2008年3月21日

inspired !

my school (vj) had Arts Day last wednesday from 10am-2pm.

besides the fact that there was no lessons [ :) ], the school was filled with colourful decorations and many talks/workshops/performances were held in various locations of the school.
i attended 2 talks and was quite inspired by some of the speakers ! so im here to share :D

1. The F-Word
this talk consists of 3 presentations by 3 people; a pop artist(justin lee), a fashion designer and last but not least, Kavitha Krishnan.

i was especially inspired by Kavitha Krishnan, who shared her working experience being a senior dancer, choreographer, and arts educator for Apsaras Arts. From her presentation, i could tell she had alot of drive and passion in what she is doing. She even shared with us about a working model which i found rather useful in the arts industry. She works in 2 organisations, one profit organisation and one non-profit organisation. she says it is important to have this model as she realised that many infant arts groups close down after 2-3yrs due to a lack of funds for their productions. if im not mistaken, she actually channels the money earned from the profit organisation to help the non-profit organisation. on top of that, she is also a senior dancer. i asked how she manges all these roles. she said about time management and division of labour. being such a busy woman, im really motivated by how she manages to juggle all these really well.
she ends of the presentation by emphasizing that arts should be seen as a business entity but also make a point to us not to create with a $ sign in our minds.

check these out !
http://www.apsara-asia.com/about_us.html
http://justinleeck.farm.sg/

2. talk by Kelvin Tong

his talk was a new experience as i've not been exposed to the film indistry before.
an interesting random fact here:
a local film is made to earn about 1 million bucks
a hk film is about 7million while
a hollywood film is about 35 million.
hence sg movie industry is really uncompetitive.

being a horror fan, his films are mostly horror for now but he intends to venture into other genres.
during the q & a, i asked if the purpose of a horror film was to bring about the scaring effect or to bring a certain message across. he said its 50-50 since the purpose of a movie was mainly to entertain instead to making policital speeches. i felt a little disappointed then. he also agreed that theatre would be a better medium to bring across a message and influencing the audience.

hence, my conclusion is that i like theatre better !
although i cant stand the fact that movies are more popular than plays ><
haha thats means i cant stand myself too.
why cant plays be more accessible/cheaper since the cost of production is relatively cheaper than a movie production?

haha everyone feel free to comment on this whether or not you agree with my whining about movies!

ciao

jiayi  

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