Multimedia Reporting Fall 2019

Radio story proposal

For my radio story, my topic is Toastmaster International. What is Toastmaster?
Toastmaster International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a nationwide network of clubs. Toastmasters covered 143 countries and more than 16,800 clubs all over the world. They achieved people well to speak in public. Many businessmen succeed in the complete good presentation during their work. Toastmaster becomes many confident speakers, communicators, and leaders. This is a good program that teaches very knowledgeable skills of public speaking so that they gain the experience of talking to people and get feedback for improving the level of communication.
Toastmaster has many locations in New York City and each of them scheduled at different times. Some of the place meeting once a week, some of our two or three times a week. One meeting in around two hours. The host selects five best presentations and named in different themes for the meeting. The short speaking minimum is three minutes. This part is often spoked by new people who have no experience or the first time speaking in public. The host usually selects five minutes longer to be the next speaking, who had spoked a few times before. They know how to control the time and catch the audience’s attention. After two or three the five minutes length speech, the most knowledgeable which is the best speech of that day should be arranged at the end. The length is around seven or ten minutes. He should have a good experience and skillful speaking to share a meaningful story to audiences. The content of speaking can be a short story, political issue, and global issues.
Toastmaster is a fine subject to record a radio story. The Ambi could be a short interview or the competitor’s speaking. The audiences’ applause, their feedback in the middle of the speaking and people walk in the footstep sounds are all could be a nat. Radioing Toastmaster International that advocates people to know this program if someone has a problem to speak in front. After all, speaking is the basic way to convey information to people. I would like to join this meeting once for a week then find the behind scenes to fulfill the radio.

Radio Pitch

I was able to get into contact with one of the band members of Ü Blue and will be interviewing him on how the band started and what he does. He is a high-school dropout, the owner of a guitar shop in Long Island, and is the lead guitarist in the band.  Ü Blue makes music on Spotify, have public shows in centers, and have many social media accounts catered to their rock music.

Alexis Wanzell-Radio Story Pitch

Pitch 1

At the age that most of my fellow classmates and I are at, there is an ever-evolving want or need to figure out our lives, purposes, goals, and dreams. Though, I felt it would be interesting to analyze this process from an angle of a very close friend of mine that is taking a unique route to her road to success. At just 21 years old, a dear friend of mine is embarking on the film industry. While still in school and working part-time, she takes her pockets of spare time to connect, create, and produce short films. I felt as though it would be interesting to interview her from the angle of what it takes to be so young yet so involved, what it takes to be a part of the industry, and how she is inserting herself into the industry with limited time and resources, though producing impecible products that gain attention and traction. I hope to gain insight into how an un-established artist uses ones’ resources, surroundings, and connections to get their foot in such an ever-evolving industry.

Pitch 2

The New York Coffee Festival is an event that will be occurring from Oct 11-13th in NYC that accumulates variations, flavors, origins, and styles of coffees into one concentrated event. I felt as though it would be interesting to view the event due to New York being such a fast-paced, on-the-go environment and coffee being the sole wake-up factor in a good percentage of New Yorkers’ mornings. What does coffee mean to the city that never sleeps? What does coffee mean to a New Yorker?

Pitches for radio story

Pitch 1

We are soon approaching the 100th anniversary of The Harlem Renaissance. Many descendants of poets and musicians live on to tell the stories of the renaissance. It would be an honor to interview those who have so much to share about this time period, and to also attend any events related to this upcoming anniversary.

 

Pitch 2

Forest park is hosting a fall festival on Oct. 12 with live music, games and plenty of food. The event usually takes place as a community walk but this year, the Woodhaven community kicked it up a notch to include more festivities and attractions. The Woodhaven community board and I have communicated about events in the past and I can reach out to them to possibly interview the band performing, or to just highlight the atmosphere and environment of the festival.

Radio Proposal

For this radio project I hope to highlight a speaker at the Indigenous People’s Day (IPD) event that is going to be held on October 14th at Randall’s Island. The speaker I plan to interview is Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder. Tahnee is of the Kiowa tribe and is an artist and educator. She is a Harvard graduate and hosts the podcast “Curating Indigeneity,” that discusses Indigenous art, lifestyle, and culture. Tahnee also is a lobbyist on Capitol Hill for American Indian Nations and works as a State liaison for the thirty-nine tribes of Oklahoma. I reached out to Tahnee on Instagram and she is open to being interviewed!

While NYC does not officially recognize IPD, this will be the 5th year of the IPD celebration. The IPD event should lend itself well to produce great natural and auxiliary sounds. The event is going to be filled with music, performances, and speeches by natives. It would be great to give a platform to share Indigenous voices and experiences.

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