Inaugural Post

This is Casey. I'm just making a test post on this blog as a co-author. That is all.

Project Proposal

Project Proposal

Taylor Reed

Casey Killingsworth

I. Title (4/20/2013)

So far, we are planning to stay with the title of 4/20/2013 for our project. We believe this title is straight to the point and very effective for our project. This is our working title for now and we may come up with a different one as we work on the project, however this is likely to remain the title.

II. Members

Casey Killingsworth

·      Samuel.killingsworth@Colorado.edu

·      Undergraduate (media studies)

Taylor Reed

·      Taylor.reed@colorado.edu

·      Graduate (Newsgathering-print)

 Rebecca Irwin

·      Rebecca.irwin@colorado.edu

·      Undergraduate

·      Rebecca decided to leave the journalism program at CU to pursue other career opportunities so she will not be participating in the project

III. Statement of purpose

            We are interested in taking a look at how 4/20 has changed over the past few years. We are looking to see how the school views the event and how the school feels the event reflects on the image of the school. 

            Our group is interesting in looking at what measures the school is taking these year to prevent the 4/20 celebration from taking place. We are curious to see how these security measures differ from the ones taken last year on campus. It would be interesting to see what motivated the school to make changes to the event so suddenly as well as what school officials learned from previous years dealing with the event.

            We are also interested to see what plans CU has for the future of 4/20. It would also be interesting to see if the school includes statistics such as the project cost of preventing the event moving forward.

IV. Scope and Scale

            The scale could be focused on the amount of resources used to prevent 4/20 from taking place on campus.  We also want to look at how the amount of resources used by CU has changed over the years during the event.  It would also be interesting to find out how much different security costs for the event were when it was allowed versus the security cost of banning the event.

            The scope of the project will be to focus on just the CU-Boulder campus, and in particular the Norlin quadrangle.  We would be looking at how security if focused on Norlin, but also how security focuses on other parts of campus where non-students are attempting to enter.

V. Division of Labor (subject to change)

Casey

·      Will handle most of the HTML duty for our website

·      Find sources

·      Interviews

·      Contributing to the writing of the story

Taylor

·      Will create and maintain the project blog

·      Find sources

·      Interviews

·      Contributing to the writing of the story

VI. Preliminary story topics/media needs

Story topics

·      What the school learns from 4/20 each year

·      How security measures change each year and the cost that goes with that

·      How the event reflects CU’s reputation

·      Main concerns for the event this year

·      Future plans for 4/20

Media considerations

·      Less focus on video, more focus on blogging on effective web design

·      Coming up with a list of potential people to interview such as administrators and security personnel

·      How school officials would want the school to be represented and how they would want journalism students at CU to portray the event

VII. Anticipated Barriers/Obstacles

·      Finding people that would be willing to interview on the subject could be a challenge

·      How people would be willing to interview and what type of interview they would do

·      May be a challenge to obtain statistical information on the event, especially from previous years

·      Effectively getting information across to the view with our use of media

·      How to get an audience interested in the information with using video