Fast Topic and Teams

This week, you must form into Fast for Nonviolence teams and choose a topic.

Team: Teams should be six people. You should not try to have a smaller team. If you are, you are not planning an ambitious enough project. If you need more, you can, as long as everyone in your group has a specific job to do and will contribute meaningfully to your project.

You will be graded individually on your contribution to the project. This will be done by both Mr. Farley and your team. Yes, your team will evaluate your contribution. Those who do all the work will get the credit.

Your team should not just be your friends.

Your team should have people interested, passionate, and able to contribute something to the project.

Our goal for today is to have the teams and topics chosen. We will look at your topics over vacation and recommend changes, if needed.

Topics: Your topic should address a pressing societal issue that affects you or those around you. It can be a large issue but you must also discuss specific ways you or those around you have been affected by it.

Topics such as suicide, animal abuse, depression, child abuse, global warming are too big and have been done over and over.

With each topic you should have a specific aspect of the issue that affects YOU or those around you.

Example: animal abuse: You don't want to talk about the plight of animals everywhere. But if you find a specific, local, event that happened that needs to be exposed, such as an animal that was found, what happened, its recovery, and the societal issue that allows people to do such horrendous things, then that is a good topic. Same with child abuse. Expose something that is now and is happening here in SL. Be specific about a specific event.

Global Warming: unless there is a way this effects you personally, right now, this is topic is too broad.

Each Fast project will include the following:

• One or more videos that take on a social issue important to you. This can be a documentary, or a creative piece. Should contain humor!

• A twitter feed that shows multiple posts per day about the issue.

• A discussion, on video, of the issue between 3 or more people. Must include laughing, opinions, and knowledge.

• At least three graphics, memes, or flyers on the topic.

• A website showing all your work.

• A presentation introducing your cause, your video, links to your website, your social media, your graphics, and your solution.

Timeline for project:

Nov. 17: Have your topic and team chosen. Teams should be from 3-6 people. Give specific people a job to do.

Dec. 1: Voiceover written, 5 shots of B-roll or 5 interviews shot, website started, twitter account started and 3 tweets per day tweeted.

Dec. 15: Rough Draft of video due, website homepage complete, other pages started, graphics complete and on website, 3 tweets per day.

Dec. 21: Video complete, website complete, graphics included in video, website. 3 tweets per day, start presentation (4-8 slides, very little text.)

Jan. 12: Presentation complete.

Jan 15: Presentations in SLAM classes as practice.

Jan 22: Fast for Nonviolence begins!

Jan 26: Fast for Nonviolence ends.