About My Seminar Project

I've making a documentary this year again. The topic of this year is "Link" and each of the groups in my class have to make a video relating to "the connection". My team decided to make about the festival and we're just coming to the end of editing.

Last year, the topic was "Beautiful" and my team focused on handicapped people. My team spent so much time for the interviews and we had a rough time of the editing. It didn't go as planned. I just felt I was so useless in my team. Anyway, I did what I could do. Fortunately, we took time for polishing the structure well so, the content is clear and I think it's nice after all.

The following is my team's documentary.

Believe it or not, the Japanese narration is ME. :)) haha Enjoy!

This year, we have to make it better. This is my final project in my school days. Should be nice:) At the same time, I've begun to feel sad indeed whenever the graduation day comes around. After we leave the school, we have to go separate ways. We can't go on the life as we have been. That makes me so gloomy...:( I don't wanna leave yet. Really.

Sense of Humor

I've taken English class from last monday. The class is about British culture and we've taken the class from 1 to 4 period everyday. Getting up at 8:00 during summer holiday is quite tough for me. +_+

Anyway, today was the final day. We had to have the final presentation and I chose the topic of the difference between British and Japanese comedy. I often see YouTube and watch some comedies but it's sometimes really hard to understand. There are some reasons but what counts most is the cultural difference. For laughing, we need a common knowledge, awareness and culture. For example, comedy can be devided into two main groups, joke style like manzai, gag, stand up comedy and story style like rakugo, conte or sitcom. In the former case, as I wrote before we need a common knowledge but the later one don't need it. Why? It's the fun of human beings themselves! Every country has someone who is a bit strange. Or we can make the situation which is kind of immpossible to happen. So the story comedy can make up the people who is likely to be around you or an unusual situation and it can make the common laughing.

Personaly, I think the best example of the common laughing is TV commercial. You'll find it easy to understand than stand up comedy. ;)

[UK commercials]

●○●○●○●○●○

[Japanese commercials]