Video Film Research Articles

English Phonological Operations: A Study of Rule Interactions

This study focuses on English phonological operations with emphasis on rule interaction, rule ordering, bleeding, and feeding. It is a study in rule-governed phonological description. The method adopted for analysis is the descriptive survey approach. The theoretical framework adopted is Noam Chomsky’s generative phonology. The finding is that phonological descriptive generalization is best done by rules rather than by phonemic analysis. This study recommends that the study of phonetics and phonology in Nigerian universities should focus more on practical exposure using laboratory instruments; laboratory exercises in conversational English using relevant phonological materials (tapes, records, video films, among others.), distinctive features, and rule writing approach for the advanced students are recommended.

A Pre-Experimental Study to Assess the Effect of Video-Assisted Teaching on Knowledge Regarding Preventive Measures of AIDS among Adolescents at Selected School of Bhopal (MP)

Adolescence is the second decade of life (13-19 years), and a period of both physical as well as psychological development. This is a phase of experimentation and risk that includes early sexual debut, sexual coercion and violence, trafficking, and substance abuse. Along with these, other factors such as the lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, inaccessibility to health care services and commodities, lack of education and life skills, and early marriage have increased their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Since adolescents comprise a major part of reproductive group, they are likely to play a significant role in determining the future growth pattern of India’s population and economy. Thus, it is crucial that investment in terms of finances, research and development policies be done to improve their well-being. A pre-experimental one group pre-test, post-test research design was selected for this study to gather data from adolescents regarding prevention of AIDS. A sample of 100 adolescents was selected using purposive sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used by the investigator for data collection. Video-assisted teaching was administered to adolescents to improve their knowledge. The structured knowledge questionnaire and video film (video-assisted teaching material) were validated by the experts. Further, pilot study was conducted on 10 samples to assess the reliability of the questionnaire where Karl Pearson correlation co-efficient (r=0.86) proved the reliability. After the pilot study, main study was carried out on 100 adolescents. As a first step pre-test knowledge of adolescents was assessed. Thereafter, video-assisted teaching was provided to the same sample. The same teaching materials were also provided in CD form. Finally, post-test knowledge was taken after 7 days with the same sample. Opinion regarding video film was also taken on day 7. This study revealed that there is significant difference between mean pre-interventional and post-interventional knowledge score on preventive measures of HIV / AIDS among adolescents (mean difference=2.0 and t-value=21.51, significance at 0.05 level). On the basis of its hypothesis H1 was accepted. It signifies that video-assisted teaching is effective in increasing the knowledge of adolescents.

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ЦИФРОВОЙ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТИ СТУДЕНТОВ С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ РЕСУРСОВ ТЕХНОПАРКА УНИВЕРСАЛЬНЫХ ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИХ КОМПЕТЕНЦИЙ

The article deals with the issues of training foreign language teachers to be able to teach foreign languages in the conditions of digitalization of modern education. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop digital competence in future foreign language teachers, that is, the ability to use digital technologies in education, skills in presenting information in different digital formats, in educational video films in particular. On the basis of the research and experience of training future teachers of foreign languages the author introduces the conditions for the development of digital competence of future foreign language teachers with the use of the resources of the technology park, and devises the methods for developing students’ digital competence while working on an educational product - a video film for schoolchildren.

Text2NeRF: Text-Driven 3D Scene Generation With Neural Radiance Fields.

Text-driven 3D scene generation is widely applicable to video gaming, film industry, and metaverse applications that have a large demand for 3D scenes. However, existing text-to-3D generation methods are limited to producing 3D objects with simple geometries and dreamlike styles that lack realism. In this work, we present Text2NeRF, which is able to generate a wide range of 3D scenes with complicated geometric structures and high-fidelity textures purely from a text prompt. To this end, we adopt NeRF as the 3D representation and leverage a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model to constrain the 3D reconstruction of the NeRF to reflect the scene description. Specifically, we employ the diffusion model to infer the text-related image as the content prior and use a monocular depth estimation method to offer the geometric prior. Both content and geometric priors are utilized to update the NeRF model. To guarantee textured and geometric consistency between different views, we introduce a progressive scene inpainting and updating strategy for novel view synthesis of the scene. Our method requires no additional training data but only a natural language description of the scene as the input. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our Text2NeRF outperforms existing methods in producing photo-realistic, multi-view consistent, and diverse 3D scenes from a variety of natural language prompts. Our code and model are available at https://github.com/eckertzhang/Text2NeRF.

