Week 5 PSA Post Production Reflection

This was a great collaborative effort on the part of the team. During week 1 Lawrence posted on the discussion board an invitation to create a team, obviously Roman, Melba, and I jumped on the chance to get an early start on the project. In pre-production phase I offered up a suggestion to do the Public Service Announcement (PSA) on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and the team agreed that a positive PSA to work on. We all agreed that it was for a K-12 educational setting. During this phase we proceeded to assign responsibilities, project description, and schedule of deliverables. We continued to brainstorm and came up the script outline and narration. We this in hand we completed our shot list. During the production phase we proceeded to get pictures of a school setting like school entrance, hallways, lockers, CPR related equipment, and finally a video of me fainting and receiving CPR. The team met once a week on Skype to collaborate on selecting appropriate content for each of the shot list. We continued to communicate via Skype and e-mail several other times to continue to fine tune the script and shot list to provide a smooth and professional appearance for the video. During the post-production phase we reviewed the video several times to check for continuity and for the assignment rubrics. Since Lawrence was the editor and he used a Mac the web format was in QuickTime, which was uploaded to YouTube.

The team did an awesome job on the project considering that we were all over the state of Texas. We could have improved on the PSA given more time to collaborate I understand that we all have busy lives and have to attend to family and work. There is a lot of talent in the group and I could not have asked for a more committed team barring the time constraints. I have to applaud Lawrence for doing the editing, Ramona and Melba for doing the narration, and I provided the some of the content and maintenance of Google site. This was a great team and I hope to have the opportunity to collaborate with them in the future.

The team provided references for the video of a beating heart for the closing, audio of beating heart for background sound, and the model release form.

References:

Medtronic. (2008). The visible heart: the normal heart beat. Retrieved from http://www.visibleheart.com/videoLibrary.shtml.

The Free Sound Project. (2007). Herbert boland heartbeat enhanced. Retrieved from http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=32731.

University of Hawaii. (n.d.) Model release form. Retrieved from http://careeraccess.hawaii.edu/uhccnews/pages/Model_Release.pdf.







Team PSA Project by Salvador Huerta, Ramona Lincoln, Melba Morales, Lawrence Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Based on a work at sites.google.com.

Week 4 PSA Production

It is has been a tough week for me, since I was out at Round Rock for a Center for Leadership and Student Success (CLASS)workshop with the executive team from our district. The team has been collaborating quite well since we joined forces in week one. For this week we met via Skype at about 3:30PM on September 19, 2010. We discussed the time limits, the pictures, videos, script changes, shot changes, updates to the copyright section. For this week Mona helped in making sure that the video is under 60 seconds and to the point. I provided video, pictures, audio sounds, Google site updates, and attended the team collaborative session via Skype. Lawrence and Mona have worked on the video. Mona, Lawrence, and Melba are providing narration for the PSA. The team members are all from section ET8013 and consist of Ramona Lincoln, Melba Morales, Lawrence Anderson, and Salvador Huerta.

Our Collaborative site is located at https://sites.google.com/site/edldprojectpsa/

I attended the Web Conference at 5:00PM September 19, 2010.  Dr. Abernathy clarified many issues for us today.  She made up connect to real world application when it came to the time limits, for example those in commercials.  Many of the participants volunteered their PSA topic.  One item that came out of the Web Conference was the inclusion of a creative commons licensing information.

Reflection of Week 3 PSA Pre-Production

Our team consists of Mona Lincoln, Melba Morales, Lawrence Anderson, and Salvador Huerta. We decided to do the PSA on CPR: The Act That Saves Lives. We got together via Skype and communicated about the project and came up with the project proposal, scripts, shot list, and copyright information. Thanks to Mona for pointing out important facts in keeping the storyline in order. We have already taken video, photos, and audio. We are currently working on the edit portion of project. We are on schedule and it is turning out to be a good collaborative and fun project. I communicated with our district nurse and in doing this was able to take several video clip of CPR in action with a mannequin. This allowed me to take videos of the mouthpiece and AED when in use. I took several videos to make sure that the project had sufficient content to choose from. I when out and took several photos and audio to add to the project. The week pre-production has been done and now I leave it in the capable hands of Mona and Lawrence to do the editing.

I have learned so much on the basics of editing. I really like this class.

EDLD 5363 Week 2 Web Conference Reflection

I attended the web conference with Dr. Abernathy along with several of my peers on August 31, 2010 at 6:00PM. In participating in this activity, we were able to connect and collaborate with our professor and peers and share insights. Dr. Abernathy’s audio was not working so we all had to exercise our fingers and do some typing. There was some confusion as to the requirements for the week 2 assignment. In our understanding, we are to use the e-mailed assignment instead of the one in the courseware. The assignment needed future editing, as it referred to video, which Dr. Abernathy cleared up and mentioned that it was only audio. We addressed the upcoming weeks and we were informed those in weeks 3 through 5 the assignments remained the same as in the courseware. I am glad we have our four members in the group. I have made a suggestion to do a PSA on CPR. I have spoken to the district nurse and we are going to collaborate and do one for the district. With this, said one of my roles will be as the camera operator. I will have to provide some of the script when talking to our Health Services coordinator. The web conference has prepared me for next week’s assignment and I look forward to enhancing my video editing skills.

In participating in the web conference this included standard TL-V.D.2. Organize, coordinate, and participate in an online learning community related to the use of technology to support learning.

Reference:

Williamson, J., &. Redish, T. (2009). ISTE's Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education

Podcast for Week 2 Assignment

Video Editing Made Easy by Salvador Huerta is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

EDLD 5363 Week 2 Video Editing Program Comparison

For this week’s assignment I evaluated two video editing software programs. The first one that I tested was the Windows Live Movie Maker which is exactly the same as the Movie Maker on most Windows operating systems from Microsoft. I have used the product in the past and have found it excelled in ease of use. This comes at a price in the development of a finished product since it is very basic in the functions that it provides. It provides for basic functions of animation and visual effect. The program would allow the user to cut and paste sections of video, thus allowing some editing. The video downloaded did not allow for editing of the audio portion. This program would work well in a quick and easy display without major modifications.

The second program that I reviewed for the week was Corel’s Video Studio Pro X3. It was slightly more difficult to use than Movie Maker. The embedded help was easy to follow. It allowed the import from a variety of different formats. Once I acclimated to the program the additional functions available from the previous program were many. I could easily drag the video and then split the functions of video and audio. I was easily able to cut and paste. It offered several videos that I could use for video intros. The text function to display on the video was easy to use. It had several different video filters that were available, but my needs were simple at the time. There were many audio overlays for using for special effects.

In conclusion I found that Corel’s product was somewhat more difficult to use, but it provided the functionality that I would need for the project in the class. The only difference was the user needs to acquaint themselves with the timeline slider to make the necessary edits. Once this is accomplished the editing was easy. Both products provided easy export to many types of media, but the one that most appealed to me was the ease of export to YouTube.  I have hardly done any video editing in the past.  Only using something simple like Windows Movie Maker when needed.  In realizing how easy it is to edit video and adio, will at the same time adding special effects caught my interest.  I will be using video editing programs in the future to enhance the delivery of support to my teachers and students at my district.