Tuesday, February 14, 2006

We wrapped up the three-days workshop, part one. A second group will be under our torture ... guidance this week. Workshops are great for crash course learning. The girls picked up a lot, and fast, over the course of the three days of running, laughing, posing, discussing, and absorbing. The difficult task is now ahead of us, casting. It will be a mammoth task scheduling the dozen over girls to cover the dozen over scenes, but we will have fun doing it. I guess they still have reservations over whether they can actually be good enough to tackle the historical figures, but they have seen glimpses of themselves excelling in handling situations, so I think with weeks of rehearsals, everybody can be knocked intop pretty good shapes.

So the O level results are out. The screaming and shouting and crying are over and done with. The kids I know do ... within their expected range, I guess. They will be out applying to go to JCs or Polys or other institutions next. No matter where you end up in, you will still be learning to work with, and handle, other people, and generally be useful adults in the future .... hmmm, I am talking like a teacher now ...

Sunday afternoon was spent at the Singapore History Museum watching a series of award-winning British animation shorts. Some of them left deep impressions:
Intolerence by Phil Mulloy (Zogfilm)[video for racial harmony day perhaps]
Father and Daughter by Michael Dudok de Wit [very touching, perfect balance of visual and music]
Tennents: Pintlings & Tennents: Body Armour by Darren Walsh (beer glasses ad) [hilarious take on beer, another aardman animation]
Rockin' & Rollin' by Richard Jack & Daniel Greaves (pool balls)[what do the balls do when they have been pocketed?]
Extn. 21 by Lizzie Oxby (phone calls) [high tech and visually stunning, a little matrix-like in style]
NSPCC: Cartoon by Frank Budgen & Russell Brooke (child abuse ad) [ending shot was shattering and brutally honest]
Little Things by Daniel Greaves (day 7 to day 1) [clever collection of disfunctionally people with quirky peeves]
How To Cope With Death by Ignacio Ferreras (Granny vs Death) [granny cheats on grim reaper]
Of course there were some dampers in between, but I was real glad to have caught the gems. They were all refeshingly very different from the usual lot we get ffrom our shores, so they were very interesting. Hope to see more in the near future.

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