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'Hong Kong Bus Uncle'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsYRQkmVifg


How many viewers are estimated to have watched the youtube video?

How would you rate the video?

Is it of high quality in technical terms? Is it interesting aesthetically eg camera angles,
use of light, the narrative, and so on?

Does it raise interesting socio-cultural issues? 

Do you think it deserved the attention that it received from the internet community? 

There are 1,061,196 views for the video of 'Hong Kong Bus Uncle', according to the counting machine on the official site. Its content is great and interesting. But the resolution of the video and sound quality are low.
The video was recorded only by a mobile phone. The resolution is not high. But this make it good to put on the internet as the file size would be small and easy to share. The camera angle is like we are peeping, and we know this is not a formal but is a video recorded by a passerby. So the sound quality and the resolution are not as high as a movie. Also, the start of the video is in the middle of the argument and the stage is on a bus show that this video is not prepared before the time.
Bus uncle in the movie mentioned he had pressure and everyone had pressure. This may suggest that the rhythm of living of Hong Kong people are fast and thus they have pressure. Bus uncle had pressure so that he blamed on the boy who disturb him. On the other hand, although they solved the problem apparently, but they were not. This might suggest that Hong Kong People have different faces, one appearant and one is actual.
It absolutely deserved the attention from the public. When the video was announced, the topic 'bus uncle' became the news headline. People not only discussed about the attitude of the two characters, but also the camera man. All of them became the characters appeared on magazines. A lot of discussion topics also raised. For example, should we talk on mobile phone on bus? Should we blame the others on bus? Should we just watch the 'show', but do not help them to calm down?
I think video sharing sites enhance our creative culture. As we can share our "talent" easily on this site, we will have more interest to do what we cannot do as we can prepare well and modify before the uploading. Jerry C may afraid of playing guitar in front of people with his edited Canon in D. In order to share his creative musical skill, he put his video on the internet. And finally he got attention from the public. The internet increase the incentive of creating what the user want to.

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