Story Line:
– Each of these will play right into the next – they could all be taking place within the same day, or even the same few hours
– Each clip should be about 10-15 seconds
– Each of the Expectation clips must take the same amount of time as its Reality counterpart
– Choose a roughly equal amount from “Positive -> Negative” (expectation is better than reality) and “Negative/Neutral -> Positive” (expectation is not as good as reality)
– The clips will be combined to form a separate Expectations video and Reality video, which you can switch back and forth between in the browser. Both of these videos are perfectly synced up with each other, with the same music used for both.
– The clips that’s “worse” can be darkened a bit, while the corresponding clip that’s “better” is shown in normal brightness
| Expectation | Reality |
| Positive -> Negative (first half) | |
| Add one more here (to start the video) | |
| Speaking Chinese fluently with Chinese people | Try and fail to speak Chinese, Chinese person responds in perfect English |
| Going to master chopsticks, and eat lots of chao mian and other Chinese food | McDonalds. |
| Traveling a lot (i.e. plane touching down, walking around in a different city) | Doesn’t have any money to travel because they spent it on food and other purchases |
| Gonna get to drink legally finally and go clubbing, “wow it’s gonna be so lit” | Too busy due to academics – friend texts “you down for (city name) this weekend?” you’re like “nah, gotta grind these classes” |
| Negative/Neutral -> Positive (second half) | |
| Think you’re going be homesick, talk to parents everyday, etc. | Love it here, rarely even think about home |
| Expecting there to just be generic “Chinese food” | So many different kinds of Chinese foods – show a person going to many different restaurants |
| Final one: expecting Shanghai to be pretty cool.
Search up images of Shanghai online, and be like “hey, not bad” |
It’s everything you hoped for, and more.
Standing on a rooftop at the bund, being like “woah this is incredible”, with really dramatic shot(s), editing, and music |