Group+1+PSA

M // **embers:** //
//Nancy Gardner Dan Jones Tamara Bellah Bryan Artman you can also email me at bryan_artman@hotmail.com,bryanartman@gmail.com

Nancy Gardner - strengths: video editing, story writing (I'm okay), weaknesses: shooting video Dan Jones - Strengths: technical side - setting up data, editing and collaboration and such. weaknesses: shooting video Tamara Bellah - strengths: iMovie editing, shooting video (I have a decent camera with a 60GB harddrive that's easy to use) weaknesses: writing scripts, planning things out (i am a procrastinator-ator) Bryan Artman- weaknesses, I don't own a camera, I'm not the best with the copyright stuff. If y'all want me to be part of your group, let me know I'm not teaching summer school so I have no scheduling conflicts.//

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I know that drunk driving is a pretty popular theme, I know that there are tons of examples out there and footage. (BA) (NG) Technology topics could include internet safety or cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a pretty hot topic right now. Here are some resources: [|www.isafe.org/] [|www.cyberbullying.us/resources.php] [|www.netsmartz.org/resources/reallife.htm] [|www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html]

Oh, another hot topic, especially in my area, is sexting. Wonder if any PSAs have been made about that yet?! (TB) Here are some sexting resources (NG) http://genyguide.com/sexting-facts/ http://filteringfacts.org/2009/04/23/new-survey-on-sexting-–-it’s-not-just-for-teens-anymore/ http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/sextech/PDF/SexTech_Summary.pdf http://teen-sexuality.suite101.com/ http://www.connectsafely.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1581&Itemid=118/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvp-kZeoWW0

That would be good a good topic - it is current and involves technology. (NG)

Assignments:
let me know if the link does not work (dan)

__IDEAS:__ As you all know this week we have to submit the shot selections, etc. I have a few ideas which people are welcome to edit/change/love/hate. Cyberbullying takes place at home and at school so we can use either setting for our PSA. We could start with a wide shot of either a house or school, than go into either the bedroom or a computer lab, from there an extreme close up of either a computer or a celphone with an example of cyberbullying on it. This would only be the opening, I figure 10-15 seconds or so. (Bryan)

What other ideas do we have? If we can brainstorm and throw out some good ideas, the rest should fall into place. Also we need to assign roles, to be honest I don't kow if it matter who we assign to which role, it's more of a title only situation so long as we're all working togehter. (Bryan)

I found a great article telling how to create a good PSA. It says to be effective we need to get someone to take take one specific action. Also we need to consider who we want to take that action. Something else I read said that the drunk driving PSAs didn't really start making a difference until they took the responsibility to act away from the drunk driver and turned it over to family and friends - the "Don't let Friends drive Drunk" campaign urging people to take the keys away. So I think we need to choose who we want to take the action (parent, bully, victim, etc.) and pick one action we want them to do. It would be great to pick something to empower the victim. I am attaching the article that can help us write a good PSA. (Nancy)

[|DanOdayPSAGuide[1.pdf]] Good points Nancy, I think we need to make sure we address those points tomorrow when we do our online meeting. (Bryan)

Hi guys, let me put more ideas out there, I want to type them before I forget them. In tonights' chat we should talk about what part of cyberbullying do we want to focus on. Based on what I've read there's a lot to cyberbullying, more than what we can cover in 1 minute. We could focus on identifying a child who is being bullied, or making sure a child doesn't bully someone else.

I'm going to keep throwing out ideas, please feel free to disagree, when it comes to job titles, I think we should just fill in the blanks, I think all the really matters is that we get it done. Also let's keep in mind that no matter how much time and planning we do this week, once we start working on the video things are going to change, we'll find new video clips, etc. so I think the key to this week is good communication and team work, not stressing the tiny details that might well get changed next week.

I vote cyberbullying or sexting since both have to do with technology. I will work on anything - don't mind researching and writing once we narrow down the topic. Looks like Tamara needs the "shooting video" job. Should we set up a time to meet and chat to get things decided? I work 7:30 - 5:00 M-Th but can sometimes squeeze some time in during the work day. Just let me know. (NG)

//I like the idea of cyberbullying because it is relevant, but also because I could see it being a lot of fun and easy to run with. It could be simply recorded with a web cam or a lot of it could be recorded with desktop recording software. We could set up a MSN chat room or something and record a small chat with a bully in it or something :P (dan)//

If we've got 2 votes for cyberbullying than I'll vote for that as well. I'll do some research tomorrow. (Bryan)//

Cyberbullying works for me. It may be required for school districts to have an education program in place addressing cyberbullying as early as 2009-10 school year. Definitely relevant. Am available for chat any evening after 5:30 this week. (Nancy)

I vote for cyberbullying, too. Bryan is on the right track. I can chat this evening or anytime Thurs-Sat. I vote that we have a communications coordinator in this group to get the chat together, and I vote for Dan. (hehe!) (TB)

Can we chat within Google? A coworker in another group said they did that last night. Hey, Dan, can you make that happen!!! **:) (NG)**

[|Week 3 assignment 1 group]

thoughts about jobs - looking at the assignment and the jobs we need I thought we could define a little better what each person would actually be doing. please edit the roles as you see fit, I'm just posting my initial thoughts of how it could work.

1. Director(s) - fills out the assignments obviously everyone would help do that, but they would have the majority of input and others would edit as they see fit 2. Scriptwriter(s) - makes up the plot and script 3. Camera Operators - the one who shoots the actual film, probably easiest if it is just one person. 3a.Talent - decided by the camera operator - he can gather who he needs 4. Editor(s) - puts all of the film together.

if we each take one job then we could get this done fairly easy I think. if we need help we can just send out an email and ask.

IDEAS: using the shot of an empty classroom, showing a celphone with a nasty text,