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This piece was produced as part of WTIP North Shore Community Radio's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project.
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Piece Description
This piece was produced as part of WTIP North Shore Community Radio's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project.
Intro and Outro
INTRO:“What will you do after high school? How will you pay for college? What do you plan to do for the rest of your life?” These are the kinds of questions that are frightening Youth Radio Project junior Cece Olsen. As her junior year of high school comes to a close, Cece is already panicking about life after graduation. Here is her story.
OUTRO:That was CeCe Olson from WTIP North Shore Community Radio, online at wtip.org. Support for this feature comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Additional Credits
Support for this feature comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Ali Tahir
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:01 PM | Permalink
Review for the Fear of Graduating
In this expressive personal commentary, producer CeCe Olson examines her fear of graduating high school, heading to college, and making something out of life.
She is conversational with the audience: the listener truly feeds as though he or she is talking with CeCe.
My favorite thing about this piece was the use of multiple people to voice out the questions. In the piece, CeCe tells of the numerous questions and queries that others ask her about the future and gives examples of those specific questions. She could have voiced those questions by herself in the piece, yet instead she found separate voices to ask the questions that CeCe has heard so many times before. This was a good technique and made CeCe’s piece more dynamic.
In regard to improvement, talking about other students’ fears of graduation would’ve provided more variation in the piece.
Overall, though, this piece does a great job of expressing one student’s fears and is certainly relatable at this time of year.