Rebecca Jacobs
Rebecca Jacobs
January 18, 2006
PWR 2
WASPs
Elements:
1) Sound and otherwise - voice narrative, music, quotes
2) Transitions
3) Where do you get a sense of where the point-of-view materializes? What does it signal? What seems to be its angle on the subject?
Bumper “All Things Considered – experiment program to train women pilots, introducing speaker
Quote from cockpit includes take-off and introduction of pilot, airport and plane, setting clearly described pilots and implied through sounds, reflection on male pilots, what’s a WASP?, establishes authority as narrator
Transition: Recording of air force song begins and continues through introduction
Introduction of widowmaker
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Quote about falling in love with airplanes
Recording of “a day that will in infamy” – male voice
Interweaving the voices of the female pilots to show how it all began
“They needed pilots” – woman pilot
“I received a telegram” – setting the scene in retrospective
“There had been rumors” – women who wished to qualify
“Some over 3 thousand women”
News report – shows how it was viewed by American public, with original background sound
Woman reading a letter home to her mother – how they felt about it at the time, the mystery
Bugle sound – then overlay of another news report on training
Women describing the rough conditions of training sites
Swing music (nostalgic) transitions in the background of women describing the diversity of the women called
Air force song begins – transitions to women describing the culture of these women, stops, “until we got started in the airplanes”
Motor sound – news clip about lessons
Woman describing the outfit and the instructor
News clip – tricky maneuvers – motor sound
Woman describing lesson with motor sounds in background
Woman describing the difficulty of “getting over it”
Marching song – news clip about women who in good weather or bad, women from every state
Narratives about their duties, training the boys at Fort Bliss
Shooting noises in background of target practice description
Swing music in background of narrative about monotonous work
Swing music transition to another narrative about a woman bored flying “in a rectangular pattern” – Swing music stops – “men didn’t trust us”
“I would have gone into combat…”
News clip – the largest, fastest, most powerful bomber – fade out
Woman describing the bomber herself, engine fires – “they did not want the B-29 to have a bad reputation” – “even a woman could fly it”
Sputtering motor sound transition
Continue with previous voice – “awe-inspiring” “the power you could feel” – flying noises in the background – “dream ship”- flying noise fadeout
New voice – roommate was killed, silence in background feels more somber – “I had to tell her parents”
New voice – 38 women were killed, description of select cases, “a rather sobering thing, but didn’t effect anyone’s desire to go out again”
New voice- war isn’t fun, people losing brothers, husbands, but in the meantime they were enjoying it
Piano transition – description of the thrill of flying
Light piano - voice
More voices
Music stops – then all of a sudden “the army says we don’t need you anymore”
Woman reading the letter of the cancellation of the WASP program, date of release
News clip – General H.H. Arnold
Transition – plane noises
Woman – wonderful sendoff, woman says
Arnold reading his sendoff speech, fades into the woman describing the them leaving, flying noises
Song – “we’re the last last…” – overlay of woman speaking about how sad it was
Song continues, stops
Woman in old voice singing “we ain’t gonna be here much longer”
Woman describing the second careers, or no-job situation afterward
Another woman saying men came back – Always multiple voices to corroborate
Woman singing – “if you have a daughter, teach her how to fly…”
Woman describing application and graduation statistics
Woman saying it doesn’t seem real to her
Cockpit – woman speaking to air-traffic control, final approach and landing “back home again in one piece
Woman “sometimes I have dreams…”
Fade-in of women singing war-song in background of her voice, end with volume increased “we ain’t gonna be here much longer”
Bumper with music
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