Since our video acts like a survey, we want to capture the person’s whole initial response to our questions. This also means we won’t preface with the novel to not tamper with the responses of our sample. We’ll ask them about it after the fact.  As for how it would inform people about their responses, the novel brings up that the different cliques are geographically separated, so the average person may stereotype based on geography like those in the book. Yes self monitored videos are specifically used to portray a persona that the author wants to portray.

We’ll make consent form for people to sign on. As for editing, the school has editing programs on the computers. The length of the video will depend on how many people we interview. Our ideal time would be 7- 15 minutes.  The format of the video will also depend on how many people we get. Our audience would be people that have read or seen The Outsiders. Our audience would also be anyone interested in social dynamics and stereotyping.  To gain people’s interest, we can include a more outrageous response towards the beginning to make them want more.

This relates to liminality because stereotyping is gained from experience and a lot of initial experiences with groups you may consider different happens in this liminal time.  We can use the political spectrum, such as liberals vs conservatives, to see the correlation. Greasers are described as emotional like Liberals are radical, while Conservatives tend to have a social image is that of the higher class like the Socs. Then we can relate that to people in the middle like Hinton and see where they lean more towards as far as the cliques in the book.

WHAT: We plan to make a video on social perception New Yorkers have on people based on which part of the city a person comes from. People will be approached and asked questions on what they think a person from a certain neighborhood or borough is like. A school would most like bring people together from all over the city, so we might plan to record near school. This will allow us to have more variety in sample size. The length of the video will depend on how many interviews we’re able to get when we record. It’ll be shared on some video sharing website, probably Youtube.

The way it’ll work is we’ll stop people on the street and ask them a few questions like “what do you imagine when you think of someone from Brooklyn?” After all the point of views are recorded we will create a conclusion that will reflect what a general consensus thinks about a group from each said neighborhood or borough.

WHY: A large portion of The Outsiders revolved around self image and the image being from one part of town or one economic standing can reflect the way society perceives you. With a city as diverse as New York CIty, we can probably see the same type of assumptions being made here that were made in the town of the book. Socs were thought of as better than the Greasers based on where they came from the ideas people had from each group. An average New Yorker might have the same sort of opinion based on where a person is from.

We decided to go for a video because it’s become a format that’s easily spread around. You can just click on a link and just watch. Video is also a medium that would most easily be viewed by young adults today. It’s more engaging and you get a picture of the person giving their opinions on camera. We’re also in a digital age, where the average person probably spends more time watching videos on Youtube than actually reading. There’s also the function of the comment section that allows a conversation to be made.