Film Festival Reflection

week 5

Student Name: Yating Shi

Student Number: s3614117

Week 5’s content of the class was interesting. I feel the atmosphere of everyone working together for this film festival. And I noticed that many people started their work under the leadership of the organization and got it done very well. The ability to organize is something I have been lacking since I was a child. I don’t know how to gather people and how to arrange tasks, so from this activity, I also saw the organizational ability of others. I hope I can make some progress in this area in the future.

Tessa has clearly developed her strengths in our group. She communicates with us and guides our mind. She suggested that we could make a formal trailer and some short trailers that were even a few seconds. So that we can put those mini trailers in some social software to attract people. So, maybe I can make a trailer about Chinese students seeing the propaganda of our film festival.

“In order to make the festival successful, you need to let people know about your event and make them want to become part of it. Even though your team has worked hard to put together a rich programmed, you can lose potential audience members if you try to introduce the festival to the public in all its complexity.” (Rambousková

, 2015). In his words, I think that making Chinese trailer may be an effective way to attract potential Chinese audience.

How to complete expected high standards under the real situation, it is a new challenge. In class, I saw how different people deal with different situations. At the same time, I realized that how to cooperate with others is also one of the most important contents of this semester. So, whichever team you are in, you need flexibility to get involved. I think it’s a challenge.

In a team, combining different approaches may help balance. Optimists and realists may quarrel, but eventually, they will see problems with each other. Perhaps this is balancing. All in all, I respect people’s different ways of dealing with problems, and I’m trying to sum them up to achieve our goal.

Reference:

Bohdana Rambousková, “How to Successfully Promote Your Festival. Links to an external site.” in Setting Up a Human Rights Film Festival, vol. 2, Human Rights Film Network, Prague, 2015, pp. 97-114.