PSA Project Reflection

This was a fun project. Our team was made up of 6 members. We started out well, with everyone on board and participating. My main contribution was to produce the audio track. As a group we chose our topic. After some research I created a rap, found a royalty free soundtrack and got my college age son to record the rap for us. This gave us the foundation to create our shot list. Once the shot list was created there was some video recorded. There were problems getting parent permission but that was eventually resolved. We had a semi dysfunctional group in the editing area. No-one was really willing to take on that commitment. We could definitely improve in that arena. There were three members (Sara Baragona, Jennifer Mihaund and myself) who seemed to do all the work and we were waiting for the others to step up. Our copyrights were all creative commons or original works used with permission.

For most of week 5 there was no participation by the group except the three of us who had done most of the work continued to chat and worry and panic about our finished product in the hands of a few who seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth. We felt it necessary to create a version of the final product on our own despite the fact it was not our role because we did not want to get stuck with nothing. We were not going to post it unless we had to. In the end a final product emerged and that is what we have turned in.

This project had moments of great collaboration where I truly felt the “amplification” effect. It also had many moments of total frustration as team members “went dark” for days and days. When we were clicking it was phenomenal. I truly enjoyed working especially with Sara and Jennifer – between the three of us we kept the project moving and together.

here is a link to our PSA on Cyberbullying