Week 5 - Multimedia

Reflecting on the experiences I encountered during the pre-production, production and post-production of our three week Public Service Announcement project, brings a lump into my throat. I have never worked with such wonderful groups of professional individuals. I say "groups" because I was lucky enough to be involved in two groups which had totally different dynamics. I cannot say one was better than the other, both were equally wonderful.

I do think, however, that both of the PSA's could have been improved. I was responsible for the oral narration for Aaachoo...Not the Flu! which was uploaded to You Tube.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LHEOzEbVpk). I think I should have put more modulation in my voice so that it had more contrast. It was also a few seconds over the one minute limit. Perhaps we needed to cut the narration and clips so that they were shorter. As it turned out, our credits needed to slow down because they rolled by very quickly. The second project, 21st Century Pirates, also on You Tube, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HzcjSQ3ckc) was also over the one minute limit. We could have left out one or more of the "still" pictures. The narrator could also have spoken a bit faster.

We included the proper citation and credits for pictures both in our post-production documents and at the end of the Public Service Announcement so that we were compliant with all copyright laws. We followed Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Media (1996), Sections Two and Three and the Consortium of College and University Media Centers. (2009). Retrieved July 4, 2009 from http://ccumc.org/system/files/MMFUGuides.pdf . We also used Google Images and Flickr Images. We used the Creative Commons code as a basis for copyright compliance.

Both teams communicted via email , text messaging, phone calls, and wikis. One of the groups, the "Aaachoo's" even started a new wiki just for the project. That group also used Office Live to post audio and video clips. The "21st Century Pirates" group one of the team member's wiki to do all of the work. Both groups worked equally well with one another in an atmosphere of mutual respect as we worked toward a common goal. Both teams produced successful projects, and I enjoyed the teams equally.