My part in the Project: Aditya Kolhekar

Over the summer I was given an awarding opportunity to make people aware of the problems New Orleans still has because of Hurricane Katrina and to get people to volunteer in the places that need it most.My part in this project was to create a website, along with other people, inform the public about the state of New Orleans using the media, and help to make some of the shows that were aired on August 29th. First, the website. What I had to do for this part of the project was to find simplistic, elegant web templates to set the base for our website, as well as upload some data into the website when it was finished using,what is called, file transfer protocol (FTP). Another part of the project that I was involved in was to find good public media sources to air our show. This was very hard because people in the media can be very stubborn and usually do not return emails and phone calls, which can get a little bothersome. A helpful site that was given to me in order to find public media sources was http://ourchannels.org/alpha.htm, so if you want to use public media that's a good site. The last thing that I had to do for this project was to help make the show (traveltelevision.org) by making the credits, being the CG (character generator) operator (which puts all the pictures on the screen), and being a cameraman on our live show on the 29th of August. Our goal for this project was to involve people in the healing process of New Orleans and help people realize that New Orleans still needs a lot of volunteer help. This experience was very fulfilling and I hope that it got a lot of people to help in some way, shape or form.