Early Blog

So I know this weeks blog is a day early, but I have some time to kill. Soooo, this week we are doing PSA videos. Our teachers gave us these problems and we have to make a public service announcement video and then present it to the school. All of the problems are relative to the school environment and hopefully we can change some hearts while we are at it. My groups PSA is about digital wellness and we specifically chose to focus on self worth and social media. It is a problem where people try and define themselves by the amount of follwers and likes that they get as well as the flattering comments. If the picture doesn't meat their expectations on likes, they most likely delete. We want to inspire people to try and look to themselves to find self worth and also look to friends and people around them. Don't look for gratification from others to verify what you are worth. 

I was kind of dreadinig the PSA because I wasn't sure what me and my group would do. It seemed almost impossible to find an idea. Then, one day, I figured it out and proposed it to my group. It was great and then we got started and it turned out to be a pretty interesting idea. One of us was dedicated to the writing on the screen for the video. I was dedicated to making the music on garage band. Copyright free of course. And another person was focused on making the call to action website we are doing at the end. Hopefully this PSA will turn out to be good and impactful and not just silly.

Video Chat

Yesterday, our entire class did a videochat with this freelance photographer and documentary maker because a lot of what we do in this class, is similar to what he does everyday for his job. He does documentaries on social issues and on just jobs people give him. He has to make connections, reach out to people, and make him self known to people so he can get a job from people. That is similar to what I am doing. I had to reach out to a local organizations, make connections with people so I could make my issue recognized. He markets himself a lot through social media and I thought that I could use socail media to spread awareness for homelessness and also to post the youtube link of my interviews so people can realize what the organization is about.

Well I should say that I need to make more connections with people so I can further my project, however I am using my organization I used for the first half of my project. However I need to start promoting my project and get it out their. I made a lot of progress with my hoodie drive and if I could inspire more people to donate to organizations that would be incredible.

Kevin, the freelance photographer is an amazing person. He is a doer and a gogetter and always accomplishes his goals. If I could have that same attitude with 

Community Pitch

So, last night was the community pitch for our passion project and it went great. There were so many people that had such nice things to say. The community pitch was a presentation to the community of our project and our progress we have accomplished. A bunch of parents and friends and people came and learned about our project. It felt great to be complimented to so many people that my idea is good. It was an hour long and it went by so fast just talking to so many people. As I have stated previously in my blog posts that my project is about homelessness in my community.