Blog Entry #7

I learned many things from doing this PSA project. I learned what it really means to work as a group, how to use a camera, and how you use your camera makes a huge impact on what comes across in your footage. I learned a lot of this from Alex and Jon, but some of it also came from my other group members. I think we all learned a little something from one another. The most challenging aspect was the due date. It seems like you have forever and then suddenly the PSA was due in a couple weeks. There could be a little improvement but not much. I liked that we had to have our storyboard and pitch approved before shooting to know that we were on the right track. I wish that those dates would have been sooner though so more time could be used in the end to film and put the perfect touches on the PSA. It was also hard that the camera training dates started later on in the year. That made it hard to begin filming if you hadn't had the training yet. Overall though I am happy with this project and the work that myself and my group did.

Blog Entry #6

I believe that my groups PSA is effective. I think we chose a topic that is really important to be shown to high school and college students in particular, but also everyone else. Some people don't even know that Adderall is taken by people who don't have ADHD let alone what this drug even is. We will inform a majority of the audience about something they don't even know is going on in their society. Our PSA will also show those that do try and use/abuse Adderall for focusing and such in school that it is not a good idea to do this and hopefully persuade them to stop.

Blog Entry #5

My group doesn't have our draft done yet, but we are almost finished so I am pretty content. We have all of our footage taped and have done one editing session. I feel that compared to other groups we are donig well. I wish that we would be done with it now, then we wouldn't have to be worried about time this weekend. I know that it will be done by Monday because we have started and know what is needed to complete the draft. I'm confident that our draft will be presentable and ready to be shown to Alex or John by Monday.