On June 19, 2023, the 2023 Excellent Audio-visual Works Exhibition and Award Ceremony of the College of Communication and International Culture at Zhejiang University was successfully carried out in the 105 lecture Hall of the School. This unique screening activity is not only a presentation of the excellent audio-visual works of the student team, but also a practice of honing professional skills and enhancing teaching and learningmutually.
There are 15 short videos from seven undergraduate teams and eight graduate teams, covering three types from documentary, feature to experimental films. Wang Qingwen, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College, Ye Jianying, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, and Zhao Yu, the Deputy Dean of the College attended the event.The five professional reviewing teachers of this exhibition are Cao Yu, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chief Talent Officer of Huacce Group, Zhang Yong, a documentary director and researcher of the Hundred Talents Plan, Jin Xingzheng, a new researcher of One Hundred Talents Plan, Tian Yuan, and Zhou Liying, the former Deputy Director of the Radio and Television Institute. In addition, there are guests from Huace Group and teachers of audio-visual courses in the college.
Before the official start of the exhibition, Ye Jianying, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the CMIC at Zhejiang University, gave a speech for the event, explaining the original intention of the exhibition. Secretary Ye started from the reflection on the phenomenon that the practical ability of the current students majoring in media is out of line with the needs of the society, and hoped that the students would fully combine the course and practice. At the same time, to provide students with more opportunities to get guidance from teachers and improve the quality of their works, the college will hold various practical competitions to help students improve their professional skills.
After the screening of each work, two judges commented on the video works, gave professional opinions and pointed out deficiencies. In their comments, the judges encouraged the vitality and innovation of the students' works, affirmed the level of the works from the horizontal comparison with other universities, but also pointed out the flaws of each team in shooting techniques, post-editing, depth of thinking, hidden positions, documentary and other aspects. The creators came on stage to exchange ideas with the judges, and seriously accepted the judges' opinions and suggestions. The creators gained confidence in the affirmation of the judges, and also had some understanding of the shortcomings of the works in the insightful comments.
At the invitation of the creator team, several protagonists of the video works also participated in the exhibition. Mr. Huang Jianli from Malaysia, the protagonist of the undergraduate work Hadiah, and his family members shared their feelings of participating in the exhibition. Mr. Huang Jianli said that it was really good for the creators to record his life in this way, and that everyone is very professional. In addition, he also said that he planned to edit the shooting material into a one-and-a-half hour video as a souvenir.
During the interval of screening, the audience had free questions and communications with the main creators of each team after watching the works. Everyone solved doubts in the direct Q&A with the creator team, but also learned from each other in the discussion, saw their strengths and weaknesses, and made progress together.
Finally, the works "Hadiah", "Ten Years to Return" won the first prize, "African Father and Son" and other four works won the second prize, "I really don't want to stay up late" and other six works won the third prize, "Fish Market Traveler's Painting Life" and other three works won the excellence award.
First Prize: Hadiah, Ten Years to Return
Second Prize: African Father and Son, Love · Barrier-free, A Dream of West Lake, Zhengdu! Zhengdu!
Third Prize: I really don't want to stay up late, Fung Sai's West Lake Diary, Foreign Appearance, Say Goodbye, The Name of the Land Puppet, Sleeping Beauty
Excellence Award: Fish Market Traveler's Painting Life, The Old Kid of Wener Road, A Flower in the West Lake
An exhibition opens a new audio-visual world. Each work brings different visual enjoyment and spiritual touch to the audience. In the recording of reality and the presentation of different stories, the film helps viewers to understand the world, expand the boundaries of imagination, and also inspires and extends people's thinking about audiovisual creation. The judges' comments provided the creators with a perspective to analyze their works and pointed out the direction of improvement. Every audience can be inspired and gain something from this screening.
Feng Wenjian, one of the creators of "I really don't want to stay up late", shared his feelings after the screening: This screening activity shows the learning results of our students majoring in media in audio-visual language, and also provides us with an opportunity to exchange and learn. More importantly, after watching some of the short films, I began to think about some areas that I had not paid attention to before. As a student majoring in media, it's important that we take this opportunity to tell stories that are not known but worth telling to the audience.