Neural Networks in Documentary Television Films: Trends and Prospects

The paper studies the use of neural networks in modern documentary films — both foreign and domestic ones. The author examines the development of artificial intelligence in film and television production, which allows to restore images, develop scripts, imitate voices and create so-called visual “deep fakes”. The study analyzed the content of documentaries in which neural networks were used in one form or another. The interview with representatives of the professional community — a documentary filmmaker and the creator of a neuro-creative agency — explores the main issues of using neural networks in documentary filmmaking and the prospects for their widespread introduction into film production in the coming years. Moral, ethical and legislative aspects of the use of neural networks in documentary filmmaking were also addressed.

The Music to Valentin Kataev’s Fairy Tale The Wishing Seven-Colored Flower in the Space of Russia’s and China’s Screen Culture

The present article focuses on music in the space of screen culture. It discusses the interpretation of Valentin Kataev’s fairy tale The Wishing Seven-Colored Flower [Tsvetik-Semitsvetik] that was presented in the following artistic projects: a) the short television film The Wishing Seven-Colored Flower, created in the late 1960s through the collaboration of composer Evgeny Krylatov, directors Garnik Arazyan and Boris Bushmelev; b) the animated film with the same title by Russian and Soviet director Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Soviet composer Yuri Levitin (released in 1948); c) the animated film by Chinese director Cao Xiaohui and Chinese composer Lu Shiling (1974), whose title retains also a similarity to the original source title. In regard to Krylatov’s and his colleagues’ film, addressed to a children’s audience, analyzing the interaction between the musical component of the film text, the video sequence, and the verbal-plot sequence clearly reveals Krylatov brilliant talent, his professionalism in the field of orchestral style and symphonic dramaturgy, as well as the organic synthesis of his inherent modern thinking — one that is recognizable by his composition techniques, as well as the traditions of the Russian musical classics. In a similar way, Yuri Levitin’s music carries out a dramaturgical function when accompanying animate films, while demonstrating elements of contemporary compositional means (namely, the aleatory technique). Modern compositional techniques also appear in Lu Shiling’s music, making themselves present in the texture of clusters as the main elements of sonorical sound. However, in contrast to the work of his Russian colleagues, the latter’s music carries out a purely illustrative function in the animated film.

"Do you smoke?" - content and linguistic analysis of students' substance histories in simulated patient interviews.

The use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs has considerable health consequences. Substance histories are often only incompletely taken in everyday clinical practice. When learning to take a medical history in medical school, one of the learning objectives is to inquire about consumption behavior. The aim of this exploratory study was therefore to examine the content and language of substance histories taken by medical students. From a simulation training of a first working day in hospital, 91 video films of medical histories were available, which advanced medical students had conducted with six patients with different consumer behavior. These interviews were verbatim transcribed and analyzed using content-structuring qualitative content analysis according to Kuckartz. For all substances, the reasons for the questions and the depth of the respective substance use were categorized and errors in the questions were examined. In addition, a linguistic analysis of the verbal ways in which the substances were inquired about was carried out. The students most frequently asked about smoking (73.3%). In only 15.4% of the interviews were all substances asked about, in none were all substances asked about completely. A total of 112 protocol questions and 21 occasion-related questions were identified. Logical errors and double questions were found. Most of the questions were asked in a factual manner. However, questions in the categories "evasive" and "stigmatizing" were also found. The content-related and linguistic deficits of medical students in the collection of substance histories identified in this study should be addressed in communication courses at an early stage of undergraduate medical studies.

