2012년 1월 3일 화요일

Harry Potter in 99seconds


Have you read or seen all the Harry Potter series? Since it is divided in 7 series and thick, it is hard to read all of them when you are not a big fan of Harry Potter. However, since it blows idea of magics and wizards stuff, it is very interesting and it increases our curiosity. Also, with good casting in the movie and strong stories, the movie is very popular too. When me and my friend searched the movie theater when the last series came out, we couldn't watch it that day but had to wait until Saturday to watch it. When the internet had video of Harry Potter in 99 seconds, it was quite interesting subject to me and just knocked me out.

To introduce this video, this video was made by 'paint.' Paint is like a duet(?) group that makes these kinds of videos with rap. They have their official homepage in youtube which they store all those videos and let the viewers  see. If you want to finds some video from them, we can find it from www.youtube.com/paint. There are 7.047.050 viewer and there are 139.648 likes and only 1.781 dislikes. Also, in the version that has Korean subtitles has 105 likes with NO dislikes. I think that's amazing because no video can fit all the people's standard but it shows comparison that most of the people likes it. It was very famous toward Koreans because many of them are fan of Harry Potter. It was one of the most searched topic for three days.

I think this is a very innovative idea that the 'paint' have thought of.  Who would've thought of shortening Harry Potter into 99seconds? Or if they thought... well unfortunately they haven't put that thought in practice. The beat was very fun and easy to follow and the rhythm was very interesting. The other boy putting in like a background music, actually helped us more concentrate and follow the flow. However eventhough this is very interesting I found some places that they lack.

If we analyze the video:
In the first part, the Sorcerer's stone, it talkes about some professor getting fired and about the stone being passed to Dumbledore and Harry becomming a wizard and meeting Hermione and Ron. However, eventhough it is a good summary, I think it kind of lacked detail because it doesn't show how Ron and Hermione and Harry became friend, nor it didn't explain how important friend they are. But it was quite interesting. The video goes on like this. It is quite interesting.

I think this became viral because thoroughly the Harry Potter series had been enchanted and got all the attention when it came out in movies. However, Harry Potter movies are never short and also they have many series, 7 in book and 8 in movies! However, it told the people who didn't watch all of the Harry Potter series the  big flow and theme of it and it was also very entertaining. Also, since Harry Potter is a well known subject so I believe that it could draw more attention than other themes.

I really like this video and I hope they, the Paint makes more video like this with other series that I didn't read or saw about. It might be very interesting ad also I want to compare from different point of view, which is after knowing or before knowing.

댓글 3개:

  1. Actually, I think this video is a pretty good summary of the Harry Potter series. The melody, beats, and the actors' faces make it even better! Good writing.

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  2. Looks like this is almost done. I'd like you to make sure the paragraphs look a bit nicer, and to strengthen the introduction a little bit. Can you find a way to hook your reader with a strong first sentence? The first sentence is almost the most important one.

    All in all, a very good start to your essay. It must have been challenging to feature all the best moments of Harry Potter in 90 seconds.

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  3. Nice finish to your essay. You are one of the only students to really follow the directions. Excellent essay!

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