This is What We
Did in Our Class
The
Road Down Katrina
Austin Shaw
Austin Shaw's screencast on The
Road
Transcript
[00:00]
[Music plays]
Text onscreen: He fixed dinner while the boy played in the sand.
[Zooms in on image of a hurricane on a radar-style screen.]
Text adds: He had a spatula made from a flattened foodtin and with it
he built a small village.
[00:45]
[Video of hurricane satellite images]
Text adds: He dredged a grid of streets. The man walked down and
squatted and looked at it. The boy looked up.
[01:15]
[Google Image search for "Hurricane Katrina"]
Text adds: The ocean's going to get it, isn't it? He said.
[Google Image search for "Hurricane Katrina ocean damage"]
[01:58]
Text adds: Yes.
That's okay.
Can you write the alphabet?
[Scrolling over images from Katrina damage]
Text adds: I can write it.
We don't work on your lessons anymore.
I know.
[Google image search results with messages from Katrina survivors]
[02:45]
Can you write something in the sand?
[Scrolling over images of writing in the sand]
[03:08]
Text adds: Maybe we could write a letter to the good guys. So if they
come along they'd know we were here. We could write it up there where
it wouldn't get washed away.
[03:35]
[Zoom in on image of a house with writing on the roof, shows pictures
of flooding damage]
[Google image search for "Hurricane Katrina rescue," scrolls over
pictures
which enlarge.]
[Music plays and fades out]