Video Essay Author Statement

So I made another video essay. This time it is about why I believe that video games do not cause violence.

What was your interest and/or motivation for making this video?

I originally didn’t have any interest in this video. I originally did it for the assignment credit. As for the topic of ‘video games not causing violence’, this was a left over prompt I kept from summer school. Since I was somewhat pressed for time, I decided to go along with that topic whether I liked it or not.

What was the most interesting or challenging element of your video for viewers?

For viewers, I imagine it would be my explanation. I didn’t really bother with much of a script so my speech was all over the place in terms of topic and grammar. Plus, mine was a sloppy slap together that I made on a rush so I imagine that my argument would have a lot of holes in them. Finding the write sort of materials for my video essay argument was definitely my greatest challenge.

What was the most challenging aspect of your video for you?

My most challenging part was definitely the research to support my thesis. When I went online, I found a lot of controversy with different views on whether or not video games cause violence. For example, Time Magazine did a study and provided a rough summary of their results. Their results worked against me so I still have no idea as to why I bothered including it in my video. A lot of the websites I researched provided a rough summary of their own opinion. In the end, I went with copy pasting video clips and images onto parts of my video. Plus, there were some that I really wanted to include but couldn’t due to some technical issues.

Is there anything you left out of this video, for time or other reasons, that could have made it even stronger? How so?

It is not as if I intended to leave out stuff. I believe that I left out a ton of information that I did not think of at the time. I just went with whatever my head absorbed during the making of my video. Plus, I feel like I relied too much on my copy-paste video clips to argue for me that I may or may not have forgotten some information I wished to include originally.