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This month Shooting People is looking for short films that provide a
little Public Education! Who’s your public? Choose Your public -
and then educate and edify them!
This is a great chance to hook up with like minded people and write,
shoot, and edit a short film.
Everybody has had a situation in Taiwan where they needed to overcome
an obstacle in their path. How did you overcome it? Could you stage a
re-enactment? Let others benefit from your experience!
Or maybe there is a question that you’ve always wanted an answer for
and never found? What does that cardboard guy do with all the
cardboard? What are the benefits to chewing betel nut? What does that
recorded voice broadcast from the blue truck really say? Get out there
and find out! Record the results and let the public benefit.
If you’ve got an idea for a video, write a script and email it to
shootingpeople.taipei@gmail.com. Please include “Public Education
Instigation - Script Submission” in the subject line. It’ll be
posted on the blog for all to see and make.
If you’d like to participate, but you don’t have a camera or are not
sure what you can do, leave a comment on the blog or email
shootingpeople.taipei@gmail.com
Drop us a line if you plan on making a film and let us know.
A viewing of the Public Education films will be held on November 4th at
the final Treasure Hill (soon to be under reconstruction) Celebration
in Gongguan (details coming soon).
After the Nov 4 screening we’ll post all videos on
www.therealtaiwan.com, youtube.com and the shooting people blog:
shootingpeoplefilms.blogspot.com (soon to be even bigger and
better)
Here’s a note on Public Education from our Instigator, Kelley.
I was thinking of doing a series of shorts for my website,
www.therealtaiwan.com, that could be used as sort of a video guide on
how to do useful things around Taiwan.
Imagine it like a video message to the public that had never been to
Taiwan, or maybe live here and just want to show their friends and
family how things work around here. You get it.
I wonder if people could be interested in:
· MRT (I’ve already written a script for this one)
· Pub Crawl
· Paying bills
· Getting a job
· Ordering Food
· Simple Chinese jingles they can use around town. Maybe demonstrate
how they make Taiwanese people happy or piss them off.
· Using a squat toilet
· Getting a driver’s license
Or load up all your little secrets into a humdinger
They can be serious or funny. All I hope for is that they’re accurate
and useful.
Try to keep it to a 5min max.
Cheers
Kelley
Shooting People Taipei is a community of people with a common interest in film and video. It seeks to foster relationships that aid, abet, instigate and stimulate the creation of short films and videos. Its creations are distributed on the World Wide Web, communicating the experience of living and creating in Taiwan.
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October’s instigation : PUBLIC EDUCATION
November : STATIC
December : NOIR
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