PSA

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PSA Reflection
This course has been my first real experience in working with a group and completing such a demanding project. I think one of the most difficult aspects in doing this project was communication. I was fortunate enough to have a strong and qualified team. We started by proposing ideas in the pre production stage. Our group at first communicated by email, and we agreed on a topic of cyberbullying. Our scriptwriters gave such a great rough draft of a script that little editing was needed from start to finish. When creating the script it was easy to envision the scenes, so all of this was done together. During production we did notice a few flaws and made changes to our script to make our PSA have a better flow and a clear message. The editing section was definitely one of the most complicated. It was difficult to have several parties involved in creating and editing the PSA. I felt we did a great job in using a free file sharing site to store and share out photos, videos, and audio files. We broke up the editing into several parts; audio, video, and final edits. This gave us a chance to distribute the work and also to complete it in stages instead of waiting for all of the files and throwing it all together at once.

After viewing the PSA one way I wish we would have improved would be in the audio. It was a real challenge having two people in the audio. It was especially difficult with the two people recording their narration from long distance. I would have liked to have spent more time working on this to improve audio quality.

The copyright portion of our assignment was our weakest link. This was one of the most difficult parts of the assignment. We were all uncertain how to properly cite some resources. We avoided this by using all original scenes and or pictures.

My team collaborated by email mostly, but we also utilized Google docs, Google sites, Dropbox, Adobe Connect Meeting to collaborate. In some instances, like the Google docs, we were able to make edits and chat at the same time. Now that I have done that I think we could have eliminated the Adobe meeting altogether. I thought the group worked well together and under the circumstances stayed in constant communication. We all live busy lives, but were still able to accomplish our goal.