Our Narrator for the New Sound-script for Roger & Me:
Male voice/”Trustworthy?”
Less sarcasm
Disembodied/invisible
Honest voice
Statistics 
From Flint/With Flint
Background/History/Context
Detached Tone/ “Objective”
Our Social Issue:
The function of the documentary genre is relaying “reliable” information for an audience, as well as “speaking with” the film’s subjects.  
Who is our audience? What do they expect? (MLA, for one)
•	Academia
•	They expect: formal writing, credible use of “I,” academic/reliable evidence, titles, citation (MLA), introduction of evidence/source, active voice, developed paragraphs/ideas, persuasive claims
What evidence do we have to work with? (I’m thinking of at least five here.)
•	Alcoff  -- context, speaking with/for, claims about voice-over
•	Illich – “objectivity,” flower-pickers/helpers
•	Kozloff – definitions (of voice-over), counterarguments, history
•	Schafer – keynote, signal, soundmark 
•	Davis – acoustic space/visual space, simultaneity, non-linearity
•	Cruz – context of service

What tools from class do we have to work with? (I’m thinking of at least five here, too.)
•	Genre – conventions, expectations (audience)
•	3-step analysis – introduce, explain, implicate 
•	Complex claim – how, stakes/so what, counterargument, detail, what’s next/future
•	Research questions – social issue, body/person, time/space, subject/category, “how”
•	Known/New – known info for first 2/3, then “open up!!!!!!!” to something new (however, still…)
•	Blogs –feedback, historicize
•	Pathos, Ethos, and Logos  
What’s our primary artifact of analysis? And what is the gist of it? What is it arguing? How is it engaging Roger & Me?
•	Our sound-script!  
•	The gist of it is that it will assume the conventions of a documentary 
•	It will also aim to “speak with” the people of Flint
•	Arguably, it will aim to alter the popular history of Flint
Introduction:
•	Something snappy, people
•	Context (of the film/TV show) --- release date, gist/background, people
•	Intro to social issue – documentary/bias/Alcoff
•	Claim – sound-script
•	E.g.: While some…. I propose a new sound-script for the film, Roger & Moi, which….. It matters…, which leads ____ to ____. 
Body: 
•	Paragraph 1 – film – explain/contextualize/implicate film and social issue
•	Paragraph 2—research question & sound-script
•	Paragraph 3 – stakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
•	Paragraph 4- stakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Conclusion: 
•	FUTURE!  IT’S ALMOST HERE!