The Feedback for Comments

 

We have gone through all the comments. We are really grateful to other groups. You are so patient with our blog and video. And it is also very kind for you to give us so many useful suggestions with details.

 

We classify those suggestions into some main parts and we will give some feedbacks according to some important points.

 

1. The products we used to remind people to aware of the problem may be more women-used; it has less effect on men.

Actually, we also care about men’s feeling by providing the picture of Takeshi Kaneshiro and providing a brand, Biotherm, with men line. Maybe we do need to provide other kind of brands which are more familiar to men, like Gough. Although we can add some well-known products which are widely used by all the people, like shampoo, but for leaping bunny this organization, the main product is cosmetic. Hence, we do not want to confuse the audience.

 

2. Audiences are expecting more evidence and specific data about our arguments especially serious consequence about animal experiments. For example, they want to know how many brands still test on animal and some progress this leaping bunny have already make to stop these experiments.

We do think it is a good suggestion because using more data evidence will be more persuasive. Although we already put the list of brands without animal testing in our blog, but we still ignore the positive progress that leaping bunny has made, which is really a good evidence to make Hong Kong people to believe in this organization.

 

3. there is one comment suggest that more information should be given in the last part of video to tell people what they should do for preventing the bunny testing, “such as encourage people not to use cosmetic”.

We agree with that more information should be given to guide audience to do better prevent animal testing, but the suggestion that encourage people not to use cosmetic may be not realistic. And we also consider that if a video is too long, audience may lose patient to go through it. Our main goal is to convey that the issue of animals testing is serious and you can help by choosing a product with leaping bunny’s logo and if you are interested in leaping bunny, you can go to the website.

 

4. Some comments said that the pictures used in our video are too ugly and horrible that maybe people cannot handle it.

We do think using these terrible and cruel pictures can make visual impact on audience, but perhaps we should remind audience of this by saying that the content of the video maybe some kind of ugly and please prepare yourself mentally. And according to one comment, other way to reduce the horrible feeling is to use some drawings instead of real photos. We think it is a kind suggestion, but maybe the outcome or influence will be discounted.

 

5. One comments pointed out that it is difficult to make the video effective in the cultural context of Hong Kong. The audiences want to know where they can find “cruelty-free” cosmetics products in Hong Kong. It was suggested that our group should show some photos of popular cruelty free brands in Hong Kong.

Actually, we think it is a good idea. But given that the length and effectiveness of video, we have to consider more on that suggestion. Maybe giving some logos of Hong Kong brands at the part of “follow our guidance” in the video can be effective.

 

6. People suggested us to elaborate the topic using more logos, such as providing supporting evidence why animal testing can be obsolete and how safe are the cruelty-free products.
We agree with that providing evidence on why animal testing can be obsolete and how safe are the cruelty-free products is a way to be more persuasive. But putting more logos may confused our audience. In fact what we want to promote is just the organization of leaping bunny. But if this assignment is just for the topic, we are pleased to introduce more similar organizations to our audiences.

 

7. Some audience suggest that we can try some personification (e.g. add monologues of animal within the picture) to convey the painful feelings of animals to our audience.

We do like this idea because that will help our audience to empathy with those poor animals, which is more persuasive. This idea will work in concert with well the part of “if we are used in experiments”.

 

Finally, we want to express our thanks again for your attention and suggestions.