Grover

Name: Kaitalyn Grover

Guiding Question: Would I be able to successfully create and produce a web show?

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Our mentor, Lisa Stone, will help us with any technical issues we may come across while editing. Again, for any safety concerns: we will have emergency contacts and my dad lives there and will be supervising the trip. We will only film during the daytime and will be "street smart," also I lived in NY for 14 yrs so I know how to navigate the city very well and know a lot about being safe there. Total hrs:285

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 * = May 4-8 ||= Wilmington: packing for trip, making sure all questions are prepared and ready to go ||= 2 ||
 * = May 6-8 ||= New York:filming (Times Square and Midtown), we will create 2 episodes ||= 72 ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">May 20-28 ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">New York: <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 17px;">filming (Soho, Midtown, Upper East Side, Tribeca, Financial Dist. Central Park), Here we will do the bulk of our filming and create 4-5 more episodes (time permitting) ||= <span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif;">192 ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">* ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 17px;">any spare time before May 4 will be used to prepare questions for interviews and "rehearse" which will take place in Wilmington ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5 ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">* ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 17px;">any spare time between the May 6 trip and the May 20 trip will be used to edit and produce the 2 episodes we have previously filmed in New York, this will take place in Wilmington ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4 ||
 * = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">* ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 17px;">anytime after this in the month of May we will spend in Wilmington editing our film and making it into episodes as well as creating a youtube channel for them and posting them ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">10 ||
 * =  ||> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Total Number of Hours ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">285 ||
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Journal 1: We have just finished filming our first webshow, “The Death of Osama Bin Laden.” We have made a few changes to our Plan of Action, but nothing major. We have decided to make longer episodes and only create 3 as oppose to the 5 or 6 we originally thought. It will still require the same amount of hours. During this 1st trip to New York was about 72 hours (3 days). We are answering our guiding question by doing the actual filming of our show. We have discussed all of the elements above with our mentor, Lisa Stone. So far, I feel our experience has been very interesting. We have filmed one episode and learned a great deal about what various people think about Bin Laden’s death. Some people are extremely against him and wished for him to suffer as much as possible, and others are completely against the death penalty. Katherine and I also had to learn the correct way to approach total strangers on the street and ask them politely to be a part of our interview show. Many people declined simply because they were in a rush or busy, and some because they could not be bothered. A great number of people did accept our offer and helped us by giving great in sight on the issue. Overall, it was a very enriching experience for Katherine and myself.

Journal 2: Up to this point, we have completed all of our filming and are moving onto the editing process. We have filmed 3 episodes, “The Death of Osama Bin Laden,” “Would You Rather?” and “Dating and Relationships.” The Bin Laden show is more serious and the other 2 shows are serious questions, but probably appeal to more audiences and are definitely funnier. We have edited and posted 1 video to our youtube channel, “B&G Productions.” The video we have posted is “The Death of Osama Bin Laden.” There have been no major changes to our plan of action, other than the changes mentioned in the previous journal entry. The editing has taken about as long as we thought for our first show, as recorded in the Plan of Action. As of now, I feel that this experience has been very interesting and is something that I probably won’t have time to do at any other point in my life, which was one of my goals. I do not have any major concerns about our progress, because I feel we were on task and got everything completed in the number of hours we planned. I hope everything keeps moving as smoothly as we move on to edit our other shows!

Journal 3: We have finally completed our editing and we have posted all 3 shows to our youtube channel. We followed our Plan of Action almost perfectly, give or take a few hours. Our guiding question is “Would we be able to successfully create and produce a web show?” Our answer to that question is definitely yes. Our mentor, Lisa Stone just had a talk with us about our progress and our completed project and is also very pleased with our work. She also feels we have enough evidence to answer our guiding question and her answer to the question is the same as ours. This overall exploration experience has been productive, fun, and forced us to step outside of our comfort zones a little. We learned how to interact with different types of people, ask questions in a polite manner, and edit and create the web show, which we were having some worries about at first (whether there would be technical issues). Our mentor, Lisa Stone, cleared up small technical problems that we had while using iMovie, but there were no major problems. I am extremely pleased with how our finished products turned out and hope to even create more in the future just for fun! The URL for our web show channel is [|__www.youtube.com/bandgproductionsco__]