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1. CONTEXT: What were the circumstances that framed the meaning and process of this project?
- The pointing out of the media's negative portrayal of "Teenagers".

2. CONTENT: What was the issue, need, idea or opportunity addressed by this project?
- The issues that effects the teenagers who are participating on this project: sex, violence, values, family, school and the future.

3: FORM: What is the medium that was used to address or embody the content?
- Interactive theater piece

4. STAKEHOLDERS: Which are the groups or individuals that invested in the process and 
outcomes of project?
- The teenagers like Leukessia Spencer, who felt the needs of their voice to be heard, to make a statement.

5. AUDIENCE: For whom was this project conceived? 
- The adults who came to see the event to not interact but "listen" to the young teenagers

6. ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES: How were the stakeholders, audiences, and others engaged/connected to the project?
- The stakeholders, the performers were given a freedom of speech, the protection for being lectured and looked down upon. They were able to say their ideas without the fear of judgement. The adults were able to truly listen to the young voices; not filtered through media, but from the teenagers themselves.

7. GOAL: What are this project's objectives?
- The up-bringing of teenage voice. The launch of a new program "Media Literacy" to point out the buried social flaw that is forming "Problem" that the teenagers are facing.

8. VALUES: What were the project's guiding values or core beliefs? How were they expressed in the process?
- They parked cars on a rooftop and let them discus topics about their daily life and the exposure they are open to that forms their supposed future, which eventually will educate the audience.

9. RESOURCES: What tangible and intangible resources were used to pursue the project's goals?
- Cars, Roof of a parking lot, teenagers, topics to talk about

10: OUTCOMES: What were the results of this project? 
- The audience's experience of bending over and listening to the teenagers.
- The coverage by the mainstream media, the very media they were criticizing; the response that told the production team that they were heard.

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