Sunday, December 2, 2012

Documentary Ideas

For my documentary I plan on working with Max. We both have recently become really fascinated with all aspects of video. We plan on doing the C-SPAN documentary contest that requests a response to the question: "What’s the most important issue the president should consider in 2013?" The $5,000 prize was quite attracting. That's a new camera and a few lenses for each of us. After watching some of the past winners, runner-ups, first prizes, etc., we think that getting some level of recognition is quite feasible. Two kids at our school received honorable mentions last year. 
Our main idea was the declining level of education in the United States and to elaborate on some of the causes. It's an issue that's extremely relative to us as students and leaves us many resources, such as our teachers, principals, other students, and school board members that may hopefully be willing to speak with us.

While briefly discussing this topic with one of our teachers, who comes from another country. She said that the standards for education are much higher in her former country. She's spoken with friends who still live there and teach there who are amazed by some of the things that are part of  or provided in our education. We have increasing class sizes. She said that just about a decade ago kindergarten class sizes were limited to 12 students maximum if there was a teacher's aid present. Her son's class in 2012 is 28 children, over two times what the limit was just a few years ago. There's no doubt that the number of students affects the quality of education being provided. One small thing her friends were amazed by was the fact the teacher provides notes here in the United States, while in that country, students had to simply pay attention and take their own. This obviously seems like a way to keep students' attention and ensure that they're learning, because if not, it's easily seen in their scores on assignments. Even the small stuff counts when it comes to a child's education. We, the children of today, are the future leaders, business-people, etc. Our education is what will help us make wise, educated choices on important issues as to help the world progress.

Other than this, we don't really know what we want to make it about. There's always the possibility of making the documentary about global warming and the environment or maybe disease, poverty, etc. both around the world, and in the streets surrounding the President's home. These issues will always be important and relevant to our nation.




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