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A Commentary to Last Year’s Videos: Doing it right!

A Personal Commentary on Last Year’s Videos To be honest, commenting on other students past videos, makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. However, since it is being ask of us and also knowing that it is very possible that this will happen to ours next year, here is what I think of them: After seeing […]

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Review of Video

The video made by last years student are interesting to say the least. Some can be seen as informative, clear, and easy to follow when others are not so much within that ball park. I will not go into detail about all the videos but I will state and argue for my two favourite videos […]

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2014 Videos Response

I thought that most of the videos from last year were pretty well done, and that almost all of them at least managed to fulfill their main purpose, which is to provide the viewer with some information on Latin America. That being said, many of them did end up boring me, and I believe that had […]

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Comments on 2014 Video Presentations

Overall, I was impressed with the videos made by last year’s students. They all presented interesting information about the chapters in the book. I found that there were similarities between the good videos and similarities between the bad videos. The better videos used similar features to present their information in a well constructed manner and […]

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Latin American Videos – THE SHOWDOWN

While at the beginning of the term I can’t particularly comment on the content of the videos, as an avid watcher of media I can get a feel for what I want to watch, and what I don’t. Having said that, and bless their hearts, “The Meeting of the Two Worlds” comes across as a […]

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Latin American Videos – THE SHOWDOWN

While at the beginning of the term I can’t particularly comment on the content of the videos, as an avid watcher of media I can get a feel for what I want to watch, and what I don’t. Having said that, and bless their hearts, “The Meeting of the Two Worlds” comes across as a […]

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Last Year’s Videos

The two videos in particular that made the characteristics of a quality video clearer to me are “The Terror,” from week eleven of last year and “Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age,” from week eight. In “The Terror,” I found it extremely helpful that everyone’s points of view were explained and considered valid, which was […]

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2014 Videos

The videos made by the students last year were all very informative and based on interesting topics. There were however, two videos that stuck out to me as the most intriguing within the bunch. The first was The Terror. Visual engagement with an audience is key within a video, since it’s quite easy to lose viewers attention. I however I never felt like this was the case with their video. There was a lot of footage that set the scene for the events, and that played a great role in ensuring my attention was always on the subject matter. It also was quite case specific (focused on Peru) and that made it more detailed and concise. By focusing it down to a specific period and place allowed for the creation of a political timeline, which I believe, aided the flow of the entire video. The political timeline also helped create a mental picture of the political affairs of the nation at the time
Another video that stuck out to me was “Towards an Uncertain Future”. Although less specific than The Terror, it gave some tremendous case studies that were well detailed and documented. Their visual aids also helped greatly in not only keeping ones attention, but also in setting context for the events they discussed. There also appeared to be a great depth of research put into this video, as there were no brief overviews of each case study, but in depth analysis and recordings that backed up all their claims.
Two of my least favorite videos were Caudillos vs. the Nation State and Speaking Truth to Power.  Although both were quite informative, they lacked the element of intrigue. Both videos lacked any visual aids, besides the two narrators reading in each, which ended up taking from both the videos. There also was a lack of connection between the material and the narrators, which made the videos rather uninteresting to watch.

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2014 Videos

The videos made by the students last year were all very informative and based on interesting topics. There were however, two videos that stuck out to me as the most intriguing within the bunch. The first was The Terror. Visual engagement with an audience is key within a video, since it’s quite easy to lose viewers attention. I however I never felt like this was the case with their video. There was a lot of footage that set the scene for the events, and that played a great role in ensuring my attention was always on the subject matter. It also was quite case specific (focused on Peru) and that made it more detailed and concise. By focusing it down to a specific period and place allowed for the creation of a political timeline, which I believe, aided the flow of the entire video. The political timeline also helped create a mental picture of the political affairs of the nation at the time
Another video that stuck out to me was “Towards an Uncertain Future”. Although less specific than The Terror, it gave some tremendous case studies that were well detailed and documented. Their visual aids also helped greatly in not only keeping ones attention, but also in setting context for the events they discussed. There also appeared to be a great depth of research put into this video, as there were no brief overviews of each case study, but in depth analysis and recordings that backed up all their claims.
Two of my least favorite videos were Caudillos vs. the Nation State and Speaking Truth to Power.  Although both were quite informative, they lacked the element of intrigue. Both videos lacked any visual aids, besides the two narrators reading in each, which ended up taking from both the videos. There also was a lack of connection between the material and the narrators, which made the videos rather uninteresting to watch.

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2014 Videos

The videos made by the students last year were all very informative and based on interesting topics. There were however, two videos that stuck out to me as the most intriguing within the bunch. The first was The Terror. Visual engagement with an audience is key within a video, since it’s quite easy to lose viewers attention. I however I never felt like this was the case with their video. There was a lot of footage that set the scene for the events, and that played a great role in ensuring my attention was always on the subject matter. It also was quite case specific (focused on Peru) and that made it more detailed and concise. By focusing it down to a specific period and place allowed for the creation of a political timeline, which I believe, aided the flow of the entire video. The political timeline also helped create a mental picture of the political affairs of the nation at the time
Another video that stuck out to me was “Towards an Uncertain Future”. Although less specific than The Terror, it gave some tremendous case studies that were well detailed and documented. Their visual aids also helped greatly in not only keeping ones attention, but also in setting context for the events they discussed. There also appeared to be a great depth of research put into this video, as there were no brief overviews of each case study, but in depth analysis and recordings that backed up all their claims.
Two of my least favorite videos were Caudillos vs. the Nation State and Speaking Truth to Power.  Although both were quite informative, they lacked the element of intrigue. Both videos lacked any visual aids, besides the two narrators reading in each, which ended up taking from both the videos. There also was a lack of connection between the material and the narrators, which made the videos rather uninteresting to watch.

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