Here is an update of what I have been doing, what I have done, what I have been trying to do and what I have not been able to do.
In the recent weeks, I have posted up many poems and pictures on Pool and gave the links to my friends to inspire them to contribute to Pool. Felt a sense of disappointment when none of them got back to me. So far, I have four pictures and two poems up on Pool. My profile name is Nivlac. I received some feedback and this really encouraged me to post more. Hopefully my friends will be inspired enough to post something...
I have contacted my friends who write poems and short stories in Singapore. I have also contacted my friends who do Cosplay in Singapore. I asked them to post up some material that they have up on Pool and to try and get others to post as well. Unfortunately, none of them have responded and when i check back with them, I do not even get a response... Feeling quite dejected because of this, but I can take rejection(job hazard. :P). Hence my actions of posting up pictures and poems myself to try and get the community going.
The meetings with the other tute liaisons were fruitful because now we know what the other tutes are up to and we also have a rough idea of how it all comes together for the event, I recommend that we keep this system of having a tute liaison for the semesters to come. We keep minutes of our meetings for easy references for the facebook group as they change liaisons every week. I will recommend that in future, only one person is assigned as the liaison as it makes more sense to keep to a single person instead of having to pass on the information from one person to another every single week. It will minimize chances of miscommunication too.
There was once when Tasha asked for help for her interviews at Biba and I decided to help her do it as I am experienced with a camera and have worked in production houses back in Singapore. For my own group project, I have recorded down the sounds from church to use in our project. Hope the rest have got their own soundscapes as well. :)
Here are the links for my Pool posts.
http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/cosplay
http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/treasure_what_is_important
http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/muay_thai
http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/behind_the_scenes
http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/angry_chair
http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/ode_to_g
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Media Industries 1: Indivdual Progress Report
After brainstorming through many possible topics to conduct a research on, we have decided to embark on our study, which is along the lines of "The recent rise of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan films in Melbourne". My other group members who have bravely decided to conduct this seemingly uphill task is Dengli, Melissa, Pei Huan and Yi Ying. We concurred on this particular topic for a number of reasons. Firstly, we all share a common interest in film and cinema and thought that by undertaking this research topic, we can find out more about the local film and cinema industry and what makes it tick. Secondly, we are all from different parts of Asia, this supposedly gives us an edge in dealing with matters pertaining to Asian cinema, hopefully. Lastly, we all have some experience with the film and media and hope to expand on what we already know, thus honing our knowledge and specialisation in this area.
Although we are all in this together and working as a group in general, we have taken on different roles which are important for this project to work. After much discussion, Yi Ying is our Secretary and her tasks include taking down the notes for our meeting to keep us all up to date with our day to day, Dengli is to be the Editor of the audio and visual pieces that we will be taking to hopefully come up with a video documentary of what we have done, Pei Huan is the Project Manager who will be vital in steering the direction of the project and making sure the project runs smoothly and finally, Melissa is the Director of Photography for all the video footages that we are going to take for our video documentary. My role in this task is that of the interviewer. I will be the one who will conduct the interviews with the relevant parties that influence the steadily rising influx of Asian films in Melbourne.
For my role, we have contacted cinemas that are located around Melbourne's city area like Cinema Nova, Chinatown Cinema, Hoyts and Village Cinemas to ask who are the relevant people who decides to bring Asian films in and if we can have the permission to conduct an interview with them to understand why they think that it is profitable to bring in more Asian films in Melbourne where majority of the population are not Asians. Unfortunately, we have not received any response from some of the companies. Furthermore, those that have responded have indicated that they are not willing to have a video interview, this might be due to them not wanting to appear on screen, or certain restrictions that are placed on them by their company policies.
The strategies that we have used are mainly careful and systematic planning for what we will do and setting a time line. That motivates us to move forward to meet our own deadlines. What we have planned for now is that we will need to contact the relevant people to request a for n interview, which we have done, begin our research and come up with surveys that will aid us in information and statistics collection for this study, checking for clearance with Mr David Carlin so as to make sure we have access to the filming equipment that we need to have to conduct our interviews and more. Lastly, we are also doing intensive research on our students' rights for copyright benefits so that we will not unknowingly break the law with regard to that issue.
