Posted on 10/06/2023 6:26:58 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Did they? I didn’t see them listed as executive producers.
And is that really commendable? Do you realize how much stuff schools send kids out to “raise” money for?
I’m all for kids raising funds in exchange for products or services they produced. But from begging for donations from friends and neighbors? No, not really.
That was fun to watch!
When I was in the 8th grade my honors English teacher who was also my homeroom teacher got special permission to do a quarter on journalism for our honors English class.
Our middle school had never put out a school newspaper before, but we put one out for our class. We had some help and guidance with the layout and printing but did most everything else ourselves, writing the articles, I even did a cartoon and some students sold “advertising” which was donated to the school library. When I got to HS I also worked on the school newspaper both as a reporter, copy editor and cartoonist.
She also got us a guided tour of our local PBS TV station studios.
And she got a crime beat reporter from the Baltimore Sun came to our class. The reporter was an older woman and very old school and a bit “crusty” – LOL. I remember her talking about Five Ws of any good news story – Who, What, When, Where and Why and she told us about a murder investigation she had recently reported on that may have been, well, not exactly “kid” friendly 😊 But boy did I enjoy her talk. She reminded me of one of those gal newspaper reporters from the 30’s and 40’s movies I used to watch – funny and fast talking but no one to mess with. For a long time I thought I wanted a career in journalism.
Then the teacher got in touch with all the local TV stations about helping us film a TV newscast. All turned her down except for the UFH station - Channel 45 that had only recently started an 10PM newscast.
The TV station provided the cameras, lights, mics and recording equipment and brought them to our school library. The also provided help and guidance to us.
We were able to sign up for various “jobs”, even operating the cameras and lights (with help), writing the news stories, creating graphics, makeup and wardrobe, and held auditions for being the on-air talent. It was only 15 minutes long but included a short sports and weather segment and the TV station did the final editing.
It aired only once, on a Sunday morning at 5AM but boy was it an amazing experience.
Those kids should be proud.
They were middle schoolers. The teacher needs to be applauded, and it is in Arkansas. It was outstanding.
You might be *really* surprised at how many movies have been made that get finance by begging donations from friends and neighbors :-P
(I've made a few films in my time. Had to fund them all out of pocket. If Kickstarter was around then I would have funded it that way and list every contributor in the credits. Oh well. We learn.)
Uh, no—I realize that.
But I’m not for raising kids to beg.
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