Thursday, January 17. 2019

Today's schedule is DCBA

A & D Blocks Human Geography - Today we will be going to the Library/Learning Commons for another day to work on your Inquiry Project. Today, consider the questions below in preparation to present your Geo-Inquiry Story to the audience you have selected.

1. Who is the audience for your Geo-Inquiry Story?
2. What method will you use to share your Geo-Inquiry Story with them?
3. How will you grab their attention?
4. What is your pitch? This should be a brief description of what you did, why it is important, and how they can help.
5. How will you use your Geo-Inquiry Story?
6. What are your arguments to influence your audience?
7. What is your call to action?
8. What do you want your audience to do when they leave?

So think about what you're presenting and craft how you wish to tell your inquiry story. I will bring rubrics into the learning commons for you to to see what people will be looking for in your presentation.

B Block Criminology - Today we'll watch the fictionalized version of the Russell Williams case from Law & Order: Los Angeles "Silver Lake". This episode aired on April 16, 2011...that's 6 months after Russell Williams plead guilty.

To film a television show (like a 1 hour drama police procedural) takes anywhere between six to eight production days. A day normally begins at 6 am and runs 11 to 13 hours long. It takes between 60 and 96 hours to produce 44 minutes of program content (for a 60 minute television show). That's just filming - don't forget the pre-production work which includes: script writing (when given an episode, scriptwriters are expected to turn out their draft in one to two weeks); story boarding; scouting & securing locations and location prep ("shooting" not on studio or sound stage means scouting out placers to film); casting talent and rehearsing...all told between 3-4 weeks. Then there's post production work too (editing and sound) which typically takes two to three weeks to edit a one hour, action-adventure TV show. It is important to note that with a TV series, different episodes overlap. One show is in pre-production (the writing), another episode is in production, and another is in post production.

So, NBC "ripped from the headlines" the Russell Williams story literally as it was happening. If you think that's fast consider that NBC's Dateline aired "Conduct Unbecoming" on Friday, February 18, 2011 (4 months after his guilty plea) and CBS aired the 48 Hours episode "Name, Rank, Serial Killer?", the one that we watched yesterday, on April 9th, 2011 (the L&O:LA episode aired one week later!).

So we'll watch the episode (pay careful attention to the interview/interrogation) and then I have two questions for you to answer (from yesterday):

1. Do you think the news coverage of Col. Russell Williams' sentencing was too sensational? Do you think the court was right to release so much information and that the Canadian press were right to publish it all, or do you think that there is such a thing as too much information, and that there are some details we really don’t need to know?
2. How did the Canadian and American coverage of the Russell Williams case differ? Use the the 48 Hours episode "Name, Rank & Serial Killer?" as well as the Fifth Estate episode "Above Suspicion" as your sources of information.