Short Film - Ah Mei (1999)

This Short Film was made in 1999. (Yeah, I was 19!!!) Quality is not good, as it copy from my VHS Tape. It's a docu-drama like short film I've made to express my friend's point of view of how not to be something she meant to be.


Duration: 8 minutes,
Made in Hong Kong.
Directed by Lucia Yuen
Cinematographer: Wendy Wan
Editor: Lucia Yuen
Sound Mixing: Tracy Leung

For some of you may not know, this video was NOT edited in a computer or editing software which have multiple sound tracks and multiple video tracks that we usually use today.

This video was edited in a video mixer deck, if you know what "Video Tape" is, you know "video editing" in that day is a "Linear" editing process, which mean you have to edit your footage shot by shot without correct the duration in the middle. (so before the editing, everything I do was scripted.) Which is totally not like what my students do today, they can shot for over 5 hours aimless materials then using a Non-Linear editing software to edit it down for 10mins by experimenting the sound and visual combination before "output" it. (so... It's not like "why don't you experimenting your sight & sound?" but hey, it's just not the way I did in this scripted documentary.)

Well... is that make sense to you that technology changes leading our process of making things change? It totally make sense to me, and I think it's normal. Hope you Enjoy it (as usual). Please be nice. Thanks. :D




*This video won Distinguished Award in IFVA Youth Category. And was nominated the best documentary as well. Enjoy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Indie
• Independent
• Short
• Film
• HKAPA
• HK
• Hong
• Kong
• Student
• Lucia
• Yuen
• IFVA
• Ah
• Mei
• HKIFF
• Youth
• Category
• Award

[siukankay]

重看, 也覺得好看

你可以 expect 一個剛入大學的人對人生有什麼看法??

出身貧窮的人, 有那個不是工作為兩餐, 為物質而換上精神上的富足??

美是基層出生, 對世界可以看到的, 就是離開基層

難道你想她對電視說要個政界人士, 走學運, 為基層發聲才是好故事嗎

如果今日重拍, 可能會多拍一些基層個案, 為的也就是用來說基層的跨代貧窮的問題

阿美今天都不會是大富大貴的, 更不會是月入10多 萬的中產; 她努力向上, 天生聰明讀書好的基層, 最後也只是當大公司裡的小職員

貧窮出身, 影響到的, 不單是教育與學習, 出來社會工作的機會; 更是世界觀和視野上的分別

一個天天在菜檔工作的大學生, 你能 expect 她有多大的世界觀??