The Public Service Announcement is often used on radio and TV to help inform the public about issues important to local and national communities. As such , it can be used as an instrument of change.

Your task is to find and research an issue and write and produce a PSA. You will edit two versions, a 30 second and 60 second. (Check here for more details.)

On the right are some links to some PSA's made last year in this class.

As part of this project, watch some of the student generated PSA's.

Here is a collection of PSA's made by students.

Listen Up!

highschooljournalism.org. You will need to create a user id and login first.

Below are some links to help you see some other PSA's.

http://www.consumer.gov/weightloss/psa.htm#ballet
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.media.psa.television
http://www.petapsa.com/
http://www.nofas.org/news/psaaward.aspx
http://saloproductions.com/public-service-announcements/samples.php
http://www.nd.edu/~taketen/video.html
sites with 30 and 60 second versions
http://www.cair.com/default.asp?page=PSAJun2004
http://www.recoverymonth.gov/2005/multimedia/psamenu.aspx