PSA+Cyberbully+Alert!

Cyberbully Alert! PSA
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This Public Service Announcement was produced by Ing Mu, Victoria Satterwhite, Ranada Smith, Julie Barber, and Melba Gilbert

The above PSA video about cyberbullying was produced from a vision of five incredible and creative educators. The project began immediately after forming the group. Emails became our main method of communication. I am located in California and the other ladies are in Texas so there was a challenge of timing, but using the email and wiki page became very valuable. Communicating daily became crucial to the success of the project.

On the first day of communicating, we decided on the topic of cyberbullying because we felt that it can be used in our classrooms and schools after the project was completed. Pre-production began with offering our strongest skills to the platform. I volunteered to be the editor because I already had experiences using editing software. My weak point was recording audio so Ranada and Victoria volunteered to do the audio recording. I worked with Vicky prior to this project and I knew she had a very pleasing audio presence so I believed she would be a good choice. Julie and Melba volunteered to start on the script outline and shot lists. After everyone reviewed the script outline we offered our feedback and Ranada volunteered to write the script voice narration. The first week finalized by completing the pre-production document.

The second week was dedicated to gathering resources. Melba and Julie began shooting footage. Ranada and Victoria recorded voice narration. Victoria shot images of various tech devices. I began researching for background music. By the middle of the week I had gotten the video clips, but I realized that we may need more footage to complete the PSA so I added two more shots to the proposal and recorded them in my class. By the end of the week I had all the resources and started editing the project.

To include graphics I used Adobe Flash and Photoshop to create the beginning scene. I used Flash again to create the moving text. I used Photoshop to manipulate the photographs. During the post-production I realized that we needed to re-shoot the police officer scene. Melba offered to re-shoot it. The work-in-progress video was uploaded to our wiki page for everyone to review. Julie informed us that we should have the copy-right information to be added to the PSA. All our footage and images were original, but I got the music from a free sound effect site called www.freefx.co.uk. I also downloaded company logos such as Facebook, twitter, and MySpace from their sites. With everyone's feedback and the new police scene I completed editing the video and uploaded to YouTube and wiki.

I felt that our group worked smoothly. Continually communicating with each other helped in completing the project well within the time limit. If I were to improve on the video with more time video clips could look more refined and more professional quality. This may mean using higher quality camcorder.

For more detailed look into the process of the video production please visit: http://ed5363psa.wikispaces.com