PSA Reflection

Our experience in making our PSA was awesome. It was really fun to put together and we are all very excited about the topic. We used short clips of multiple interviews that we shot all over campus. Britny did most of the editing and then we got together and polished with the final touches. It's good that we changed the topic abruptly, because our original idea seemed tired and overdone. I really like the sequence of our PSA, and I think its interestingly flexible, because of the variety of ideas expressed throughout it. I think our group dynamic was successful, and we built well on each other's ideas so it was easy to make group decisions. The interviewees did a good job of expressing a variety of different views on Beauty, and I think that it ended on a positive note that gave hope to non-conformist ideas of beauty that are heavily influenced by the media. There is a good balance between the shots of people and blocks of text, and they timing works well with the music as well. Although it was sometimes tricky to line up the perfect timing, but there we're no major problems so everything went smoothly. Our tools and props were simply digital cameras and imovie, which made everything a lot simpler, and very fun to play around with. Overall, I think we were very efficient and motivated to creating a positive film supporting individuality and strength in beauty in a society so heavily influenced by the superficiality of the media today. I think this is a good tool for environmental activism, because it reveals so much about the connective diversity between every other individual and one's self, which touches a distinctive humanness that people can relate to on an emotional level.