After spending eight hours on the video, I finally finished the video part of the documentary today! From choosing the research topic to edit the video, it takes almost three months for the whole research. Originally I really don’t know what to do for the documentary and I only decided to do international students’ life in melbourne. However, I cannot find any suitable theory for this topic and I didn’t find any interest on it. After that, I realized I actually got two community which are quite special within my network. They are CTG (Chinese Theater Group) and HKSA(Hong Kong Student Association). I finally chose CTG because I thought that CTG is more special than HKSA as HKSA is a very normal student community which aims for providing benifits and chance for Hong Kong student to know each others. CTG is different. It owns a very straight and main purpose, Semester Production. CTG produce two plays every year and each semster produce one. Every semester it has a different production crew like director, producer and cast. Therefore, it transits every semester. Although it doesn’t own the same production crew every semester, their members always show a close relationship to each other. That’s the reason I picked CTG instead of HKSA.
Just a brief review for me to remind myself the reason of producing CTG’s documentary. To memorize my complete video, I am going to list out the budget rundown now! We (me and Allan) totally drank at least 10 litres of Coke Zero. Actually it mostly drank by me. A total of 30 hours (x2 if mine plus Allan) were spent in the documentary. I used 5 times two hours to pick Allan up to my place as he just cannot remember the road! Extra 50 messages were sent as I need to contact CTG members to conduct interviews and get their videos. Could be more but I am already too sleepy to do anything. So, what’s next?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlpcMCSF-1U
I will put this video on the documentary’s blog.
