video reflection

Our group made a video Public Service Announcement on the topic of online sexual predators. We made our video a spoof on Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC. We tried to make our video a little silly (my name was Chris Shmansen, and we were an all girl group acting out male roles), yet solemn enough to acknowledge the seriousness of the issue we chose. We had a lot of fun filming and learned a lot about the video equipment. The fact that I found out that I can check out the equipment as an Albright student was neat. That opens up the possibility of me actually using my own videos in a lesson. We also became much more familiar with moviemaker, youtube, and audacity. I feel that my group did an awesome job of working together and multitasking. Jocabed and Chauncy did the majority of the editing while I looked on royaltyfreemusic.com for background music and opened up a youtube account. I also used a separate computer to sort of "try out" different ideas we had. Then, when they were ready I had a few suggestions (for example, effects and fonts) that we could put right into the real video. We used a flashdrive to transfer my audio into their edited video. I have to admit that I was dreading making this video, mostly because I wasn't comfortable with the hard/software and had never made a video before. But, I now feel 100 times more comfortable with the process and had a lot of fun creating the video. It shows that you really learn by doing!