A Girl's Life (continued)

Let me touch in and touch base:It WAS my birfday.... but more o dat lataLet's do the more important stuff first!Like:  first off and first on my mind these days: A Girl's Life is in Principal Photography!A quick update for the curious about the progress of this program funded by The Women's Foundation. Three filmsThe topic:  gender stereotypingCreated entirely by three young production teams in training with FOCUS ON FILM since October**** ***  elissa's group:  A Girl's Experiment, working title:  "Ana"Two young script writers have produced the ideas for a script that has the potential to be great.  We are talking strong, arresting images, interesting characters, AND an incredible subject:  anorexia**The production team (aged 13 to 16) is discussing mixing media.  They raised the possibility of shooting in film to separate the scenes shot in 'reality' and the scenes shot in the 'dream' of the young girl suffering from anorexia.*

If only we had the funding for film!!!  With a little more advanced notice (like, oh, six or seven months....) i MAY have been able to find extra funding for a super 8 cam or 16 mm and a little bit of film processing.  As it stands, we shoot in two weeks!!!  Oh, and speaking of extra funding, the kids are all putting their hands in their pockets for the set and costumes.  Each kid is putting 100 hkd into a kitty.  Bless them!!!  Makes all the extra teaching and shooting worth it somehow.

      jacqueline's group:  A Girl's Narrative, working title:  "The life of a Girl"

Jac has the 'local' group.  We thought the cantonese speaker Billy would be the one to take this group, but we opted to put Jac with them.  This group just 'gelled' with her, and i have the videos to proove it!!!  12 year old Hugo wanted to produce and in spite of some reservations we let him.  The script has just come down the pipe line and it is a cute little gem on gender sterotyping:  straight up!  In the candy cane story, a boy who didnt have a mother weds a girl who didnt have a father.  In their new home, the woman takes on the 'role' of the man and the man takes on the 'role' of the woman.  He cooks and keeps house and she is out making the money.  Gotta love these kids!!!!

      billy's group:  A Girl's Documentary working title:  "?"

This is the older group.  They have started shooting and Billy, in spite of being on set himself these past two weeks, has met with them twice outside of workshop times. Once helped them out after a sixteen hour day on set and two hours of sleep!   I have to say, i feel out of touch with this group. I also feel they are not topically centered enough.  There is something too superficial about the work so far.  Billy agrees and we will start to crack down on them now.  As they are shooting the documentary we have a bit more leeway to bring them around.

Well that is all the news that's fit to print.  More photos and videos next time around.

Check out the three facebook groups: 

**A Girl's Life Group B*

**Focus on Film:  Experimental*

**A Girl's Life (Group C)*

and OUR facebook group

**FOCUS ON FILM*

If anyone out there has any resources they think they can add to our program, please do not hesitate to let us know!!  We need all the support we can get