Regarding the problems that I have encountered, first of all is the delayed response time that the companies have when replying to my emails. It has been about a week since I last e-mailed Hoyts, but I have yet to receive a reply from them. When I approached the Melbourne Central branch of Hoyts on Wednesday to ask them how to contact them and that if I could speak to their manager to inquire more about this, all I got from them was a direct e-mail to their office and an explanation that response to it might take some time as they then needed to request for clearance from their head office (which I have already sent an e-mail to) to grant them permission to conduct an interview with us. All this red tape is time consuming.
My next problem is my unfamiliarity with the local film and cinema industry. As I have only been here for around two months, my knowledge of the local film and media scene in Melbourne pales in comparison with my knowledge of the film and media industry back home in Singapore.
I intend to solve my problems through a variety of ways that are simple yet effective. First of all, I will call the companies frequently to check on the status of how far their requests for clearance have gone to. Hopefully, this will give them a sense of urgency and will eventually lead to them replying to us faster than before. Secondly, to improve my knowledge of the local film and media industry, I will have to mingle with more people who are working in the industry now or have considerable knowledge of how the local film and media industry is and what makes it tick.
I believe that with the direction that our study is headed, it can tie in with other research that will stem out from the Asian Media major as it ties in with how film makers in Asia are coming up with films that have more of a global appeal as considered to simply appealing to the local audience because they hope that their films will have a shot in Western countries. It can also be studied on how the rise in Asian films are changing the perceptions of people who have watched them, especially the Western perception of the East with references from what they have seen in Asian films.
It can also tie in with the Cinema Studies major as it can be used to show how the influx of Asian media in Australia has affected the local film makers. Either they can draw from the Asian directors' cinematic style and further improve on it or they can learn what elements of film Asian directors usually put into their films and try to make local productions that will have a shot at the Asian film market.
Although we are all in this together and working as a group in general, we have taken on different roles which are important for this project to work. After much discussion, Yi Ying is our Secretary and her tasks include taking down the notes for our meeting to keep us all up to date with our day to day, Dengli is to be the Editor of the audio and visual pieces that we will be taking to hopefully come up with a video documentary of what we have done, Pei Huan is the Project Manager who will be vital in steering the direction of the project and making sure the project runs smoothly and finally, Melissa is the Director of Photography for all the video footages that we are going to take for our video documentary. My role in this task is that of the interviewer. I will be the one who will conduct the interviews with the relevant parties that influence the steadily rising influx of Asian films in Melbourne.
For my role, we have contacted cinemas that are located around Melbourne's city area like Cinema Nova, Chinatown Cinema, Hoyts and Village Cinemas to ask who are the relevant people who decides to bring Asian films in and if we can have the permission to conduct an interview with them to understand why they think that it is profitable to bring in more Asian films in Melbourne where majority of the population are not Asians. Unfortunately, we have not received any response from some of the companies. Furthermore, those that have responded have indicated that they are not willing to have a video interview, this might be due to them not wanting to appear on screen, or certain restrictions that are placed on them by their company policies.
The strategies that we have used are mainly careful and systematic planning for what we will do and setting a time line. That motivates us to move forward to meet our own deadlines. What we have planned for now is that we will need to contact the relevant people to request a for n interview, which we have done, begin our research and come up with surveys that will aid us in information and statistics collection for this study, checking for clearance with Mr David Carlin so as to make sure we have access to the filming equipment that we need to have to conduct our interviews and more. Lastly, we are also doing intensive research on our students' rights for copyright benefits so that we will not unknowingly break the law with regard to that issue.
Regarding the problems that I have encountered, first of all is the delayed response time that the companies have when replying to my emails. It has been about a week since I last e-mailed Hoyts, but I have yet to receive a reply from them. When I approached the Melbourne Central branch of Hoyts on Wednesday to ask them how to contact them and that if I could speak to their manager to inquire more about this, all I got from them was a direct e-mail to their office and an explanation that response to it might take some time as they then needed to request for clearance from their head office (which I have already sent an e-mail to) to grant them permission to conduct an interview with us. All this red tape is time consuming.
My next problem is my unfamiliarity with the local film and cinema industry. As I have only been here for around two months, my knowledge of the local film and media scene in Melbourne pales in comparison with my knowledge of the film and media industry back home in Singapore.
