Our show inherently shuns advertising. We don’t do sponsored projects or collect revenue in order to remain unbiased. Due to the nature of our program, and the short length, we don’t want to bog it down with a commercial element. If people paid to be a part of The Flash, even with notice, it would feel wrong to all of the other stories we do. The Flash is a school run organization, so we hold to our school, but we don’t represent them. I love this part of the show, we don’t hold ourselves to advertisers or our school, we can be free to truly make stories that we care about, with nothing capable of holding us back. During the holiday season, we as a class decided we wanted to give back. Blake Hoffmann came up to me with the idea to sell candy grams. I told him it was crazy, and that it would never work.
He then explained the idea to me, and I fell in love with it. We came to Mr. Forniocia, and he said if we got the administration's approval, we could do it. With that approval, we began planning. Our goal was to spread kindness and to live out our mean girl's dreams.
Every day before school, Blake and I sat outside the front door selling candy with a little note attached to it. For a dollar, you could send a message to anyone in the building, and they would get a special delivery during homeroom the following week. From the beginning, I made it clear we would have to donate the money, in order to make the program work. We settled on Toys for Tots, which was a story someone was working on. We then got the opportunity to donate the money in person, all of it. Our project provided students the chance to spread positivity, and give a large donation to a massive charity. |
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