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Journalism Homework - All Classes

THIS IS A REPOST. The directions on the original post (see inside cut) was to have one person from each group start a thread and keep links to progress and projects inside the thread for their group so that Spider could track your progress. The comments of the first post more or less degenerated into other things, so please use the last post to find teammates if you must, but keep the comments in this one for actual posts regarding your project for the Professor. Thank you.

Long ago, in some of your universes anyway, there was a political push to get children to 'Just say no' to drugs.

Historical Information

One of our staff mentioned to me in passing that it would be a great deal more productive, perhaps, if the negative spin on today's political agendas were positive instead. It was further suggested that it would be far more interesting to run a campaign based on the slogan 'Just say yes' instead of the opposite.

Not to drugs, however. No. That's not how we do things here at Fandom High. ~~*hypocritical cough*~~

Your assignment, due next week, is to produce a poster/propaganda campaign based on the idea of 'Just say yes'. Requirements are at least two posters, some sort of flyer, a spot in the student newspaper or the radio and at least one faculty endorsement of whatever it is that you are encouraging.

The school administration does not support exhorting your fellow students toward sex, drugs, alcohol or violence and there will be no skewing in that direction, unless you are pursuing a satirical slant on the assignment.

Groups of no more than four will be allowed and, as this is an exercise in teamwork, please try to work with someone new if at all possible. Grading will be based on reactions and discussions of your coursework, and non-contributing students will receive a failing grade. I will be the final judge of what constitutes 'contribution'.

You have until 10/21 to put your campaign together and make arrangements. I would prefer it if each group would elect someone whose responsibility it is to make a thread in the comments including links to any discussions and finished products and also links to any public postings. Your campaign should run 10/22 through 10/29.

As usual, combat journalism students get an automatic A if the finished project causes an argument and/or IC conflict once their efforts become public.

With many thanks to

sonofaparrotman for the ideas and motivation behind this assignment.

Please make a comment with the complete listing of everyone in your group when you make your initial post for your group in the comments below so that Spider will know how to grade. Please also remember the underlined portion above, as if he can't track your progress, he will fail you.

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"Okay, I see what you mean. I think that could work."

"So how should we decide who does what and what our main plan is?"

Jessica considers Spider's words: "Requirements are at least two posters, some sort of flyer, a spot in the student newspaper or the radio and at least one faculty endorsement of whatever it is that you are encouraging."

"Well, Veronica is on the newspaper staff, so that could be taken care of easily enough, I suppose. I'll take care of the faculty endorsements if needed. Anyone have the time to do posters or flyers?"

(ooc: my computer is, at the moment, a little too volatile for me to even consider photoshopping a poster.)

"I'll do either, whichever Rogue doesn't want."

[I have Paintshop and photoshop, pull up paint and do a rough sketch of how you want it to look and send that to me with any pics you want and I'll do the posters. I can't promise they'll look great but they'll get the job done.]

"I can do flyers," Rogue offers. "I'm not that artistic."

[[OOC: I have Photoshop, and some skills, so I can do one poster maybe? And a flyer, because a flyer's pretty simple.]]

"We're gonna have more than one design right? How about we do one of each?"

[We'll split it, we'll make two posters and two flyers, that way we each have one of each.]

Rogue nods. "That sounds good.

"So what's our slogan? Just say yes to unportected sex? Bareback is the way to go?" Rogue shrugs, throwing out terms she's heard or remembered from Logan.

"If you pull out she won't get pregnant? Herpes is worth it? You can tell if someone has AIDS? Bareback is the best minute and a half you'll ever have? Eat the meat?" And yet again the military comes in hady.

"I think it'd be funny if it rhymed." Rogue grins. "We could make a cute little jingle!"

"Or a lymric?"

"Hm, well, I've got Beeblebrox's testimonial (I guess you could call it) to start. If we end up modifying our theme to where his statement is slightly off-topic, I can get him to change it."

"Here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/best_bang_yet/354.html?thread=6498#t6498) is the message, by the way."

*mischievous grin*

"Sex. It's a civil service."

"Oh, that's excellent!" Rogue giggles.

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