Monday, July 6, 2009

Week 5 of EDLD5363

During our videography course, we formed groups to create a PSA. We took this from pre-production, to the production phase, and published a finished, edited product in post-production.

Our group worked well from beginning to end. We each submitted several ideas for our PSA, then voted from those and decided to do a mock-PSA on Powerpoint overuse. We submitted ideas to our group's wiki and arranged times to meet on the wiki for chat. We divided up roles and each team member really weorked to their own strengths. We worked up a shot list and edited that on the wiki as the project moved forward. We decided to put our video on YouTube.

We had ideas about costumes for the players in the PSA, but due to time constraints, no costumes were used. This is the main thing that I would want to change in order to improve our PSA. I am really pleased with our final product.

We used music in the public domain, which was: Prokofiev, Sergei. (1960). “Peter and the Wolf.” On Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Spotlight on Music 1st grade CD. Columbia Records. Edited by Norm Sands. 2009.

Our interactions as a group were always positive and constructive. We did not always agree, but we really worked well and worked to make the final product better, while always maintaining respectfulness. Since we all worked to our strengths, we were able to put together something that really worked. We also shared much with each other, learning from each other as we went through the process.