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誰是Peggy Lam?

先從印象說起，

我記得有一次foundation堂，她是坐在Harmony旁邊

她喜愛玩我不懂的捲舌

她是在畫室工作

她很尊敬她的老闆

她會替老闆的畫展做宣傳

後來經過一大堆功課上的合作

我開始真正認識她……

她懂美術，也懂音樂

她喜愛畫人體

正是因為人的骨骼與肌肉的伸縮使她著迷

她常用碳筆和一種啡色的紙作畫

她考了鋼琴八級

她懂得即興創作，但不愛記下來

她……

對衣著有要求！

對用品有要求！

對飲食有要求！

但，對朋友們很友善

我們做不來的，她都會協助我們

她的袋總會有不同的餅分享給我們

她喜愛跟我們分享她欣賞的東西

不管我們說什麼，她都會不其然笑

然後會笑不停

在我眼中，她就是一個這麼簡單、有趣的同學

(English)

Community based artist?

When we think about what CBA is, we should define what artist is.

For me, artist can be everyone.

Not only those people who create artworks,

but also people who know to appreciate beauty

Art can be created, can be appreciated, can be criticized…

But what’s the differences between CBA and artist?

Artist always self-oriented

They like to express their own feeling and thinking,

no matter on painting, wordings, acting…

However, CBA should concern more about society.

They always alert what’s happening in society

They help citizen to voice out through their works

They draw different groups of people attention to care about benefits of others

They link up different society

They can be many roles for the culture

Such as administrator, designer, exhibitor…

They build up and contribute to the culture through their projects

May be their projects are commercialized,

They mainly social-oriented.

They also record history of the community

Someone may say that community based artist should be professionally trained

But who can define what professional is?

Everyone have their own professional talent

People who use their professional skill to contribute to their social group

And that’s CBA!!!

(中文)

CBA??

當我們討論什麼是CBA時，首先應想想何謂藝術家

對我來說，任何人都可以是藝術家

藝術家不但是指藝術創作的人，

懂得欣賞藝術的人也是藝術家

藝術可以創造、欣賞、評論……

但CBA與藝術家又有何分別？

藝術家是以自我為先

他們喜愛透過畫作、文字、演技……

表達自我感受和思想

不過CBA應該以對社會的關注為主

他們經常留意社會發生什麼事

他們會透過藝術創作替市民發聲

他們會增加不同群體對弱小社群的關注

他們能聯繫不同社群

對於文化，他們可以飾演任何角色

如行政管理人員、設計師、策展人……

他們會透過他們的企劃為社會帶來貢獻

或許這些企劃會帶有商業化，

但主要都是以社會利益為先

另外他們亦為社會作歷史紀錄

有人說，CBA應該受專業性的訓練

有誰能斷定何謂專業？學歷？資歷？

每一個人都擁有個人專長

簡單來說，利用個人專長為社區帶來貢獻

他，就是CBA！

1. Norman Rockwell
一個美國人，
一個插畫師，
一個為全美國繪畫出不同社會現況的插畫師
我開始跟老師學插畫時，他介紹了這個插畫家的作品
當時我說：「他是誰？他是攝影師嗎？」
老師當時要我用鉛筆模仿他的風格
最初只是畫一隻狗，後面漸漸繪出一幅幅畫……
在模仿的過程中，學習了不少畫畫的技巧：
光與影、物與物的比例關係、顏色的運用………
我的風格亦慢慢地開始轉變……

2. 接龍的藝術
不知道是誰人決定在windows95加入接龍在小遊戲內，
當我小學時擁有第一部個人電腦，
仍然是不流行上網的年代，
一個小朋友呆呆地看著電腦，
見到「小遊戲」三個字，頗吸引，
接龍？新接龍？傷心小棧？什麼傢伙？
經過一輪探索，不期然玩起接龍
應該因為是最簡單的遊戲，只是把一堆紅色黑色的牌讓它們各自歸位而已
不經不覺迷上了…
由windows 95、97、2000、XP、7……再到mac、ipod touch……
接龍陪著我成長，它令我集中、專注、忍耐

3. Anna Sui
國際時裝品牌
我認識它是因為在某年生日幾位好友送了一支香水給我
那是甜甜的、小女孩的味道
愛上了，愛上了深紫色，愛上了那朵黑玫瑰
最愛的還是那些像藝術品般的香水瓶
一個個整齊地排放在架上，是多麼賞心悅目的事
亦從此迷上art nouveau style

At the beginning of this course, I asked many questions according to the topic “Theatre and Stage Art”. What is it talking about? Stage design? Acting? In this course, each part of drama were introduced and we were asked to do some experience works to explore more. When I prepared the final performance, I can experience a whole process from script writing to perform on the stage.

