Week 5 consisted of finalizing a PSA project that we worked on in a collaborative group. This week was full of new techniques and learning. This process stretched out over weeks 3, 4, and 5. Week 3 consisted of the pre-production process. It began with the pre-production assignment being inserted into a collaborative Google doc and being shared with the entire group. Each group member was assigned a different text color to write in so that we could easily keep up with who was saying what. During this process we assigned jobs to everyone and recorded a preliminary script and shot list. Week 4 mostly consisted of the actual production process which included everyone delivering their video clips and other assets by the scheduled times. Jeanette found a storyboard template that made this process much easier. A dropbox account was opened for all to drop their clips into so they could be edited and added to the timeline. Everyone followed the 3 second rule and the rule of thirds to ensure that we would have high quality clips to work with. We also made several changes to the script and shot list during this time. Finally we are to week 5 which consisted of the post-production. It was filled with watching the project carefully to ensure that the clips were fused together correctly, transitions were smooth, and that the audio matched up just right. Editing was one step during this week. It went pretty smoothly thanks to the collaboration of our group. Bryan was a great help by sharing the tutorial videos, especially the one about framing a shot. The thirds rule was very helpful in setting up and shooting high quality shots. Web delivery selection was also a step that we had to deal with during this week. YouTube is my choice for the web delivery of our PSA. I am familiar with it and it is widely viewed and therefore will be the quickest way to get our message out to the public. YouTube also offers an easy step for posting and sharing your work with others, the embed code. This time also included revising our week 3 assignment with all the changes that were made along the way. We also had a member create a Reflection Google doc so that all team members could post their debriefing comments. The final step in this process is making sure that every group member has copies of all the needed documentation to submit to epic and TK20.
With the PSA finalized we licensed it under the creative commons:
Do You Understand Me? Digital Natives Vs. Digital Immigrants by Mary Johnson, Jeanette King, Brent Langham, Lesha Stallons, and Kim Stephenson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Our group consisted of Mary Johnson, Jeanette King, Brent Langham, Lesha Stallons and myself. I think that we all worked fabulously together. We collaborated our ideas and progress in a Google doc and through emails, and texts. Everyone did their part to make this assignment come together without too many frustrations. All deadlines were met by each group member. Thanks to all four of you for making this an exciting learning experience. This definitely would have been a stressful event had it been an individual assignment.
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