Showing posts with label reb'l. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reb'l. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Land Dispute: The Future of a Piece of Austin Realty
Here is the link to our video. Please keep in mind that the interested parties were unavailable for comment.
Between U.S. 290 and State H.W. 130 lies some hot property. Over 161 acres, this piece of land is at the center of a major Austin conflict. Republic Services, a waste disposal company and owner of Allied Waste, is currently using the land with permission from Travis County. Their contract expires in 2015. But Republic Services wants to extend its contract and build a recycling plant on the property- a plan that disrupts the City of Austin's proposal to make the area a new town center. One of the developers of this Imagine Austin plan is Pete Dwyer; he already owns extensive property in the area and has been developing a neighborhood (Wildhorse Ranch) adjacent to the land in question. Dwyer believes that having a recycling center in the area will bring down current property values and discourage potential homeowners.Friday, April 5, 2013
Video Story Idea
A)By November 2015, the city of Austin wants to annex the land in the southwest corner of Highway 290 East and State Highway 130 as part of their Imagine Austin initiative to create a "major activity center" with businesses and residential areas. But the problem is that someone's already beaten them to that land and has ideas of their own- BFI Allied Waste Services (owned by Republic Services)wants to build a recycling plant and a transfer station for garbage trucks there.
B)The structure of our story will be like a news package. We want to start off by introducing the problem to our audience (Austin residents using a voiceover. A slow pan of the plot of land in question will be combined with shots of an existing recycling plant, juxtaposed with a quiet view of the neighborhood that will be affected.We'll then let each side of the conflict get a chance to defend its ideas in interview format, and ask some of the residents close by what their opinion is. We'd also like to tie in the issue with the environmentally friendly aspect of Austin and posit whether the city will eventually allow the recycle plant as part of it's Keep Austin Green program. B-roll shots of people using their own grocery bags and bike lanes will be used towards the end of the video as the voiceover questions the eventual environmental impact.
C)Our text component will explain the details and background history of the ownership of the land. We can also give statistics about how much potential waste could be diverted from landfills, etc., and perhaps even statistics on population growth in Austin to explain the need for more development and housing. We can also explain the process of deciding who has ultimate ownership of the land and include links to the appropriate websites.
D) Some potential interviewees are :
1.Pete Dwyer,a developer of Wildhorse Ranch which is one of the city's planned neighborhoods. He has a vested interest in the city annexing the land.
2.Lee Kuhn, regional general manager for Republic Services. It's his job to positively represent the recycle plant and there'd be little reason for him not to share the company's desires with the community.
3.Robin Schneider, executive director of Texas Campaign for the Environment. Schneider is an outside source who is still waiting to see if whether having recycle plant or creating a city center would be more beneficial to Texans.
B)The structure of our story will be like a news package. We want to start off by introducing the problem to our audience (Austin residents using a voiceover. A slow pan of the plot of land in question will be combined with shots of an existing recycling plant, juxtaposed with a quiet view of the neighborhood that will be affected.We'll then let each side of the conflict get a chance to defend its ideas in interview format, and ask some of the residents close by what their opinion is. We'd also like to tie in the issue with the environmentally friendly aspect of Austin and posit whether the city will eventually allow the recycle plant as part of it's Keep Austin Green program. B-roll shots of people using their own grocery bags and bike lanes will be used towards the end of the video as the voiceover questions the eventual environmental impact.
C)Our text component will explain the details and background history of the ownership of the land. We can also give statistics about how much potential waste could be diverted from landfills, etc., and perhaps even statistics on population growth in Austin to explain the need for more development and housing. We can also explain the process of deciding who has ultimate ownership of the land and include links to the appropriate websites.
D) Some potential interviewees are :
1.Pete Dwyer,a developer of Wildhorse Ranch which is one of the city's planned neighborhoods. He has a vested interest in the city annexing the land.
2.Lee Kuhn, regional general manager for Republic Services. It's his job to positively represent the recycle plant and there'd be little reason for him not to share the company's desires with the community.
3.Robin Schneider, executive director of Texas Campaign for the Environment. Schneider is an outside source who is still waiting to see if whether having recycle plant or creating a city center would be more beneficial to Texans.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Soundslide Post
https://webspace.utexas.edu/reb2777/publish_to_web/index.html
Have at it y'all. This took way too long to accomplish.
Have at it y'all. This took way too long to accomplish.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
First Day In the Lab
Hellooo J 302F!
Raven here, reporting to you live from the Communications Computer lab. We're discovering Blogger today and though I've never used it, I have to say it isn't exactly rocket science. But the Big-Wigs in charge of the Comm school thought this class was important enough to make it required-I guess my generation is showing.
Now we all know that everyone in this section is a Journalism major, and right now I'm sitting next to the lovely Julia Farrell and Haley Cavazos. They're both freshmen (and it seems that as a junior I am the sole exception to that trend in our lab section). Funnily enough the two of them are also both dancers, interested in everything except ballroom dancing. I've got two left feet, so Kudos! to you, ladies. Julia is a fellow Houstonian, and Haley hales from Frisco, Texas.
Being that this is a journalism class, no blog post would be complete without a reference to actually news. I'll keep it real here and give you the link some top quality news sites:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.npr.org/
And for entertainment news , Jensen Ackles and his beautiful wife Danneel Harris announced that they're expecting at the People's Choice Awards this past week.
Jensen Ackles is know for his role as Dean on the CW's hit series Supernatural, which shows Wednesday nights at 9.8c. That's tonight people! Go watch him be beautiful and scary. Au revoir.
Raven here, reporting to you live from the Communications Computer lab. We're discovering Blogger today and though I've never used it, I have to say it isn't exactly rocket science. But the Big-Wigs in charge of the Comm school thought this class was important enough to make it required-I guess my generation is showing.
Now we all know that everyone in this section is a Journalism major, and right now I'm sitting next to the lovely Julia Farrell and Haley Cavazos. They're both freshmen (and it seems that as a junior I am the sole exception to that trend in our lab section). Funnily enough the two of them are also both dancers, interested in everything except ballroom dancing. I've got two left feet, so Kudos! to you, ladies. Julia is a fellow Houstonian, and Haley hales from Frisco, Texas.
Being that this is a journalism class, no blog post would be complete without a reference to actually news. I'll keep it real here and give you the link some top quality news sites:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.npr.org/
And for entertainment news , Jensen Ackles and his beautiful wife Danneel Harris announced that they're expecting at the People's Choice Awards this past week.
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| I honestly can't figure out who's more excited. But congrats to them both! |
Jensen Ackles is know for his role as Dean on the CW's hit series Supernatural, which shows Wednesday nights at 9.8c. That's tonight people! Go watch him be beautiful and scary. Au revoir.
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