Reflections about my group PSA

This project was very interesting! I enjoyed getting my students involved in creating a rap, using Audacity to record the rap, and using a video camera to create shots. The students really began to take over! I worked with some other very talented people in my group. We chose a topic very quickly and without any argument. Our first pre-production document was very vague. I think we all had ideas, but struggled to clearly share them on paper. We decided to shoot as much video as possible and delete parts later rather than not have enough to begin with. I believe we would have benefited from more discussion in this planning phase to clearly articulate what we wanted for shots and music. I gathered parent permission before shooting/recording anything my students did. Another group member forgot and had to gain that after the fact. That made it difficult to edit - not knowing whether we could use her video or not. Once those issues were resolved, 4 out of the 6 in our group worked well together to edit or comment on versions of the video. Our group had the problem of non-involvement by two members. They had ideas during the first week, but weren't heard from again. One member offered to edit video, but never posted or shared any video. Thankfully, another member or two stepped in to edit. It was very frustrating to try to rely on those two members when emails were not answered and nothing was shared. I think our group should have stayed at the original four members - those were the ones that truly participated.