I intend to solve my problems through a variety of ways that are simple yet effective. First of all, I will call the companies frequently to check on the status of how far their requests for clearance have gone to. Hopefully, this will give them a sense of urgency and will eventually lead to them replying to us faster than before. Secondly, to improve my knowledge of the local film and media industry, I will have to mingle with more people who are working in the industry now or have considerable knowledge of how the local film and media industry is and what makes it tick.
I believe that with the direction that our study is headed, it can tie in with other research that will stem out from the Asian Media major as it ties in with how film makers in Asia are coming up with films that have more of a global appeal as considered to simply appealing to the local audience because they hope that their films will have a shot in Western countries. It can also be studied on how the rise in Asian films are changing the perceptions of people who have watched them, especially the Western perception of the East with references from what they have seen in Asian films.
It can also tie in with the Cinema Studies major as it can be used to show how the influx of Asian media in Australia has affected the local film makers. Either they can draw from the Asian directors' cinematic style and further improve on it or they can learn what elements of film Asian directors usually put into their films and try to make local productions that will have a shot at the Asian film market.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Posting on Pool!
Ok, I have embarked on my own journey on Pool in a bid to encourage my friends to post up their works too. I made two poems and posted up a picture and linked my friends to hope to spur them on.
Here are the links:
http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/behind_the_scenes
http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/ode_to_g
http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/angry_chair
Alrighty, I shall work harder to get more contributions. Took pictures of cosplayers!!! Shall post it up on Pool to get my cosplayer friends to contribute too!! I'm going to make this work!! God bless me!! :)
Here are the links:
http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/behind_the_scenes
http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/ode_to_g
http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/angry_chair
Alrighty, I shall work harder to get more contributions. Took pictures of cosplayers!!! Shall post it up on Pool to get my cosplayer friends to contribute too!! I'm going to make this work!! God bless me!! :)
Monday, April 12, 2010
Post Production Post for Week 5
I went to the Animania Festival 2010 on Saturday, 10th April to try to get some pictures of cosplayers. Unfortunately, I did not manage to get a lot of pictures, but I heard that there will be another event this Sunday, 18th April that will have lots of people going to join. I shall try to head down and snap more pictures to contribute to My Tribe.
I went for the Victoria Inter-University Taekwondo Championship on Sunday, 11th April and after fighting my heart out, got a SILVER (woohoo!) for the sparring matches. :) I have not been practicing for about 2 years plus, so I am quite happy with it. Need to work more on my fitness though. It occured to me that the many people doing martial arts form their own tribes as well, I will snap some pictures and post it up for My Tribe too.
I went for the Victoria Inter-University Taekwondo Championship on Sunday, 11th April and after fighting my heart out, got a SILVER (woohoo!) for the sparring matches. :) I have not been practicing for about 2 years plus, so I am quite happy with it. Need to work more on my fitness though. It occured to me that the many people doing martial arts form their own tribes as well, I will snap some pictures and post it up for My Tribe too.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Post Production Post for Week 4
We were supposed to have a meeting on Wednesday at 10.30am to review City Nights and see which content is good and can be used for either a trailer or the launch of Pool on Federation Square.
However, only Emily and I were there for the meeting. We were quite disheartened, hence we decided to discuss on our own PP1 project. I am glad that we made good progress during the discussion. :)
It seems hard for my own SMP plan as not much seems to be getting contributed. I guess I was overambitious during the plaaning stage and expected too much from my friends. Well, aim for the stars and at least catch the moon. :)
However, only Emily and I were there for the meeting. We were quite disheartened, hence we decided to discuss on our own PP1 project. I am glad that we made good progress during the discussion. :)
It seems hard for my own SMP plan as not much seems to be getting contributed. I guess I was overambitious during the plaaning stage and expected too much from my friends. Well, aim for the stars and at least catch the moon. :)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Post Production Post for Week 3
So far, my friends have not yet contributed to Pool yet. I have checked back with them weekly and most of them tell me that they have not had the time to come up with material to contribute to Pool.
Disappointed that there have not been much updates and contributions, but I am going to take some pictures at the Animania Festival 2010 that is going on at Rydges Melbourne on the 10th of April.
The worst thing that can happen is that my digital camera is spoilt... Things are simply not looking up for me at the moment...
Disappointed that there have not been much updates and contributions, but I am going to take some pictures at the Animania Festival 2010 that is going on at Rydges Melbourne on the 10th of April.
The worst thing that can happen is that my digital camera is spoilt... Things are simply not looking up for me at the moment...
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