Proposal

=**Everyone post their idea for viral content and why they feel it would successful :**=

**SHALIAH :**
As per my long discussion with Jones, he agrees that humor would be hard and maybe a serious topic might be easier to pull off. They concept that i came up with and he agreed with is having a video of a reaction to something...this would then lead to a page that would bring more information about the issue/ topic...he agreed that this would be a successful step in creating viral content. The purpose of just showing the reaction of an individual is to stimulate curiosity and ambiguity**.** Thus will lead the viewer to the actual information about the topic because they want to know what the person in the video is watching. Some possible topics could be :
 * **Mistreatment of civilians in war stricken countries**
 * **Feticide**
 * **Homofobia**
 * **Starvation**
 * **ANYTHING THAT CAN GIVE US A REACTION THAT WILL STRIKE CURIOSITY!**

THINKING ABOUT VIDEOS THAT WE CAN USE TO GET A GOOD REACTION, I LIKE THE IDEA OF CHILD STARVATION. I l gathered some videos that use images that really hit an emotional string in me, i think if we use a slide show of images and then have a link to our Wiki which is pretty much an information page on child starvation, we would be set.

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I have video in a word document but im not sure if they would show up if i post them. The images are from various sites, what we can do is make a video of all the images or we can use one specific video that we like to create the reaction then just supplement it with more videos and images when we further create our wiki.

**DIANA :**
So it seems like humor would be very hard to achieve through this project (as Shaliah mentioned when talking to the prof) so I was thinking taking a main topic or idea and creating it into a viral content (such as a real world issue or the current topics and political problems occurring today). Using media sources such as the Internet via twitter, facebook, and youtube has been a substantial influence in how the world news and hot topic discussions are covered today. That being said, I think we should definitely create a video. I guess we should choose a topic we should go with, since we all agree that we should make a video. I'm not sure if you guys want to stick to a political issue like the occupy wall street that's happening all around the world right now, and maybe show a clip to numerous people and see their reaction to the events that are occurring and what everyone is doing in order to take a stance in regards to this issue (like Shaliah suggested). This occupy wall street has been a main focus through news radio channels and news stations today. It seems like it is escalating and may turn into a huge riot, who knows. But there's a lot about it right now and it is an issue that happening right now. I think creating a reaction video will be nice because it will capture the viewers and wonder what it is that the audience is watching, what it's about and what is being shown in the video through their reaction. To conclude our video, we could show the clip that everyone was watching so that the people watching our video isn't left disappointed. Or, we could maybe not show the actual clip but just a snippet of it to make them very curious and interested, and they can go research about it themselves. Whichever way we choose to shoot and put the video together, I definitely think that the reaction video is the best way to do our project. Now we just have to agree on what topic we will be doing it on and find a video in relations to that topic and then gather volunteers who are willing to be filmed, and so on and so forth.

Here are a few videos I found that you guys can review on ANIMAL CRUELTY :

media type="youtube" key="oxVwsA2MLWA?version=3" height="360" width="640" This is a short 60 clip that shows you how animals are being treated in China.

media type="custom" key="11303354" This video is probably the best one I found that is honestly really shocking.

**ROBIN :**
One of the idea that i thought about was to create a video of things that happens behind the scene that would make people amazed or shocking. One of the example would be like... to find out how sasuages are made, how fried food at restaurants are using very old and dirty oils to make it, and etc. These kind of things are directly related to everyone's interest and if we can find something that is very shocking, the content should go viral quiet nicely. However, the problem is... how to create and to find out about these things that are going on behind the scene and at the same time... that arent too known or common.

**BLAKE :**
An idea that can be potentially both funny and informative is an encyclopedia of sorts, following in the footsteps of websites such as [|knowyourmeme]. However, this encyclopedia would be much more limited in scope, focusing on one subject, such as the funny memes of[| reddit]. Seeing as how reddit memes are largely picture based, the encyclopedia could include a picture of each meme, followed by its commonly known names, and the context in which is mostly used.