Idea
We will be interviewing first time voters at the Jester watch party for the election tomorrow night. The focus of our story will be their opinions/feelings on their first time voting in a Presidential election. We may ask questions such as:
"How much influence in American politics do you feel you have as a new voter?"
"As a new voter, what particular issues in the candidates' platforms were most important to you?"
"What are your expectations for the election?"
At this time, we do not know for sure who we are going to interview, but our plan is to interview one Obama-supporter and one Romney-supporter. We will provide names and political stances in the video.
Text Idea
We will provide a piece of contextual writing to accompany our video online. This text will include background information on the event we covered and the people we interviewed. We will also explain why we felt this event was newsworthy for this project.
Definitely a newsy topic -- I hope you're getting some nice clips right now.
ReplyDeleteFirst-time voters are interesting. What is truly unique about this group of voters? Some post-election statistics would contextualize this story.