Blog Entry #4

Sadly to say, my group has not begun filming our PSA, we are in the process of finding other students to be standby people in our PSA for when our main character is in the commons, and they are talking about her, and also, getting permission to use the commons and to also be able to have cell phones out during the filming, and that maybe an issue because of the "Bag & Tag" policy. Obsticales have been we all haven't gotten a chance to meet and create a time to begin filming because we all have jobs and we need to figure a time where we can all be together for the filming process, and if that isn't possible to split up the duties, if someone films, someone edits, etc.

Falling Polar Bears: What makes for an effective PSA?

I feel like my group has the right idea toward creating an effective PSA, our biggest dilemma is making sure our audience comprehends our message, because in our PSA it's going to take a couple twists and turns to keep our audience guessing BUT we don't want them to be confused, and it's hard because we aren't planning on using dialog because we feel like it will take away from the overall message of the piece, we want people to pay attention to what our main character is going through, the humiliation, the consequences with her school, her emotion and her hurt - she trusted her boyfriend and he did this to her? We want to visually show this rather than pound it into our audience heads with guilt trip slogans like "Think before you sext" "Don't send nude photos" etc, because all high schoolers have HEARD these things, we want them to feel as if they are the main character going through these things. I don't exact changes I would like to make but, there's still some very minimal tweaking to be done with our shot ideas and such.

Blog Entry #3

The most challenging part of creating my PSA thus far is creating a clear message for everyone, seeing as sexting is kind of a racy topic, we can't exactly show a nude photo of someone in the PSA to let everyone know what exactly is going on, so we some how need to find a way to let every viewer know the message, and inform them on what "sexting" exactly is, and also finding people to cast in our video and to get permission from the school and administrators to film is another thing that is still on the fence for us, because we need an administrator to be in our PSA.

Blog Entry #2

I think our pitch went great, I was really appreciative of the feedback my group was getting, and it helped me think harder into the storyboard and what to add to it to make the message greater and to persuade my audience more. We've been prepared on our topic since the day we thought of it, now we have to do the tweaks to it and we will be ready to rock and roll!

Our topic is community related in the sense of the high school community, and young adults. I feel that even though it may seem like an obvious thing not to do, some people are ignorant and trust the wrong people, and I get that, we're only kids but you shouldn't have to learn the hard way and deal with the consequences, and that's my goal with our PSA.

Blog Entry #1

The role of a PSA in society is to get out a message, not advocating you buy anything, but maybe to learn a lesson, such as not texting and driving or drunk driving are the most common ones. It's to sell an idea rather than a product. My group decided on the topic of the emotional and negative consequences of Teen Sexting. Sexting is something that time has brought us to be familiar with, it's when you send/receive nude pictures of someone. We felt this topic was important because some of us know of the incidents South High has been involved with, with sexting, and also to kind of scare people out of doing it because it really does cost you a lot of things, your reputation at school,  and in legal cases, it can be considered child pornography and you could be sentenced to jail. Our plan is to show that a girl THOUGHT she could trust her boyfriend with her sending him a nude photo of herself, but in the end, he forwards it out to his friends and it gets spread around school. You should NEVER trust anyone with this kind of thing. We wanna share that with some of the people who don't exactly understand that.