Short English Response Essay
Listen to the radio broadcast Orson Welles- War of the Worlds (link below) and you can also read an article about the broadcast (link below also). After listening to the broadcast, In at least 500 words, create an apocalypse hoax narrative with a plan to release it for the purposes of enlightening and entertaining an audience that would work similarly to theWar of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938.
If you were to create a narrative about the end of the world to make a similar comment about audiences today, which themes, tropes, genres, elements would you use? What media would you use to dramatize them? Internet news? Twitter? You Tube? What current problems regarding fear and survival (as well as other themes) in our social, economic, and/or political landscape do you find the most important to highlight in your narrative? Use examples from the text and historical background to support your narrative for today's audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation