- Opening Section and Attention Grabbers:
- I want my opening section to be clips of college athletes playing sports. I think this will be a great clip to get the audience interested. Then I want to phase out and talk about all of their perks and show their facilities compared to regular non-athlete facilities and "perks"
- I think that having a cool sports clip at the beginning will really interest my readers. IF you are going to be watching a video on the compensation of student athletes, you have to be interested in sports.
- Body Sections:
- I want to talk about the admittance process, and how it is easier to get accepted if you are an athlete even if you don't meet the academic requirements
- I then want to talk about the perks that student athletes get and how much more they get for being athletes. Basically, how they are treated like royalty.
- My third point will be about how the NCAA makes billions, but the money gets reintroduced into different sports and education.
- My fourth point will be explaining how much money athletes bring into the school, but how that money is allocated for education and for scholarships that can be given to kids who are smart but can't afford college.
- Closing Section:
- I'm not really sure about this part yet, but I might end with an interview from a student athlete saying why they don't need to get paid and why they are happy with what they already have.
- The larger significance
- Student athletes are already getting enough, and if colleges had to pay them, it would take money from funding education, and scholarships.
- While collegiate sports are a huge deal, they aren't the point of college. The point of college is to get an education, and if schools have to start spending anymore on sports rather than education...are you really going to school anymore? Or are you just going to a funneling system for professional athletes?
- Main Ideas and Evidence:
- Admittance Process
- statistics on how likely you are to get accepted if you are an athlete vs. non-athlete
- evidence shows the advantage of being an athlete
- proves that being an athlete can get you into better schools
- statistics on how many student athletes there are on scholarship
- shows that being an athlete gets you money from the start
- why do you need to be paid if you are getting a free/highly discounted education?
- Perks of being an athlete
- videos and pictures of facilities that athletes get
- shows the perks of being an athlete
- proves that being an athlete has compensation
- how much money/clothing/food athletes get for "free"
- shows the different things that student athletes get for free, that can be worth thousands of dollars.
- proves that even though they aren't getting a salary, they are being "paid" in living expenses that would cost them thousands.
- NCAA
- ban on paying athletes
- NCAA makes billions, but money gets spent on other sports
- proves that even though it looks like a lot of money is being brought in, they are spending it on education and other things.
- O'Bannon Vs. NCAA
- Courts shut down plan to pay athletes
- “The difference between offering student-athletes education-related compensation and offering them cash sums untethered to educational expenses is not minor; it is a quantum leap,”
- Money allocation
- Schools spend just as much as they bring in
- schools are spending the money that they bring in from sports, they aren't making a profit.
- proves that they don't have the money to play the players
- College athletes already make up to $125,000 per year
- Athletes already make thousands of dollars by not having to pay for their education, getting free housing, meals, clothes etc.
- Proves that they basically are getting paid, it's just not money in their pocket
- "The phrase “student-athlete” describes collegiate-level athletes for a reason. Players are receiving an advanced education at universities and colleges that thousands of Americans can’t attend. Plus, they’re getting it on the dime of the university" - The Pendulum
- Most NCAA Div 1 schools don't make enough to even cover their own expenses
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Content Outline
This blog is basically an outline of what I want my project to look like. This is a COMPLETELY ROUGH OUTLINE!!! So it is pretty basic as I am still trying to figure out what I want my project to look like.
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Hi Jianna,
ReplyDeleteI read through your content outline and think you have a great set up so far! Here are a few suggestions to further improve:
1. Have you decided how to transition between the sections? You can run through the whole thing without breaks, but I personally think breaks or changes in presentation are beneficial. Maybe adding music or some kind of text might be good.
2. Have you decided how you are going to incorporate yourself into the project? I have watched a lot of video essays to get an idea of how to shape my project, and it seems like most people decide to do voice-over. But I have come across a few examples where people talk to the camera. In a way, I think this is effective, because people pay more attention when being directly talk to. Maybe you could have a cool shot of you walking across the football stadium or something, summarizing the key points of your argument, then reaching an athlete to ask them that question you mention in your closing section, they can respond, and then you can give a final line or something and end the video essay.
3. I think you have a lot of great information to work with! I suggest you organize the information with how you want to present it. You have the content down, so you should work on form. Maybe in parenthesis include if you want to present that segment as text, picture, video, audio only, etc.
You're doing a great job! Hope some of my suggestions help you next week!