New Video Series

John

December 11, 2008, 06:19 AM posted in General Discussion

What's the Story has had a nice run, but we're ready to try something quite different and new with video.

Over the weeks we've come to the conclusion that the weekend is not the best time to release videos, because our staff is not working then, and we can't always give the discussion around a new show and a new format the immediate attention it deserves. That's why this Saturday there will be no What's the Story video. There will be a new video next Wednesday (which will also give us a little extra time to polish the new show a little, which follows a completely new format.)

I don't want to give away any surprises, but the new show is... special. There's probably a better word to describe it which will come to me later.

Stay tuned!

cassielin

December 11, 2008, 06:33 AM

cool, I am looking forward to it!

期待ing~~~

xiaohu

December 19, 2008, 10:16 PM

pearltowerpete

不好意思这么久才回答你。最近我忙着剪辑我自己拍的独立电影。剧本就是我自己写的，电影也是我自己导演的。这是我十年前拍的电影，目前为止我没有机会把它剪辑完了。十年前我那个时候的生意伙伴（电影的制片人）强迫我用一台 Super VHS 线性剪辑来剪辑电影但没成功了，而且质量非常不好。然后他和我的关系越来越差，我们出许多矛盾，结果是他把断片偷走了他决定他就会一个人把电影剪辑完了。但是他迅速地发现他却不会做剪辑。几年前他出乎意料地联系我然后把断片还给我。
最近我买了一台苹果非线性剪辑。用这台剪辑挺顺利的，我非常喜欢而且质量非常的高！
我特别喜欢 C-POD，我不可能消失。我还是要偶然回来玩一下！

mark

December 11, 2008, 07:23 AM

Will there be an effect on the regular lesson schedule?

bababardwan

December 11, 2008, 08:19 AM

As much as I've enjoyed wts,you've read [at least my ] mind.I was going over the vocab tour of the hair salon the other day and thinking that it's great that you've explored different ways of using the video medium and was wondering if you'd start experimenting again [hang on;maybe I've read your minds] with another way yet again to use the medium.Yeah,bring it on;really looking forward to it.

light487

December 11, 2008, 04:58 PM

If they are going to be anything like the preview I have seen for the SpanishPOD video "The Volatile Translator", I'll be glad for the change. Sesame street styled videos are all fine and dandy but I really do like to see the actors speaking their parts to be able to see their body language, their lips moving, facial expressions and so forth.

pchenery

December 11, 2008, 05:39 PM

Great that you continue to innovate !

Any chance that future videos could become a bit more interactive ? For example, could you include a self-test at the end to help us reinforce the vocab ?

Perhaps have some sentences from the video in English and then require the learner to translate into Chinese ?