You Tube: “Bus Uncle”
1) How many viewers are estimated to have watched the youtube video?
About 2 million viewers are estimated to have watched this youtube video.
2. How would you rate the video? Is it of high quality in technical terms? Is it interesting aesthetically eg camera angles, use of light, the narrative, and so on? Does it raise interesting socio-cultural issues?
I like this video.
It is not high quality in technical terms. Also, it is not an aesthetic video. It has high hit rate because it raises some social issues .Also, this video reveals our local culture. It is known that many Hong Kong people may feel familiar with these foul languages. Therefore, they may feel interesting towards this video. Also, this event is so ridiculous that many viewers may feel angry after watching this video. This video really attract us to rethink our social situation. It raises the social concern towards the mental health of our citizens. That people in Hong Kong may enjoy the materialistic life but they are weaken in maintaining mental health.
3)Do you think it deserved the attention that it received from the internet community?
I think it is worth to watch this video because it reveals Hong Kong local culture and also raises our concern towards some social problems like mental problems in Hong Kong.
4) 4) Do video-sharing sites such as Youtube enhance or worsen creative culture? Comment.
I think video-sharing sites can enhance the creative culture.
According to an article which called “PROLOGUE :THE LEVELLING, the writer stated that“ They want viable ways to share , to think and work laterally with their peers. They are searching for collaborative ways to get things done.”(Leadbeater,2009)It is known that people in these days love to express their views and share the information on the internet. Someone may share their videos in the video-sharing sites like YouTube. They share different kinds of video like music videos, film trailers, or even their home videos in the video-sharing sites. They are good platforms that everyone in the world can freely upload their video through the internet. Therefore, information can be shared around the world. It is beneficial to the artists, because it can easy to raise the public attention towards his works. Not only for artists, ordinary people can upload their works on these video-sharing sites. For example, the “FUNTWO” phenomenon shows a success example that how can the ordinary people raise the public attention by sharing their works on these sites. This unplanned action can also attract different viewers . Therefore, video-sharing sites really can encourage people to create different works and express their ideas.
References
Leadbeater, C.(2009). We-think: Mass Innovation not Mass Production, xv-xxxv.
Another example of Hong Kong creative video~~~
Interesting account Penny! Can you refer to the readings to add any extra points regarding the relationship between creativity and youtube?
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Panny,
回覆刪除I know what you say about video-sharing sites can enhance the creative culture. And I also quite agree that those methods can enhance creative culture. Besides, that's also remind me that these video-sharing sites can post all your video or clips on it, but will it raise the infringement act? :)
Penny, I have the same opinions with you about video-sharing sites can increase the creative culture. Nowadays, people enjoy express their feelings on the internet, such as facebook, blog and so on. Video-sharing sites are a different service for people to develop their creation and imagination not only by words, but also the visual representation.
回覆刪除Edith, I also agree that the free upload of the videos on these video-sharing sites may raises the infringement act. I think it is difficult to set up laws to protect the intellectual property since it may hinder the creative act of the public. Thus, I think it is worth to remain the video-sharing sites , the problem of setting up laws should be considered by the government.
回覆刪除Nina, our point is right.Video-sharing sites enhance the creative culture in different ways. People acn share any formats of their works in these sharing sites.The only thing they need to do is to take the video for introducing their works and then upload them on the sites. Thus, it is so simple and easy to do.
回覆刪除Hi, Penny. I think it is true that this video can reflects our social situation and can make the viewers rethink after watching it. The emotional reaction of the bus uncle just reveals that people in our society may under a very high-pressured situation. They may stressed by their jobs, studies and domestic problems and the pressure is accumulating everyday. So when something trigger them, they may lose their temper like the bus uncle.
回覆刪除But I think it is important to concern whether the sharing on the film trailer/music/other videos are legal to upload. If they are used illegally, it may worsen the development of creative culture.
回覆刪除Kyra: yes~this video really raises the public concern towards the soical problems.So I think these sharing sites are so powerful to affect our life
回覆刪除Maggie: Yes, it is true that we should consider the problem of infringing the intellectual property. Thus I think the staff of these sites should monitor its operation in order to avoid illegal uploading.