Talking Head – Doraemon and Its friends Color, 25:32, Stereo, Sunday Lau, 2007 Nov
This is a visual ethnography research video finding some visual and audio footage in the different age group of people especially born in 1980s teenagers. The target group in the clip is people in School of Creative Media of Hong Kong. Using a topic question about the concept of Japanese cartoon “Doraemon” or “Ding Dong”, we are trying to find out the development of Doraemon in Hong Kong, and viewing the behavior and performance of the interviewee in the same time. From different interviewee, we can see the different generation people’s understanding about the content and the information of the Doraemon.
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Date: 17Oct 2007 Time: 17:00-20:00
Venue: An open area in School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Interviewee: Students or Staffs in School of Creative Media
Interviewer: Sunday Lau
Situation: Many Students and many Staffs are going behind the camera and give facial response to interviewees. And some people will come and hear the interviewees’ singing.
With eight different people, different behaviors can be discovered while they are facing the camera. The first two questions are trying to make interviewees relax and giving possible space and time to let them face the camera. However, at the last question, a dramatic question is making the interviewees’ a giving a different experience and acting to the audience, these other kind of information gives audience about what the other interviewees’ characteristics.
The follow up this work could be concentrate on their performance and representational skills, as well as making a more comparable interview with more variety of interviewees outside school.
