I knew I wanted to explore cybersex and pornography for my
video but I didn’t have a framing device. When I went back through the Study
Guide I rewatched Generation XXX and something didn’t sit right with me. These
kids were told that what they were doing was wrong, the parents couldn’t
believe their kids were lying to them. I had a gut feeling that the kids were
fine but I needed evidence. I wanted to explore whether you could have a porn
addiction and if you could, was it really that bad?
I had a look around the creative commons website but it was
throwing me out. I didn’t want there to be silence in my video so I just mucked
around on my guitar for 5 minutes. I laid the track and used it as a timer for
the rest of the video. I used Audacity to record my guitar playing, I also just
used my laptop’s inbuilt microphone. I do have an SM-58 Microphone, but since
it was only background audio I didn’t bother setting it up.
I made the Cybersex screen footage by asking a mate to come
online and talk dirty to me. For this I used EzVid as it was simple to record
the screen, I also used EzVid to make the footage of me finding porn.
For the video recording of myself I used Window Live Movie
Maker. If I used EzVid it would have been a tiny video of me. I was going to
pick up a tripod and record myself with my Samsung Galaxy S6, this would have
given me more freedom with location and it may have even been a better quality
recording, but I didn’t pick one up.
For the black backgrounds with white words I used Paint. I’m
sure there are probably better alternatives, at least more professional
alternatives. But I would say Graphic Design is my biggest weakness and it
ended up looking fine.
From the Generation XXX video I moved to some scholarly
sources, like the Waskul and Ben-Ze’ev. These sources looked at the new media
in a mostly positive light. I moved to get some facts from some more scientific
sources. I enjoy getting science facts, it is like rolling a dice, I can assume
that they will back me up but sometimes they don’t, so I have to change the
structure of my work. Luckily for me I couldn’t find any solid evidence that
went against what I wanted to say.
My video was riddled with challenges. During early recording
it turned out I couldn’t speak or read in front of a camera. This came down to
me planning on having a loose and conversational structure like I do for my
podcasts. I spent hours cutting the video and moving it around to look like I
wasn’t an idiot. Failing that I wrote up a script using the best parts of my
research, my early takes and new material. I just read it from the screen (which
I know is bad) and I covered my face as much as I could.
Another problem I had was I didn’t know how to edit videos.
I’ve done them before, but only the most basic videos you could imagine. As I
put footage into Adobe Premiere it became zoomed in to the point of
uselessness. It got to the point that every 2 minutes of work I was doing I had
to watch a 10 minute video to figure out my next obstacle. I believe I went
from absolute beginner to novice over my crash course with editing videos.
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References
Ben-Ze’ev, A 2003, Love Online: Emotions on the Internet,
Cambridge University Press, New York.
Heshmat, S 2015, Addiction.
[Electronic Resource] : A Behavioral Economic Perspective, n.p.: Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis, 2015., DEAKIN UNIV LIBRARY's Catalog, EBSCOhost, viewed 2 September
2015.
Struthers, WM 2012, 'Pornography addiction', Salem
Press Encyclopedia of Health.
Waskul, DD 2011, ‘Internet sex: the seductive “freedom to”’,
in Seidman, S and Meeks, C (eds.), Introducing the New Sexuality Studies,
Routledge, Abingdon and New York
Other Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ0vuIVZyb8
– Generation XXX: Teens Addicted to Porn
