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Week 10

 Creating video reviews 

Goal:

Students analyse video media reviews, focusing on organizations.

Materials/Steps : Getting an overview of video media reviews

Do an informal survey of what type of video reviews (i.e. movie reviews and game reviews) students are most familiar with. The survey should be anonymous and can be done in any platform (e.g. Mentimeter.com and Google forms).

Example: https://forms.gle/1Vw22D3gknsXt2VN9 

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Example: https://forms.gle/1Vw22D3gknsXt2VN9 

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Show the results to students.  

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Students explore how movie/game video reviews are created.

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  • Ask students to do a video search of either movie reviews or game reviews. 

  • In the [handout], students identify common issues/topics covered in video media reviews. 

  • To help students do the task, teacher may use this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_R-BIFl46Y&ab_channel=ImpressionBlend] to exemplify what people discuss in movie reviews (e.g. a quick plot summary, character analyses, and previous works of the directors).

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Materials/steps: Analysing the organisations of video media reviews and finding models to create their own video media reviews

Explain that there a wide range of choices to organise video media reviews. Some examples: 

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Film reviews 

Game reviews 

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In breakout rooms, students analyse the organisations of video media reviews. In their own groups, they will choose to analyse the organisations of either movie reviews or game reviews.

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Students share the results with the class. 

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Students identify characteristics of successful video media reviews. 

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  • Students create criteria for successful video media reviews 

  • They find 3 video media reviews with different number of views (100 – 1k, 1k – 10k, and 10k – 100k). 

  • From the criteria, students evaluate each video, make comments on each video (and they may also make judgement on whether the video with the highest number of views means it is better than the others), and determine the characteristics of a successful video media review. 

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Note: Students use this [handout] to do the task.

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Materials/steps: Designing video media reviews

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Give students 5-10 minutes to identify the differences of the designs of these two videos. Hint: the uses of screenshots/footages 

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Note: In the first video, there is a combination of movie footages and screenshots. The other video shows only the reviewer (although with some screenshots rarely showing up in the video).  

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Ask students to discuss: 

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  • When do you think is appropriate to show movie footages (e.g. when talking about a plot of a movie) and screenshots (e.g. when talking about characters)? 

  • While the first video includes both the footages and screenshots of the film being reviewed, the second video seems to show only the reviewer. What do you think could be the reasons?  

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