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A Community of Hope Rebuilds: Greensburg Tornado Disaster



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This podcast chronicles the Greensburg, Kansas tornado disaster during the months immediately after the town's destruction. It features Congressman Dennis Moore, FEMA Regional Administrator Dick Hainje, Representative Dennis McKinney, Kansas Mutual Aid's Dave Strano, volunteers and residents of Greensburg, and more.
EricBHyde

5 responses // A Community of Hope Rebuilds: Greensburg Tornado Disaster

  • You've done a nice job of finding great visuals to compliment the interviews, which is usually the hard part when creating pods. I'm still unclear as to what the different people are talking about it. I think the transitions from person to person are unclear and therefore, I don't understand some of the clips. You need to find an overall unity to the piece. Figure out how you are going to arrange the different clips in a logical way, so that I understand why you go from one sound bite to the next sound bite. One easy way would be to unite the piece through a timeline. Start with the people who were in the hurricane, then go to people after the hurricane, then the people who came to help, then maybe fema or the congressmen, then people's reaction to fema. But you need to arrange the pod so that we understand why you go from one sound clip to the next. I don't understand the Dave Strano story at all. Why was he arrested? What exactly was he charged with? It seems like a misunderstanding of some sort, but it isn't clear to me a what the misunderstanding is over. Also, if you any interviews or even attempt at interview, I think you should include that. My advice would be take out some of the quantity of different people and flesh some of the more compelling stories (that can have a chosen unity) by given them more face time. Also, you should end the piece with the hopeful stories because then you leave people with hope and considering your title I believe that is your goal. Hope that helps. Good luck.
    kunnikr
  • Interesting. The font is a bit too big as well as some audio(wind) problems. I wanted to know more about the man who got kicked out by the police. I liked the b-roll, Did you get anyone crying about their lost home/ family on camera?
    CrazyDave
  • If you want to know more, try researching the matter on your own by googling "greensburg". I can only do so much in a 6-minute podcast, and I chose the best material I could for introducing this current happening. The interviews mean exactly what they say. And I believe that using someone "crying about their lost home/ family on camera" is irrelevant and would be disrespectful to the people of Greenburg. I'll experiment more with the text and arrangements of interviews in the future.
    EricBHyde
  • Great work Eric. This is a very important topic and you handled it well.
    sarahbelle
  • WEll done! I feel the producers did a nice job of respectfully representing the citizens of Greensburg.
    I look forward to more hard hitting issues in the future.
    mistergoodbrown

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