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So my video production final was due today
14 years ago
Basically, we could choose any topic and had to produce a 2 to 3 minute video on that subject/topic/whatever. We could use any equipment that was available to us, the only real requirement was that we had to be the sole camera operator. It really was a very introductory course to "how to use a video camera" basically. Very simple stuff.
So we're sitting around, everyone is going up one by one to have their videos projected on the wall for the whole class to watch and critique, and this one guy- the resident "genius" as the professor called him (he was one of the few students in the class who had significant experience in using video production techniques, editing, special effects and all that fancy stuff) gets up and puts on a video that's literally 4 minutes of girls shaking their asses and grinding themselves against a bunch of dudes crotches.
This is a pretty popular dance style apparently, the act of dry humping the nearest gentleman. I'm sure anyone who has spent any time on Youtube or watching TV has seen it once or twice. But to record it for your final project? To show to a class that is equal parts young men and young women? I dunno. Let me know if I'm being too sensitive for being terribly offended by the video. I mean, literally, it was nothing but people dry humping each other in sometimes ridiculous positions for four minutes. there was no plot, no story, not many effects. It had about as much artistic merit as a porno. But of course, the men in the class loved it and, since the professor was also male, we spent like 20 minutes talking about how "great" and "wonderful" a video that was.
I didn't say anything of course. I'm not going to rain on the rest of the class' parade just because I've got a stick up my ass. But seriously, I found it as a video (for a class or otherwise) terribly degrading to women. The point is to literally have sex with men to music for no reason and I think it's a stupid, shameless representation of my gender class.
I hope I'm not being super sensitive about this... >.>
So we're sitting around, everyone is going up one by one to have their videos projected on the wall for the whole class to watch and critique, and this one guy- the resident "genius" as the professor called him (he was one of the few students in the class who had significant experience in using video production techniques, editing, special effects and all that fancy stuff) gets up and puts on a video that's literally 4 minutes of girls shaking their asses and grinding themselves against a bunch of dudes crotches.
This is a pretty popular dance style apparently, the act of dry humping the nearest gentleman. I'm sure anyone who has spent any time on Youtube or watching TV has seen it once or twice. But to record it for your final project? To show to a class that is equal parts young men and young women? I dunno. Let me know if I'm being too sensitive for being terribly offended by the video. I mean, literally, it was nothing but people dry humping each other in sometimes ridiculous positions for four minutes. there was no plot, no story, not many effects. It had about as much artistic merit as a porno. But of course, the men in the class loved it and, since the professor was also male, we spent like 20 minutes talking about how "great" and "wonderful" a video that was.
I didn't say anything of course. I'm not going to rain on the rest of the class' parade just because I've got a stick up my ass. But seriously, I found it as a video (for a class or otherwise) terribly degrading to women. The point is to literally have sex with men to music for no reason and I think it's a stupid, shameless representation of my gender class.
I hope I'm not being super sensitive about this... >.>
But I will say that if you were offended, you should have said something. Though since it was a class about video production and editing, I might have added any objections to the material in with any comments you might have had about his editing. The worst of subject matter can still be shot on camera with high production values; just look at Avatar.
And think about the person's intent. Was he intentionally filming it to ogle girls' asses? Or did he just not have any good ideas? I know I'd probably go the lowbrow route if I had no ideas, and I'd solely focus on editing it well.
Oh, and on a side note, I wouldn't wanna shack up with any girl who thinks bumpin' & grindin' to shitty dance music is cool. Blech.
Then again maybe the professor is just nepotistic. Nepotism in college courses is no new thing to me.
No, you're not being too sensitive about it, you have the right and a huge reason to be offended, I would've bitched at him so badly if I was in your class.
man you need to listen to me more
I was really offended by an assignment for my Film class (Which is a movie critique class, not exactly the same thing as yours) and I got all up in my teacher's butt about it and wrote him a pissed off email personally to tell him exactly how not okay that was.
It was about a part of the movie "Strike" that featured the brutal slaughter and bleeding out of an animal IRL (In the times before there was 'no animals were harmed in the making of this video' ) to represent the suffering of the working class.
I probably would have said "That was shit."
It sounds like it reeked of "Look how cool and edgy and awesome I am!", I don't find videos like that interesting in the least and usually rather tasteless too.
He had the equipment, time and knowledge of how to make a really good video and all he could come up with was that?
i feel your pain. its totally degrading and a mockery to those who actually put effort into their studies.
also: sorry for the triple post. laptop is acting weird.