IChing: the Origin of Chinese Civilization
My big apologies for the late submission. My video documentary was about the impact of IChing on the Chinese culture and literatures. This project was overwhelmingly challenging for me because this was my first video documentary. I spent a long time on research and data collection and found more than fifty images along with five videos. I underestimated the time required for the production of the video, which included recording with Audacity and video editing with iMovie. Learning about how to use these tools had been time-consuming but I enjoyed the learning process very much as I tried adding different effects onto my video. One big challenge for this assignment was that the topic that I chose was really broad. It was difficult to cover more than 5000 years of IChing’s history in a ten minute video. The other challenge for me was that I had fallen ill last week; so, I could not record until my voice got better. It turned out that the sound was still very quiet when I finished recording a couple times. (I guess it’s because my voice had not fully recovered yet so please bear with me! It may be easier to hear it with earphones.)
I hope you’ll enjoy watching the video.
Video script, references, image credits:
Hi Christy,
I enjoyed your video. It was a huge task to fit so much history into so little time! I didn’t really know anything about the IChing so it was interesting to learn about. Its interesting that the development of writing works in a similar way with most cultures, starting out with basic symbols and then gradually refining those symbols to what we know today.
Catherine
Sorry to hear you were unwell but to be frank, as I’m doing the same course as you, I am disconcerted that your video assignment was submitted so long after the due date for A2. It’s at least a week late. There are two clear advantages to you of such a late submission, the extra time to produce a video documentary (doing all the polishing touches/effects you refer to), and also sighting all other assignment submissions before finalising your own work and submitting it for grading. So I object.
You mentioned learning Audacity and iMovie. Other posts about A2 talk about learning new software. I actually had a situation somewhat similar to yours where I am still learning Mac. I had never made an iMovie before. I wasn’t comfortable with what I produced, and needed more time. Not only that, I tried to use Keynote but it wouldn’t accept a music track playing over successive slides, and I couldn’t get the audio recording to work property. I had used Camtasia and PowerPoint/Articulate on a PC laptop in the past. Despite my personal limitations with Keynote, I still submitted the Keynote work (as a movie) by due date. I object to your submission being so late on the basis of not knowing Audacity and iMovie.
You also claimed that finding 50+ images / videos took time. Many posts on the blog say the same thing. Finding images and sourcing them appropriately in documentaries was *very* time consuming. Again, I object to this being a valid reason for a late assignment, and especially as there are no attributions in the documentary itself.
I feel the need to highlight that the assignment instructions and Ernest’s comments in the discussion forum on Connect were very specific about attributions needing to be made for other people’s images/videos. How can a video appear on Youtube full of other people’s graphic images, photographs and moving images, and none of them have attributions to the source?
Each time an image or video was downloaded, it would have had terms of use and the name of the person who created it / published it, the date, and the particular CC licence terms.
Hi Christy,
It’s challenging to complete something when you are not feeling well. I hope you are feeling better. I liked your video because you chose a very interesting topic. I did not realize how complex the Iching is and how influential it was on Chinese history, and thought. I was impressed that the Iching, though it is so ancient, is based on the binary system that we still use for computers. I can see you did an enormous amount of research on it.
Thanks for all your comments; they are very helpful and constructive. I have removed the previous video, added all the references into the new one and uploaded again.
All the best,
Christy