21grams shares experience on professional video shooting

Front row, second from left: Department of Soft Skills Competency Sungai Long Campus Head Fook Oi Yee, Lenster Woo, Lee and Ken Chan with participants

A sharing session called “Professional Video Shooting Experience Sharing” was conducted at UTAR Sungai Long Campus on 9 July 2019. It was held in conjunction with a competition titled “Pertandingan Video Kreatif Kampung Baru”. The competition was organised by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) and Village Vision.

The sharing session aimed to inspire students to produce a documentary that reveals the beauty of the new village through video shooting. Invited to be the speakers were Lenster Woo Zhi Hang and Ken Chan Weng Hoe from 21grams. 21grams is a professional film production team that always shares the Malaysian food culture with their viewers.

Lee introducing the concept of new village

KPKT Pegawai Tugas-Tugas Khas Kepada Menteri Lee Chin Cheh, in his opening remarks, gave a brief introduction on the concept of new village and said, “With the jurisdiction of the new government, KPKT has launched a new campaign called ‘new village’. It is impossible to build another new village, but we can try our best to give a new vitality to the existing new village. Our vision is to develop the new village to the next level, making it more suitable for living, business and tourism. Hence, this competition is one of the activities which is ongoing now. We hope by conducting this competition, the true beauty of the new village will be exposed through the documentary. Also, people may want to look back at the memories of the existing new village in the future.”

Lenster Woo introducing his team —21grams

Lenster Woo began his sharing session by introducing the background of 21grams. He then played two videos that introduced their programmes, namely “揾食艰难”(wan sik gan nan - literally means difficult to find food) and “这一刻 ” (zhe yi ke - This moment). “揾食艰难” is a local food show video presented in the Cantonese language. The viewers may expect to find an honest review on food in a lively way. “这一刻”features interviews of local entrepreneurs, artists and non-governmental organisation. In the video, viewers may find inspiring stories that could help them find their passion in life.

“It was very touching to receive support and positive words from our viewers. And now we wish to continue to find the enthusiasm in life.  I hope through our videos, viewers will be able to find their passion and enthusiasm in life too,” said Lenster Woo.

Meanwhile, he also shared with the participants on the production flow, “The most important thing during the pre-production stage, production stage and the post-production stage is ‘Respect’.  We must respect the people that we will interview during the pre-production stage; we must respect our crew and members during the production stage and we must respect our viewers when it comes to the post-production stage.”

Ken Chan sharing the importance of infusing a positive message in a video

Ken Chan shared the importance of infusing a positive message in the video. He said, “Do not think that it is difficult to produce a video. It is all about perseverance; whether you want to do it or not. It is also important that you find your passion and enthusiasm. Do not follow what others tell you to do, you must follow your heart! Find your own passion in life!"

The sharing session ended with an interactive Q&A session followed by the presentation of token of appreciation.

The competition is opened to all Malaysians. The duration of the video should be between three to five minutes and it must be presented through documentation or storytelling. The third prize winner will walk away with a cash prize of RM2,000, the second prize winner with RM3,000 and the first prize winner with RM5,000. The due date for all submission falls on 31 July 2019. For more information, kindly visit: https://www.facebook.com/xinxincunvillagevision/.

Fook (left) presenting the token of appreciation to Lee

Fook (right) presenting the token of appreciation to Lenster Woo (middle) and Ken Chan
 

Lee (right) presenting a token of appreciation to Fook, Ken Chan and Lenster Woo