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Afternoon Class_Team 3: Cantonese Opera
Soundslide Topic: Cantonese Opera
Group Members: Wang Qian, Huang Lan, Li Tao
Soundslide project could be downloaded from HERE
The First Question: Why are we doing on Cantonese opera?
by Li Tao
by Li Tao
However, Cantonese opera continues facing challenge in the modern time. Western cultures gradually take dominance in people’s daily life; young people have fewer chances to know and less interest to access to those traditional Chinese cultures. Even the number of performance houses is shrinking all the time: Hong Kong’s Sunbeam Theatre, which is the only remained facility dedicated to Cantonese genre, is about to close in January 2009.
Is Cantonese opera coming to the end of its road? Maybe not. Hong Kong Government is doing something: the Hong Kong Arts Development Council has given grants to Love and Faith Cantonese opera Laboratory to conduct Cantonese opera classes for children and youths (see wikipedia). Some street performers are helping preserving this culture as well: the performance of Cantonese opera is a unique view in many streets of Hong Kong.
Are these enough to protect this Cantonese opera? We don’t know. But we’d like to use some pictures, to let you have a closer look on this traditional Hong Kong heritage.
Timetable
by Huang Lan
by Huang Lan
| Date | Period | Task |
| September 19 | Preparation period | First meeting: Discussing our purpose of doing this project; Dividing our timeline into 3 parts (preparation part, execution part, and refining part); Assigning jobs for each of us. |
| September 20-25 | | Information collecting (background, places, possible interviewees, opera artists, theatre managers); Making contacts and appointments with the interviewees; Brainstorming possible angles and perspectives; Preparing for the equipments, i.e., still camera, voice recorder; Checking the performance schedule of Sunbeam Theatre. |
| September 26 | | Second meeting: Settling down schedule of execution period; Reconfirming with the interviewees; Brainstorming questions of interview. |
| September 27-October 2 | Execution period | Gathering raw materials: Interview sound clips, photographs; Summing up a narration script for the soundslide. |
| October 3-5 | | Producing the soundslide. |
| October 6-20 | Refining period | Refining the soundslide(adding/dropping); Final editing. |
Division of Labor
by Wang Qian
| Time Person | Pre-Production (September19- -September26) | Production (September 27-October 2) | Post-Production (October 3— --October 20) |
| Wang Qian | 1 Making appointments with the theater manager, actors, President of Hong Kong Arts Development Council etc. 2 Making arrangement for shooting and interviewing activities | 1 Interviewing actress, actors, managers and the Audience. | 1 Developing the story 2 writing the script of the slideshow 3 match the script to the pictures |
| Huang Lan | 1 Collecting relevant Information through Internet, Library etc. 2 Preparing the technical equipment for the shooting and interview | 1 Shooting Pictures of performance, interviewees and the environment. | 1 Developing the story 2 Uploading and editing the pictures 3 Choosing pictures for the slideshow |
| Li Tao | 1 Developing the outline of the story and offering different angle of shooting and interview. 2 Collecting relevant information in library etc. | 1 Recording the environment sound and the conversation between Wang and the interviewees | 1 Developing the story 2 Uploading and editing the soundtracks 3 Matching the sound with the pictures 4 Putting all the elements into the slideshow |
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