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This assignment is to make a seven-minute video, which is a challenging work. And more academic materials will be used in this assignment. Thus before I started my homework, I didn’t have much confidence in myself. After all, this assessment weighed a lot of mark. As well as I read the assignment instruction carefully. And in the class, the teacher explained to me the meaning of several topic and what should include in my video. Because my selected topic is new ways of watching: surveillance, so in this video my video topic is A balanced perspective is the key to understanding the contemporary surveillance society in which we live.

Surveillance does bring many benefits to our lives, like make our live safer and more convenient. But in today’s cities, there is lots of surveillance, camera surveillance, sound monitoring and online monitoring. It continues to invade people’s privacy. And I decide to focus on balance between “privacy” and “ security”. Then I inquired about surveillance and privacy academic materials, such as academic article, news, forums and videos. Finally, I found two academic book and news as well as video for each. However, I am not very clear about the forums, so I send a email to my teacher Bob, to get some help. And I continue to make summary from academic sources. According to “the information society writing by Michelle Cayford and Wolter Pieters in 2018, I understand surveillance technology leading to fierce debate between proponents and opponents. Because proponents arguing that it increases security, and opponents decrying its invasion of privacy. And some basic information about Edward Snowden. Even something about how the government cracked the data.

In the book “journal of cyber policy” writing by Paul Bernal(2016), I got lots of information about the importance of privacy in our live and the cost of so-called security. For example, the book shows the idea of a balance between privacy and security is a mislead-in idea. This is a good point in my video to show relationship between surveillance and privacy. In addition, I found a news article related to the subject. In the news, there are stories about schools monitoring student’s emails and even social media. For keep student safe and invasion of student’s privacy. As well as campus surveillance system is huge cost. Lastly, I searched in youtube for videos made by former students. And I usually hear a name “Greenwald”. Hence, I found his ted talk and watch it carefully. Understand why people value privacy so much.

Second step is planning. In this step, I need makesure what should I shot in video and the process of video. Finally, I use the traditional process which is opening, content and ending. In main content, I decided to use a short stop-motion animation to lead to something else. Then describe the relationship between privacy and security as well as how surveillance invasion of our privacy.

Next step is to make video. I got some inspiration when I watching former students video. Like I found one website which can make short video and named powtoon. But I made a big mistake that is I didn’t see is 220 US dollars per year and I need pay yearly, I only see price is 19 dollars per month. And because I exported on video, so they can not return money for me…

I also took some surveillance photos when I go to lunch. After that, I just realized there was so much surveillance going on. And I took some video when I take uber, and use hyperlapse, this is a great way to add some narration. When I took these photos and video, I think passerby will think I am freak, because I keep the camera on the surveillance:0 I also shot me self-description shots in the video, it makes me feel more involved. And I added some simole subtitles during the description. When I made stop-motion animation, my friend recommend me a app named stop motion( it cost me seven dollars). I just need design a simple storyline and took some photos. I shot it with my lego, the main content is ta=hat the police through surveillance caught a bad guy into someone’s home. Lastly, my teacher help me to understand what is the forum and recommend me a website named Reddit.

For background music, is hard to find one music is creative commons and fit for my video. I think next time I can try make music by myself.