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Blindness PSA
In this video, we talked about the public health issue of blindness. We chose this topic because we wanted to inform the public about blindness. My role in the group was recording our interview with the ophthalmologist. I think we did well with providing information about blindness. Our video is very informative. I think we could've tried to make our video more visually appealing. The most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA was learning more about blindness.
Q4 benchmark
https://youtu.be/Lb1SFwF85j0
In our video we talked about teen pregnancy. We reviewed a former worker at the Northern homes which is a place for young teen moms to come and feel comfortable if they are kicked out or homeless. She said she worked there because she wanted to help the teens get themselves together by helping them with job opportunities and stuff. This is a sensitive topic that a lot of young teens go through so I thought it was perfect to talk about.
Public Health and Blindness
Teen pregnancy
In our video we provided information about how teens are affected by pregnancy. We interviewed someone from the Northern Homes for Children Facility and asked them about their experience working their and how they were able to help the pregnant teens. I contributed to the project by helping find someone to interview. Something that we did well while bringing this project together was we collaborated well and came up with plenty of ideas. I feel as though that the most meaningful part of the project was interviewing someone from Northern Homes for Children and being able to get an inside look.
Alcohol is bad 4head
Basically our video just talks about what alcohol abuse is and why it’s so bad. The reason I chose this video is because I always wondered why exactly too much alcohol is a bad thing and what happens when you drink to much. I knew what alcohol abuse was but not everything about it. So I wanted to learn about it more. Now with the information I learned, I can help and inform people in the future about alcohol abuse.
I helped write the script, interview our person, film the video, and be in it.
I think I did a good job at writing the script and cutting out the unnecessary stuff. I think I could’ve done a better job of saying my lines for the video since they’re kind of unclear.
I think the most meaningful part was knowing that we created something that could help people with alcohol and teach people about it. That’s what makes this project best in my opinion.
Food Safety
Alcohol PSA (Dexter, Lamier, Josh, and Me)
This video is a PSA about the effects of alcohol and alcoholism on the body and how this affects public health in our country. I wanted to choose this topic because of the widespread risk involved with alcohol and how this can affect people that are close to us. Alcohol is also a major influence of economics like tobacco, which is quite terrible.
I contributed some research, a small skit for the PSA video, and I edited everything together. I believe we researched quite thoroughly everything that is associated with alcohol and how it in turn affects public health. We could have prepared the PSA a bit better, with better visuals, but we were limited in our capabilities. I also believe we exceeded on our ability to interview two people for this project.
I believe the most meaningful part of the PSA is the message you can get from it and how not to let alcohol rule your life and your community.
Public Health, Prescription Drug Overdose
In this project, we were required to research a particular topic about public health, and create a video to bring awareness to the topic. My group picked prescription drug overdose. With 70,000 lives taken each year, this epidemic could create higher death rates in this country due to the ease of access through technology. Teenagers are also getting pulled into this epidemic. I believe that this is one of the problems that is needs a solution right away. If not, countless lives will be affected, not just the death of these individuals on their own, but also the people around these individuals.
Video: https://youtu.be/-TRWdQNjMMQ
Prescription Drug Overdoses
Public health and Blindness PSA
We choose the topic of Blindness. Our group member Sanai’s dad is mostly blind, and she knew of his optometrist. We thought that it would be a topic that could help benefit those who are blind and those becoming blind. It’s an informational P.S. A that can he reach people and their families if they have such vision impairments. We talk about organizations and provide examples. While also talking to a professional, on the health issue.
For this project and how I have involved myself was crucial as being a team leader. I was there to do my part, but also ask my group members to do certain things that I couldn’t. We all communicated well on the tasks that needed to be done. I am very outspoken so, I talked through everything with my group mates before setting anything in stone. It was a good environment and the way that the project came out of the efforts of everyone, didn’t turn out bad. I do feel like when it came to the video that we could have practiced more, but other than that I felt like our information was good. When thinking about it, I would like to add more edits to the video and make it more visually appealing to the public. Even with me wanting to change things, the best part about this P.S. A was doing it with my friends. We had a lot of laughs behind the scenes, and it was a good way to end the last benchmark of the year in this class.
Alcoholism and the effects on the Human body
In this video, we talked about the effects of alcoholism that we studied and condensed it down to 1 minute. In addition, we took two interview recordings from Mr. Hellinger from The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, and our School Nurse, Mrs. Barmont. We asked many questions for each of the interviewees which are structured in a way that helps us identify and learn from the effects Alcoholism plays on others. A significant part in the video was when each of the interviewees mentioned that Alcoholism not only affects the individual, however, it affects the emotional and mental structures of other people around this person. I contributed to this project by scheduling down our process and getting connections on the internet. In other words, I was the general coordinator for the team as I have reached a couple of organizations, and managed team time. I believe that I should improve on this time management because there were points where we got lost in the outreach process. We struggled to find interviewees, many organizations did not reply back except for one. However, I do believe that I did well in improvising our schedule because time flew by so fast and it made it hard to record everything. I will admit that the most beneficial part of this project was outreaching to other organizations. Although this may seem insignificant to the topic at hand, having the ability to communicate professionally to others is such a strong skill. From these interviews, we have realized how much of a threat Alcoholism is to the public, and why it is such an important public health issue. We have also learned that there are many wealthy organizations which encourage alcoholism, and even leave a mark in advertisements. However, we have also learned that there are professionals out there who counter against this disorder, and others who spread awareness to others.
Q4 Benchmark: Public Health and Blindness.
The Summary of the content in our video on Public Health And Blindness is to make everyone aware of how they can get further medical advice on their medical history and to inform them on their condition. We chose this project because their are many blind people who aren’t heard, and we want to inform the community about their life’s. I contributed to our group by editing our video, and making sure our project was being completed as our timeline followed. My group did a wonderful job working together. I wouldnt Do anything differently. The most meaningful part of the PSA was learning more about blind people, and not just how we view them, blindness is deeper than it may appear to be.
PSA: Teen Pregnancy
Teen Pregnancy has been at an all time high since the beginning of the 20th century. Today, nearly 195,000 babies were born to teens in America alone. My group and I picked this topic to shed light on such an undereducated topic. I’ve written the script for the video that way my group would have an organized video. Things I did well was communicating and making sure I contributed my part in a timely fashion. Things my group and I could have did better was find more reliable information and put different organizations in our video that could help as well with their information attached. The most meaningful part of the PSA was realizing how having a teen mother negatively affects the life of the child, where they are more likely to be incarcerated, not recieve good education and have poor health due to the mothers current living situation.
