My first team and I created our first news broadcast, a live broadcast, about the creation of the assembly line by Henry Ford in 1913. After presenting our live broadcast we were then told to create another news broadcast, only this one we could choose our own topic. The only guidelines we were given was that it had to contain a historical event that took place in the 1920s and the re-creation of a scene from The Great Gatsby. My team and I decided to create a broadcast on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and re-enacted Gatsby’s funeral. Based on the feedback we received on our last broadcast, we added more perspectives to the story and made the distribution of our lines more even. With my second team we were able to create more refined broadcasts, already having experience from our previous broadcasts and a better understanding of the teacher’s expectations. My team and I first created a live broadcast on the collapse of New York’s Bank of the United States in 1931, which was one of the leading causes of the Great Depression. The second broadcast we created was the denial of entry into the US of the MS St. Louis which contained 908 jewish refugees, and also re-created the scene from The Grapes of Wrath when Casy was attacked and killed by two police officers. For the second broadcast, my team and I we were under a major time crunch. We were given a week to write the script, rehearse, film, and edit the historical aspect of our broadcast but only given 3 days for the re-creation of the scene from The Grapes of Wrath that my team and I chose. We were very concerned that we wouldn’t be able to make the deadline, given the time constraint. Instead however, my team and I rushed to write our script and film and were left with time to spare. My team and another team were the only two teams that were able to meet the original deadline of March 9th. We were taken into another room after and reflected on the project. I think my team and I were able to finish on-time because we all collaborated with each other especially well. Overall, this was a very fun project that I learned a lot from!
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AuthorHibah Shafi is a Senior at New Technology High School. Archives
May 2019
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