Update on Video Submission for Breathe.sg Saturday, December 19, 2009

Okay,
Honestly i just wanted to announce that the video that we did? Workplace Hygiene?
YEAH WE WON! THANKS EVERYONE FOR VOTING AND BELIEVING IN US!
(Shit i sound like i won the grammys or something!)[If you really have no idea what i'm talking about i shall briefly explain, last semester, my group made a video about hygiene which was submitted for Health Promotion Board Singapore's video competition. It was posted on breathe.sg where people could view and vote for it]

Anyway, so i googled my name, "sharlene lee breathe.sg" and i got this! LINK
Okay honestly, i never knew we were on SP's website.

First year students in the Diploma in Digital Media seized the opportunity to apply what they have learnt and joined the video making competition. They won the first prize and third prize in the Junior Colleges and Tertiary Institutions Category.

Sharlene Lee , Billy Jasper Havilah, and Darren Soh won the first prize of $1000 with the video named Workplace Hygiene. The submissions were assessed on the following criteria:

1. Message - Content / Relevance to Theme
2. Overall Presentation - Creativity & originality, Video Quality, Relatability

3. Votes - Number of votes at Breathe.sg and Number of views and ratings on Youtube.com

Sharlene (Producer) said, “Our original idea is of a guy being haunted by a voice that reminded him what was right to do. Our lecturer, Ms Jennifer Ang advised us to minimise the dialogue and we then settled on the idea about a worker who became sick to show that germs will stay on your hands if you don’t wash them properly”.
Billy (Director of Photography) shared that once the location, a restaurant in Johor Bahru was confirmed; they spent quite a lot of time testing out the lighting. He is glad that the research made a lot of difference in the video that they have produced.
Darren (Director) recalled that the Producer was sick on one location shoot and they ware seriously short of manpower for production and transportation of equipment. He also remembered another occasion where everything they filmed disappeared from the hard disk and they had to re-film all over again. He felt that they have learnt form the mistakes in this project and have gained much experience.

Ahahaha. We sound so formal. That was what we wrote in our group report actually. Really happy that we won even though we didnt get as many votes as the other submissions (60% based on judges and 40% on votes if i remembered) I guess the judges did like our video!

Thanks once again!