What have we done so far:
Last week we went to Nathaniel Nyaluza High School, got 10 geography students together, had a preliminary/focus group interview with them. We realised that although they have a littering problem, they also have an issue with the boys toilets. However, we focused on the littering issue at hand and Sean took lots of pictures. They are now on holiday and only come back next Monday. We plan on doing much more with the students- there are the plans we aim to achieve along with the photojourn students during the course of next week.
Ideas:
A) PSA (featuring a radio drama in it) -this will be the first package/soundslide and we aim to:
1. Intrigue 2. Informative 3.Call for action (done by the guy who leads the campaign from Nyaluza school) Basic idea for the psa will be about the effects of littering especially outside the school and how in the school the responsibility shouldn't lie on the cleaner but the students themselves. A script will be made before our prac on Thursday and will be given to Sean and Kim to read through and see if it'll be feasible from the photojournalist point of view.
B) Assembly: we are planning on playing the psa at Nyaluza's assembly. This will in turn create the awareness, hopefully the drama students from Nyaluza will join and act it out at the assembly. This will be documented to form the second package/ soundslide
Our deadlines: October [next week]
6th- Get hold of Mrs Batyi the geography grade 11 teacher and ask her to get a few student who may be keen to help with our anti-littering campaign project. The students will make others aware of the issue and journal that whole week about the challenges to in their school. Also get hold of Steader Nktwinti the drama teacher, he can also get 2 or 3 drama students who can help with the PSA.
7th: Go to the school [during journ lecture] identify hopefully 15 students and speak to the students about the project and the objectives. I'll address the drama students and hopefully give them the script so they can rehearse for the recording happening on Saturday/Sunday [11-12th]. Some other students will go off and paint bins, do the carbon footprint etc. We'll give them journals so as to document the process etc.
8th: the painted boxes will be distributed throughout the school, students will separate into different grades and speaking/challenging students to use the beens. During first break reactions, comments will be recorded and captured via camera.
9th: Thursday afternoon drama students come rehearsed to record PSA, pictures will be documented. 10-11th we put it together, on the 12th we meet to review and plan for the following week ie the assembly and the procedure
Week of the 13th: get students to speak at Assembly, play PSA or done live by drama students. 10 minutes is used to pick up paper around school and that will be captured to make second package. Also get Mrs Bikjie to say a few words, along with some other teachers.
Things to do/checklist:
*We will get hold of the teachers and assembly timetable this week
*Script will be done Wednesday night/Thursday morning 8:30 til 11:45. Need to have meeting with photographers before Friday. I will get someone to assist with recording the PSA with drama kids ie direct etc...
Things to buy: refuse bags, 20 boxes [PnP], 5 big bins, 15-20 A6 journals and pens
Checklists need to be done, especially incorporating Sean's grass/river cleanup idea-how do we fit into the plan and do we have enough time?
