Analysis of group experience.
Jason Mansfield = green
April Dickerman = orange
Melissa Eudy = blue
Colin Shannon: Red
Max Windham = Purple
April Dickerman = orange
Melissa Eudy = blue
Colin Shannon: Red
Max Windham = Purple
1. As a team, debrief about your experiences producing the PSA.
2. Individually, add a brief post to your collaborative team documentation related to the project. Your post should:
- clearly analyze the group’s pre-production, production, and post-production process; shot and editing selection; Web delivery formatting decisions.
The team did an excellent job with the pre-production phase of the project. Everyone contributed and adjustments were made early in light of team members comments. The script and story board were delivered on time and with all team members’ consent. Production was efficient as all team members contributed their part through a community Dropbox. Although we all agreed on what shots were to be used, Max put everything together and did most of the editing selection. We viewed it and agreed on its final form. We decided early that we would post our PSA on Youtube due to ease of use. Our team worked very hard in week three with the pre-production part of the assignment. This made everything easier in the following weeks. We agreed on the topic of our PSA quickly and went straight to the planning phase. Max was our editor and we let him determine the formatting and web delivery portion of the project, however we all had input into the shots and script for the PSA.
Our team worked very well together. By week 3 we had already gotten together and decided on what we where going to do our PSA on. Everyone immediately offered suggestions volunteered to do a part. Our group has worked together before and all of the personalities fit well. Each individual had their portion done ahead of time and everyone was very timely in offering suggestions for improvement. Overall our group worked very well together and everyone did a good part of the project.
We had a great mix of talent and interests, making the project much easier, since we knew what eachother could do. I was impressed with how quickly the project came together. Since we are in a technology master’s degree, we logically chose internet safety. With our varying life experiences and family situations, we were able to put a very different spin on a subject we figured everyone else was taking on as well. Everyone worked very hard, got their part done in a timely manner and were quick to offer both praise and improvement suggestions. It was a difficult, yet enjoyable project
I feel that we had a very good and cohesive initial idea. Overall the work provided what they needed in order to finish the assignment. I know in the end I made some decisions on my own to get the video finished, but the collaboration worked well and I think we ended up with the most professional looking of the videos that I saw.
- offer insights into how the group can improve their public service announcement.
The public service announcement could be more cohesive and exciting if all members had been able to actively edit in stead of having to wait to analyze the final product. This would have been difficult to do when different schedules were considered. The only way this could have been improved would have been if we had all been able to get together physically and work on it and possibly been in the video ourselves. As this was not possible, I feel our final product is excellent!
Our public service announcement was well done, but with the time frame and technology available is not at the level of actually playing on TV. I feel the video Max did in the background went a little fast to Colins voice, but looked great. The Music was a great choice, especially for the topic, but he tempo also didn’t go with the tempo of the PSA. I feel the words we used where great, the music was great, and the pictures where great, but we did it over a long distance with all of us very far apart. If we where able to dedicate more time and be together to work on it we could have easily made it of caliper to appear on television
I feel, as the rest of my team does, that we could have done better with small aspects like tempo. If we had been working in an office together, rather than in 5 different places, we could have easily and quickly produced a PSA worthy of television. For what we were able to do from 5 different parts of Texas, I feel we did a very good job. Improvements that could have been made can be made by us in the future with practice
Although I saw some comments concerning the quick cuts in the video, based on the recorded narrative there was not much leeway in doing long shots. It is a fine line between leaving a picture up for an extended length of time and doing quick shots. In today’s crazy fast paced world I thought the pacing worked. I showed it to several people before posting to YouTube and they thought the quick movement would hold people’s attention. In reality if we were working together we could have timed the music, voice over and pictures to be more in sync.
- identify copyright attribution for assets.
The pictures, videos, and narration were created by team members so there would be no copyright infringement, the music was also copyright free. We were able to choose a creative commons license under each individual’s name. Early on we decided to use team members’ personal pictures so that we would not have any copyright issues. Later, the music was done this way also.
All pictures, videos, and narration were copyright free. The words used didn’t contain any quotes or information from anyone other then us. The pictures used were of us so there were no copy right issues there either.
All pictures were copyright free, since they were of us or our families. The music was also free of copyright (unlike happy birthday!), and we attained a creative commons license with eachother’s name.
All pictures except for two that we cited where produced by the team.
- critique your team’s collaboration and interactions with each other.
Our team does an exceptional job of collaborating and interacting with each other. This is the second project we have worked on together. After the first project we decided to remain together as a group for any other projects. We are able to identify strengths in each member and use those abilities to create high quality products. Any critiques are given in an informative, not insulting or demeaning, manner. After completing this project, I would not hesitate to work with this group again. This is a great group. We work great together and we all know what the strengths are in the group. When we first started this project, we all jumped in with what we would be comfortable and good at doing. This helped to start us out on the right foot. I would love to work with these people again if possible!
We all have been very blessed to have met in the beginning of the Graduate program and to have worked with each other on every group assignment. We all work great together, do our part and then some, and all seem to agree on the same concept. Whenever a member sees an area of improvement they offer the suggestion in a positive constructive way. Also, whenever a member has an issue or a personal matter come up the others offer help and suggestions to ensure the project gets done on time. Having gotten my Bachelors also online, which involved many group projects, I can say this is the best group I have ever worked with.
All I can say is, I wish these four were on my teaching team at work! We all met in 5306, and were very lucky to be grouped to critique eachother’s wiki’s. We decided to colaborate in teaching with Technology, worked unbelievebly well together, and decided to remain together for any future projects. I am very touched that the team has actually remained in contact outside of the projects. We have actually come to depend on eachother for questions and answers if one of us is confused, we just e-mail someone in the group and the problem is usually solved. We knew eachother’s stregnths from the previous projects, and I think that’s what helped the PSA come together so quickly. If these four were on my teaching team at work, my first year would be so much easier.
I think given that we had not met each other and had different schedules, I think the team worked well overall. I would like to have seen what would have been accomplished if we truly had worked together together versus asynchronously.
