June 4th

Today was a very frustrating day, as some people in our group still won't take our project seriously. We now have a firm plan of what we are going to do over the weekend. We have spent the first part of the class deciding on what we are going to do in the weekends when we film in causeway bay. In the end, we have decided to split up into two groups in a 3 and 2 so we can get more done: myself, Chris and Kevin in one group, and Benny and Charis in the other group to film on the kowloon side and to do the interview. Benny and Charis are going to Yau Ma Tei on Saturday, and will be in charge of interviewing a street cleaner. After the interview, and answers and the questions asked have to be translated to cantonese so that the interviewee would understand. My group will assign us other parts to film as well, because the interview does not take a lot of time, and I actually have not contributed much to the group at this point yet.

June 1st

Today was the beginning of my work with my new film group: Chris, Benny Marcus and Kevin. We have started to discuss the different topics that we are going to explore in this project. a discussion about what theme we are going to explore in this project. We decided to explore the theme of littering in Hong Kong and to do this we had to research on what the government was doing about this. So we went on several websites to find out more about the policies of littering in Hong Kong. We have also discussed several topics such as air pollution, light pollution, and sound pollution before deciding on this topic. As we feel strongly about littering issues in Hong Kong, we have came to decide to do the littering topic.

The Seventh Class

Today, we watched the Michael Moore presentations created by people in our class. I was slightly upset by the fact that so many chose Fahrenheit 9/11, as I have prepared a presentation on that documentary as well. I have chosen this film to present because I think it is interesting how Michael Moore shows Bush's personal life on a documentary. However, I was impressed with Joanna's presentation because she had actually taken the time to research on the facts presented in Fahrenheit 9/11 which had been very impressive as no one else did.

The Sixth Class

Today, we spent the class time given to start on the editing stage of our creation of my 30 second video. I have started to add some headings and the titles to my final cut pro after I have catured all my footage onto a computer. I have decided to group my video along with Christopher's 30 second clip because as there are not enough computers in the lab, I can share a computer with him. Along with this, we can help each other by providing each other ideas to improve our overall video including special effects that could increase the quality of our video. I have also cut out the unecessary footage that we have captured during the filming process so only the useful footage stays before for further processing and filtering. I have also altered the sound and the volume of my film as some of the audio was not captured well.

Fifth Class

Today, I have completed my video, filming all the in door scenes in my 30 second video. I have then started to help out in Christopher's film along with Boris as he needs my help filming his own 30 second video, himself, being the director. I have been intructed to film a chase scene with Chrisopher being the policeman, and me being the man who purchases the pirated CD from an unliscenced shop in a completely random place. I have tried to act for Christopher as best as I could by trying to follow all the instructions. Sometimes, we have had some discussions to create some ideas to make it better while creating the film for Christopher. This had however, wasted some of our time to refilm some errors which we did not have time to mend at the end of this period. Next time, we will learn to manage our time more wisely and to plan what we are going to do in the period first before working together as a group. This will limit these flaws created by the lack of planning of time.

Fourth Class

Getting started, we have decided to spend the first part of the film class to just brainstorm on more ideas to improve and further make our film seem 'appealing' to the class. Unfortunately after 15 minutes of discussion with myself and Christopher, we could not find any new ideas to add on to my film. As a result, we have started to film as our film's setting is at school. To help to make my flim better, I will need someone else to help us film; therefore, I have chosen Boris as he is has a humerous attitude and personality, and Kevin as my camera man as I have also chosen Christopher to help me film my 30 second video. We have then chosen the 3rd floor as our setting as I am selling shirts to the pulic so I would need a spacious place to flim this. Once we have started to film, we had encountered some problems setting out the equipment as none of us were familiar in using the equipment and how to piece them together. As a result, we have figured out a way to bring the camera into the small black 'alley' to film an over-the-shoulder shot.

The Third Class

Today, we spent our time drawing our storyboards for our 30 second video about intellectual property rights. I began drawing my storyboard by drawing a sketch of each scene on what is going to happen in that particular frame. I drew approximate camera angles in the givne boxes to give a better idea for myself as to what I am looking for during the filming process of the project. I have also wrote some descriptions on the sheet of paper stating what the scene is about, the kind of audio aid (music) used in this frame, the approximate duration etc. Also, I have thought of some different ideas and how to use audio to make my video more professional and I have also brainstormed on different ways to get my message over to the audience easily.

I have learnt how to list out the different ideas in my head to create a mind map, then to develop on my ideas to come up with one idea at last.