In September we got the amazing opportunity to go on a field study down the Oregon coast. On this trip we visited many places such as the Hanford B reactor and the Reed College Research Reactor. This field study was for us to grow a better understanding of how the nuclear weapons were created, why, and how they were used in World War II. 
Now let’s take a quick pause before I go into the details about the project we worked on based around this trip. It’s time to explain the amazing wonders of what goes on during a PLP 11 trip. Our adventure started off bright and early at 6:50am. We departed Seycove and made our way to our first destination, lunch! Our first day of the trip was not filled with very many activities, this was good since everybody was pretty tired from being at school early and travelling.
One of our first educational stops on the trip was the Reed College Research Reactor. We toured around the place as well as doing a lab with one of the students there. Next we stopped by the Maryhill Museum of Art where we got a short tour from a worker there where she explained some of the art pieces in the museum. We then got some time to roam around and take in the magnificent art in the museum. The next day we went to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park Pre-War Historic Sites Tour. Later that day we made our way over to the REACH Museum. Our finally stop on the trip was the Manhattan Project National Historical Park Reactor B Tour. There we walked around and took in what once was a secret place as well as interviewed workers there about our topic for our project. 
Also while on the trip it was our job to ask many questions to our lovely and helpful tour guides on the different tours we went on. Before the trip we had prepared insightful questions to ask about the topic of the project we were working on. My group’s topic was learning more about the discrimination that went on at the Hanford sites.
This topic was more difficult then we had hoped for. Of course there was a lot of racism still present at the time of World War II, but we wanted to look further then that. We each had the task of finding an individual story about someone hardships and obstacles with discrimination they fought while working on the Hanford site. I found a story about a woman named Leona Woods who fought against not having equal women rights and in the end wound up leaving the Hanford site and moving to Seattle. This was one of five stories we chose to include in the movie we created. All of them had the same theme of discrimination on the site of Hanford. 
To start off the movie project we first had to research what it was like to be living or working at the Hanford site if you were considered a minor. Next we went on to putting that information into different categories and forming a short video on it. We ended up scratching this whole first draft of the movie to recreate something better with more depth and something that was a little more interesting to watch. This was when we each chose a different personal story of someone who worked or lived on the Hanford site that was being discriminated whether that be sexism, racism, or something else.
All of these five stories were put into condensed versions of themselves and interpreted by pictures from the time and a brief sentence on each picture explaining part of the story. The movie style was a quick and concise video with informative information and pictures that helped to tell five separate stories which all relate back to the main idea of discrimination. The whole process was quite a roller coaster ride with editing as well as getting everybody to co-operate at the same time, (which always seems to happen in every group project you ever do). In the end we finally got the project done, (I think, we still are waiting to see if it is approved for the final time).
*INSERT MOVIE HERE*
My role in this project was to find an individual story that related to the topic. I also worked on putting together the green screen slides and adding and refining the text on each clip. The process of putting the texts on the slides was tedious but overall I feel ended up looking pretty nice.
If, or I feel like I should say when we do another project like this one I would spend more time planning out how the overall look of the video will be. We went into this project with one idea and came out with a completely different version of the movie.