Video Story Idea - Alex, Cori, Omar

Video Story Idea

Recently, A&M left the Big 12 Conference. For our project, we wanted to focus on changing traditions, from the longstanding Hex Rally against  A&M to a new rally against Texas Christian University. We will focus on the reactions of students and others to the new rally and the idea of creating a rivalry against TCU as opposed to the rivalry, over a century old, against the Aggies. A little bit of comparison to the old tradition would be involved, but the project will focus on the present and future of this new change here at UT. As an issue that isn't currently that well known, we would like to bring this to light and present something interesting and new to those involved and to our viewers. 

The text component involved would be a companion piece to the video, telling the same story and using the same interviews and quotes as the video, while being more than just a transcript. Sound bites that we do not use in the video for time constraints or other reasons could be developed into fuller story with more detail. This would enable viewers to get more information if interested.

Subjects/organizations to use:

1. Interviews with students; street interviews to gauge the opinion of random people on this issue; this would give a good impression of what the student body as a whole might think about this change

2. Members involved with Texas Exes (the initiators of the change and new plans for TCU rallies)

3. Interviews with those experienced with the A&M hex rally; i.e. Cheerleaders, members of spirit orgs, etc.

Bonus: find some Aggies, see what they think!