PSA Blog Post #7

My PSA project was a success. I learned a lot about how big of an issue sleep deprivation is. I learned about the effects, both in the short term and long term on the body. I learned about how to convey a message to the community through balancing factual information with entertainment. This project has also helped me understand the importance of recognizing a target audience and making the video appealing to them. I also learned about editing video and the importance of choosing and varying shots. I feel like I learned the most from the trial and error of making this project. The most challenging aspect of this unit has been finding time to get the group to work together. This unit could be improved by adding more training at the start of the course focusing on editing.

PSA blog post #6

I think my group's PSA is effective because it is fast paced and humorous. It also has serious information. I think the humor in this PSA will draw the audience in enough to get our information but not overwhelm the message about how serious sleep deprivation is. It is almost ready to be handed in and go on air. We will finish it on Sunday at MTN. We know what we need to change based on detailed notes I took during last Sunday's editing session and group discussions in class and in our Facebook group. Having a Facebook group has really helped us out a lot in improving our group's communication and I would strongly recommend that other groups in the future give it a shot as well. I am satisfied with what we have so far and satisfied with where this is going.

Blog Post #5

I am content with my group's P.S.A. so far although we are not yet done editing. We are booked for six hours of editing right now. We will hopefully get most of this done on Friday; whatever is left will need to be done on Sunday. We have been having some issues with finding time to work on this project as a complete group. Now we understand that we don't need everyone in the group to be working on the project all at once. We will still have everyone's input and everyone will still work on it at some point. We have also been communicating pretty well and we feel that we have a good idea of what the group wants as well as what each individual member wants. Our filming went well. We took a lot of footage and we were very efficient with our filming. We were able to shoot our scenes mostly in order and used our storyboard to plan our shots. We also shot most of our footage at multiple angles. Overall I am very happy with our P.S.A. project.