I believe that the biggest contributor to our group’s success is our good working relationship. We have worked together before, and we make a good team. We each bring different skills to the team, are patient, and have a commitment to superior work.
One of the first things we did was create a new Google site to house our project plans and upload new content. It was divided up by week. We pasted all the content from each assignment onto its corresponding page, and updated it as we met. We typically meet on Google Wave. It allows everyone the opportunity to contribute and lets us keep a clear record of our plans.
We live in different parts of the state (far west, central, piney woods), so Google sites and Wave are indispensable tools for us. Since Alicia is the film expert, she took the lead on planning shots and handled the final edits. I have a background in writing, so I created the script outline and edited everyone’s contributions. Julie is the artist, so she created our storyboards and talked us through the plans.
We made all of our own content and did not hire actors, so we did not have to worry about copyright infringement. We did a thorough job, so nothing sticks out as a way we might have improved the public service announcement. It occurred to me after it was complete that it might have been interesting for us all to make a PSA from the same raw footage/script, to see how it turns out. But I do not believe that anything I would have made could top what Alicia did.
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