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The WILD Foundation » WILD Talks » WILDyouth » Media Matters

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Author Topic: Media Matters
Kat
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Kat Haber
Post Media Matters
on: June 21, 2009, 19:49

You will have the opportunity to conduct interviews at WILD9.

Once you know what you want to say,
how can you say it so others remember your message?

Nine Tips to Help Your Interviews Shine:

1. Stay on message. Use a few key messages and keep saying them consistently.

2. Make positively worded questions. Be upbeat and enthusiastic. No negative language and attitudes.

3. Keep your questions short. Make your follow up questions easy to capture and understand.

4. Keep your questions simple. Limit the amount of statistics, names, acronyms and technical jargon you use. The more complex the subject, the more you need to simplify.

5. Invite telling a story. Help to create a mental picture and leave them with a memorable lesson.

6. Treat your guest with courtesy, empathy and human kindness.

7. Check to ensure that the guest gets it. It’s OK to ask: “Do you see what I’m saying?” And if they aren’t, back up.

8. Avoid speculation or criticism. Talk about what’s real, what you know to be true, and what you might suggest constructively.

9. Wrap-up the interview with the “big picture.” Close the interview by finishing the statement, “If there’s one point that we should remember, it would be… ” and let your guest re-state the most important key message.

10. Ratchet up your enthusiasm.

Above all, have fun!

Kat
Moderator
Posts: 39
Kat Haber
Post Re: Media Matters
on: June 22, 2009, 23:35

Writing Prompts

1) What are some things you have seen around your home that are caused by climate change? (Examples are eroding river banks, changes in wildlife behavior, changes in plants)
How does this effect people in your community?
How does it make you feel?

2) Why is where you are from important to you?

3) If you could hold climate change in one hand, what would you do with it? Squish it like a bug? Scold it? Pass it on to your younger brother or sister? Shrink it? Something that was avoided? What else?

4) Describe the first moment you saw the effects of climate change in your community[/i] or your life. What did it look like? What were the sights, sounds, smells? – show the moment as much as possible.

Photography Prompts

If you do NOT have access to a digital camera, please draw 3+ pictures.
If you DO have access to a digital camera, please take 10+ pictures.
(Then bring the camera with you, or burn the photos to a CD and bring the CD with)

Your pictures can be of anything in your community that will tell your story visually. You can tell your story with words, think about how you would tell the same story with photos... take pictures of those ideas/places/people.

For example:
• Your Family
• The environment in/around your community
• Things you would miss if climate change altered your community and surrounding habitat
• Things in your community that might be contributing to climate change
• A wind turbine, a solar panel, hydroelectric generator

Kat
Moderator
Posts: 39
Kat Haber
Post Re: Media Matters
on: June 23, 2009, 01:03

Slam Poetry, Climate Change and Robert Redford Speaks

Check out this link from NPR of bold slam poems about Climate Change.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92584973

Matt
Administrator
Posts: 14
Matt Peters
Post Re: Media Matters
on: June 23, 2009, 09:39

Kat,

These are some great interview tips. As more people join us on this forum, we should make sure to start to discuss the types of things we all want to cover at WILD9. We will have video cameras, still cameras, and hopefully some phones so that we can use Twitter. I will be very interested to see what topics people are most interested in staying on top of. If we use this forum to gather our ideas, it will help us plan better.

M

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