Digital Awareness: Creating a Public Service Announcement (PSA)

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 Hey, I'm back again! This time I came with a more challenging task than the others.We were asked to create a digital story and we chose to create public service announcement based on a story with my friends Başak and Belinay. So why did we choose this? We wanted to be informative and do a job that would be beneficial to society.We decided on our topic, inspired by the famous story of Little Red Riding Hood. By adapting the traditional story of being deceived by the wolf to today's children, we used it as a metaphor to symbolize dangerous advertisement-like messages coming from malicious people through online games.

 How the process of creation went?

 Frankly, the process was a bit painful. It was very difficult to agree on how to tell it and how to showcase it, but we did it! We used CapCut and iMovie for audio editing and Pixton for visual and video editing. After recording our voices separately and combining them, we tried to add impressiveness with appropriate sound effects. In order to accurately reflect the characters, we examined all the designs and selected the most similar ones and edited them. Although adding movement effects to the characters and adjusting facial expressions to suit each conversation took time, it was a lot of fun! We did not encounter anything extra other than some of the difficulties I mentioned.

  What did we aim for?

 By targeting the child audience and with a visual and content that will attract their attention, we wanted to ensure that they are aware of the dangers that await children in today's digital world, which has become an important problem in our country, and that parents take action against these dangers and do not become passive parents.

I hope you like it, I'm waiting for your comments.

Here is our public service announcement video! Don't forget to watch! 

(In case you cannot open the video or its quality deteriorates, the drive link is here.)

click for the drive link

Belinay's blog: https://belinaykaynar2.wixsite.com/-the-flow-of-life-wi

Başak's blog: https://bsharings.blogspot.com/

picture by:https://pixlr.com/tr/image-generator/ (created by ai)

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