The Second Class (New Project)

Today, we have started really to brainstorm on what topic we are going to focus on and to understand what is intellectual properties. To relate this topic with making a 30 second clip, I think that we would have to first understand the topic, and then to brainstorming the different ways to show the misuse of intellectual property. We have thought of ideas such as selling fake clothes, selling fake and pirated dvds etc. However, we have thought of only these two ideas. The things that have inspired my thoughts are that I have thought of the large amount of "immitations" of clothes in Thailand. Also, in Hong Kong, there are lots of different stores selling pirated CDs. However, no one ever realizes the risk of buying the pirated CDs in Hong Kong, so I would like the fact that we could use this opportunity to create a sense of awareness in Hong Kong having so many people unaware of this situation.

A New Project

Today, we have started on a new project. This project is about joining a film competition that requires a 30 second clip depicting intellectual property along with a chinese dialogue (if the clip is in english), with chinese subtitles (if the clip is in english). The given time limit of this project is 2 weeks of school time along with the easter break to complete this project. However, the plan of the project was, first, to work in groups desired; but we then switched to working in pairs. As our original group was a group of five, we had to split up to different groups. Having problems with dealing with the groups, we have spent most of the first period to just deciding the different group we are going to be in in this project. As a result, I have decided to move out of the group and join with Christopher who is on the other group. We have spent this class together discussing ideas about what our video is going to be and to read the website www.myvideocompetition.com to look at the important rules and regulations in order to contribute and participate in this event.

Today, I have learnt how to solve problems by considering that if no one makes a move, we will not get very far and will waste a lot of time which could be used in a lot of different ways.