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Group formation and concept "Step by Step"
Due to the fact that we would like to expand the story about the half blinded Patricia Poo into a broader story we decided to form a group of three people including Frieder, Janos, and me.
We decided to make our documentary about (up to) three half blinded or completely blind people to compare their different ways of Read more →
Are You Happy?
A short piece I cut together from the footage, since 95% of everybody we interviewed say they are happy I decided to cut the most engaging pieces together with a light hearted tone to it. I just hope it does not come off as cheesy… which I feel it might be, on second thought haha.
Update on Farm Nation 5th Sept 2016
My Group and I have interviewed 2 out of the 4 farms we were planning to featuring in the Documentary.
We initially had 6 farms which were willing to be featured but we felt that 6 would have been overkill as most of them would talk about similar things. So instead we chose the 4 most diverse farms. Diverse in their Read more →
Documentary outline & research
Topic: The Ultimate Truth -Does God exist?
V.O with images
Why there’s a creation of religion?
-Why finding out the ultimate truth?
‘truth’ involves both the quality of “faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, sincerity, veracity”,and that of “agreement with factor reality” Human nature. Curiosity. Virtue Only humans can discern truth. Of all life on the planet, only humankind can rise above conditioning or instinct and identify truth, so that this Read more →Documentary: Farmers in the Concrete Jungle
My team and I were very interested in Singapore’s farming culture — all we knew of it as millennials was that the ones in Singapore had a kind of tourism vibe to it. We initially considered if it was just unconventional farms that made us think of Agritourism – such as the crocodile and frog farms here – but upon Read more →
Update on our progress
So this week we are shooting at least three more scenes. Kaizer’s doing 2 of them because I’m not free when he’s meeting the people of MD. (1) – For Wednesday, Kaizer booked a room at the “*SCAPE” building (located at the Somerset area). We can use it for free (a few hours a week); one of our friends knew about Read more →
Life of a Tattoo Artist
A Tattoo Artist story
To the public eye, tattoos are a taboo. The idea of leaving a permanent visual on one’s skin doesn’t favour with most people.
But how many people see beyond the intimidating visuals and instead see fine artistry with a needle? How often do we stereotype these artists from their trade and instead see them as living canvases of art?
Access: Read more →
Gamelan: A Perspective in Singapore
Finding the truth
Have you ever thought about these questions at a certain age of you life?
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:33
Finding the truth is part of the human nature. I want to question and discuss with people these topics:
Have you ever seen your Read more →Documentary Idea
Currently the documentary I’m working on with my classmate Kaizer is – “Music District” (MD for short). The music co-curricular activity / club that seems to have started in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU)’s School of Art, Design and Media (ADM).
How did we get access to this topic? Kaizer joined the MD some time back. And since he’s a filmmaker, Read more →
Grussen!
Just a follow up to my thought that you need a 3rd leg for your film, in terms of another character. It might be that you can’t find one, if that is so, then I suggest you make the 3rd leg the world of the visually impaired and the blind, the place in which they exist. In any case I think you need this for the film, because the film really is for sighted people since the sighted are in the majority. Therefore you need to give us something of their points of view, or attempt to visualize the world of visual impairment. If you were able to do this, and also find another person who could be the 3rd leg, then that would be ideal. Either way, give your chess man a call and see what might be possible. Perhaps you could interview someone who is old and fully blind perhaps, for contrast?
Have a think. Good work so far, but try and push it further. Do watch the documentary I gave you to watch. You will see what I was talking about.
Tchuss
Paul