Proposal

__**PROJECT**__ Description: I will be interning/partnering up with our communications teacher Mr. Meder to aid him with projects along with creating/editing projects of my very own.

Project Outcome or Goal: With this partnership I will gain the knowledge of how to edit, create, glorify, broadcast, and even direct videos and music. With this knowledge I will take the next step in my education process and go to college and major in Communications and use this information to my advantage.

Project Completion Strategies: I will be meeting with Mr. Meder occasionally in order to grasp a better aspect of the communications field. If he gives me projects of his other students to edit or gives me assignments for my own project I will use my d block study halls on day 1 to better organize what it is I need to do.

Project Resources and Materials: In order to successfully execute my project I will need the trust and guidance of Mr. Meder to work on what it is he needs me to do. If I have projects of my own to work on I will need time to work on them( d block study hall)and the use of video cameras, microphones, sometimes students, and computers.

Research Topic: My research topic will enable me to go behind the scenes of the broadcast medium. I will be looking at the biases, the scandals, and the uninformative ways some broadcasting facilities use to inform those watching/listening of events happening in the world. Also I will look at the broadcast medium itself and look at how it truly does affect the population and makes them/us paranoid and makes us worry when things in reality are really not as bad as they seem. Next I will take a look at who truly is behind the most popular versions of the media and get down to the bottom of what truly is going on and how it is affecting the population itself and worsening most of the situations happening in the world.
 * __RESEARCH__**

Essential Question: How do the most popular versions of media cause public hysteria? What person(s) are specifically responsible for this?

Prior Experience: I know more than the average student about broadcast media, but I must admit I know very little about the media biases. I took a junior internship with the Philadelphia Inquirer so I know about journalism and friends of my family are friends with those involved with the radio and t.v. business.

Research Benefits: My research will show those who will listen, how the media is extremely biased and hopefully I will change the minds of those who believe everything they hear on the radio or believe on t.v. I also hope to confirm the suspicions of some that the media does favor one over the other in aspects of different arguments.

Potential Sources: See "Annotated Bibliography" page for more information.