YouTube: Bus Uncle

巴士阿叔 - Bus Uncle (雙語字幕 - Bilingual Substitle)

Its copies: 煞科featuring巴士阿叔, 後生仔卡啦ok版

1. Do you see videos such as "Bus Uncle"+its copies or Chris Crocker "Leave Britey Aline" + its copes as a good addition to creative culture ?
It can create a new culture style that use the music, video and dialogue from pop culture, to make a parody video that looks interesting and funny way.  Although some people criticized that this kind of new media is a kind of copyright infringement, but I think that it is the tread in nowadays since it can easy to draw the attention to the audiences and let them sympathy in their mind.


2. Is the wide availability of such videos a good thing for society or not ?
To a large extent, it is not good for the society. It is because it makes everyone's behavior in public area may be recorded. If the people do the wrong behavior or the actions looks strange, some people would use the video device to record it and share it in the website. It create cyber-bullying that makes the victim face with many pressure from public. But this kinds of video also provide warning function to the public, to advice them to do the correct things.

3. How many viewers are estimated to have watched the YouTube video?
There have more than 2.9 million people to watch "Bus Uncle" video, and more than 220,000 people to watch its copies.

4.  How would you rate the video?

The video looks interesting since bus uncle use foul language and attractive sentences to draw the attention to me. Some people try to use that video and produce an alternative version that have remix and with Karaoke version, so it make the video becomes more funny and we can see many Hong Kong people have creativity to express the ideas.

5. Is it of high quality in technical terms? Is it interesting aesthetically e.g. camera angles, use of light, the narrative, and so on?
It is not high quality in technical terms, everyone can use the video recording function from smartphone can do it. Besides, it don't have any interesting aesthetically, the video creator only taking a sneaky video. So the most important part is the content of the video, it don't need any technical terms.

6. Does it raise interesting socio-cultural issues? 
This video can show that many Hong Kong people face with many pressure in daily life, they cannot use the proper way to solve problem since we don't have any good measures and area for us to relax. Finally the pressure is quite easy to erupt and lead to conflict occur.

On the other hand, although bus uncle and the young people are shouting together more than 5 minutes, but other passengers don't have any action to help them to solve the problem. It shows that Hong Kong people sit on the sidelines and not willing to help the people.

7.Do you think it deserved the attention that it received from the internet community?
I don't think this event deserved the attention to me after I see the video clip in first time. It is because it just a conflict between these two guys. However, there are more internet users to discuss this topic and make its copy that looks attractive that mixed with popular culture, so it is successful to draw my attention.