Professional vs. Amateur: How Self-Made Videos Help Students Learn

Since 2014, corporate product knowledge videos available online have been used as an additional instructional media for learning printing production tools & process in PPG class. However, these officially made videos are not fully able to provide the necessary information the students needed. As consequences, students must perform field studies, observing the tools and process before truly understanding the course‟s topic. They are required to create their own product knowledge video; one that met their needs of learning compared to the online videos. The purpose of this paper is to present a comparison study between corporate-made and student-made product knowledge video; analysing the difference in objects selection, the language of a camera, and how it helps student to learn better. Resulting summary of this study provides insightful information in the production process of product knowledge videos that are more relevant to the students‟ needs. The plot on the self-made videos can be captured as how students understand the process of printing production.