CVTV: Documentary Update 1/23

 CV 9 Documentary: Week 1 Update Post

The Plan:

For this week of production, I had a simple task to be done. I needed to list out the questions that I was going to ask my interviewees during my documentary. I'll be interviewing two authoritative staff members within the high school that played major roles in the planning and release of the Cumberland Valley School District's Ninth Grade Academy. With these two interviews, I'll be generally asking them the same questions, as the nature of what their roles within the process along with higher amounts of unique answers that could be given will mean that asking the same questions will not lead to the same answers. With that, here is my list of questions that I will be giving to my interviewees. 

1. Who are you and what is your current role in the school?

2. What role did you have in making CV 9?

3.What is basic idea of a Ninth Grade Academy? 

    -This is just meant to be a simple question that establishes what a ninth grade academy is and why one be implemented.

4. How did the idea arise to renovate Good Hope Middle School into the 9th grade academy?

    -Once again, this is not meant to be a very difficult question. I simply want you to explain why it was decided to renovate the old and building and how it was a good idea to do so.

5. What were some difficulties that made planning and organizing CV 9 hard?

    -Example answers could be getting staff reorganized, new bus schedules, creating new/cutting old course options, etc.

6. Could you explain what was new with the CV 9 schedule?

    -Examples answers related to scheduling (when school starts/ends or the lunch periods)

7. What specifically had to happen to certain classes that had to be cut?

    -With classes you could relate it back to specific courses that were taken away or how they were clustered together in some cases like ceramics and 2D art into just Visual Arts

8. What were some classes that only 9th graders can't take?

    -Examples answers include Film, Digital Modeling, Personal finance, Psychology classes, Year Book

9. What kinds of concerns did people have in terms of the 9th graders being separated from the 10th-12th graders?

    -Essentially this is asking about what were concerns that people had about how 9th graders would be isolated. Would they be losing out on not having role models? Would some 9th graders feel lonely because they can only interact with other people from their grade? Would the social development of 9th graders be hurt because they aren't surrounded by other grades to learn from?

10. Would you say the first week of CV 9 went smoothly? Why?

11. How has CV 9 ran over the last semester? Have things went well?

Evaluation:

This was more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I ended up having a couple questions asking relatively the same thing, so I ended up changing them to focus in on specific answers that could be given. So, less broad answers, but more depth. With that being said, I am satisfied with the questions I have now. I think a couple of them could be a little difficult to answer due to the wording of the questions, but I could not think of better ways to ask them. I think the questions are good enough though, because they have explanations that give clarity as to what I'm asking.