Once I had decided on how I would make my podcast, the next thing I needed to do was write the script for my podcast. I had already made a vague layout of the way I wanted the podcast to go, while I was designing it:
- 2 or 3 seconds video shots of various teens saying "Hello. I'm a jock. I'm a nerd. etc. etc. etc." (Scripted)
- Switchover to myself on video, explaining how many teenagers are categorized into groups, a fact that is accepted as "common knowledge" by most teens (Scripted).
- Quick interview of people defining themselves as belonging to a certain stereotype and how their daily life is affected by this characterization (Unscripted).
- Switchover to myself, explaining how many teenagers don't fit inside any of these groups which are often more of a fashion statement than a way of living (Scripted).
- Short scripted interview of someone who believes they don't belong to any stereotype, and who thinks many other people don't either (Scripted).
- Credits for all the people who were interviewed.
Writing the script was then rather easy, especially since I had a lot of ideas on the subject of teenage stereotypes. I used Word and simply wrote all of the scripted parts you can see above. I had planned to do this during one class period, but it took me a little longer so overall I used about two technology classes.
My next task was to find people to interview for the unscripted interviews, and one person to read out the scripted interview. I wanted to focus on how my age group experiences stereotypes, so I asked those of my classmates who I thought were most likely to be stereotyped. Not everyone accepted, but Elise, Jiri and Kyu agreed to being interviewed about their respective stereotyping experiences. I was happy about that, because as we are a majority of girls in the class I was afraid I wouldn’t get any opinions from boys, but that turned out fine. Sonya agreed to record the unscripted part for me.
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