Sunday, December 5, 2010

I'm a YouTube star. No big deal.

Hey everyone!!

Hell week is ALMOST over!!

This morning a few members of my group met to brainstorm ideas for our presentation on Tuesday. This presentation is supposed to summarize our 100 page group research papers in a fun way. Our teacher really emphasized fun. Of course we also need to discuss our findings, but the point is to keep it light. So we decided to use a flip camera to film a few skits!

The online presentation maker that I use allows you to paste a youtube link directly into the presentation, and then the video appears onto the presentation magically! So for the purpose of making everything easier, we posted our videos onto YouTube so that it will be easy to insert into our presentation.

This means that we are all now YouTube stars.

Well ok maybe that's pushing it, but it does mean that I can share the videos with you all!

Each clip is really short because we didn't want to use up a lot of time in our presentation showing these videos. We plan to show each skit before each of our segments, and then explain what the video was intended to show. Then we'll go into our research.

I'll give a little context so you know what is going on with each video:

I'm filming the following video. It is to show that it is much harder to see a doctor in South Africa than in the United States.
Access:

This one is to show that cultural identities can have a large impact on health. (I'm in this one!)
Culture:

This video shows that women have very different levels of power in sexual relationships depending on gender roles, specifically in regards to using protection. The woman is offered money in the last part of the clip because being a girlfriend in poorer populations in South Africa is sometimes a real job. A woman will take more boyfriends because she wants more money. (I'm in this one too!!)
Gender:

This clip is about literacy. It doesn't require much background.
Literacy:

I'm in this one! This one is for my section of the research. I did socioeconomic status as it relates to obesity and disability prevalences. The first person is poor in the U.S., and the second person (me) is rich and in China. This video is on the obesity part of my research.
SES:

BLOOPERS!

Enjoy!

If anyone wishes to see our research paper, let me know! I can e-mail it out.

Love,

Ragga Muphin

How do you like my new stage name? I'm sure I'll be using it a lot now that I'm famous.

1 comment:

  1. Loved the videos! They were all very entertaining! I like how you're all supposed to be destitute, while wearing your cute manteau en laine (wool peacoats), boots and jewelry! lol! I'm sure you'll get an "A". I thought the graphic introducing your videos looked very professional too!

    Please send me your written presentation. I would love to read it! Oh, I also enjoyed seeing the snow flurries in Paris! Love, Mom

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