Monday, September 27, 2010

Creating a PSA as a Group

For the record, let me state that I do not like group work.

That being said, this was the most painless group project and the best group I've collaborated to produce a product in a long time. Each member was very aggressive, eager to contribute and talented in the areas for which they volunteered. After initially trying to maintain a conversation and making all decisions through email, we created a wiki . This was done relatively early in Week 3 in order to catalogue all of our documents and maintain an ongoing discussion as to how we each would contribute. The wiki also served as a brainstorming platform to bounce ideas around. We then held a group chat early in Week 4 to get some final decisions made on the direction we would take with our project.

After the online chat, each member understood their role more clearly and the raw elements of the final project were completed in the next few days. By Monday September 18 the voice-over was complete, shooting was complete, final scripting was complete and we had an entire week to make the final edits and talk among group members to recommend any final changes.

All-in-all, this collaboration went very smoothly and I would consider myself lucky to get to work with Brittany Allen, Kathryn Barrett and Amy George again in the future. To view our PSA: Stop Cyberbullying Now!, access http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=herOAeozo4k or see below.

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