For our sixth project we were told that we were going to be making Public Service Announcements. We could choose a topic of our choice and our PSA's had to be 30-60 seconds. In class Mrs Wiegand showed us examples of different PSA's that were used in commercials. She also have us a website to go to so we can get some idea's for the PSA's in case we were lost. After we figured out what out PSA was going to be about we had to get a song and begin creating our PSA's.
I chose to do my PSA about homeless people/youth in America. In my PSA I include statistics about how many people are homeless on any given night, the ages of these homeless people, and a leading cause of homelessness. In my PSA I used a lot of pictures of homeless children and homeless people looking frustrated. I also wanted whoever was watching to feel what I was saying so I chose to put Avril Lavignes "I'm With You". It fit well with the topic.
My topic of homelessness is a very important topic to have a PSA about. I do not think that people realize how many families/youth are homeless from things like the recession or abusive environments or foster care didn't work out for them. I think that if we live in a country like America nobody should be homeless. Everyone should have more options so we won;t have homeless families/youth.
I believe I did well on this project. My point was well put across. One thing I learned while doing this project is the more time, effort, and research you put into something the better it's going to come out. I know that if I slacked off and didn't put as much effort into this project I wouldn't have done a good PSA. I also learned that PSA's are more impactive then i previously thought. It takes a lot of thought and effort to make a PSA and it sends out a message to get you thinking.
