Video Project Review

In my ENG 220 class we made a video project based on what we learned from this class. My group and I decided to make three short scenarios on how tutoring sessions can go wrong and what's an appropriate way to handle them. We decided to do this because in every tutoring session we can encounter any type of problems and we should be prepared to handle it. Our scenes were based on inappropriate behavior and the sleepy student. We also decided to do a scene where the tutor is being overtly positive and not helping the student with their paper, which is known as cheerleading in our text Tutoring Writing. The script writing process was fun to do since we decided to make it  comedic. When we started to rehearse my group and I were really nervous. But when we started to film, it actually wasn't that bad. The scenes flowed nicely and we didn't have to do any retakes. Once we started acting out the situations, it was as if it were actually happening. We wanted to showcase the three most basic problems that a tutor can encounter at any time, using comedy and humor to grasp the audience attention. I think reading it from a text is one thing, but to see it on screen in a humorous way helps people to understand more how these things can happen and how to handle it. I think we were effective as a team to get our message across. We played out the scenarios in a way where the tutor handled each situation in a professional manner. Our goal to the audience is let them have a some strategies up their sleeves if this were to ever happen to them in a tutoring session.