The message of our PSA was to show the number of minorities in the working world with a bachelor’s degree or higher to try and encourage our audience, those in school, those in pursuit of a degree, and those who may be thinking about giving up their education to stay on track so that we will raise the statistics. By getting a higher degree, people will have something to fall back on if anything were to happen in the future. I really think that our PSA is a very effective PSA, because students are relaying the message that there are only a certain amount of underrepresented people in the work force with a bachelor’s or higher, and that there should be more. Students are basically saying the message to other students, whether in grade school, middle school, high school, or college, to show that the students in the PSA understands what is happening and that they want others to know so something can be done.

I have multiple roles in this PSA. I worked closely with Vivian to capture videos of our interviewees, I was in the video, and I worked on the timeline, before and after it was lost. I cannot really give a number on how long I have worked on the project. Although, if we had more time, I think I would have re-taped some of our videos, so that some would flow better and some would have better sounds. Overall, I think we did a really good job for the amount of time we were given.

This video is a silent video about two people who run out of popcorn when watching a Japanese game show. They try to put the remaining kernels back into the microwave, but find out that their microwave is broken, so they must find an alternative way to try and pop their kernels.

Actors/Actresses:
Diana Park
Liliana Pang
Ashleigh Kitzhaber
Ralph Gomez
Inocente Estela

Thanks to camera people:
Kathy Tran
Vivian Onuoha

Title: TBD
Directed by: Liliana Pang & Diana Park
Music: Not available at the moment
Actors: Liliana, Diana, and more (?)

Summary: Someone runs out of popcorn and finds out their microwave is broken. There’s no way for that person to make their popcorn and uses multiple methods to try and pop some kernels.

This is a documentary that begins by introducing people to the SMASH Academy and then focusing on the SMASH Elections. From there, SMASH scholars give their thoughts about this year’s elections compared to the previous years and whether they believe it is more effective to have a committee of people willing to be in this student council rather than a select few who are voted in.

By: Liliana Pang
Music: Imma Shine – Youngbloodz
Thanks to my interviewed: Radhika Mitra, Vivian Onuoha, Alberto Servin, Estafania Avila, and Henri Battiste

Hey you two, I really enjoyed your Assignment 3 Silent Video.  It was very creative, informative, and really fun to watch.  I just felt I had to give some kudos for that.  I can’t wait until we get to start on that project!!

Subject: SMASH Elections

For my video, I will have interviews of people who ran and those who have not and what they think about the process of the SMASH elections. As well, I will have still and panning shots of the actual election. My main focus will be the good and the bad about the SMASH elections and possibly some solutions that could help fix the bad stuff, if any.

www.smashvideo.org

The first assignment of SMASH’s Technology II class was to edit our own video of student interviews. We were split into groups and were given questions to answer about video. We were to use the video segments that we filmed with the Flip Video camera to each come up with our own video using Final Cut Express. We learned to transition from one segment to the next, as well as adding other audio, such as music, and text.

My group consisted of:
Henri Battiste
Jackie Toledo
Liliana Pang

Our questions were:
Is there a movie that you watch over and over again? Describe why.
What aspect of video are you most curious about, and why?
What are your hopes and expectations SMASH video?

Enjoy!