PSA Unit Materials by Murphy, Justin

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 03:56:40 UTC

This novel will focus as a anchor text early on into diving to deep theme and topic exploration through the familiar format of a science fiction novel. Work involving this text function somewhat as the reading exploration of this unit before the sole writing in creation. Work will be based around:

-Guy Montag as a main as a protagonist: How does he grow in changing his mind about the topics of the novel in information destruction and censorship?

-Science fiction predictions: Firemen as enforce law power to destroy books, parlor walls as media to disconnect from reality, extreme nuclear war contexts and threats with ending

-Contexts: Nazi Germany book burning, Cold War thought control + war threats, normalization of new tech of televisions.

Animated Smokey the Bear PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 04:18:48 UTC

-Is this PSA effective for everyone? Maybe a certain group would react to it being animated better?

-What is the affect of a song? Is it memorable? Is it useful?

-What are you being asked to do? Or not to do?

Smokey is Within PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 04:22:58 UTC

-How is this different from the former Smokey video? How is it the same?

-What tone is present in this video?

-What are you asked to do? Is there a place mentioned that you should go to?

Vaping

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 04:42:37 UTC

Amber Alert PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 04:44:53 UTC

TW: This advertisement somewhat depicts child abduction.

Drunk Driving Story

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 04:47:50 UTC

TW: This story includes the author's experience of losing loved ones.

Skulls of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette by Vincent Van Gogh

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 05:51:44 UTC

This art piece will be used for a set induction discussion about what makes (or doesn't make) a PSA a PSA.

STUDENT PUT EXAMPLES HERE

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 06:29:40 UTC

Crossing the Street Video PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 08:18:40 UTC

Included as a example for the video genre station. This provide a pretty realistic and feasible deception of a PSA quality students could make. The advice is to look both ways and the visual consequence is getting hit by a car (don't be on your phone).

RealTalk Video PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 08:21:21 UTC

Another Video PSA example for the genre station. This one is also pretty simple to perform and very real. It tells people not to hide their feelings and present masks as a visual representation of repression.

Painkillers Poster PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 08:23:18 UTC

This is an example for the Poster PSA genre station. It displays a clear visual design with the person trapped in a pill bottle with warning away and a website to use.

Sharing Media PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 08:26:17 UTC

Another example for a PSA poster. This piece asks the reader to be cautious to sharing and liking media. They are given advice to fact-check. Visual media of a watching eyes feels strong.

Narrative Story PSA

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 08:34:36 UTC

There is a lack of writing/narrative based PSA example. I still want to honor students who don't feel the best about their visual design or video production skills. To this end I supply this resource here as showcasing of my imagined plan to facilitate the narrative/written PSA station myself in creating clarity about expectations since examples are hard to come by.

Poster Design Video

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 16:48:56 UTC

This would be a video students could use in learning about poster design with aspects of hook hierarchies, supplemental information, clutter, and balancing words with art.

Video Framing Video

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 16:52:10 UTC

The text briefly goes over some important elements for video recording around framing (symmetry, rule of three, distracting elements, etc.)

Narrative Writing Details Video

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 16:55:20 UTC

This video is useful for advocating for descriptive, sensory writing which helps in making it easier for you audience to read.

WAC Clearing House Audience Guide

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 17:12:48 UTC

This text provides a lot of useful considerations for thinking about audience. I wouldn't have student work with this article directly but more create work for them involving these concepts like audience determination (who, contexts, information levels), audience appeals, audience awareness, and bias.

Rhetorical Analysis PDF

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 17:18:00 UTC

This text provides a brief overview for defining Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and Kairos. It also provides examples in the form of the work of an attorney. This would be a good jumping over point for student to apply these elements to experience of reasoning in their own life (both in their own usage and used against them). Alternatively they could also review past media of any kind (movies, music, novels) this way.

F451 Ted-Talk

jamurp2_2 — 2024-12-09 17:33:44 UTC

I would skip the first two minutes are they are somewhat plot heavy and I want students to be in for some surprises but the following discussion in this video about setting up the contexts of 50s America and the rise of accelerated media is a useful entrance.