Video Production PSAs

Apologies for this late blog post...been a little busy around here!  But I wanted to share with you some of my video production students' final projects from last semester.

I had them reflect on their semester and all of the projects they did in class, and then create a PSA with what they learned as well as promoting the video production course for others to take next year.

I am super impressed with how these turned out!  Each of the students had to make their own storyboard first before filming/compiling their footage.  I really think this is an essential part to doing any movie, and I hope I've ingrained it in these ladies to always plan out and storyboard first before jumping in to make a movie!

Well done ladies--you should feel very proud of yourselves for all of the awesome videos you made and what you've accomplished this semester!  Bravo!

Public Service Announcements

In "Technology as Culture" class, students have recently wrapped up a project where they created Public Service Announcements (PSAs) that fell into one of these 3 categories: food security, global status of women/girls, or wildlife habitat and how it related to the world's population at 7 billion.

The idea for this project came from the website World of 7 Billion in which they were hosting a video contest for high school students.  Although my students aren't in high school, I still loved the idea of creating a PSA about a world problem so we followed the rules of the contest and created PSAs anyways.  Plus, in communication arts, 7th graders are just starting a huge world problems research project, so this PSA project was a perfect segue into that.

Students used this doc as their guide for what their project must include, and then set out to research the topic they chose and create a PSA.  Students worked individually or in groups of 2, and created some really unique 30-45 second PSAs.  Each and every one of the PSAs they created was well-researched and did a great job of detailing about their category and how it relates to the world population at 7 billion.

Take a look at their PSAs below.  I'm sure you'll be as impressed as I was with these 7th graders' PSAs...enjoy!