Creating a PSA

For the past three weeks, I have been working with a great team from across the state to create my first public service announcement. Our pre-production process involved lots of brainstorming. I created a new Google doc for us to use and generate ideas. We were very fortunate, I thought, to have a team member with experience in creating PSA's with his students. He proved to be a plethora of ideas and knowledge throughout the course of this activity. Once we created our game plan, each of us took different elements of the piece that played to our strengths. We each collected shots that we felt would be useful to the PSA theme - encouraging voters to vote. During the actual production of the PSA, our team decided to each try putting together a sample of what came to mind, and sent it via e-mail to each other for critique. Post production followed the critiques and the final video was published to www.schooltube.com to share with the world.
I think if our group had more time to invest in working on this project, a more detailed final product may be possible. However, considering we all just started a new school year, I feel that we did a good job with the time and abilities we had.
For the still shots we used in our PSA, we relied on free stock photos from www.istockphoto.com. We also incorporated music from www.soundzabound.com.
Working through the Google doc allowed communication to be more fluid than e-mails. Each of us chose a different color to type in and then we were able to keep on running record of the production process we used throughout this collaborative process.