Research Question: Why does nuclear energy have a negative perception despite its advantages?
The audience should be able to learn a couple facts about how safe and reliable nuclear power is. The target audience are activists and people looking for reliable clean energy sources. However anyone without any prior knowledge of nuclear energy should be able to learn from this video and have their perception changed. I’ll be presenting the information as a video essay. I’ll first get started by writing a script and then making the video. I can’t find the mentor texts i’ll just choose one later
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ENG 1101 D193 EngComp FALL 2024
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Write the script is next week’s assignment.
FROM THE ASSIGNMENT Option to Create a Video Essay; HEre are the mentor texts to choose from:
MENTOR TEXTS: 10 Video Essays That Will Get You Addicted to Video Essays
Mentor Text: Many Years After: City Tech’s Asian American Stories. (an original City Tech production)
Mentor Text: “Corona Virus Racism Infected My High School” by Katherine Oung (an op-doc)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/Racism-coronavirus-asians.html
Mentor Text: “A Conversation about Racism” (an Op-Doc)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000003670178/a-conversation-about-growing-up-black.html
Mentor Text: I am not a virus: Chinese Italian man protests corona virus-related prejudice
Mentor Text: How Covid Changed Education (video feature report — This is long but you can get ideas)
WATCH LIVE: DISRUPTED — How COVID Changed Education — a PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs Special
Mentor Text: Don’t Be A Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks Don’t Be A Bystander
Mentor Text: Young Playwrights Use Theatre to Fight Gun Violence(PBS Newshour video feature report)
Mentor Text: How to Make your Tiktok Into a Wes Anderson Film
Mentor Text: #1 Way to Strengthen your Mind is to Exercise your Body (Wendy Suzuki neuroscientist)
Mentor Text: The Satirical Resurgence of Reefer Madness (by Yhara Zayd)
Mentor Text: Woke Brands (by hbomberguy)
Mentor Text:Plagiarism and You(tube) by hbomberguy
Mentor Text: Bloodborne A World without Hope by Shinigamieater
Mentor Text: How much it really costs to buy a 1E house in Italy (CNBC make it)
Mentor Text: Democracy by Margaret Atwood (animated video essay — informative — notice use of captions)
If you don’t like one of these — you can find on your own a mentor text — this should be a video essay that you like because you like its structure. You will analyze how it is put together in the HW2 next.
This sounds like an excellent topic for a video essay. You’re tackling an important issue that has a lot of potential to educate and change perspectives. Focusing on the safety and reliability of nuclear energy is a great angle, and making it accessible for people without prior knowledge will broaden its impact. I’m confident your script will make a compelling case.