https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6KTfLdGYPs
Here is another short I recently produced. Just something simple I shot around London Chinatown, mainly as I am new to London I just wanted to explore a little.
This mini doc contains video clips and ends with a few photography time lapses that I shot using Magic Lantern on my Canon 600D DSLR. Various lenses used including 18-135mm, 28mm, 50mm and a 58mm lens.
Feedback welcome
As a British Born Chinese, I would like to say the following:
What are you trying to say with the characters? Were you trying to write 'London Chinatown?' If you were, you've missed a character. Otherwise, were you trying to say something like kind-hearted / honest Chinatown or another possibility??? The last character means 'street,' the two characters before it mean 'Tang Ren' - literally 'Tang person' which refers to ethnic Chinese and the grouping together means 'Chinatown.' However, you have added a word before it which does not mean London but has several different meanings. If another character were added - δΌ¦ - this would then mean London.
Also, this is not a documentary, it is an experiment in shooting around Chinatown. I was really excited and then really let down by it. Remember how important this is to your audience. I have experienced great happiness and sadness because of my relationship with Chinatown and was sorely disappointed at just seeing a bit of time-lapse without any documentary.
It might be personal but I find it a bit creepy to be shooting Chinese people in Chinatown going about their business. It just seems a bit weird to me but then again, when I am wandering around Chinatown, I always find it strange when white tourists start taking photos of me. However, I'm a bit weird like that! It's probably OK, I'm just being a bit oversensitive.
Otherwise, the pictures were OK. I quite liked some of the visual imagery once you'd moved away from the duck. I love that duck - you cannot imagine how much I wanted to eat in that restaurant as a kid. However, you shot it without love... just as if it were a framed image. Again, this is personal because I love that particular restaurant because of what it represents to me and the framed image just passed over it without emotion or feeling but otherwise, the pictures were OK.
