Mid-Term Edits

A little late....

For our mid-term we were asked to watch a video on YouTube and examine it using our tool sets, etc that we learned about in class. Here it goes...



Thesis in your own words (IYOW) : A YouTube video summarizing students reality of today, their future plans and goals shown through their eyes and statistics from a survey.

3 Observations (Brain):

1. Neocortex - Thinking about the video, thinking about the exam and the information we learned. Also, processing the words/images on the video.

2. Limbic - The music playing throughout the video, the door opening at the beginning of the video and the different images on the scree.

3. Reptilian - Survival, the time the students in the video spend eating and sleeping (shown on the sheets of paper they hold up.)

8 Trends (3 Observations):

1. Technological Shift - The video can be found on YouTube.

2. Personal Shift - The video can be found on YouTube, the students Facebook themselves through class.

3. Economic Shift - Debt after school/college. Hundreds of dollars spent on unopened text books.

5 Facts:

1. "200 students made 367 edits to this document, and surveyed themselves, to bring you the following message."

2. "I will write 42 pages for class this semester and over 500 pages of e-mails."

3. Students work two hours a day and study 3 hours a day.

4. "18% of teachers know my name."

5. Students Facebook themselves through class.

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6. "Over 1 billion people make less than $1 a day."

7. "This laptop cost more than some people in the world make in a year."

3 Observations (7 Principles):

1. Production Techniques - close ups of different people, laptop screens, sheets of paper with statistics, and different angles.

2. Pacing: The facts appear slower at the beginning of the video and then get faster. Also, the frames per second. The conscious mind can process about 8 frames per second.

3. "Reality" construction Students and their statistics. "I bring my laptop to class, but I'm not working on class stuff. " etc.

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4. Value Message - We need a change, these statistics should be different, perhaps that will get through to professors.

6 Persuasive Techniques -

1. Plain Folks - Average students.

2. Symbols - Shown on the web (close up)

3. Group Dynamics - Words that say "join us" and "save us."

4. Rhetorical Question - "If these walls could talk, what would they say?"

5. Maybe - "Some have suggested that technology can save us...."

6. Repetition - "Some have suggested that technology can save us...." Repeated x2.

Sorry for the delay, I hope you can still accept this :-)