Description
Find a person in his/her fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, or nineties and likes to talk. Interview the person about their experiences with twentieth century (1930s on) mass media experiences. Use the attached questions as a starting point. When you have completed your interview create a google slide presentation with your findings on what mass media looked like for your interviewee. Screen record your presentation and submit it to Canvas. (Presentation should be around 2 minutes and no more than 5 minutes in length.)
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Interview Project
Assignment:
Find a person in his/her fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, or nineties and likes to talk.
Interview the person about their experiences with twentieth century (1930s on) mass
media experiences. Use the attached questions as a starting point. When you have
completed your interview create a google slide presentation with your findings on what
mass media looked like for your interviewee. Screen record your presentation and
submit it to Canvas. (Presentation should be around 2 minutes and no more than 5
minutes in length.)
Presentation:
Include the following in your slide presentation:
1. Your Name
2. Name and where your interviewee grew up
3. Career
4. Break Mass media into:
1. Sound Recording
2. Radio
3. TV/Cable
4. Movie
5. Conclusion
Starter Questions
Sound Recording:
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What records did you listen to? Who was your favorite recording artist?
What kind of record player did you have, and where was it in your home?
Was there any kind of music you weren’t supposed to listen to? Why?
Were you allowed to play music whenever you wanted, or were there parental
limitations in your home?
How much did a record cost?
Where did you buy your records?
How did you find out about the artists you listened to?
What did your parents think about records and record players?
Radio:
● What do you remember about your experiences with radio?
● What kinds of programs did you listen (entertainment, music, talk, etc.)?
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When were they on, and why did you like them?
Do you remember anything about the early radio commercials?
Do you remember any public concern about radio commercials?
Do you remember any educational radio programs?
What technical problems did you experience with your radio set?
Do you have some specific memories (good or bad) about listening to the
radio when you were young? What are they?
● What was it like when FM radio became available?
Television/Cable:
● What was it like when TV became available?
● Where did you watch your first TV programs, and what was the viewing
experience like?
● How much did your family’s first TV set cost, and what factors figured into its
purchase?
● What was reception like?
● What was a typical family viewing session like?
● How did TV change your home life?
● What do you remember about the corporate sponsors of TV shows?
● What (if anything) do you remember about the quiz-show scandals?
● What do you remember about the first thirty-second TV commercials?
● How do your television experiences in the 1950s compare with your television
experiences now?
● If you have it, how did you decide to get cable or satellite TV? What factors
went into this decision?
Movies:
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What were your first movie going experiences like, and how were they
different from today?
What were some of your favorite films growing up, and why?
Do you remember anything about Al Jolson and the first talkies?
What do you remember about the excitement surrounding Gone with the
Wind?
Were there films your parents forbade you to see? What were they, and why
were you not allowed to see them?
What films were the most influential for you?
Interview Project
Criteria
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
SLIDES
Slides are presented in an organized manner. Slides have
information and pictures to enhance content.
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
SOUND RECORDING
Information about sound recording through time was
presented well and mastery of understanding how sound
recording in the past affected mass media is present.
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
RADIO
Information about radio through time was presented well and
mastery of understanding how radio in the past affected mass
media is present.
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
TV/CABLE
Information about TV/Cable through time was presented well
and mastery of understanding how TV/Cable in the past
affected mass media is present.
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MOVIES
Information about movies through time was presented well
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CONCLUSION
Concluding slide wraps up understanding of mass media
through time.
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