Public Service Announcements (PSA)

Today, we have renewed the subject of making commercials, this time we are doing something really similar, PSA'S or Public Service Announcement. It comes to my understanding that a PSA is a longer version of a commercial but with a subject directed at an audience not to promote a product but to teach or show. In this case, you don't actually promote a product, organization or anything, you are simply stating like a problem(drinking, smoking, obesity). It is similar to a commercial in the sense that it is usually broadcast or transmitted between a show or program and it is short. A PSA is usually longer, and it usually consists of making the people aware of a very serious problem or issue, and with it the goal is to make people conscious about an issue not buy something. I expect this activity to be a very fun activity to do and I hope I can actually make the people more aware of something bad and not just joke around.

Since this activity has to be done in groups I have seriously considered with who I should work with. First of all, I would like to work with Taku, because I think working with him should be very interesting. I also think that Taku can have some very interesting ideas of how to execute the PSA as well as making it appealing towards the audience. Basically, Taku will make the PSA an interesting and appealing project that has a chance of teaching the people a lesson. Second, the next candidate is Raul. I think that Raul can be the star in the PSA, since I lack of any acting skill whatsoever. Also, Raul lives very near to my house and so we can have more time to input more quality and hopefully make the PSA better. So, Raul would be a great partner because he can work for a prolonged amount of time and he can make the PSA quite good. Finally, my final candidate is Sebastian. I know Sebastian can work great in a PSA if he knows that his grade is dependent upon it, and so he really would need to work. Also, the main thing is that Sebastian is really funny and can make a funny PSA, perhaps I would interfere in his funniness, so that it actually teaches something.

Potential PSA'S:
1. Obesity.
2. Drinking.
3. Driving under the influence of alcohol.
4. Addiction to drugs.
5. Compulsive Eating
6. Smoking.
7. Bullying.

Basically, the most appealing PSA's are Obesity, Drinking and Bullying. First of all, Obesity is a serious issue in Mexico, we are one of the fattest countries in the world. I think that Obesity specifically should be dealt with a serious approach, because Obesity is so serious that making a funny PSA will probably hurt someone's feelings. I think that we should use facts of Obesity, concrete information and some predictions like for the year 2015 Mexico's population is expected to be this obese and so...Second, Drinking is a serious issue better tackled with a very funny approach. I personally think that if drinking ads don't work if serious, perhaps a funny drinking commercial should work just fine. My idea is to put a car with a drunk driver and drunk passengers as well, only for luck they don't get hurt and we can say... this is just fiction, but in real life most car crashes end with a tragedy, last year itself more than.....amount of people died. Finally, I would make the Bullying commercial a very serious one. It would be about a tall boy hitting a small one and the small one going to his house and crying. The add will then have a segment in which the public speaker tells the facts about bullying in Mexico and so...