Feedback on Group A03 - Ken Lau, Andy Ho, Tao Zheng, and Nghi Phan
Arwin Mauricio
Overall, your group’s SAPSA video is looking good so far. After watching the video, I understood the objective to be to highlight whitewashing in Hollywood and the lack of Asian representations in films. The video did meet the objective by showing popular examples of whitewashing as well as providing statistics relating to Asian representation in movies. Some strengths include formally defining the key term whitewashing as well as putting text on the screen to emphasize important quotes during the 2nd speaker. There were a few weaknesses that I recommend your group to consider changing. One weakness is that the second chart could be zoomed in more so that it encompasses the whole screen. Another issue I observed was that the 2nd speaker’s audio was noticeably lower compared to the 1st and 3rd speaker. Try increasing the audio when editing the video.
Kenta Nishiyama
The topic was generally interesting to know about it, I felt the topic does create an empathy to the audience if it was focus to the students. There were both strength and weaknesses for your video. For the strength, I felt the groups used a credible data source such as UCLA studies, making a persuasive speech to the audiences. Also, the groups gave a relevance example such as Crazy rich Asian, emphasizing the way how Hollywood should structure for the benefit of Asian groups. However, I thought the videos does not only focus on the Asian groups but also looks at other minority groups. Therefore, I was confused about the objective that they wanted to express to us. I understand the group wants more opportunity for Asian/ Asian American to get involved in the Hollywood industry, but why did they introduce the movie “Black Panther”. Do they want more diversity or more chances for Asian groups? Also, I`d recommend the group to edit their video emphasizing the main points of the video such as adding an music or put some fonts.
Xiao Zhang
This video was made great quality and creatively uses the clips from movies to increase the audience’s visual pleasure. Overall the movie has good editing by connecting all those movie clips into a relatively comprehensible instruction about the whitewashing problems in Hollywood. Among those movies, many of them are heated - debated with washing movies, so it works pretty well as a demonstration for the concept discusses in the video. However, by the end of the video, most of the movies clips are chosen randomly and have not very much connected to the talking and the video lacks titles and descriptions to talk about the concept more clearly -- and they should not depend on too much on the movies clips but should try to create some other forms of demonstrations by themselves (like a scenario acting or graphs). For the objective, I think that they've reached their objective and their talking explains quite well the concept of whitewashing in Hollywood movies. I would recommend them to incorporate some other forms of demonstrations, rather than simply put all movie clips together.
Sophie Xie
The topic is about whitewashing in Hollywood, which means there is a lack of colored characters in the movies. There are also a lot of characters, who are originally Asian, got whitewashed in the modern movies. The objective was clear. I really liked this video overall. The content was perfectly explained. I now realized the problem exists; I never paid that much attention on it. The movie clips chosen are really showing the problem. There are clips from a couple movies that include suppose-to-be-Asian characters but played by white actor/actress. I also really liked the Crazy Rich Asians example. It really showed that Asian Americans are not rightly represented. I think the video could be better if the video quality could be better? (I don’t know it might just be my bad internet) Also the sound quality was not that good to me… Probably try to turn up the volume and cut out noise in the video? Also adding background music might be a good idea? And probably some more There’s no major problems. I think it can be better if some polishing is done!!!!! Good luck on the final SAPSA you guys got it!!!!
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