All About Us 2011

What's on your mind? Grab the camera and give voice to your heart!

“All About Us 2011″ includes a 3-day-2-night creative video camp and an 8-week video production workshop. The event features several experienced video artists teaching ethnic minorities’ youth on video filming and production techniques, to offer students a chance to tell their own stories using creative media.

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Creative Video Camp

Date: 30 Sept, 5pm – 2 Oct 2011, 5pm (Fri-Sun)

Venue: Youth Square, Chai Wan

The 3-day-2-night Camp aims to offer orientation to participants, who are mostly from Pakistani and Indian, and some Thai and Filipino, as well as introduction to film arts through a series of specially designed collaborative exercises. It was well received by the participants who not only managed to acquire basic creative and filming skills and knowledge from the 9 professional local filmmakers but also enjoyed the process of team-building with the aid of social workers from the Life Workshop. During the Camp, they were encouraged to explore themselves as well as community. For example, a session called “Video Letter” let the teenager speak individually to themselves through camera in a private room and the video letter was later on sent to them after the Video Production Workshop as a resonance of their whole learning process.

Outing exercises also helped them reach out to nearby area to meet local people through techniques such as video interview. Participants were divided into 6 groups and each group was led by a teaching artist who followed their group video work during the following workshop.

Video Production Workshop

Date: 15 Oct – 3 Dec (Sats), 2-6pm

Venue: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

Following the Creative Camp, the Workshop took place from October to December. The 8-week workshop was launched by a series of lecture on 15 October 2011. The lectures hosted by various teaching artists, offered brief introduction to production planning, film aesthetics and camera work, storytelling and sound design.

From October to December 2011, each group of participants produced a video work with the aid of teaching artists. Starting from zero, they were facilitated to do production planning, video shooting, editing and post-production. At the end, six interesting video works dealing cultural differences, love stories and their fantasies had been produced by the young talents.

Feedback from Participants

“I just want to thanks to ifva from bottom of my heart to select us and give us such nice changes to show our talent. Just because of ifva I have learnt lot of things and know lot of things with the help of mentor and teacher. I hope that I can make more and more film to make my dream come true and show my more talent to you guys.” – Hammad Asad (aged 17, Pakistani)

“It was fantastic. I hope we will do it again.” - Samia Sara kwok (aged 16, Pakistani)

“It’s very very excellent camping, thanks for teaching me making video.” – Margarett Chan (aged 18, Thai)

"Thank you for opening our minds to a creative environment!" – Gonzalez, Joseph Anthony JR. Felices (aged 13, Filipino)