Post Production Ramblings

I have rewritten this post three times and I can't get it to keep the paragraph formatting. I will keep working on it, but if you see one big paragraph, know that it isn't on purpose. As a part of our digital multimedia course we were asked to work collaboratively to create PSA videos. The experience was overall a good one, even though there were some frustrations on the way. The pre-production went very smoothly. Early on we created a group wiki for the project. It turned out to be a great tool for brainstorming. We were able to build off each others' ideas, add relevant links and videos and basically come to a consensus as to what our project should be about. We then divided up the work, however, even then we worked as a group. For example, Jason wrote the script, but we each went through and revised it and made suggestions until we had the final version created. We even added the pre-production document to t he wiki so that we could all help in filling it out. The production process took us a little longer to figure out how best to accomplish it as a group. We ended up adding a page to our wiki so that we could all add the videos, pictures and audio files that we were each responsible for. One great tool that i used was google docs. I hadn't realized before that you can upload image and video files and then provide other people with a link so they can download the files as well. This was much easier than using emails and filling up everyone's email boxes. I did the initial editing and I used animoto to put together the pictures and videos that we had each contributed. Kristen then took that video and edited it further, removing shots that were too dark or unfocused and adding in the audio files that Kimberly had created. She sent us the proof and we all made suggestions as to how it could be cut down to the 60 second limit and what copyright info should be added. Finally, Kristen uploaded the final video to Youtube. The great thing about Youtube is that it is easy to upload files to it and it provided a simple embed code that can allow you to add the video to your blog or wiki. I am happy with how the PSA turned out. If we had more time I would probably redo the narration to make it a little louder, but other than that, I think it is very solid. Most of the footage we used in our video was taken by us, however we did get a few pictures from Flickr that had creative commons licenses. They were: Party Picture #1 by Flickr User Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos Party Picture #2 Creative Commons License by Flickr User The "Your fired" picture was from leighvalleyramblings.blogspot.com