Swatch
From: Youth Media Project
Length: 00:06:59
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Swatch is the basic old saying "you don't know what you have until you lose it". It tells the story of Trevor and how he comes to meet a girl named Kendra who is really sweet and pretty which is basically his dream girl. Trevor then finds this watch that turns him into a "jock" i guess you could say. He wakes up the next morning and he's buff and cute and etc. Well this gets to Trevor and he becomes someone he's not because of the watch. He gets the attention of the hot girl in the school but loses Kendra. Trevor realizes the watch is bad for him and he returns to his normal self and wins Kendra back. I think Swatch is just a good story overall because when you listen to it, it makes you think about what you have and if something in your life has changed who you really are and if that something is impacting your life in a good or bad way. We wrote Swatch in Santa Fe High School's Film and Radio class. Swatch was a real just go with it piece. At first when we all sat down in front of a dry erase board we had no clue what we were going to start with. We basically started drawing stick figures and started developing the story. By the end of the class period we had our whole piece drawn out on the dry erase board. Then the piece really just took off from there. I think by having the story in a high school setting everyone can relate to the theme doesn't matter who you are. Being a senior in high school i can look back and see how different things have changed me in good and bad ways and i think that everyone goes through this and can relate to the pie
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Posted on August 19, 2008 at 12:51 PM | Permalink
Review of Swatch
Finally! A youth radio team that breaks away from the conventional personal essay that seems so popular and over-done on the youth radio airwaves. Santa Fe Youth Radio has produced something extraordinarily refreshing with "Swatch".
"Swatch" is a radio drama that explores the universally-known idea of not knowing what you have until you loose it. It's a concept that we need reminding to keep us grateful and humble.
"Swatch" offers a good deal of humor interjected throughout the plot including the opening scene when some dudes much higher up on the hierarchy-of-popularity throw the buck-toothed main character Trevor in the trash (which Trevor admits is better than the dumpster - although were not told why - this might have been a good opportunity to continue the joke and humor).
There's also a character that takes on a Christopher Walken persona that's simply spot-on.
The sound effects undoubtedly enhances the story, however they can sound a little awkward at times. It's obvious that the sounds were downloaded audio. The producers might have been better off by trying to create the sounds on their own. But obviously equipment might have made this impossible.
Another really cool element of "Swatch" is how it came to be. The producer's description tells us that the story was created in one-class period. The producers sat down with a dry erase board and created the plot on the fly. It sounds wonderfully organic and collaborative. It must have been a blast to produce, it certainly was a blast to listen to. I hope we see more youth radio dramas as a result.