PSA Production Process

The PSA production was a group process among four students in different parts of Texas as a online activity, which was conducted with the use of modern technology to communicate, such as a wiki, emails, and phone texting. As group we did try to collaborate and interact with each other, and also assign specific tasks to each person, yet I do feel that with the next group project we may be able to do a better job with sharing the workload amongst each other from the beginning. We all learned and it was a good experience to see how group activities work. Copyright information should always be a part of any production, small or large to give the original creator due credit for the work.
In this post I will include a few of the communication ideas from three wiki pages which were used to create this PSA. To see the full creation process please refer to this wiki, and the following pages:
http://petra77.wikispaces.com/
1. PSA Group
2. PSA Project
3. PSA Workspace

Ok, here we go again: Let's find a topic!!!!

1. (Petra) We need a topic: It only has to be 60 seconds long, include text, or graphic effects, cant be to difficult. I got so tired of Movie Maker and ADOBE (which my computer would not install), I downloaded Ulead. It looks really good. On Movie Maker, I even had a hard time getting the text on the correct slide. It just did not work like it said it would.

2. (Christy) I am open to any topic....we can do something with money. What age group are we going after? And, we need to decide who does what job? Has anyone email our Academic Coach to let her know who is all in the group? I will be leaving out of town for a few days, but I will have access to email. I will check the wiki Friday evening when I get home. Please email me if there is anything I can do. I haven't had a vacation in many, many years. I need this badly!

7. (Darlene) I like the pirating movies or songs. We have had so much emphasis on copyright law and giving proper credit. Plus, I think it could be "cute" as well as informative. However, I'm good with whatever the group wants to do.

Here is our topic:

1. Pirating movies or songs: (Meredith) I like this one because it is what I know, there are a lot of videos on you tube about this. I just need to know for sure IF we are videoing or if we are just using existing video and doing voiceovers.

2. Christy emailed and thought we could show a jail at the end of the video. (What about handcuffs lol)

3. (Petra) If it is ok with you guys I would like to do some research and start writing a the narration about it. Meredith give me some ideas what you were thinking about?

4. (Darlene) I LOVE our topic! I will be happy to do the voiceover or whatever needs to be done except adding the music. I can't seem to figure out how to import songs from my iTunes account...

8. (Christy) Darlene, I have been trying to add music from iTunes to Movie Maker, but when I go to the iTunes folder it just shows the titles and no music. What is your issue with iTunes? I would like to figure it out.

(Petra) Ok guys here is the narration. I know it is longer than a minute. We can add or subtract anything we need to. I guess it depends what is easy to videotape. I really did not know what you all wanted. Let's tweak it like we need it.

(Petra) Title: Lets brainstorm and come up with something quick. What about:

Pirating, Don't Do IT!, or

21st Century Pirates, or

Free may not be Cheap,

(Christy)*I love "21st Century Pirates"....maybe we can have a pirate head as the opening scene, with the title running across it.

(Darlene) I like "21st Century Pirates" also.

(Meredith) I love the 21st Century Pirates...and the Pirate at the opening scene...

(Petra) OK, here is the outline: Please tell me if this looks like what you were thinking about. Please feel free to change anything you want.

PSA Outline: PLEASE REFER TO MY WIKI TO SEE THE ACTUAL OUTLINE.

Petra) Hi guys, could we please try to organize ourselves for this week and divide the tasks like you had offered?

TIMELINE: Do you think this part could be done by Wednesday or Thursday so we can try to finish a little earlier. I know Meredith is going out of town again and I would like to go to Denton to see my two daughters in college.

Christy: Can you still take some of the scene shots of a pirate, your son and the other teenagers or whatever shots or stillpics you can.

Darlene: Can you take the other shots since you also have a camera like you offered? I can not find my firewire to transfer the videos to the computer.

Petra: I also will take some shots.

Yes Petra. Which shots do you want me to take? Christy, if you will email me or add to the bottom of this page, I will take some shots for us.

Meredith/Petra; Meredith,you had said Movie Maker is now easy for you, maybe after they sent us all the clips you and I can try to put it together. I downloaded Ulead, so I can try with that too.

(Meredith) here is a link to some pirates of the caribbean music or Indiana Jones..I can seperate the video from the music(I should be able to if it is not locked by the creater)
Bad boys from cops????hahaha

(Petra) Here are some pictures of pirates, teenagers in handcuffs, just handcuffs, and other stuff to look at. They all came from flickr.com.

(Darlene) I am taking shots at Best Buy or Walmart today (Thur). I took 3 great shots today, but now my camera won't work!

(Christy) Here is the narration, its still too long, but I wanted everyone to hear my voice and see if its ok. If we have the video set up we can re-word everything to fit the video. I have tried it a view different ways, but until its put to the video its hard to tell.

Messed up on a few words......
(Petra) It sounds really good, I like it...

(Petra) I went all over town (very small town) today to get some more videos on my picture camera. The first few came out ok, and I will try to put them on here, yet the better ones with movies and music from Wal-Mart and the movie store show the video really small in the middle. I will try to fix it.
(Petra) I stayed up late messing with these shots and could only load them up on You Tube. I guess since I took them on my pic camera. I never did this before and the last six shots look a little bit fuzzy, so let me know.

(Petra) Here are some more video clips I took at Best Buy. I put them all on on file in Movie Maker and uploaded them to You Tube.

(Christy) I have worked on the narration some more. I have it down to about 56 seconds, but I will be able to adjust even more once we have the video set up. Does anyone know of anything else that needs to be done. Don't forget about blog posts, and I am going to put this link on my paper where it asks for urls, for communication purposes. Petra, I think the part of the narration about not stealing from a store is where we could include the shots at best buy....they were clear, maybe show the best buy sign, then a shot of the rows of movies and cds. I liked the way that looked. I keep forgetting how short 60 seconds is.....I keep thinking of things we could do, but really its very short. Let me know what needs to be done.

(Petra) That sounds great. Meredith is going to work on putting she shots in the Movie Maker today. We want to all be done by Friday, so we can enjoy the 4th of July.