Looking for a course

I came across a video while searching on Youtube. It is a second year interactive media student looking for a course. His idea was to promote himself, making a video and putting it on Youtube. He makes a statement that he like to come up with creative concepts. His idea was to make it look like he is beeing held hostage and in need of a course at a company.



At first I thought that it was a very original way to get a course. Then I went to search on the internet. It became clear to me where the student had found his inspiration. I found a very big stream of "hostage videos" made by people who weren't really held hostage. Some of them were worked out much better than the one of the student. First of all the camera is still, there is no sound coming from the hostagetakers and the background is not original, but has been molded into the video. This creates an almost funny scene, which may have been the idea of the student. Still i think it could have been a lot stronger, making it look real and frightening, giving the possible course company's something to think about.