OCTOBER INSTIGATION - PUBLIC EDUCATION - SCREENING NOV 4

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 us at 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 here.

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 the shooting people: (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