Introduction to Media Writing, Maryville University

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Public Safety Campaign Sources

I found my scholarly source at http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=7&hid=103&sid=33d64flb-2bel-4844-93cl-7. This source had so much information to offer towards our project. In this article they conducted a study on 115 children ranging from age 7-11. The study gathered the children’s views on where electricity comes from. The interesting part about this study and the findings was the gender differences associated with the source of electricity. Girls were less likely than boys to identify what is considered a source of electricity and the connections between the generation of electricity and electrical appliances. All of the information found on this scholarly source will be very beneficial to our project even though our subject matter of our project is younger than the age of those children in the study. We can tie the findings of the study to the fact that our subject matter is a male gender. The reason for conducting the study related to educational alternatives for energy sources. It is obvious that children today are learning more at a younger age due to technology and educational curriculum.

My popular culture source was found at
http://www.myvideo/co.za/video/saving-electricity-with-brothers-streep. This video will help with the filming aspect of our project. Although this video wasn’t videotaping children, it was showing us footage of an in-home video and what can be done to make it look more appealing. When viewing this video, the camera angles, background, and sound were some of the key features that I thought would be helpful in making our project video. I also believe that having a video of taping children, such as the “Cooties” video shown in class, will also be very beneficial for our project.

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