FYP V

Trying to put all the events in the story into orders and make them well-organized that the audience can understand what is going on with the story.

While trying to make a “ladder” in building the Act II, a lot of bugs and questions popped out. And this made me to reconsider the setting of the story.

As opinions collected from my viewers, they share the same concern that my background setting is not solid enough to persuade them. So, i have been working on the setting, trying to set everything straight and right.

 

Besides, in order to help myself make sense of the setting, i have drew the setting of the room and the main character’s house. As to make the actions which each characters take, reasonable.

FYP – IV- the PROJECT (on going)

The link below contains the idea draft from the beginning and the script that I’m working on. (since the length is long)

 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwA8usBuzTo7X2FYbzV2bkdWVTQ&usp=sharing

 

 

Artistic Statement

 

People might see this story as a sentimental one, trying to get under the viewers’ skin, as any other films ever made. Poor girl who suffers from mental illness, fate treats her bad and she ends up dead.  Isn’t it a tear-jerker?

The girl in the story has never felt pathetic of herself. Because she doesn’t understand why does she have to feel that way. There were only happiness and simplicity in her life before marriage. Although life doesn’t treat her nice, she holds onto what she likes and what she believes in till the end. She knows that she loves her parents, she likes crickets, she breathes and she hopes. She blames only herself because she loves everybody around her and she hopes that they are all fine.

There is always salvation in life for one, one just have to look for it.

There is no absolute right and wrong in life, but the way one sees it.

Every movie is a journey of someone else’s life. Wish you can picture a movie in the head while reading the script, from my personal point of view.

FYP – III

Pictures used as reference while writing the script

Setting the moods and the color tone of the movie

Reference of the village:

Reference of Ngau’s home

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Room of Haan’s at Ngau’s

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Kitchen of Ngau’s house

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Haan’s room at her own house before marriage

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Outside of the Matchmaker’s house

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p.s.minute with the friend from mainland China, really benefited from her a lot.

Extract from an local news as ref. (How HKers see this social issue at present days?)

http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1021523

照顧者心理壓力巨大 倡教育公眾 除社會誤解

全天侯照顧一個不能自理的孩子，對家長造成巨大心理壓力。其中一個個案，鏗鏗的媽媽表示，兒子漸漸長大，愈來愈難去照顧他，心力交瘁，唯有將兒子送到弱智人士宿舍，但她不時也會覺得「對唔住個仔，因為自己照顧唔到佢」。更有家長表示壓力曾大得「想過攬住個仔跳樓」，可見智障人士照顧者的心理情況極需關注及照顧。

除了生活時所產生的壓力，外界的誤解、冷眼亦傷害了智障人士及照顧者的心靈。家長們都表示，由於缺乏公眾教育，外間大多不了解智障人士的生活及心理，故此當智障人士的行為與情緒不定時，旁人多報以厭惡眼光，以為他們「無家教」，甚至覺得「有問題就唔好帶出街」。有家長更表示曾經試過帶女兒逛街時，女兒因興奮搶了旁邊女士正觀看的襪子，家長即時道歉及解釋，該女士仍大聲指罵「智障大哂咩！」，令作為母親的她很難受。即使出外時面對壓力，家長們紛紛表示為保護孩子應有的尊嚴，不想將孩子困於家中，只能獨自默默承受社會的歧視。

現時欠缺針對照顧者心理健康的服務，有家長表示雖可找社工排解情緒，但只可當作傾訴對象，難以真正減輕壓力。因此，他們希望社會上有更多公眾教育，令更多人明白他們的處境及難處，令他們能輕鬆地面對大眾。

艱難路途中的窩心時刻

雖然照顧智障兒童的路上使他們感到疲倦，但與孩子的相處也與普通家庭一樣，充滿溫馨的時刻。有家長表示，女兒曾經在她感到生活很無力及哭泣時，幫她擦去眼淚，令她重獲力量；而當鏗鏗媽媽說起兒子很喜歡吃她煮的食物，她不時帶飯菜給住在宿舍的兒子，兒子吃得開懷及不捨得她離去的眼神的時候，她的嘴角掀起一絲欣慰的微笑。對於孩子的未來，家長們也表示，只想孩子繼續健康、快快樂樂地成長。

－〉 after talking to a friend who’s from mainland china, and examining the sequence of the events, the order + flow + plot + character’s features were rearranged and further modified. p.s. trying to put the ideas into a fluent flow

FYP – II

Reflection

  1. Background of the story

The news is about an incident happened in Chine, so the language is supposed to be in Mandarin. After finishing the first draft of the story, it is agreed that this could be written into a good story-base script. So I took it and consulted a friend from mainland China.

But after talking to her, I found out there were many problems. First of all, the use of language seems odd and unusual. Since the people speaks mandarin in the province, I am not a native speaker of the language and the way of the characters speaking were not expressed correctly.

Therefore, I finally changed my background of the story from the north-east part to the countryside of Shenzhen.

In this way, I can write the script in my mother-language with the specific characters of Cantonese, including the manner-expressing words at the end of every line.

  1. Location of the story

The previous point has led to another issue which concerns me. The friend I consulted with was so curious that my background was set in the north-east of China. She asked me if the location “north-east” really matters and affects the whole story or not. And this hot me thinking that it might not be. Because the story is base on a news that I came across it years ago. But I have made so many changes and added some plots which are not true due to dramatic effects. So in the end, is it still the story I read from the news? Why do I have to be fixated on the matter of the location? I should pay attention to the flow of the story, the effect that this story has, rather than bounded by the known factor I gathered. So I changed the location at the end.

  1. Conflicts

The draft of the story isn’t finished and the conflicts were not clear. The center of the story is the way of the main actress sees the world. And conflicts were created by how the 2 parties face when they were holding two opposite angle.

I went through my writing a lot. But I kind of felt numbed because I think I am too close to the story that I could not really find out what’s wrong with my story that there’s no conflicts between the parties. Even worst, I didn’t think I can identify the parties and the points that they were taking.

Then, I used the method from the script-writing class, eliminating the extra. The idea was full of bugs when I was going through it again using different methods. So I started to look at it as a whole and tried to figure out what is the best to write a fluent, yet reasonable story.

  1. The timeline of the story

The timeline of the events happened were not so clear in the beginning. As there were many inserts of memories from the past of the main character in the story. So putting them in sense and in the correct places is a big challenge.

I tried to make sense out of them. Using the same method, I tried to eliminate the extra parts, which do not contribute as much to the plot as the others.

FYP – I

Reflection / Modification

Outline of the story

Originally, the story is base on a true story which happened in a village in the northeast of china. The story evolves around three families which were located in the north-east part of China. Haan is the main character in the story and the story goes on from her perspective in seeing this world. She suffers from mental illness that she can barely take good care of herself. Then, her parents thought it would be a good idea for her to get married that she will be taken care of even when they were gone. But things don’t go exactly what they wanted. The husband and Haan’s mother-in-law are so mad at her because of her abnormality and she is not able to bear children. The husband accidentally kills her and he finds a way of disposing the body yet be able to make money from it. He sells Haan’s body to a family which a son is recently deceased and fulfilled their wish in organizing a death marriage among the dead son and Haan. Haan was a girl who has been trying to live a happy life and bring happiness to the ones around her. But she never understands the reasons of why the ones around her are never cheered by her. She blames everything on herself. Until the moment of death, she doesn’t understand this world. But she does know that she has found something beautiful in this very world which kills her.