Thursday 26 May 2011

The Yangtze River project - Character list

Characters
Leading character A(Good friend with B):
Name is Yu Xin, 14 years old, junior schoolboy.
He is a tractable boy, academic is not super but not bad. He is the only son in the family, so everyone spoils him somehow. He is personality is relatively weak.


(Model A )

A’s Requirement: He is still in adolescence, a bit ignorant, so he doesn’t know what he wants, just go to school, play and have fun. But he knows everyone in the village talks about earning money and his family needs money. And he wants some pocket money.

Family: parents who are around 40 years old and a dumb sister who is around 18 years old.
His father is a farmer, and often works in the town as a construction workers.
Mother is a farmer and housewife.
Sister is dumb because of a medical accident when she is 10, and she discontinues school after that, and helps housekeeping now. She is at the age of ready for marriage, but because of her disability, the families are worry about that.
They are living together with in an old stone-built village house on the riverside, and their family is relatively poor in the village.



A’s parents Requirements:
• Vanity. Village people are all getting rich because they go to work in big cities or town. And they build new houses and buy new TV and fridge etc.
• Their son’s education, high school fee and maybe university in few years. They wish their son could become a proud collage student.
• Their daughter’s marriage. Because of her disability, it’s not easy to find a husband. So the parents want to save a generous dowry.
Barrier of Requirements:
Farmer is the biggest group in China; their income is very limited. Their village is still very poor; there are not many chances to earn money.

B Leading character :



Name is Qin Yun. 18 years old. Discontinue school when he was 15 years old. Playboy style.
He is motorbike driver, transport people between villages. Most of the time, he is just hanging around with friends.
He is living alone, but often gets accompany in his house. His parents are both working in an electronics products factory in Shenzhen city in the southeast of China. So his family is relatively rich in the village.
His idol is John Rambo, a special forces. (Film played by Sylvester Stallone).
He advocates personal loyally between friends, and loves challenges.
He loves motor racing and wrestling games. He and his friends often bully the weak and younger,dalliance the girls, and do some naughty bad things. They think its cool.
But deeply in his heart, his kind and naïve, and a bit ignorant.
He is very close friend with A because they are distant relatives. He often takes A together to play around, because A is very tame, B treated A as a cute little brother.


C Leading Character


(This model is a bit too old)

Name is Yu Decai; around 60 years old fish man; widower. He has 2 daughters and 2 sons. One daughter married, one divorced E, and 2 sons both married and living in town.
He is living together with her daughter and granddaughter, and he has a helper D.
C plans to marry his divorced daughter to D.
He has been living in this village since born, and was working in the cities when young.
He has very good reputation in this small village, although he is not the head leader, everyone respects him very much. Because
• He is old, and looks very dignified, and has rich experience of life;
• He had been to many big places, has wide social net, so village people think he has wide knowledge;
• He is willing to help the villager, always protect them, and solved problems for them before;
• He does business beyond fishing, so he is relatively rich in the village, and often get chances for the villager go out to work.



D secondary character,
He is around 40 years old; Single; a big ugly and simple-minded; C’s business helper, fish man. He lives on C’s boat, and does everything C ordered. They are like a family, godson and godfather. C treated him very well, and D is also very loyalty to C.


E secondary character,
C’s daughter; She is around 30 years old; fish man and house wife; She just get divorced. She has a little daughter who is 2-3 years old, and they are living together with C.

F secondary character,
A’s dumb sister. 18 years old, shy, pretty, but not well school educated. She is a very kind and tame girl. She is loves her little brother A very much.

I, J, secondary character,
B’s close friends. Village boy; around 18 years old; Almost the same situation as B, parents are working far away in the city; discontinued school; playboy style.
Ignorant and naughty, don’t work nor study, never think about the future.




G, H secondary character,
A’s father and mother; 40-45 years old; honest farmer, a bit weak and timid;

Extras...

Tuesday 1 June 2010

THIS IMAGE IS NO MORE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The artproject “This Image Is no More” by artist group Good TV (Juan Pedro Fabra, Michele Masucci and Loulou Cherinet) is a non-profit research endeavour and is part of The Invisible Generation and organised by Vision Forum. Vision Forum is an independent part of KSM (Kultur Samhälle Mediagestaltning) at Linköpingsuniversitet, Norrköping, Sweden.
Project description for “This Image is No More”:
We have engaged a diverse group of ordinary people who live and work in the Wudaoying Hutong District to tell personal stories based on a specific image. With the help of a city map the public will find these storytellers in their everyday settings at home or at work. On request each person/storyteller will perform a monologue describing their specific image to the public. This image could be of any object, artwork or place that no longer exist in physical form. The image could have been censored, erased, manipulated or simply lost somewhere. It could also be that the image is imagined, a dream, a memory or a vision never materialised. It would be an image that only exists in the act of storytelling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpgIlP008_Q

Tuesday 1 September 2009

JUMP

is a short film we made before summer vacation.
And now, it is in the competition in NORRKÖPING International filmfestival FLIMMER 2009.Sweden.
The film festival: Oct 2-11.



For more information
http://sites.google.com/site/jumpstory/Home

Wednesday 5 August 2009

Blooming Life

A man with only one kidney is standing in front of a gravestone. Six feet below him lays his other kidney, inside the body of a woman with three. Underneath his shirt there's a 12 cm long scar, where his lowest rib used to be. He says " I have tried everything. I regret nothing".

Blooming Life is a documentary film project that wishes to recount the struggle against kidney failure of a Chinese woman and her family. An international and interdisciplinary team, with members from China, Italy and Sweden, will travel to China in order to document this true story, a year after.
TingTing Yang, Chinese, the brain behind the operation, has a background in experimental filmmaking and scriptwriting. She will coordinate the whole project as the director.
Mariadele A. Rossoni, Italian, with a background in interactive art, photography and post production, will be the art director.
Erik Månsson, Swedish, with a background in independent documentary filming, will be the interview script supervisor.

Together they will delve deep in the medical situation of today's China, and its controversial insurance system. Through interviews with the surviving family members and documented nowadays lives of the patients that nowadays struggle with kidney failures, and who live in the same hospital as the woman in the story. The condition of hospital structures in China, the undemocratic insurance system policy of leaving the patient's family with most of the responsibility and most of the costs of the medical treatments, and the traditional Chinese view on filial piety and organ transplant "die with the exact same body that your parents gave you", are all themes that Blooming Life wishes to address. When life has a cost, when grief is combined with financial struggle, when the life or death of a family member is left to the mercy and wealth of her own relatives, family dynamics are unveiled and family love is put to a terrible test.

Blooming Life is a movie that wishes to inspire and comfort families across the world, as well as inciting the Chinese government and population to rethink the medical system and to reexamine their traditional views, because with a joint effort from both parts China could become a land where income doesn't influence the chances of surviving serious diseases. But above all, Blooming Life is the story of a family united against a fatal illness, a theme that is international and that goes beyond politics and culture-- love is the universal theme of humanity.


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This a new project we plan to do from now till the end of this year.
For more information:
http://sites.google.com/site/bloominglifegroup/