Class Meeting!!

Happy Thursday!

Today the entire school's wifi was down. So, in media class today we really weren't able to work on our projects, but instead we got into a big circle with the whole class and had a group discussion about our projects. Each person was able to share with the class any struggles or concerns that they were having with their project and then the class was able to give collective advice and suggestions.

This meeting was extremely helpful, as it is still early in the project and many people still are not sure what to do. During the meeting, I shared my ideas with the class and asked if my classmates had any input on episode ideas and things I can do to help make my piece more unique and different than other documentaries.

I got a lot of good input from my classmates. My classmates and I discussed excerpt ideas and I may have been influenced to focus my excerpt more on the POV of the school board and how they attempt to deal with the vaping epidemic. I feel that focusing on this might give me a little more room to get different points of views from different administrators and security officers. I could also speak to authority from both high school and middle school. I feel like it would be a lot less repetitive than focusing on parents.

A couple of people also gave me the suggestion on focusing on the POV of health professionals and what they think about the epidemic. I like this idea but I feel that it is a lot harder to execute than the one with school officials. I am going to think more about the school officials one and try to compose a list of questions that I could ask.

I was also told to watch the "Explained" series on Netflix. This series creates relatively short episodes that focus on a range of topics. I plan on watching these later this week and I will probably create a separate blog post that focuses just on me analyzing the series.

So, until next time!

xoxo, Sophie