PSA

"How to write a PSA"

This article was very detailed about how to make a PSA and answered many of the things I was unsure about. It also explains how to make sure your PSA is important and can catch your audience's attention quickly so they will be interested in what your PSA will present. It tells you to take your audience into consideration and to also to make everything formal so that it is professional. After reading this article I have a clear understanding on how to make an effective PSA.

PSA#1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2MTNC2Jolk

This PSA was quite simple but still got the point across that people are put into prison for crimes that they are innocent of. I liked the way the displayed the words and used intricate designs on the PSA because it caught my attention. The fact that was incorporated about misidentification was another aspect that i liked about the PSA because it tells you one of the main reasons why people are wrongly convicted. Also the parting comment "don't convict the innocent" was meaningful to the PSA because it wraps up what the whole announcement was about.

PSA#2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYONueqOFps

This PSA was interesting to me because it used a lot of statistics about wrongful convictions. The music in the background was also effective because it emphasis the seriousness of wrongful conviction. The narrator of the PSA is very formal and has a tone that keeps your attention. The pictures that are in the PSA are also effective because it appeals to your emotional side.

Questions
1. What are the key points you will emphasis?
The key points that i will emphasis are misidentification and perjury.

2. What visuals and audio are appropriate?
I want to use dramatic music and use normal people because that makes up for the people who are wrongly convicted or just use words for my whole PSA, asking rhetorical questions.

3. What type of PSA will you use?
I want to use a text PSA.

4. Outline of proposed structure?
I will start off the PSA by asking rhetorical questions such as "Do you think there is a problem within our judicial system?" Then go into facts about wrongful convictions and then in the end talk about my end product that i made for my capstone.

Capstone Goals

Capstone Goals

The goal of my capstone project is to raise awareness of wrongful convictions. Unfortunately the judicial system makes mistakes,but it takes a society as a whole to combat this issue. This is important because it could happen to anyone at anytime. No one should have to serve time for a crime that they did not commit. My intended career field is law. I want to become a defense attorney, and my goal fits this career because i will be defending someone who is innocent of a crime. My end product would be to create a virtual round table where prosecutors, lawyers, judges, investigators, and the exonerated individual can come together to discuss what happened during the trail so that the same mistake won't happen again. I am aware that this will not completely solve the problem of wrongful convictions in the US, but it will bring awareness to our society. People should realize that just because investigators have found a suspect, does not necessarily mean that person is guilty. Since normal people are serving for jury duty, it is imperative that are aware of this problem and are knowledgeable about some of the factors that can lead to wrongful convictions.