The story of my group is “After hundreds years”, which original name was “Story of little Gordon”. At the beginning, Gordon just wanted to find his true love and rejected Anita to be his accompanist. When he met Tony and woke his memory up, but they met in wrong time and place. Finally Gordon found that true love is around him and did not need to chase for it.

In this drama performance, I was mainly responsible for lighting design. In the past experience in secondary school, I was responsible for stage set and props design. However, I didn’t have any experience on designing and controlling lighting system, or even went into control room before.  I felt very confuse and lost. I didn’t have any concepts about how to use lighting for executing the drama. I started to find some references about this field. The main purpose for lighting is identifying the key areas of the stage where most of the actions take place. It can draw the attention of audiences and make sure that they can see the faces of actors properly. As we did not use many props for the set, lighting became important to execute the environment for the scenes.

In the process, I learnt to read the basic lighting plan and determined which lamp needed to be used for dramatic effect. For example, we used full light to create sunlight effect on the stage. Also I learnt how to use the lighting control panel of C-LP-11 for lighting cue. Although I did not have experience before, our group spent lots of time to go through the technical items and solve technical problems together. It became one of my professional and valuable experience for my career development.

Apart from lighting design, I designed the leaflet for the team. As my workload for lighting design was not very heavy, I used my graphic design skill to contribute for the team. Leaflet can help audience to know more about our story and it’s an important evidence for our drama. It can also remind the memory of audience that experienced during our performance. 

Nine year tribute completed

A nine-year tribute, Miroirs de Vie, Hymne aux Fleurs qui Passent and Song of Pensive Beholding, expressed the interconnectedness of the men, the spirits and the gods permeates of Lin Lee-chen's belief. To show the beauty of nature, Lin not just put many effort on the chronology, but also on the costume design. Costume of Miao Ethnic Group and Dong Ethnic Group were the main theme and they were mainly used for the most important festival occasions, thus it could absolutely fit the Lin's desire. Apart from the costume, Lin also talented in decoration and she chose Empress Dowager Cixi's Nail Sheath as eagle's talons. With the detailed finger movement, dancers; hands looked like the feathered crest of eagle and white bird. The whole image of dancers really impressed and could be appreciated as art pieces on the stage.

At the beginning of the performance, dancers moved slowly and tension was formed. Audience kept calm and looked forward what dancers would be done for the next second. Although the whole performance contained eight scenes and no intermission was included, the transitions between scenes were smooth and my breathing was led by dancers' movement. When I paid attention during the performance, I felt the passion and concentration of dancers and that's their respect to the tribute to the soul of nature and their successful key.

  The theme of this performance was inspired by the human destruction to the nature. Lin chose a mythic story about the sour of nature and used her unique dancing language to portray the connection between man and the spirit of nature. Audience could feel the uniqueness of Lin's style as that's totally different from other dancing performances in Hong Kong. She did not use any dialogues, just body movements to show the relationship and the story, and costume to represent the identities of roles. Room were left to audience for own interpretation.

Individual Reflective Journal

 Our group performance are divided into 4 parts which including Baroque period, Classical period, Romantic period and Chinese style. We used the same melody with different styles. Our performance aims to present what do we believe in music. We believe music can connect people together, no matter in the past, now or future.

We use vocal to sing the melody in harmony in the first part. It’s difficult for us because of the pitch. As our voice range are very different and lacks of vocal knowledge, we could not sing in the same pitch. In the coaching, we learnt to use our fingers to point to the same point and we can get the same pitch easily. This is a very useful and easy method for us to tackle problem of pitch.

In the second part, body percussion is used. However, I am worse in sense of beat and it’s hard for me to catch the beat. Our classmate, Tsz Lam, is very helpful and she practiced with me for many times. Before the final performance, she sticked a sweet on one of my shoes and asked me to watch it when I was counting the beat. Finally, I succeed on it.

Drawing is used as other art form of performance in the third part. As we spent too much time on practicing the first and second part, we didn’t have time on planning how to draw the picture during the performance. Also we didn’t have many materials to choose for drawing. To make sure that we can finish the picture with limited time, I proposed that we can prepare poster colors on paper first and use water to spread colors for drawing different lines, pattern and shapes.

Lyrics in the fourth part are written by our group mates. It is about how music can communicate and get people together. We sing in Putonghua since it is easier for us to fit the lyric with melody.

Although our final performance is not too professional, I think that we succeed in it. During the rehearsal, I really enjoyed singing with my team since I felt the power of music. We experienced problem-solving in different parts and that’s the most valuable gift I got from this performance.