Molly Roberts
WASPS
Elements (sound, quotes, music, otherwise)
Girl talking to herself
Sounds of airplane noises
Person introduces herself, describes what is going on (multiple times)
Music – WASPS singing
Newscast – narrates the history of the time period (multiple times)
War music (multiple times)
Reading from diaries
Multiple people describing the same thing in one sentence (surroundings, daily lives, clothing, first experiences flying etc)
Sounds of live ammunition
No music with bad experience narration
Reading letter to WASPs
Speech from general for going away ceremony
Songs
Transitions
Host Intro –
Narration – in between the take off process
Narration of now, personal stories (reading from diaries, interviews, letter to WASPS), general history (newscasts, interviews), history specific to WASPS (multiple people describing the surroundings in the same sentence)
Now à first impressions à first flight à everyday life (we did odd jobs, monotonous jobs, being target) à men vs. women stuff (B-29 training, monotonous jobs, etc.) à bad experiences (women being killed) à how much we loved to fly (going through clouds, New York city, best airplanes, best instructors) à army says we don’t need you anymore (replacing young men, therefore you have to be fired, reaction sad) à what happened afterward (those who flew still were exceptions) à retrospect (people don’t believe, dreaming, lasting effect)
Where do you get the sense of what the argument of the piece is?
Theme - “We all loved to fly”, “power inspired by B-29 engines”, “You must understand that we loved to fly, and that was built into every single one of us”
Perception of flying for 60 years as a woman
I don’t want to ride in one of these airplanes, I want to fly one
No attention paid to women in airforce, shows ability and love of airplanes similar in women as in men, shows discrimination of the time