There is an image in my imagination of what I want for my PB3, but I don’t know in what ways could I present it. I was looking for someone that can match the image I had in my brain. I was totally blank when I try to think who I want to use for my PB3 and how will I do it. So I started to talk to people around me, I believe that to use people around me will be a lot easier and each of them will have something I don’t know, so I am looking forward to discover it. I am working in a dance studio and I met most of my friends there, I stayed in the studio for a whole day chatting with different people, people from different countries with different personal background and experience. Finally, I had decided to use Jim for my Project brief 3 – a personal profile for him.
As most of you might not know him, the first time I noticed him was because he spent most of his time in the dance studio. Jim always dance over eight hours per day, he does not usually talk much or he does not even talk to the others when I first saw him. My first impression to Jim was, he is extremely quiet, depressing and doesn’t seem to have any facial expressions. Even though we are in the same space he will always seems to shut himself in a little world. I didn’t have any expectation when I first invited him for filming, but he agreed. As the only fact we know about each other is dance, so we spent lots of time to exchange about ourselves. Opposite to my expectations, Jim is independent; inspiring and aggressive. He doesn’t know how to make new friends but he is very expressive and friendly. Jim loves to dance, it appeared like a precious present for him and it has brought him a massive turning point for his life.
Jim arrived to Australia when he was year 7, language was the biggest barrier that brought him back to meet local students. The school he stays didn’t have any student that speaks the same language as him, I knew that feeling when we first arrive to another country, if there is someone who speaks the same language to help me will be super helpful. In his 13 years old, he did not have the ability to break through the barrier, so he became quiet ‘Sometimes I don’t speak for the whole day and my mouth was dry when I got home’. Time passed by, gradually Jim was depressive and sensitive, he described himself as being in the prison and hiding under the dark.
In his holiday Jim went back to China and met his first dance teacher ‘Bamboo’, he didn’t know dance will open up a new world for him.