TWEAKING YOUR FAUX-INFINITE-WHITE BACKGROUND! https://www.youtube.com/user/briandavidphillips http://www.BrianDavidPhillips.net http://www.InOurOwnVoices.info Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses the TWEAKING YOUR FAUX-INFITINITE-WHITE BACKGROUND for videos, a quick and easy way to enhance the look of a less than optimally lit white background in videos. Dr. Phillips is using Power Director in this example but most video editors have similar options you…
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Tongue Twisters for Articulation and Pronunciation Practice
by Brian David Phillips •
Twist your tongue with some Tongue Twisters! Students in my communication classes receive a list of Tongue Twisters as an exercise in articulation and pronunciation. While the students receive a printed list to practice from, this video is for reference in pronunciation. Students should listen to the native speaker pronunciation and articulation then record themselves…
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Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom
by Brian David Phillips •
Updating a post from a few years ago, on 26 December 2007, I presented a workshop on "Inspiring Creativity in the Classroom" to senior students in an elite English program at Taipei First Girls High School, the top girls high school in Taiwan. The program is an adaptation of one I have presented elsewhere in…
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Does Your Video’s AUDIO SUCK? Replace It!
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Does Your Video’s AUDIO SUCK? Replace it! Here’s How! Here’s How to Edit Your Video’s Audio Track to Replace Crappy Audio with Awesome Clean Audio and SAVE YOUR VIDEO from Going Down in Flames! Sometimes things go awry during a video shoot and environmental factors get in the way of capturing good clean audio. Here’s…
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MONROE MOTIVATED ACTIVATION SEQUENCE ~ Persuasion Process ~ Video
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As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
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HOW TO PREPARE A PRESENTATION ~ Video
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As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
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ATTENDANCE POLICIES ~ NCCU Students ~ Video Discussion
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As most regular readers here know, I teach various classes from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, where I am an Associate Professor. In the following video, Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses ATTENDANCE POLICIES for his courses at National Chengchi University. This brief talk is essentially the same information as…
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TIME PRESSURE ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video
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As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
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Using Youtube’s Free Audio Library for Your Own Videos
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Use YOUTUBE’S FREE AUDIO LIBRARY for your videos! Hi, I am Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips. Students in my courses at university, institute, and elsewhere are often required to submit video projects. Many of these videos then go live on our In Our Own Voices channel. Students may not use any copyrighted or or other…
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CREDIBILITY ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video
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As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
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Nordic Larp Book Now Available for Free Online
by Brian David Phillips •
The award-winning, sold-out Nordic Larp is now available as a free digital edition. Up until now, the book, edited by game researchers and life-long role-players Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, has been a difficult to find treasure for role-play enthusiasts, researchers, and artists. I should say, it’s a huge book . . . massive .…
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Realm of LARP Complete Unreality Series!
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PLEASE & THANK YOU ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video
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As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
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THE NAME GAME ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video
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As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
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LARPing as Therapy
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Kristin Brumley (https://www.youtube.com/user/OrlySunja) has begun a fascinating new series which will become regular live online conference sessions via Google Hangouts on Youtube in which she is gathering a group of LARPing experts to discuss various topics. In this particular LIVE Google Hangout of 26 March 2014, they had a discussion on how LARPing and RPGs…
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SECRETS ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video
by Brian David Phillips •
As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
** Special Student Series, Interactive Drama, Trance-Acting: Actors, Directors, Dancers, and Musical Performers
DYSTOPIA Edition of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About LARP (But Were Afraid to Ask)
by Brian David Phillips •
Here we go . . . DYSTOPIA ROLEPLAY AND INTERACTIVE DRAMA! Okay, this video thingie is yet another sequel to an earlier video I shared (here) and it’s followup (here) and like the earlier version, this one is also cute and a half while addressing some intriguing issues such as Dystopia in Interactive Drama or…
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BECAUSE ~ Weird Influence Tricks ~ Video
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As most regular readers here know, I teach quite a bit on social influence, social psychology, critical thinking, and critical theory in various contexts from undergraduate and graduate courses at National Chengchi University where I am an Associate Professor to the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute where I teach a couple required courses to my own…
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Hierarchy of Motives
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Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses the HIERARCHY OF MOTIVES or the Hierarchy of Needs that essentially looks at what drives human behavior as based upon the work of Abraham Maslow. As students of the assorted communication and influence courses I teach at the university or various institutes are well aware, if you can peg someone’s…
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The Monomyth: Mythic Structure or the Hero’s Journey Model
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Prof. Brian David Phillips discusses the MYTHIC STRUCTURE or the Monomyth or the Hero’s Journey Model of literature, film, and psychological transformation as adapted from the work of comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell. Students in my literature and film courses as well as a number of other courses that I teach at the university or various…
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Ars Amandi: An Introduction to Love and Physical Intimacy Mechanics for Interactive Drama LARPS
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Here we go . . . An Introduction to ARS AMANDI with Emily Care Boss, Lizzie Stark, and Sarah Lynne Bowman Okay, this video thingie is a more formalized continuation of intimacy and love simulation in interactive drama that we have seen from a few earlier videos I have shared and like the earlier pieces,…
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Student Poetry Recitals
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Students in my Communication and Broadcasting Journalism courses at the university present readings of selected poems as part of the Poetry Recital Project. The poems were chosen by the students and had to be of one to two minutes in length. To my students: you should watch the video of yourself and note strengths and…
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How Advertisers Influence Us via Rokeach’s BAV Model of Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values
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We all know advertisers attempt to influence us . . . it’s pretty much their bread and butter. How do they influence us? What’s one of the key mechanisms for influence? How to advertisers get us to actually care about their products? To feel as if they are much more important than they actually are?…
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Levels of Filmic Adaptation of Literature
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As many regular readers here know, over the past twenty-five or so years, I’ve been regularly teaching a course in Literature and Film at National Chengchi University in which I guide the students into critical analysis of how filmmakers translate literary works into cinema. When a filmmaker decides to adapt a literary work into film,…
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Once Upon a Time with Wil Wheaton and Friends
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In his Tabletop series on youtube, Wil Wheaton introduces ONCE UPON A TIME to Amy Berg, Mike Phirman, and Chris “Doc” Wyatt. The neat thing about the show is that they introduce games while actually playing. I love Once Upon a Time and use it every year in my communication courses at the university and…