Hail the Judge!

Hi, this is our final video of Hail the Judge. Have fun and enjoy! :-)

What I have learned in gaming project

Previously, I thought it was impossible to accomplish this project. However, we did ! How fast time flies. I still remember our first adventure in Second Life. Everything was just like yesterday, but now this semester is about to end. I think what I learned from this gaming project, was cooperation and communication. While designing the script, we must brainstorm together, trying to put some modern elements in this play. Sometimes we might have different opinions. But we had to listen to other and respected each one. Among this project, I think the funniest part was sound recording. We chose one night to do it in Allen's home. The atmosphere was marvelous during the whole night. We were so happy that the aisle was full of our laughter ! I especially appreciate our video director. He solved lots of technical problems for us. 

I took this photo secretly when making the video. I will miss our travel in Second Life. Thank every one, we did a great job !

Hong Kong movie: Hail the Judge

The Hong Kong movie Hail the Judge (九品芝麻官) was first produced in 1994. The Chief Judge Mr. Bao (Long-xing, Bao) knows the defendant Mrs. Qi Qin is accused falsely and he wants to wipe off her details of a grievance. Therefore, The Chief Judge Mr. Bao sets some verbal skills and tricks to drive the deponents to tell the true testimonies. Finally, the real criminal Chang Wei pleads guilty and be executed. 
The Setting is a law court. 
The lists of Participants are as below.

Long-xing, Bao/ Mr. Bao (包龍星): The Chief Judge

You-wei, Bao (包有為): Long-xing, Bao’s partner

Lei-bao (雷豹): Long-xing, Bao’s partner

Mrs. Qi Qin (戚秦氏): The defendant

Chang Wei (常威): The accuser who is the real criminal; the son of Chang-kun who is one of the jury

High official Hua (花尚書): Jury; Long-xing, Bao’s enemy

Eunuch Lee (李公公): Jury; Long-xing, Bao’s enemy

Chang-kun (常昆): Jury; Long-xing, Bao’s enemy

Fang Tang Jing (方唐鏡) : Lawyer; Long-xing, Bao’s enemy

Show Time! Hail the Judge!

    This video is designed for exchanging social and cultural issues with international students in NCU. The story was adapted from a famous Hong Kong film called "Hail The Judge", which is acted by Stephen Chou.

    In the video, the main characters including the judge, Smart Bao and a complex relationship in three person, a couple, Seven Love and Hang Over and the one hit Hang Over, Always Powerful. Besides, there are some witnesses and a guard in the court. The whole characters except the judge are divided into two teams, and offer some clues to make the judgement progress.

    In addition to the video, our class also prepared some activities to interact with the international students. There are Chinese Couplet, Chinese Riddle, Bagua MIrror(八卦鏡), Books of Changes(易經), One Miss Call, Flower Language and Yama Nonsense. International students can use some images in video as clues or their culture and knowledge to answer the questions. The progression is interesting, because there are different answer from different culture and religion. After the video, we had almost an hour to discuss about the film. Students had a lot of discussion about some issues such as games, TV show, fortune telling, wine lady culture, food, society situation, religion and flower. All of these discussion are related to the content of video.

    There are some interesting points to be mentioned in the video. First, the whole environment was built by students in Second Life, and also created some decorations and cultural artefacts rather than buy from the shop of Second Life. Then, there are two characters dressed in phantom rather than the appearance of people or animals.

What I've learned in the gaming project／Maxxie

        From this project, besides to learn the every functions in Second Llfe and the social networks behind, what I learn the most can be divided into two sections, Directing and Editing.

Directing

        To make the final movie project, the first step we have to do is to decide how to adjust the angle in every scene. What's more, the second task what I and the vice director have to do is to manage every actor the standing point and the gestures they have to do. This is the huge mission for me due to that every commend must be simple and directed to reduce the confusion between the members in the group. Luckily, the whole process is fluent without any big trobule.

Editing

        After the shooting, the works right now are the process of editing. However, it's a totally different and complex works. First of all, you have to learn how to make use of the software for editing. Secondly, for the purpose of providing the complete experience of screening, the subtitle also must be the necessary element for the audience to understand the movie fully without confusion. Overall, the total process of editing spend over many hours, but finally there is much of complishment for me when the project is done.