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.

 

       

What I have learned from Second Life/Ken

                                     What I have learned from Second Life/Ken  

  Well, I thought that the usage of Second Life was hard to master, as it had too many functions to master and use, but I managed to learn some English from it.
   Such as the name of the different textures, as well as learning the English translation of 八卦 and 易經 during the preparation of the Final Project, in which I had little knowledge from it. But I might still find it hard to truly master the usage of second life. Unfortunately, out of fear of overloading my PC, I did not download the game into my PC, and that aside from textures, I also learned many gestures such as "get lost",and some internet usage in which I would have never known about in the past, since I was more familiar with Chinese internet words or slang, which is an interesting thing to learn.And I also learned about suits and other items such as cane or other items when preparing the final project.

What I've learned in the gaming project／Betty

When we play the game as project-oriented computer assisted language learning (proCALL), we establish the collaborative relationship we each other. It’s make me believe that we can improve English ability by communicating with each other in the project as Jeon-Ellis mentioned.

I had a great time in doing the final project.

We did the decorations by ourselves. Otherwise, when talking about the clothes, outfits, and appearances of each role, we provided information of the shop's name or where to buy goods to each other. We not only learned how to establish the collaborative relationship but also how to to make ends meet!

We wrote a play with several Chinese cultural, but after discussed the content of some scenes, I realized that most of foreigners didn't know Chinese, let alone the Chinese culture such as the riddles, Chinese couplet, and so on. Therefore, we exchanged different cultural experiences through the discussion. We discussed fortune teller, social issue, online games, etc.

I consider that most of the exchange students are interested in some issues, such as fortune telling, because they even wanted me to read their palms. What a special experience!

What I've learned in the gaming project／Andy

    Well I have played this game from several months ago. First time I played this online game just because of my curiosity. But I had no goal to finish in this game. I don't know how can I do, how should I do, or how to control  my avatar in this game. Things I only could do was just to explore the world of Second Life. It was very fun when I had begun to play this game, but soon it became increasingly boring. So I stopped to play this game until I chose this Online English Learning course.
    Actually, Second Life gives me a chance to be a new "I" in my life. Because it is like a copy of our real world, everything we do in our everyday lives can happen into this game. For example, you can by a book in the Amazon bookstore. Wow it seems very ridiculous. Amazon is an online store in our real world, it can't appear in this game. Maybe someone embezzles their brand. In fact, Amazon orders their employees to create a store for book selling business. The operating model is similar to  their real world model. That means, Second Life can represent our real life. It is a possibility to have a new life which we really want in our thinking.
    In this project, I got some friends coming from different countries. I had some conversations with them, and learned how I could do in this imaginary world. They told me I had to set a goal by myself, just like our real life. When you made some targets to finish, you would do things enthusiastically. What you had to do was just doing things you have in your own real world.
    This project is a new way for learning English. I think it works very well because we always are concentrated into gaming. With gaming we can learn many new words and have chance to learn how to chat in English. It is very helpful. I like this project very much LOL

The Agenda

Activity Name: Student-Organized Final Project Presentation

Purpose: Sharing and interacting with international students

People: Professor Liang, 11 Taiwanese students, and 7 international students.

Time: 13:30 – 15:50, Thursday, 12 June, 2014.

Place: C2 - 437

Time	Agenda	Notes
13:30 – 13:40	Briefing Guests Registration	Students of OEL arrive at 12:30 for rehearsal and International students arrive at 13:30.
13:40 - 14:00	Opening Remarks	Tina explains the purpose and agenda and all students introduce themselves
14:00 – 14:40	Interactive Games	All students
14:40 – 15:10	Panel Discussion	All students
15:10– 15:50	Closing &Tea Time	Picture-taking

Interior Decoration：Housing

Hello, I am Daven !

To make the video of "Hail The Judge", I've to find a house which must look like a court. So I logged in the marketplace in Second Life, typing the keyword : traditional Chinese building. After a long time of searhing, I finally found a suitable one.

The texture of this house was mainly wooden, just like the traditional Chinese building.

And to my surprise, this building was totally FREE !

Previously, the house was empty inside, yet after decorating by everyone,

it became more classic, just like a real court !

It is very beautiful, isn't it ?

What I've learned in the gaming project／Pauline

     The very first time I went to second life, my first thought was "Wow I can fly!" Then I flew all over the world, and landed on the land, "beautiful beach." This is a place owned by our professor, and we have to build something here. After several times of discussion, we decide to make an adaption of the movie 九品芝麻官. The main purpose is to combine Chinese traditional culture with modern world and use our creativity to make a video. Actually, I felt difficult to communicate on second life with classmates, but after we know how to use microphone and more functions, I started enjoy it. I love everybody's creativity, and I felt impossible to build everything up in such a short time. However, we did it! Add, in order to translate Chinese idioms and riddles into English, I googled a lot and learned a lot. If I have a good computer, I would definitely keep surfing in second life and create possibilities.

Interior Decoration: Wall Decorations

     I'm responsible for putting decorations on wall in the court. 

First of all, I chose to put the idiom and the riddle on the wall to show the Chinese traditional riddle with picture.

This is the riddle I want to ask foreign student

This is the riddle appears in the video.

     Secondly, the wall still remain lots of space, so I put the pattern which can represent Chinese culture, dragon.  

 This Ba-gua pattern is also appears in the video.

 The last one is a board originated from a emperor in Qing dynasty, it literally means do something not sneaky but openly.

