Finished PSA

For the last 3 weeks I have been working with a group of fine ladies, Ing Mu, Ranada Smith, Julie Barber, and Melba Gilbert. We hardly knew each other when we started but that changed very quickly as we were given a seemingly daunting task of creating a 60 second PSA from scratch. I entered the assignment with trepidation, as I have never been in a successful group. I have always been unhappy with the end result or been an inactive member of a group. I was glad to be wrong with this group of ladies.

From the get go we worked very well via email. We decided on cyber bullying as our topic as we collectively felt that it was a current and relevant topic. I personally liked that I could use this in my class yearly as well as share it with the campus for internet safety week.

We divided tasks by offering our strengths. I offered to help with the script, take photographs and record audio. I used photographs that referenced technology used in cyber bullying and Ing used photoshop to alter them to match our video. I used audacity to read the script that Ranada put together and edited it also using audacity. Melba shot video and then Ing used Adobe Flash and Photoshop to edit and create our PSA. All of our footage and images were original and Ing received the music from a free sound effect site called www.freefx.co.uk.

As a group we had to be flexible and be able to change things when necessary but this was really no problem. The best part of working with everyone is that via email we were able to share our vision. In the end no ones toes were stepped on and we were very successful with our end product.