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electrical safety
Electrical Safety Performance Assessment (click here to access handout)
Goal
Role
Audience
Situation
Product, Performance, and Purpose
Standards and Criteria for Success
Electrical Safety Script Outline (click here to access MS Word template)
First Paragraph - Introduction:
Second paragraph - Good examples of how to practice the safety rule chosen:
Third Paragraph - bad examples of how to practice the safety rule chosen:
Summary
Goal
- Your task is to create a commercial on the topic of Electrical Safety.
- The goal is to demonstrate understanding of what electrical safety is and to provide examples of good and bad practices regarding electricity.
- The problem or challenge is finding a clear definition and providing the best examples of both the “good” and “bad” look like.
Role
- You are a professional commercial production team.
- You have been asked your creative design manager create a commercial on the topic of Electrical Safety.
- Your job is to submit your commercial to your manager for production.
Audience
- The target audience is the general public.
- You need to convince the audience that everyone must practice good electrical safety.
Situation
- The context you find yourself in is a professional commercial production team working under a deadline.
- The challenge involves pairing a podcast with effective digital images.
Product, Performance, and Purpose
- You will create a iMovie to present your product, which will include both a podcast and digital images.
- You also need to develop a written copy of your commercial script to practice from.
Standards and Criteria for Success
- Your audio representation needs to be clear, catchy and exciting! It must include everything listed in the written statement below.
- Your written statement needs to define the safety guideline your production team is targeting and provide examples of what good and bad safety within that guideline looks like.
- Your work will be graded according the assignment rubric.
- A successful result will clearly demonstrate the outcomes based on the rubric provided to you.
Electrical Safety Script Outline (click here to access MS Word template)
First Paragraph - Introduction:
- Introduce your design team
- Introduce what electricity is
- Introduce what electrical safety is
- why is your safety rule important?
- Identify the safety rule you are talking about
Second paragraph - Good examples of how to practice the safety rule chosen:
- example 1: _________________
- example 2: _________________
Third Paragraph - bad examples of how to practice the safety rule chosen:
- example 1: _________________
- example 2: _________________
Summary
- Review what your rule was and why it is important.
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