Week 3 PSA - Group Assignment

Creating a Public Service Announcement (PSA) is the assignment for Weeks 3-5 in my technology class. As we began, getting a group together was difficult. I started with the person I had worked with in week two, and then added one by one until we finally reached four. Since none of us had worked together, each person stated their strengths and how they felt they could best contribute to the group as a whole.

One person is great at story starters and outlining, one has the camera and willing to take all of the shots for the group, one is familiar with adobe editing, and I am great at organizing and putting things together.

We began with a wiki to brainstorm ideas and ended up with a "Little Red Riding Hood" type theme with a twist. We are doing Little Red Surfer as the hero and the shark as the villain, working with "Safe Surfing" on the internet. We then used Google documents and a slide show for the storyboard and shot sequence. Davis (2000) points out five traditional video shots and describes how and why to use each shot. This guide helped tremendously when deciding the sequencing of the shot and choice of shots.

Week 3 was really great. We started early in the week with chatting on Google and writing ideas, then tweaking them as the plot was unveiled. I put the Lamar document into Google docs then made the rest collaborators so that all could do their parts.

We met 4 times in week three to brainstorm, collaborate, edit and finalize our first group assignment. Though finding the time when 4 busy women will get together is quite a daunting task, with the use of wikis, Google chat, Google documents and the telephone. We are making good progress.

Slide show
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dgb2cjjn_56hgqt9fgr

Assignment sheet
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgb2cjjn_54gv2zk2hb

REFERENCE

Davis, B. (2000). Nice shot: A guide to common video shots types. Videomaker. Retrieved on June 9, 2009, from http://www.videomaker.com/article/7575/