Week 6: Proposal

Part 1:
The web-space is a dimension that gives people the ability to traverse from place to place but without having to traverse any physical distance. We want to closely investigate the perceived efficiency of traversing different places in cyberspace and how this compares to traversing in the physical world.

Part 2:
The pod cast will investigate the online cyber world. Often we feel as if we’re in an actual physical space while surfing online. However we’re still in the physical presence of our home using a computer. For instance a person shopping online can feel as if the person is shopping at a physical store, playing a massive online video game may entitle the person to believe he or she is in a physical fantasy world. Video conferencing may create a very similar atmosphere to an actual face to face conference in a physical conference room.

In our pod cast video, we will focus on the physical experience on online shopping and how it transforms our shopping culture. We would like to question on the several aspects or advantages of online shopping, such as time saving, and to investigate how well we spend our "saved" time on other activities and how our online shopping orders AFFECT our shopping experience as compared to the physical shopping. We might conduct street interviews or survey on how people's satisfactory level of receiving the goods is affected depends on the waiting time.

Part3:
We will use many different research techniques to help support, enhance, and elaborate on our idea. We will include field research such as surveys, questionnaires, and naturalistic observations. This will help us get a large sample of data that we can compile and examine.

We will also use some text books to help support our information such as the text book “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”. This text book offers us insight on how the web influences our perception of time and space. It looks directly at our topic of why we perceive the Web as space and how distance is eliminated by it. It also offers a lot of other interesting information that we may incorporate into our project such as the Web giving us a sense of realism and togetherness.

Other information sources that we may use are articles found on the Internet, newspaper articles and notes from courses that are relevant to our topic. For CCT260, we dealt with similar topics regarding how the Web makes the globe smaller because it helps eliminate distance. An example brought up in a lecture slide was Online Learning, which offers virtual classrooms that help students that live in rural areas be able to attend school without having to travel long distances.

For references, we will use movies such as “Click”, and all our gathered resources from our research. We will try to draw from as much sources as possible to help guide and support our topic and podcast.

Part4:
We would like to make our podcast very precise and informative for our viewers. We would like to make this a short documentary of some sort. Since we are going to conduct surveys by using questionnaires, we feel that it will be important to conduct a few interviews and make this a part of our podcast as well. We will also have a head style segment where the presenter can talk about facts. Narration will be a crucial part of our podcast since a great deal of information will be passed onto the viewer making the podcast informative, enlightening and persuasive.

The podcast will consist of four main parts, each roughly equally in length. In the first part we will propose our question to the viewing audience. For example, Are virtual spaces a good substitute for the experience that physical spaces provide? In the second part we will showcase our process of surveys and interviews. Here we will focus on what questions we asked and why we asked them. The third part will include some interviews and narration. In the fourth and final part we will discuss our findings and the answers to the questions we initially proposed.

Week 5: My Team

Team Awesome

Initial Concept:

Technology Influences
We love shopping, as there are more reliable online shopping places on the Internet, we tend to shift our shopping spaces from physical to virtual. Our team would like to investigate on the impacts and consequences on online shopping as we will discuss it further in our proposal.



Members:
Chen, Yingjia Rainie:
Directing, Research

Ho, Henry
Write-up, Research

Nath, Saurab
Acting, Research

Wang, Ken
Acting, Research

Wong, Cindy Wing Yee
Editing, Acting, Research

Week 4: What makes a good video podcast? A Review of My Favorite Podcast video .....

http://current.com/people/oslostil
"Weekday Norway Runway"
by http://www.oslostil.com/

The video is filmed by the "Oslostil Team", a group of Norwegian photographers who love fashion. They believe that it is possible to find inspiration on stylish fashion from ordinary people on the street, and it is just as good as to read a fashion magazine. They take pictures of ordinary people on the street and post it on their website. This video is their first attempt to transform their work into a podcast and is picked by Current TV as one their TV programmes.

When I play the video, I am immediately attracted by its background music, it is energetic, and is best match the theme of stylish fashion. At the beginning of the video, we can see the street sides of Oslo, one of the biggest cities in Norway. Then the host appears in the video, in a style that looks like he is holding the camera by himself because we can only see his head and is a bit shaky. He announces the main idea of this video - to find stylish people on the streets of Oslo and to share their fashion tips. This filming style can always be found in documentary video that only one person in charge of the whole filming process, that is to be the cameraman as well as the host. This kind of documentary style gives the audiences an honest and comfort feeling and enhances the level of audience involvement. In the rest of the video, we can only see the interviewees on the screen and hear the voice of the host in the background. Besides, I also like the filming angles of the video. The host tries to film the interviewees in different angles, zoom in and out, move from top to bottom randomly, and this way enhances the stylish feeling as well. The editing is good too, every move of the interviewees seems to match with the rhythm of the background music, makes their moves and the constantly changing filming angles seems smooth and natural.

I enjoy watching this video and to see how people and places are like in the European countries.