[Teen/VVP] Beginning Our PSA's
On Tuesday we "started" to work on our PSA's. We actually began off learning about storyboarding. Actually, never mind, we started off with the UNICEF video. That was...interesting, because they used the Machinima made by some of the people from our program, and I didn’t recognize their avatars~ which was odd but yeah I guess it is hard to recognize an avatar when they don’t have their names hovering over their heads. I think it was Jackie, and Christina that had their Machinima used. For my part, it was strange seeing myself in a video; its nothing like looking at a mirror, it’s seeing yourself alive, not just seeing a reflection. Well...I guess cameras are somewhat similar to them, but still it felt strange looking at myself, and really...as dumb as it may sound, I really didn't recognize myself. And as usual, my voice comes out somewhat childish and I felt bad that I didn’t pre-prepare because then I would be capable of speaking without having an "uhh..."/"err..." moment. But it was a funny thing to see.
On Tuesday, after Chris and Meredith finished discussing storyboarding and we finished watching the Wiz, we divided ourselves based on talent...which was strange. It makes me wonder, if we had each taken a quick exam would...what we consider our talents come out to be different. Personally, I have no idea what my talent is, I can be creative--writing and art wise--but does that include digital media? I can take pictures from different angles, and take different shots of things and know which is best for what, but does that really make me an expert at film/movies? Research, I think anyone is capable of doing. It just seemed like something everyone should contribute to if they wanted to be a part of the project since everyone needs to be somewhat aware of the subject that we are going to make our PSA's on. So I stuck with the only other choice there was--general second life stuff; now I'm beginning to wonder why in the world I chose that, especially considering the fact that I can’t fly with the flight enhancer. But anyway, I think this means I have to learn to build. Clothes, I can makes, I just lack...the resources like Photoshop, and of course the uploading money. But when it comes down to it, the one thing I lack is patience...which is probably why I can't build. After a little while, I just get frustrated with things.
The group I was in, [we] decided that we would do our PSA on Physical Fitness and Health Issues. I think that is an interesting issue and its become a very big issue at this point because child obesity has risen so much in the last ten years. Its become so big that the NY English Regents decided to make that the topic for one of its issues this January…well kind of anyway. So…I guess our point would have to be that digital media is good because it can promote healthier lives and exercise. I guess we can easily say it’s bad because it makes people sit in front of a screen, as I am doing at this very moment, and exercise nothing besides maybe their fingers and maybe their minds. Now that I say that, maybe it doesn’t exercise fingers so much—because I type a lot and yet I still have chubby fingers—but that’s just a off topic thought. Anyway, I don’t think it would be too wise to say it’s bad because the critics would…devour us. Especially since we would be pretty hypocritical in doing so because we would be using digital media to show people that people need to lead healthier lives, so saying digital media is bad would make us hypocritical. Anyway, as for ideas, I was thinking, maybe we can make a short “AD” promoting exercise and a healthier lifestyle and then begin off zoomed into that, and then zoom out to show that someone is actually watching that advertisement on their computer. But maybe that’s not so interesting. I don’t know, I guess tomorrow we will be able to discuss this and come up with some kind of gimmick.
