PSA Evaluation: Making Your Values Matter

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        Creating this PSA, gave me a chance to learn a different part of the media world. It gave me a chance to expand my knowledge into actually brainstorming and helping to write the script for a public service announcement. What was also very unique about this project, is that at the beginning, we all had different ideas for a PSA. But my teammates (Jessie, Stephanie) and I were able to combine them and create the theme, or main idea that our whole PSA is based on: Youth Empowerment: Making Your Values Matter. The San Francisco Film Society helpers, Kirthi, Ryan, and Masa were also a great help to all of our class. Even when we thought our film was done, they helped us point out many little things that needed to be corrected, before being able to finally export it.
 
        To me what most fun about creating this PSA was editing it. It gave all of us a chance to be creative and make this movie really ours, and enjoyable for others to watch.  However, what was most hard for me would have to be filming. Now that took a lot of focus and teamwork from all of us. I have to say that standing in front of a camera was not as easy as it seemed! For a minute I thought we would never be able to get all of our scenes filmed in time, since all of us just kept messing up! In the end, our PSA didn't quite follow our script. In fact, we had all decided to delete or change many scenes. Kirthi explained this happens very often in the media world, and these small alterations can actually help improve our film.

    Overall, I enjoyed being part of this project in creating a PSA. It was a wonderful, new experience working with Kirthi, Ryan, and Masa. I'm sure we wouldn't have been able to start or finish these PSAs without them. I hope all of our hard work is displayed during Friday's screening, and that they'll actually listen to all of our messages being promoted throughout all of our videos.

PSA Assignment

         For our PSA, Jessie, Stephanie, and I  will be doing a video about helping kids around the world by just donating a small amount of money. The message we're trying to send is that people don't need to make big, hard sacrifices in order to help starving children. Every time you want to buy something, or need something, think of those people, and spare them a dollar. The audience we are trying to reach are kids our age, ranging from 12-17 years old. Jessie is like the camera person. She will be taking the pictures, and helping to film the video. Stephanie will be working with the sound, so she'll be helping to choose our music. I will be editing the film in imovie. Lastly, Stephanie will be gathering all of the props, which most of them, we already have. 

M.C Esher Assignment

M.C Escher Assignment Description

       This week in the 8th Grade Media Arts Class, we were asked to try to imitate a drawing,"Relativity", by M.C Escher, an artist specializing in tessellations. When I first glanced at the picture, I was unsure if any of us would be even able to come close to such an amazing drawing. What's so extraordinary about this piece is that all of those different perspectives and dimensions make you want to inspect every single detail, in order to be able to capture the drawing.

        My kerpoof picture diplays 3 different perspectives. Each staircase has someone walking up or down from what would be his/her point of view. All of those perspectives are trying to connect with each other, in order to piece together a unique image. Creating this picture turned out to be just as difficult as I expected! It's not easy trying to imagine something from a different perspective you aren't really used to. Which is why I've come to admire M.C Escher's Work. However, it was a fun and interesting experience to work on an assignment that takes you out of the ordinary!