This was one of the best of last year's Film class efforts on their unit of study on Reality TV: 'Fat Chance', a diet makeover show created by Joe Littler, Kameka Herbst, Hayson Chu, and Amy Hopkins. Hayson played the narrator/personal trainer, Joe the compulsive eater, and Vanessa Wat was his would-be love interest. I showed this to this year's class, as an inspiration, when they began to work on the same unit.
But probably my favourite of last year's many excellent productions was this one by Brian Lau, David Zhang, and Jasper Ng (who appears as the runner), on the impressionistic theme of 'Journeys' (alas, we didn't have space for that unit in our cramped timetable this year). The simple subject of a student running a few laps around our sports field becomes a rather broader and more resonant evocation of our campus life.
I was particularly impressed by the inventive variety of different shots used in this short film; there was a lot of clever dolly work, improvised using one of the wheeled chairs from the Library! (The accompanying music is Techy by Marcus Neely.)
I will really miss helping kids to produce stuff like this.
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