Influence of Turbidity on Foraging Behaviour in Three-Spined Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Anthropogenic activities increase turbidity in coastal marine environments globally, and turbidity is particularly caused by eutrophication. Turbidity is a measurement of the scattering and absorption of light by suspended matter in water. An increase in turbidity influences visual predators and affects community structures and whole ecosystems. The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a widespread species in the northern hemispheric Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It is a visual predator and, therefore, a very well-suited species for studying the effects of increasing turbidity on foraging behaviour and activity. Sticklebacks used for this study were from an aquarium in the North Sea Oceanarium. They have been in the aquarium for around two months and were originally collected in a highly eutrophicated marine fjord system. They were individually placed in an observation aquarium, fed with krill, given 10 min to forage, and observed by video cameras. The video films were analysed to study stickleback predation behaviour. Experiments were repeated with four different turbidity treatments, ranging from a mean of 0.034 up to 10 NTU (nephelometric turbidity unit). Bentonite clay was used as a turbidity-increasing substance. A statistically significant difference in foraging behaviour and activity between the turbidity treatments was observed. The test subjects were found to lunge less for prey and had a higher feeding latency with increasing turbidity. Additionally, they were less active with increasing turbidity. The behavioural instability estimated as a variation in feeding latency increased with increasing turbidity but decreased at the highest turbidity value. Our study indicates an effect of turbidity-increasing events on the behaviour of the three-spined stickleback and potentially also other similar visual predators.

Orality in Yorùbá films: A study of selected films of Akínwùmí Iṣọ̀lá

Despite technological innovations, orality still forms one of the aesthetic elements in the new media such as home video films as a result of the unending interface between orality and the literacy tradition. Using intertextuality as an approach, in this article I examine orality in selected films of Akínwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá, with a view to showing how he uses verbal arts as a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural values. The selected films are Saworoidẹ (1999), Agogo Èèwọ̀ (2002) and Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà (2005). The films were selected based on their preponderant featuring of oral narratives. My findings reveal that folktales, legends, songs, Ifá corpus, drumbeats, incantations, and panegyric are the Yorùbá oral genres that Akínwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá incorporates into his films. One can infer from Ìṣọ̀lá’s films that there is an overlap between his oral culture and his creative work because culture is the active force that energises and drives the creative work. I conclude that Ìṣọ̀lá uses his creative ingenuity to re-awake and preserve Yorùbá oral tradition in his films, which points to the fact that oral literature has a continued vitality for contemporary society.

Effectiveness evaluation of the use of video content to develop professional skills of the future dentist

Annotation. The use of video technologies during practical classes is an integral part of the education of dental students. The aim of our study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of video content for developing professional skills among students of the Faculty of Dentistry. Students of two academic groups took part in the study. In the 1st group (main) the class was carried out with the involvement of interactive video films, in the 2nd group (comparative) – according to the traditional method. To achieve the goal of the study, questionnaires were developed for determining the coefficient of self-assessment and checklists for evaluating the coefficient of practical skills. Assessment of the obtained results was performed immediately after studying the topic in the fourth course and during subintership. Statistical processing was carried out using the computer programs “Statistica 6.1” and Microsoft® Excel 2017. The obtained results showed that the level of mastery of practical skills and abilities in the main group is significantly higher (p<0.05) than the results of the comparison group. This indicates the high efficiency of the use of videos in the educational process and can be considered as an alternative in quarantine and martial law conditions, as well as be used for independent extracurricular work in training of students and interactive communication with the teacher. The prospect of further research is the creation of an electronic database of video materials on the topics of classes, mastering and involving other modern interactive teaching technologies in the pedagogical process in order to improve the quality of training of future dentists.

PORTRAIT OF POST PANDEMI HISTORY LEARNING AT SMAN 1 BANYUPUTIH IN THE 2021/2022 ACADEMIC YEAR

This research was carried out with the aim of knowing learning during the pandemic and post-pandemic, especially to find out what strategies were applied in learning methods, using learning media and using learning resources. This research method uses qualitative methods and the type of research is a case study. The data collection methods used were observation, interviews and document studies. The results of this study are that history teachers at SMA Negeri 1 Banyuputih have implemented innovative learning as a strategy for dealing with teaching and learning activities during a pandemic and post-pandemic. By using various models and learning methods. The learning methods used are the Discovery Learning and Problem Blased Learning methods. The learning media used are media images, photos, PowerPoint and short video films. The learning resources used include sources from other books, the internet and discussions that are appropriate to the learning material.

