Research

In COMM 416 class, we have decided our target audience and created roughly idea for our movie project. During week three until four, Jasmine and I were doing some research through Youtube and television, looking for some examples for our project documentation visual style. Honestly, it is pretty complicated, because even though we have found several ideas but both of us agree not to use them because most of them are fully editing, otherwise too depressed. However, we might use some of the sound design statement or aural style from these videos, but we still not sure which one is the most suitable for our simple video documentation.
However, I want to share the links to all of the readers. Well these are two of videos that I like for our project documentation:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ42Jwg6GhY
This video won the Singapore Merit Award in 2009. This video was made due to the increasing of cyber-bullying in Singaporean Schools. The video is pretty simple in editing and the shoot, however the aural
and visual style are not really suitable with our idea because we want to make a semi advertisement video for our campaign project. So, we ditch this one.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNumIY9D7uY
This video is the illustration of the side effect of cyber-bullying. It was made in the cooperation with Childnet International in order to raise social awareness, especially to the bully. The idea of storytelling of this video is very relevant to our campaign and project documentation, because we aim to focus on the bully alongside with the victim and the other parties around the victims such as family and friend. I and Jasmine are agreed to use this video as one of our major idea for our video storytelling and visual style statement. For some people, this video might be pretty depressed because it was shoot with documentary style, but that is what makes this video different and honestly, this video is very touching.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcoAWeOYqY
This is one of the video which match with our idea for the video visual style. This video features Tim Cahill, Mathew Lloyd and Corey Payne who talk in semi documentary and interview style. This visual style is very relevant to our idea as we want to make our project documentation in semi advertisement and features few people to talk about the victim of the cyber-bullying. Well, we haven’t sure yet, but this video has the highest rank in our mind due to its simplicity and featuring good looking men =)

This project really makes us nervous; there are so many videos with brilliant ideas and great visual statement. However, it is too complicated to get the visual and editing statement because we want to stick with simplicity and send our message straight to the point without any complicated editing.