Week 10 Discussion

This week we need to evaluate and give a grade to two videos.

 Click on the link to be watch the first video Homeless Youth

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Category	Letter Given	Reason
Purpose 35 pts,	A	Establishes an effective persuasive and Advocacy. This video shows purpose very well, by putting it all together pictures, narrative, interviews, the audience will know exactly what the purpose of the video is. To let people know that youth homeless exist and to persuade the public to help these kids.
Use Research: Quality, Integration, Revelance 25 pts.	A	Research makes an effective contribution to the advocacy. The video showed different types of research. Primary research was showed at the end credits. The group performing the video actively participating doing interviews. The different types of research were relevant to the topic and also integrated very well.
Ethos 30 pts.	A	Documentary uses effective evidence, and introduces sources to demonstrate credibility for the audience. Evidence was established not only by the pictures presented, but also by the authors going, and in person interviewing the homeless youth. Credibility established all around.
Phatos 30 pts.	A	Documentary uses effective strategies to appeal to the audiences’ values and beliefs. By showing the pictures created emotion and the audience can be persuades that way to help. I like the strategy used, by interviewing the homeless boy that mentioned that he was 10 years old and he didn’t know how to read and write.
Logos 30 pts.	A	Documentary’s argumentative and organizational structure effectively supports the advocacy. The video was well organized and to the point. It showed pictures, facts, quotations, interviews  with the homeless youth and also interviews with the social worker, Very organized, it went from the description of what homeless is to give facts of the homeless kids and how many kids become homeless per day, then described the need for help and give specifics on why these kids become homeless. Very organized.
Use of multimedia 25 pts	A	Effective and appropriate use of both original and existing film, narration, images, sound. The authors used all kids of media. Original media by them filming interviews, existing by posting pictures of homeless youth, they had a song  in the background appropriate for the topic.
Scripting, Editing & Timing 15 pts.	A	Effective scripting and has the right amount of detail throughout. It does not drag or speed by. It meets the time guidelines. The video has the right amount of information, it gives the description, facts and way to help. Adequate song and does meet the time guidelines. Had 15 sec left
Credits 10 pts.	A	Documentary includes fair use statement and complete citation of all contributors and sources. Video had credits with all the references, and includes the fair use statement, credits run a little fast.

Done well:

1. The first thing I like the most is that the authors actually went to the home and make the interviews there.
2. The authors did a very good job in the transition of the slides, the slides were well organized and the speed was great, good transition from topics.
3. The use of Ethos, Pathos, Logos was well defined by this video showing pictures that cough people attention, the sources were credible and the material was well organized.

Could have improved:

1. I think that the authors should  had used the 15 seconds left to slow down the credits at the end,
2. Maybe, include another interview of another homeless kid instead  of using the time for the bloopers.
3. When interviewing the youth about the reason they become homeless it would help if they were closer to them so the voice was more clear,.

Click on the link to watch the second video High School Stereotypes

Category	Letter Given	Reason
Purpose	A	Establishes an effective persuasive purpose and advocacy. I think the authors did a good job, by watching the video I know exactly what the purpose of the topic is: to stop stereotyping and get to know the person before judging.
Use Research: Quality, Integration, Revelance	B	Research makes a sufficient contribution to the advocacy. Towards the middle of the video is when I saw some quotations and research information, I think the authors could use more information directly from their primary search.
Ethos	B	Documentary uses sufficient arguments, provides sufficient evidence and introduces most sources to demonstrate to display credibility. The documentary shows the different consequences of stereotyping like cutting to the body or suicide as some of the consequences. However, it was mostly pictures and a video from a teen movie, not very credible. Should use more from primary research or credible websites quotations.
Phatos	A	Documentary uses effective strategies to appeal to the audiences’ values and beliefs. I think the authors did a great job in selecting the movie clips they did because it is perfect for the topic. The audience is teens and it would catch their attention keeping them engaged in the video. Also by watching the pictures of cutting the wrist I think it creates emotion and awareness to the teens. The other strategy used and effective is the interview of teen, very well introduced.
Logos	A	Documentary’s argumentative and organizational structure effectively supports the advocacy. I think that logos was accomplished by using the mean girls video clips also by showing the pictures of teens cutting as well as the interviews from other teens saying that they do stereotype others. The information was well organized and easy to follow.
Use of multimedia	A	Effective and appropriate use of both original and existing film, narration, images, sound. I think the authors did a great job in integrating all forms of multimedia, they used original film by interviewing others, existing video from mean girls, pictures and slides  as well as background music appropriate for their documentary.
Scripting, Editing & Timing	B	Sufficient scripting and documentary’s timing is mostly good, seems to drag somewhat OR need slightly more detail in one or two sections. It The time spent was 5min and 17 seconds. I think the authors had the extra time to add more to any of their parts, ethos logos , pathos to persuade readers. Other than that. Good video.
Credits	B	Documentary includes fair use statement and citation of most contributors and sources. I give it a B because in the credits I didn’t see the names of the students that were interviewed.

Done well:

1. I think the authors did good overall, the video has a purpose and different media was used.
2. I think the video clip from mean girls was very successful in describing the topic of the video: stereotyping.
3. I think authors did very well as far as organization of content, very easy to follow and keep audience engaged in the topic.

Could have improved:

1. First I think the authors should use all the 7 min allowed for the video and they didn’t.
2. I think I would like to see more citations and more information coming also from the first research.
3. I think that that if they had interviewed someone that had gone through stereotyping or cutting it would add credibility to the video