video reflection by Ayako, Chika, Miyu, Takuya

2014/01/09

Media English, class7

Ayako Hirose, Chika Furukawa

Miyu Togashi, Takuya Shimada

Reflection:

              If we had to express the content of the video in one word, it would be “fun”. We made our classmates surprised, and it can be divided into two parts as you can see.

              Our purpose is to provide enjoyment and make people laugh. In reality, to have fun is not that easy in such a stressful society these days, and moreover, almost all the students tend to feel tired because of too much work that requires them to make efforts. However laughing is one of the best ways to get relaxed and live without stress. That is why we filmed this video. At the same time, this reason can be a main message of our video, so it is natural that the target audience is those who are tired, feel bad and need to be refreshed, such as students and businessmen. Not only those targets but also people in this video benefit both before and after the video is uploaded. While this video was being taken, they were able to have fun even though they were tricked. After the movie will be published, they might become famous. On the other hand, some of the targets might be harmed because they dislike being made fun of. Some audience who simply hates those kinds of surprise feels uncomfortable. Also staff that works at the campus can be irritated or disappointed when they notice students soiled a floor. Since there are surely those people, we left out the fact that our video has possibility to provide something unpleasant.

              To make our video much more effective and exciting, we used three main techniques. Before showing the actual reaction, we demonstrated what we were going to do, and we put subtitles at the bottom of the screen. These two techniques are for making it clearer and easier to understand. The last one that we used is animation when the each scene changed, for example ‘shrinking’, ‘growing’, ‘falling’ and ‘crossfading’. Thanks to this, the connection of the each scene has become smoother, and furthermore the video has turned into attractive one.

              In connection with the video, it is obvious that to think about censorship is necessary. In our case, teachers and parents might feel like censoring the video because they do not want to let their students or children imitate what we did in our video. People who happen to show up in the video also wish to censor it to protect their privacy.

We would like to share this nice video with you on blog, Youtube and Facebook.