Blueprint:
The Masked Knights is a chill-interview style podcast that explores what it was like to be a 2020 graduate from alumni who took part in school spirit. This podcast is for those interested in learning what the hardships were and unlike stories from outside newscasts, our podcast comes from those who lived through it.
Title: The Masked Knights
One Liners:
The Masked Knights help revive the voices and stories behind the masks of 2020 seniors.
In this episode, I am diving deep into the harsh realities from the eyes of Queens Metropolitan High School’s Student Council PR Representative, Justin Rodriguez, who had made it a priority to bring school spirit throughout those unprecedented times.
Some more information:
I have scheduled this interview with Justin to be in person as he is now a student at Queens College (and had transferred from St. Joe’s). For our pre interview, I want to briefly tell him about what the goal of this podcast will be and the topics we will be discussing throughout the interview session. Justin and I have been friends since middle school and have experienced the pandemic together, even though we might not be close anymore we still have lived through the same tough times and memories that will last a lifetime.
Justin Rodriguez had helped establish relations within the student population virtually while still trying to make the most of his senior year. Though now a taboo subject, we will sit down and discuss what was his motive behind wanting to do as much as he could for the school he would shortly depart from once graduation rolled around. Creating virtual talk shows from both the student population and the school’s staff, “Metro Knight Live” was something that had motivated a lot of students to try and live their lives during these times. Delivering weekly school announcements had also been an important part of the virtual classroom that Rodriguez had helped coordinate.
Some interview questions might be:
What is the one word you think of when you think back to being a senior in 2020?
How did you deal with the initial shock that we would not be returning to school?
Besides prom and graduation, were there any events that the student council wanted to plan that you were looking forward to?
How was your support system during this time?
Did you find it important to keep school spirit holding such a big role in PR for Metro?
What was one thing you were looking forward to as we approached graduation?
This is a rough draft of my cover:
Hi Alessia, I like your topic and I think it would make a great podcast. This is an episode I would listen too and I can’t wait to hear it. Your blueprint is well planned and you have a good title, one-liner and your questions are straight to the point. As a person who has lived through these unprecedented times I know I would enjoy this episode and relate to it a lot. I would also love to hear what Jason has to say since you said he made it a priority to bring school spirit!