Proposal

For my 20% project, I plan on participating in CSPAN's StudentCam 2016. My project will consist of creating a five to seven minute long video on what issues I want presidential-hopefuls to discuss. The goal of this project is to create a video that inspires people to think and ask questions that will be significant in the upcoming presidential election. Though there are prizes involved, I am doing this out of my own interest in politics and law. For this project I will have to thoroughly research the issues that are the most important to me. The first issue that comes to mind is campaign finance reform and the Supreme Court's opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Another issue I will probably discuss is income inequality. The research part of this project will be easy and I will enjoy it because politics has always intrigued me and this is the first election I will be able to vote in. I will, however, have a difficult time trying to address our nation's most important problems in less than seven minutes. It also may be difficult to find a particular video in CSPAN's video library, especially anything pertaining to the Supreme Court. January 20, 2016 is the deadline for this project, which gives me plenty of time for planning/writing, filming, and editing.

During class time I will plan out what I want in my video and then I will start researching and writing. Outside of the class, I will still research but the main focus will be filming and editing. Filming and editing can be very tedious, I do not think I would have enough time during 20% time to accomplish anything significant for the video.