Video on AA in media/propaganda

[Ayoub]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5so8piAtL8

Tell me what you think... peace!!!

[Lum]

Little long for a slideshow and some of the words are hard to read over the text in the pictures. "12 Chinks and a Woman" though, damn I've never seen that one. Bolo forever.

[atlasien]

I like the overall format and direction. Here's some constructive criticism, which I'm going to make as detailed as possible.

Captions need work. The capitalization needs to be standardized. Sometimes Asian is in caps, sometimes it isn't. Two of the captions were completely illegible for being white on white, and need to be redone in a different color and left on the screen longer. They start:

- anti-chinese riot
- Back then, asians...

Next, the section that goes "The next photos will depict mainstream advertisements with suggestive messages saying : "Asien Men are Undersireable" has spelling mistakes (should be 'undesirable'). Second, it's weak. You went from very strong anti-Asian images to images of a couple white guys with Asian women that look pretty innocuous to your typical viewer. There are two problems here: thematic and visual.

The thematic problem is that the video is really about Asian men, but it's introduced as for all Asians. If it were for all Asians, you'd need to cover negative representations of Asian women, sex trafficking, mail-order brides, sweatshop labor and so on. Unless you want to rework the whole video, my suggestion is to specifically at the start of the show introduce it as about negative depictions of Asian men.

Next, you went from very strong visuals to some really weak ones. If you want to cover the erasure of Asian men I'm sure you can find some better ones. For example, somewhere (don't remember) I saw a still shot from a video game where there were two white guys menacing a half-clothed Asian woman. That packs a LOT more punch than a white guy picking out paint chips with an Asian woman. Or you could use those Quentin Tarantino photos. Or you could change the focus of the section to modern-day negative depictions of Asian men in television and film.

I think the rap song you used didn't seem to fit in. The message didn't match with the visuals. I'd find a similar high-energy song that has a clearer "rise up through adversity" theme.

Lastly, the couple Abu Ghraib photos came out of nowhere and are just confusing. I would take them out.

I think about 80% of it is good, and it'll be really great with some revisions and tweaks.

[lopan]

Ayoub! Fantastic effort! I think what you've put together is an excellent primer on the current situation for asian males; it's really approachable and easily digestible because of its video/slideshow format. Good job!

I agree with all of Atlasien's critiques. If you can clean it up, streamline the message a bit more, we will DEFINITELY put your video on our front page for everyone to see, because your message deserves to be there.

Awesome!

[Ayoub]

I like the overall format and direction. Here's some constructive criticism, which I'm going to make as detailed as possible.

Captions need work. The capitalization needs to be standardized. Sometimes Asian is in caps, sometimes it isn't. Two of the captions were completely illegible for being white on white, and need to be redone in a different color and left on the screen longer. They start:

- anti-chinese riot
- Back then, asians...

Next, the section that goes "The next photos will depict mainstream advertisements with suggestive messages saying : "Asien Men are Undersireable" has spelling mistakes (should be 'undesirable'). Second, it's weak. You went from very strong anti-Asian images to images of a couple white guys with Asian women that look pretty innocuous to your typical viewer. There are two problems here: thematic and visual.

The thematic problem is that the video is really about Asian men, but it's introduced as for all Asians. If it were for all Asians, you'd need to cover negative representations of Asian women, sex trafficking, mail-order brides, sweatshop labor and so on. Unless you want to rework the whole video, my suggestion is to specifically at the start of the show introduce it as about negative depictions of Asian men.

Yeah, I plan to do a video on the exploitations of AFs.


Next, you went from very strong visuals to some really weak ones. If you want to cover the erasure of Asian men I'm sure you can find some better ones. For example, somewhere (don't remember) I saw a still shot from a video game where there were two white guys menacing a half-clothed Asian woman. That packs a LOT more punch than a white guy picking out paint chips with an Asian woman. Or you could use those Quentin Tarantino photos. Or you could change the focus of the section to modern-day negative depictions of Asian men in television and film.
Can you please find that link of the videogame clip?



I think the rap song you used didn't seem to fit in. The message didn't match with the visuals. I'd find a similar high-energy song that has a clearer "rise up through adversity" theme.
Any suggestions?


Lastly, the couple Abu Ghraib photos came out of nowhere and are just confusing. I would take them out.
It was related to the contributions by asian males who exposed torture (taguba and yee) and resisted war (watada).


I think about 80% of it is good, and it'll be really great with some revisions and tweaks.

thank you. and the renovations are on the way.

[atlasien]

I'll think about it some more... I don't remember where I saw that image though. You might want to skim through some archives at racialicious.com, there are a lot of posts about racist imagery there.