Deep Classifiers and Wavelet Transformation for Fake Image Detection

The paper presents the computer system for detecting deep fake images in video films. The system is based on applyingcontinuous wavelet transformation combined with the ensemble of classifiers composed of a few convolutional neural networks of diversified architecture. Three different forms of forged images taken from the Face-Forensics++ database are considered in numerical experiments. The results of experiments on the application of the proposed system have shown good performance in comparison to other actual approaches to this problem.

Ruptured Rhetoric

Under the pressure of the political environment, Chinese immigrant communities of a new sort have had to form in the UK. From 2020 to 2022, strict COVID-19 policies enforced by the Chinese government left a large number of Chinese nationals stranded overseas. Concurrently, the political conflicts in Hong Kong since 2019 and shifting geopolitical dynamics in China prompted a significant influx of Hong Kong citizens emigrating to the UK. Within this context, soundwork has emerged as a powerful implement for shaping ideology, aesthetics, identity, and subjectivity in these immigrant and diaspora communities. Amid these challenges, ethnic Chinese sound artists based in the UK actively contribute to the construction of Sinophone communities, incorporating the local culture while challenging the homogenized concept of “Chineseness” in terms of a new, critical epistemology. These Sinophone communities take place in venues such as performance spaces, art galleries, and public areas. Artistic activism plays a pivotal role, with sound art serving as a potent medium of expression. Artists such as Chris Zhongtian Yuan, Bo Choy, Yarli Allison, and On Yee Lo employ various forms of artistic expression, including video arts, installations, films, and performances, to capture the political circumstances and psychological states of these communities. By drawing on theoretical frameworks from Sinophone theory and sound studies, this paper analyzes the soundworks of four artists of the Chinese ethnic or Hong Kong diaspora based in London, focusing particularly on the protest, storytelling, ritual, resistance, nostalgia, and mythological elements in their works’ sonic effects.

‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria

This article examines how streaming is altering established viewing practices that traditionally characterised video film consumption among domestic Nigerians. Following the creation of the Nigerian video industry (Nollywood) as a straight-to-video film industry, audiences watched movies solely through the technologies of television sets and video players. The fluid and opaque circulation of video copies located audience consumption practices within informal realms and communal spaces. This article analyses how streaming is catalysing a distinctive viewing culture in Nigeria. It argues that streaming is formalising access to Nollywood movies, upending the communal practices associated with legacy video viewing, and fostering an individualised viewing culture though some informal communal practices persist in the streaming ecosystem. By emphasising the role of smartphones and apps in the emergent streaming culture, this article demonstrates how streaming is restructuring the temporal, spatial, and affective features of audience engagements that traditionally characterised movies viewing in Nigeria.

Formalised transnationalism in the informal Nigerian video film industry: streaming, audience re-imaginations and production reconfigurations

ABSTRACT This article examines the implications of the transnational dynamics of streaming for the Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood) considering its historical predominance of informality in cross-border circulation. Right from its emergence in 1992 as a straight-to-video film industry, Nollywood has been significantly transnational in distribution albeit through the complex web of transnational piracy and other informal networks. This mode of informal transnationalism orchestrated wide visibility for the industry, but it brought minimal revenues for producers who were desirous of much formalised distribution system to connect to transnational capital and audiences. Since 2010, streaming has become progressively integrated into Nollywood’s distribution eco-system and is introducing much formalised transnational consumption practices. Adopting the critical transnationalism approach (Higbee & Lim, 2010; Shaw, 2018), this paper draws from semi-structured interviews with 35 stakeholders in Nollywood and critical analysis of trade press. It argues that streaming has opened formal pathways to transnational capital and audiences hitherto unseen in Nollywood and is orchestrating audience fragmentations and reconfigurations of production practices in the industry. The paper extends existing debates on critical analysis of how specific forms of transnationalism impacts the quotidian practices in a media industry as well as the cultural implications.

