Pre-Video Assignment #1, Hsu

Good:
This is an example of a good multimedia project because it has effectively communicates its message. With great audio, lighting, placement of interviewees, and well-sized captions for the interviewees, there was nothing distracting the viewer from understanding what was going on. On top of that, the interviewees were great, they provided entertaining content and their comments were augmented by the little doodles that popped up. One thing I would prefer to be changed is the lack of tripod usage for the interviews. The camera kept jumping around which gave a more relaxed feeling in the video, however this was also achieved with the doodles.

Bad:
This is an example of a bad multimedia project because it is very distracting. The microphone picks up the sounds of the wind and traffic so it was hard to hear him speaking. There is very little good B-roll though there is plenty of opportunity for it (he could have cut in a image of a scanner, computer, other currencies, etc). He is talking directly to the camera but could have angled a little bit and gotten a little tighter on the shot so the focus could be more on the information being conveyed rather than the scenery. The content was very interesting and it was something I did not know before, but it could have been better presented.