YOU DUMB NIGGERS WE’LL KILL ALL OF YOU!”
“BRING IT ON CRACKER I’LL SEND YOU TO HELL!”
In southern United States, these are the types of conversations you will find between whites and blacks, KKK and BBB, skinheads and gangsters. All the groups have different names, but the same cause, to be the better race, and to eliminate the inferior races. Most of the hatred links back as far as the civil war and judging by the hostility of the people the war is still going on.
The two races would go to the extreme to protect what they consider theirs. They kill each other over race, power and respect to prove their superiority. In the story Confederates in the Attic, (chapter: Dying for Dixie) a portion of this hatred is displayed when a high school student is murdered by some of his black classmates. He got murdered for what? Money? Disrespect? None of that, he got killed for hanging the school flag out of the back of his pick-up truck. Granted, the school mascot was a rebel so their flag was the confederate flag, something that offends blacks, but nonetheless it was their school flag. Michael Westerman think twice about it, the flag was just something he grew up with. To the blacks it was an offensive signal toward them.
This quote from Mr. Westerman “They say that war ended a long time ago. But around here it’s like it’s still going on” suggests the idea that after all these years of racism, people aren’t willing to come to some form of compromise. The war has long since been over, but the people of the South are still at war with each other for small petty things that don’t even matter, things like flags, ethnicity, and religion. Because of all the tension between races a number of clans, gangs, and organizations have been started. These organizations are like modern day confederate and union. They keep the civil war going today by causing all sorts of hate crimes and executions. As always it’s blacks vs. whites
In Tony Horwitz’s journal when he explains his trip to the sight of Michael Westerman’s murder, he describes himself going into a biker bar. In this bar he finds bikers, skinheads, white supremacists, and just all around mean people. He was treated with hostility and hatred. He asked a simple question to a patron at the bar and the patron was ready to start a fight over this small harmless question. His question was, “What does the acronym FTW stand for?” He was answered with threats on his life that sent him scrambling out of the bar. These scenarios happen every day at these types of bars, it’s not in some distant land and it’s not a thing of the past it’s happening right now.
Things like this happen everywhere, but in the southern America it happens more than other places and the roots of all this hatred can be traced all the way back to the Civil War times, back when blacks were slaves and whites were fighting over the future of blacks in slavery. The war lasted for 4 years, Union vs. Confederates. Millions of dollars were spent on the campaign for both sides of the battle. At the end of the war the Union was victorious but both sides were at a huge financial loss. After years the Union states recovered and flourished again. As for the Confederate states, they recovered slightly but after all these years they still aren’t fully recovered
Hate crimes, gangs, and race related killing happens everywhere, in some sections it’s even more prominent than in the South. The only difference between the South and other places that have all these crimes going about is their roots. The South still has great pride for the confederacy and still wave Confederate flags.
To some in the south the flag is a sign of patriotism but for blacks, its a sign of white supremacy and racism. In other words, to a black man the confederate flag is a threat. It’s saying that they support slavery, in some black people’s minds.
The South has too much pride to care for the people that actually live there hatred and killing happens everyday and there’s little that anyone can do to stop it. The states are just too broken from the civil war and recovery doesn’t seem like its going to be in sight any time soon.

Works Cited

Horwitz, Tony. "Dying For Dixie." Confederates in the Attic Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York: Vintage, 1999. 89-125. Print.

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