The how-to-do of my video is I talking for most of it
expressing my views towards digital media’s influence to online dating and
online pornography. With the help of quotes from scholars, I do hope viewers
will be influenced to what I have to say. I adopted this strategy on my own,
thinking that the ultimate ultimatum is for me to talk in front of the camera
and not shy away by showing too many images or videos or statements.
The content of my video is to be able to influence people
that digital media has lots of impact towards today’s online dating and online
pornography. I keep on expressing my views of how most people uses the internet
as primary tool for communication in their online dating world, thus throwing
away major barriers such as social anxiety, self-consciousness and shyness. Along
with it all, it becomes way easier to meet a stranger just by a click of a
button.
There are quite a few challenges that I faced for this
assignment. Because this topic is extremely diverse, it’s a bit difficult to
explain within 5 minutes of video and compress everything in order to make
sense of it all. I have to take many researches online and read many readings
so I can get the full understanding of this topic and deliver it from my brain
into a five-minute short video clip. What I learnt from this exercise is the
creativity it offers to students to undertake many readings (whether online or
library books) and have a good read and applies all of it to the assignment,
needless to say that it also strengthens my video-editing skills and knowledge.
Throughout my readings (references), I have to find relevant
quotes and statements that fully support my argument that digital media do
strengthens the online dating world along with online pornography.
The content of my video are a mixture of myself talking in
front of the camera, with the full statements and quotes of scholars that will
support my argument towards this topic.
The way I drew on my readings are to find relevant materials
that will connect my points to the statements that will deliver the topic
smoothly. I have to read many pages from the readings and make sure that I write
down the most important points.
To be honest, I found this assignment a major hurdle, as I have
not done a video for an assignment before throughout my life here at the
university. And in a way, I do overthink the situation as well and stressed a
lot thinking that I might not get the job properly done. But after a few
chatting sessions with my friends, I found to just do it and leave the fear of
failing out of it.
After I completed my video and uploaded to YouTube, I was
very impressed and proud of myself knowing that I’ve completed a major
assignment properly and that I thought I won’t be able to do it. I do think we
need more exercise like this as it helps improve student’s confidence in
themselves to get things done and believe in themselves more than they should.
Reference List
Ben-Ze’ev, A 2003, Love
Online: Emotions on the Internet, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Kang, T and Hoffman, L H 2011, ‘Why would you decide to use
an online dating site? Factors that lead to online dating’, Communication Research Reports, vol. 28,
no. 3, pp. 205-13.
Waskul, DD 2011, ‘Internet sex: the seductive “freedom to”’,
in Seidman, S and Meeks, C (eds.), Introducing
the New Sexuality Studies, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 364-70.
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