A part of the CoTech project is to produce an educational video.
The initial point is to take one of the already existing videos and based on our choice produce our own video. The tasks includes that we are reflecting over the other video by pointing out the good and the negative parts of this production. On the other hand should the video suit to educational lesson.
We decided to reflect over the video about “adjectives and degree of comparison” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaecFKRLTOA&feature=player_embedded).
The video demonstrates that the producers have put a lot of effort in preparing the setting, in ordering the structure and in writing the dialogs and histories. The fact that the used adjectives are written in the video shows the focus on the topic of the educational video.
In some parts of the video it is a bit difficult to follow the dialogs and histories because of talking a bit too fast and unclearly.
One other thing we observed is that the relation between the content and the way it is presented not is adequate. We don´t think it is appropriate to explain difficult adjectives like savage and grumpy with for example Winnie the Pooh. These adjectives are rather for kids in the age of 10, while the setting up reminds more of 1.grade students. Expressed in other words, the presentation of the adjectives is too childish I comparison to the difficulty of the chosen adjectives.
For our own video we want to point out this contradiction by explaining a difficult mathematics formula by using items for small children.
By speaking directly to the audience, in this case the children, we want to build a relation to an educational situation.
