From this podcast project, my main goal is to learn more about Japanese culture and, more specifically, their horror genre, through the making of one of our own horror movies. I also wish to learn new vocabulary and grammar and to learn how to make a short video/podcast as I have never done that before. Through this podcast, our group hopes to convey our message about perfection and to do this, we need to be able to communicate effectively with the audience.
One barrier to this communication would be the language barrier. As we are filming a horror podcast, we would be using a lot of new vocabulary (suicide, death, etc). While we would be either providing a vocabulary list or putting subtitles for new words, we hope to mainly convey our thoughts and feelings through our facial and body movements. Facial expressions and gestures are mostly universal and are great tools for communication. Expressions of shock, fear, anger, and sadness are understood by everyone.
We also need to make sure our message is simple and understandable. It needs to be easily communicated to the audience via our script. If it's too convoluted, it would be hard for our both our classmates and the Japanese speaking audience to understand. For example, we didn't make our message that clear through our podcast proposal and we could tell that some commenters completely missed what we wanted to convey.
Communicating the message was hard at first, wasn't it? There are many way that we are doing it now - each character's personality, script and the dramatic ending. We will need to rewatch our vid a few times maybe solicit a test audience to evaluate if we can effectively communicate a complex message.
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