PSA feedback.

This time, at the beginning, when we were discussing the topic, we would like to do the PSA about homosexual, but in the end, we thought that is too difficult for us to talk about, we decided to change our topic into the growing population of old people who live alone in Taiwan. Moreover, we thought there are a lot of old people who live alone in the society, they need us to pay more attention and care toward them. When I went back to my grandparents' home, I saw the inconvinience of my grandparents that they can't take care of themselves well or to move by their own that make them have people to stay with them to take care of them, and I was wondering that if the old people who are not as fortunate as my grandparents who have family members beside them but live alone by themselves, what kind of life would that be?  Also, I had seen many news which are about the young people who treat old people badly or impolitely, for instance, The grandson didn't get the money he wanted, he just kicked and hit his own grandparents or the old people who was sick and his son only gave him 100 dollar to go to see a doctor by his own... I think we not only need to stay with old people but also need to pay love,care and patience toward them. These are the origins of the idea.
videos for instance:

A 78 years old person who live alone in a wood house without electricity and water for ten years.


This is the original example of our idea... but... we met some difficulties during the PSA project.
When you were young....


The difficulties we had met.
1.Time management.
Our script which is too long can't fit the time in one minutes, and we chose the way to solve the problem is to narrate it quickly, however, in this way we ignore the most important part is that we can't make our audience hear it very clearly and we can't convey the feeling that we want to express ,because the tones were not very obvious to bring the resonance from the audiences.

2.Technical problem.
Because we don't know how to use movie maker, we chose to use the power director to instead. While we were using the power director, we can't make the special effect which we want to do. For instance, the beginning of the first scene, we prefer to use a lot of different old people's avatar which appear one by one and then the amount of the avatars may fill the whole screen that is the effect which similar to the TV commercial wall. We want to do this is because we hope to convey the message that the amount of old people is getting higher and higher in the future. However, we can't make it, then we chose another way to find a photo which shows many old people on it to fit our demand. And also our background music is louder than our recording voice. we don't know how to change it, because the power director seems only can change both of the volume together but not change it seperately. The way we tried to fix it was to record another version which is louder than the original one but the result still is not as good as we expect.

3.The material is difficult for us to get.
We would like to take the photos of old people by ourselves, but we were to busy to do it , then we chose to use the photos from the internet. And the photos which can express our message strongly are all from China.(I don't know why, I often see news talks about the similar events, but when you really need those statistics or the information, you always can't find the right one that you are looking for.)
And teacher told us one thing which is very important that we can't use the photos to say a story. For example: We use an old man's photo when he is eating an watermelon and we present that the man is poor he lives alone by himself, there is no one to take care of him.... etc. Instead, we should use the fact, the truth to present our PSA , this is an essential part of our PSA and we didn't notice that. I hope next time if there were similar projects I can make it better than this time. I learned a lot from this project.

4. Learn to cooperate with others
Every group memebers are all very busy in part time job or exams.... These things make us more difficult to arrage time to get together to have a discussion or divide our work well. And also during the time of making this project, we learn to have more empathy to think more for others to show our understanding. I am glad to work with my group members, because everyone in the group are all considrable for others. Though we didn't do it well this time, we can do it much better next time. Cheer up !!!

The last part is our script of recording of PSA.

According to the statistics of Administration, today there are 250.1 million people who are older than 65 years old, and there are more than 4 million people who live alone by themselves. What’s more, the amount of old people may grow up rapidly, till the year of 114, the population of old people in Taiwan will up to 20.1 ％, which means in year 114, every five people would have one old person among them. So the situation shows us there will have more and more old people who live alone need us to pay more attention toward them.

Because of your and my indifference, selfishness and impatience, they are alone, helpless and have no one to rely on.

Don’t think that you can’t do anything for them. What they need is only your care, companionship and love. So indifference, cut it out, selfishness, cut it out, impatience cut it out. We care what they care. They need you!!

Our PSA video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhCBQ7G6u4&feature=youtu.be#