We began our PSA journey by picking a topic that is extremely important in today's cyber world. Our group's first plan was to have two teen boys filmed showing cyber bullying taking place via a computer chat room. Due to scheduling issues with having my two teen boys home at the same time, we switched gears and I used my youngest daughter and her friend (with her mom's permission). Our plan was to show my daughter having fun chatting with a friend on the internet. She was to exit the chatroom when suddenly a message pops up that is not very nice. My daughter becomes concerned and asks the bully who he/she is. The bully continues to write mean messages to my daughter which causes her diress and she ends up crying. Once I completed filming, I had to figure out how to get the video clips to my editing group partner. We talked on the phone and she helped with my iMac and downloading a compression tool. I sent all 12 video clips to her.
I had to use Audacity to record the sound at school because I could not get a microphone to work on my computer at home. I had a high school girl do the voice over and she was very excited about the job I had giving her to do. Once Audacity was converted to MP3, it was also forwarded to the video editor, Karen.
I believe Karen did an excellent job picking the right video shots to portray our message and still keep it within the 60 second time frame. The only regret is that our statistics flash by fairly quickly and it is hard to read the entire slide.
A majority of our interaction took place via Google Docs and the chatroom provided inside of the document area. We were able to discuss our plans and add them to the assignment sheet in real-time. This was an exciting feature for all of us.
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