今天拍摄我们的采访时
"i love him"
这是一个侄儿说的。他说他爱他的uncle
: )
其实，我知道不是不说就不爱
只是，既然爱为什么我们，大多数人，都爱在心里口难开呢？
爱，敢敢说出来，大家都好快乐哟
侄儿说，uncle告诉他什么是arts，也介绍他很多不同的音乐
我的感受是，对他来讲，uncle像一扇窗户，窗户外面是美丽的风景，或者你喜欢比喻uncle为一扇门
我幻想，龙应台阿姨如果真的是我阿姨，那种感觉和这位侄儿的感受可能很像吧
可能，我说的是可能
呵呵
: )
当他们（被采访者）表示自己也有所获时
我相信我们这群进入人家的生活打扰人家的所谓filmmaker心里面都有至少一点美好的感觉吧
至少，我们知道他们不觉得自己被利用…
呵呵
还是很累了 脑袋没有办法好好的运转
i know they (my interviewee) wont read my blog. mayb my teammate will.
so my appreciation towards them must b verbally expressed by me as well... after everything...
thanks them for agreeing sharing their personal stories, past, feelings, struggles... and so on with us... n with the viewers
onDec19,2008. with a partially-function-brain.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Monday, December 08, 2008
Ripples of Singapore Dreaming
if i were at home, i wouldnt have done what i have done in my hostel, alone.
if i never started the project, I wouldnt have known the brother and mother of the director of Singapore Dreaming, and I wouldnt have just finished watching the film.
美满人生 Singapore Dreaming, that's the title of the film. I couldnt imagine one day I will make a feature length narrative film* myself.
i am not sure whether the film is touching or the making of the film* is touching. but i m touched.
we are currently filming our (me and my 3 other friends) first short documentary film*. when we need to rearrange the furniture and the decorations, light up the place; when the interviewee dress up and put on make-up on the shooting days, I know documentary really doesnt present the truth.
arh. must we rearrange the real life to make the film looks good? must we light up their home? i m not sure, but for now, we did that as others did it this way too.
back to Singpaore Dreaming, money n upgrade is the theme of the film. I like Yann Yann's character who was called back to her office when she was attending her father's wake*. Her boss asked her to make a coffee for him and do the photocopy. She's terribly sad for that. She lost her dignity for the salary she needs to live a life, and for the baby in her tummy who is going to come to this cruel world soon. She trembled when she was making the coffee.
Some parts of the film looks a bit too... deliberate which tells that this might be the first, or the first few films of the directors. but i appreciate Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen's (husband and wife) idea of doing a film that's important to both of them, and to Singapore (at the least, they feel so).
and this film is not a new one, it was released after year 2000, i think. But, i didnt get to watch it when is was screened in cinema few years back. and, making a film is just like writing a book or teaching, you never know what impacts the film/book/moments will bring and when will it stop making any impacts. maybe it never stops. hopefully that's the case.
you notice that i was talking about the film. but this entry is really not about the film. it's about 缘分. it's about Yann Yann whom I find her as a very hardworking, determined, and passionate actress. it's about my belief in media. it's about dreaming, i think.
and dear friends, as yann yann said in 'the making of the film', i wish we all treasure what we have, we do pursue and be determine to achieve what we truly want for ourselves.
thanks, for reading my sharing.
-xuan
* feature length narrative film 基本上就是我们看到的好莱坞电影的长度，然后是虚构的故事
* short documentary film 短篇，纪录片，以现实世界里的真实故事为题材，不过拍摄出来的东西并不完全等同于真实
* the making of the film 制作特辑
* wake : watch by a corpse before burial （呵呵，我最近刚学会的字）
if i never started the project, I wouldnt have known the brother and mother of the director of Singapore Dreaming, and I wouldnt have just finished watching the film.
美满人生 Singapore Dreaming, that's the title of the film. I couldnt imagine one day I will make a feature length narrative film* myself.
i am not sure whether the film is touching or the making of the film* is touching. but i m touched.
we are currently filming our (me and my 3 other friends) first short documentary film*. when we need to rearrange the furniture and the decorations, light up the place; when the interviewee dress up and put on make-up on the shooting days, I know documentary really doesnt present the truth.
arh. must we rearrange the real life to make the film looks good? must we light up their home? i m not sure, but for now, we did that as others did it this way too.
back to Singpaore Dreaming, money n upgrade is the theme of the film. I like Yann Yann's character who was called back to her office when she was attending her father's wake*. Her boss asked her to make a coffee for him and do the photocopy. She's terribly sad for that. She lost her dignity for the salary she needs to live a life, and for the baby in her tummy who is going to come to this cruel world soon. She trembled when she was making the coffee.
Some parts of the film looks a bit too... deliberate which tells that this might be the first, or the first few films of the directors. but i appreciate Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen's (husband and wife) idea of doing a film that's important to both of them, and to Singapore (at the least, they feel so).
and this film is not a new one, it was released after year 2000, i think. But, i didnt get to watch it when is was screened in cinema few years back. and, making a film is just like writing a book or teaching, you never know what impacts the film/book/moments will bring and when will it stop making any impacts. maybe it never stops. hopefully that's the case.
you notice that i was talking about the film. but this entry is really not about the film. it's about 缘分. it's about Yann Yann whom I find her as a very hardworking, determined, and passionate actress. it's about my belief in media. it's about dreaming, i think.
and dear friends, as yann yann said in 'the making of the film', i wish we all treasure what we have, we do pursue and be determine to achieve what we truly want for ourselves.
thanks, for reading my sharing.
-xuan
* feature length narrative film 基本上就是我们看到的好莱坞电影的长度，然后是虚构的故事
* short documentary film 短篇，纪录片，以现实世界里的真实故事为题材，不过拍摄出来的东西并不完全等同于真实
* the making of the film 制作特辑
* wake : watch by a corpse before burial （呵呵，我最近刚学会的字）
Sunday, December 07, 2008
when you said...
when you said... you love me... who are you actually loving?
when you said, if you do this again, our story will end, whose our you mean?
when i am stupid (i agree), whom should i confide to? you? to exchange with your scolding?
Yaya, Dont Tell Me You Want Me To Agree With What You Did? I Dont!!
ok ok. but ... i need... i also forgot what i need le. at least it doesnt matter to you. and as She said, and you said it too. Be independent. Take care of yourself. Or dont come close to me, darling.
what? darling?
when you said, if you do this again, our story will end, whose our you mean?
when i am stupid (i agree), whom should i confide to? you? to exchange with your scolding?
Yaya, Dont Tell Me You Want Me To Agree With What You Did? I Dont!!
ok ok. but ... i need... i also forgot what i need le. at least it doesnt matter to you. and as She said, and you said it too. Be independent. Take care of yourself. Or dont come close to me, darling.
what? darling?
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