A Content Analysis: Values of Islamic Marriage in the Movie of Ayat-Ayat Cinta

Fiqh Munakahat is a branch of jurisprudence that explains the legal rules regarding marriage starting from the marriage contract to household rules. The film Ayat-Ayat Cinta continues the film Verses of Love in the first series. This study aims to analyze the content of fiqh Munakahat material. In the film Ayat-Ayat Cinta. This article was written using a qualitative method with a content analysis approach. The data source is taken from the video film Ayat-Ayat Cinta with a duration of 2:06:54 (two hours, six minutes, fifty-four seconds) through document analysis used by researchers as a data collection technique, all documents are supporting data that can be used as supporting data for research related to the issues and problems being studied. All document analysis results are then analyzed by describing the data obtained from the word in dialogue and image forms in movie scenes using the Analysis Interactive Milles & Hubberman as a method and tool for analyzing qualitative research data. Overall, the results of the analysis show that there are five contents of fiqh munakahat material in the film Ayat-Ayat Cinta, namely khitbah, marriage contract, rights and obligations of husband and wife, and polygamy. The results of this study can be used as lesson material for young married couples to live the life of a household ark.

Application of Educational Technologies and Video Algorithms in Medical University-Varna

Video-learning (in the form of video films), when properly integrated into the curriculum, can make learning much more engaging and successful for medical and healthcare students. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of learning practical skills (Holter placement) in Nursing students. The students were divided into two groups of 8 students each. The first group was given an algorithm on paper, and the second group - a specially made video film. The results showed that the acquisition of this medical manipulation was more effective in the students having access to the video film. 87.5% of the students who watched the film did well on the post-test, compared to 50% of the second group (P less than 0.05). Students learning through a video lesson show higher satisfaction and retention of knowledge and skills. The results of the current study found that video triggers can be used effectively to capture learners' attention and deliver a visual lesson. However, threshold motivation is required for active learning to be successful.

A Review of The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture

A Review of <i>The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture</i>

Interrogating Baby-Mama Syndrome as the New Personality Identity in Mosunmola Abudu’s Chief Daddy

The spate at which women identify and revel in being baby-mamas in recent times has become quite alarming. The syndrome of women giving birth and raising the child as a single parent with no recourse to the father has become the new form of identity in Nigeria. Some Nigerian celebrities have become proponents of this ideology, and a lot of young ladies are so comfortable having babies without any form of commitment from the man. Consequently, the study aims to interrogate this baby-mama syndrome as a new personality identity in Nigeria. The objectives include scrutinizing some of the factors that propel women to subscribe to this personality identity and examining the dynamics of the characters in the selected video film. His study adopted the Structured observation research methodology and Mosunmola Abudu’s Chief Daddy was purposely selected as the primary film-text. George Gerbner’s Cultivation theory also provides the theoretical framework for the interrogation and comprehension of this study.

Exploring reasons Kenya television broadcasts Nollywood movies

This paper sought to explore why Kenya television airs Nollywood movies. The study adopted a qualitative research method. It targeted Citizen and Kiss Televisions’ production managers, focus groups and Nigerian Movie fans. The households were selected randomly. The research consulted documentary sources on Nigerian movies in Kenya. This included gathering information from the internet, Newspapers and research was done by Synovate on Nigerian movie audiences. The obtained data were analysed using descriptive statistics such as mean, mode, percentages, and frequencies. The study concludes that given Nollywood’s great influence over African culture, such an effect is reinforced by the massive consumption of Nigerian movies by Kenyans and Africa as a whole. Many Nigerian video films are filled with religious overtones; therefore, many Africans see most Nigerian movies. These films portray values rooted in their countries of origin. Nigerian video films, as a representation of Nigerian culture, greatly influence an entire population of Africans due to similar cultural practices. The study recommends that Nigerian moviemakers emphasise African culture’s positive sides in their movies. This should be inclusive of marriage ceremonies, the bride prize, family dissolutions, the place of girl/boy child in the African context, African foods and so on. On the other hand, filmmakers should have fewer films on barbaric themes like witchcraft, human sacrifice, and blood thirst vampires. These kinds of movies portray Africa in a Negative way.