Another option for an assignment was to make a PSA, which I was excited about.  I did mine about household fertilizer use.  It’s actually a really big problem and contributes to a lot of environmental issues, but not many people are aware of the consequences of making their lawns beautiful each spring.  Watching the commercials for these products, one might never guess that any harm could come of it!

That being said, I cheated juuuust a little with this one.  As my “I am me” video pointed out, I am an education intern with Friends of the Rappahannock. I teach fourth graders every week about watershed pollution, and one of the major things we talk about is the effects of fertilizers on watersheds.  I kind of just adapted my schpiel into a video and found pictures and videos to go along with it.  I downloaded and trimmed commercials for fertilizers, using various instructional videos and a couple of miracle-gro commercials.

I don’t know why I had so much trouble speaking – I recorded myself several times and kept stumbling.  That’s why there are a couple spots where I sound kind of weird — I did a bit of editing because I sounded even more troubled and stutter-y than the video even shows, but there are still a few hiccups in there.

If you didn’t know about this issue already though, you do now!

I just watch the beginning of the Movie Awards and Rebel was hosting it (Fat Amy form Pitch Perfect) and then it hit me for my last thing I am going to do something with her in it. My public service announcement is about herpes because it is a sexual transmitted disease  that can be infected many different ways. I thought that it would be a funny and serious way to get the point across. I used a scene from Pitch Perfect and Get Him to the Greek. trimmed them and but them together using movie maker.

*under construction

This assignment allowed creativity to take over and for the fun to flow! The goal of this assignment was to pick an issue of whatever (silly, serious, etc.) and make a public service announcement. I decided to have fun with these assignments to let go and let fun do allll the work. I have to say that I am a HUGE The Office fan…so I decided to let it influence my work this week. My topic I decided would be that there are too many damn people on this planet, and we need to do something about it. Like yesterday. So, I started off by using KeepVid and downloading a couple videos, like one of crowds of people, then a song to go along with the entire video I Hate People (Yup, that’s a real song), and ending with my personal favorite one of Dwight, hating people. I used iMovie because it makes life sooooooo much easier, and I cut up the clips so that it includes each one of the scenes that I want, as well as the News Theme iMovie offers! I did find trouble during the text I wanted to put. i wanted it to be dramatic, and go slow but every time I tried to slow it down, it just wouldn’t seem to go as slow as I wanted it to so I just let it use the standard speed but even when I still try to change the duration time, it still seems to be iffy, so that’s something I hope to fix as I continue to use iMovie over time. However, i am still pleased with my product and I’m also happy to report that it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, but only because of how much practice I’ve been getting with iMovie. Anyways, this assignment was a wonderful five ?’s, here’s the final product and please like if you agree with Dwight and me!

Ok, so I thought the first 2 video assignments I did were pretty fun..But this one was absolutely hilarious and I loved filming it.  The assignment, Public Service Announcement, called to make a PSA on a something we really wanted to make people aware of, or just a goofy, silly topic.  Of course, I chose the goofy topic.

Since my roommates have cats, it didn’t take long to come up with the idea of catnip abuse.  I started by writing out everything I was going to say, and then I filmed the cats doing those things.  Using Audacity, I recorded myself and uploaded Sarah McLachlan‘s song “Angel” to play in the background.  That song is so overused in commercials, so I thought it would be funny to put it with something that’s not serious.  I used Windows Movie Maker to organize the clips of the cats and then uploaded the audio from Audacity to play in the video.  Finally, I uploaded the end video to YouTube! Enjoy!

11/16 stars.