What I've learned in the gaming project／Evelyn

In the beginning of the semester, I thought I could easily control my avatar in Second Life. But, it was not the truth. I found it hard to adjust every move of my avatar. Therefore, I started worrying about our final project. Fortunately, I got used to it gradually. Otherwise, everyone started to come up with many interesting ideas about final project. Finally, we decided to play the revised version of "Hail the Judge". Well, however, it turned out that getting used to the game was not the hardest, recording our project was just the toughest, especially in Second life. Because we were not professional about it, it enhanced the degree of difficulty in recording. It contained many processes. We could not record it all at once. We had to record it scene by scene, record the sound separately, and cut and reconnect the video, add sound effect, etc. It was really complicated and hard work. However, gradually, we learned how to manage the functions in it. Of course, I also learned many thing in it, for example, how to record everyone in the scene, the angle of the scene, etc. Besides, it's really great that everyone cooperates to make a video. After watching our final project video, I think it's worth to spend much time learning and playing Second Life. I enjoy in it!

Character Description : Wine Lady

Hello ! I am Daven
In "Hail The Judge", I am responsible for the role, Wine Lady.

Wine Lady, who is a deponent in this play, sells wine in bar or restaurant,
and usually she looks hot and sexy. If she drinks too much,
she will even dance happily like this  ↓

So just listen to her testimony carefully,
hope you guys like this play ! Thank you ! ^_^

Interior Decoration: Chinese couplet

Interior Decoration:  Chinese couplet

981001510 許庭瑜／Betty

Chinese couplet is made up by a pair of lines of poetry that have certain rules. The two lines have a one-to-one correspondence in their metrical length, and each pair of characters must have certain corresponding properties. In addition, Chinese couplet usually has meanings correspond to the surroundings or the personality of the owner; therefore, one kind of writing skill "pun(雙關)" will be used in the two lines to add interest.

Actually, in this Chinese couplet, the riddle is hind in the left line. First of all, we need to understand this Chinese couplet should be writing for Smart Bao because he is the owner of the court. Second, "我認你再世父母" represents a Chinese culture that we thought the governor is like our countries' parents. However, "我認你再世父母" also correspond to the relationship between Toy Boy and Seven Love, Toy Boy thought Seven Love was his mother. 

So, I made the right line "人言你名花有主" to complete their relationship. In brief, if you want to solve the riddle, you need to find out its double meaning.

Character Description: Toy Boy

Character Description: Toy Boy
981001510 許庭瑜/ Betty

Hi, I’m Betty. In this video, I acted as Toy Boy. Toy Boy is a servant of his Lady Seven Love. However, there’s a rumor said that Toy Boy has a affair with Seven Love because some people saw that they usually have a date at night, no other guys get together, and they’ll return until midnight.

  Actually, Toy Boy has an illness that his mind keeps on ten years old; therefore, Seven Love takes care Toy Boy as her son, and Toy Boyalso thought Seven Love as his mother.

Character Description: Caller

Character Description: Caller

100102040/Andy 李曜任

    Hello everyone, I’m the prettiest girl in this play and… Oh, I forget to introduce myself first. I am Caller, but that is not my real name. My real name is a secret, and Caller is just the position I have to do in this play. In this video, Seven Love is my hostess and Hang Over is my host. It’s apparent that I am their servant. I am a character who is a witness by Seven Love’s side. And I have delivered two riddles in this play. Hope you can have fun for today’s video and guess the answer for our riddles LOL.

Face to Face Script

FACE TO FACE SCRIPT

﹡Tina [beginning]

Good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for coming to our final project presentation! We are students who are taking the Online English Learning class. We have developed the background and role-playing characters through the virtual world of Second Life and the story was adapted from a famous Hong Kong movie, Hail the Judge.

Here is today’s agenda.

First we will play the video. We will pause in the middle and play some games with you. After you watch the video, we will have a panel discussion about the content of the video. You can ask questions and we can share our experiences with you.

Before we watch the video, let us introduce ourselves.

Alright, let’s start!

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﹡Toy Boy [scene 4]

Q: What are they doing at that night? What is the relationship between Toy Boy and Seven Love?

A) Dating as a lover

B) Having a meal as friend

C) Playing toys like mother and son

D) Nothing happened

Chinese couplet is made up by a pair of lines of poetry that have certain rules. The two lines have a one-to-one correspondence in their metrical length, and each pair of characters must have certain corresponding properties. In addition, Chinese couplet usually has meanings correspond to the surroundings or the personality of the owner; therefore, one kind of writing skill "pun(雙關)" will be used in the two lines to add interest.
Actually, in this Chinese couplet, the riddle is hind in the left line. First of all, we need to understand this Chinese couplet should be writing for Smart Bao because he is the owner of the court. Second, "我認你再世父母" represents a Chinese culture that we thought the governor is like our countries' parents. However, "我認你再世父母" also correspond to the relationship between Toy Boy and Seven Love, Toy Boy thought Seven Love was his mother. So, I made the right line to complete their relationship. In brief, if you want to solve the riddle, you need to find out its double meaning.

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﹡Wine Lady [scene 5]

riddle: 「酒中沒有水，簡直活見鬼。」

This is a traditional Chinese riddle.

the word 酒means wine.

Look at this Chinese character. The left part of the word means water.

If you take away水there will be no water in wine.

The second sentence, "just like seeing a ghost" means that, if there is no water in wine, it must be shocking and impossible, just like seeing a ghost.

Ghost is "鬼" in Chinese.

Look at the whole sentence and put 酉 and 鬼 together.

You see the Chinese character "醜", which means ugly.

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﹡Sugar Mirror [scene 6]

Ok, now, let’s draw lots to decide the destiny of Always Powerful. Here are three sticks. 

Who want to draw first ?  [Providing the canister for drawing lots]

  

1.  家人 Jia Ren  (The family)

This divinatory symbol means its subject (treating) the members of the household with stern severity.  There will be occasion for repentance, and there will be peril.

2.   小畜　Xiao Chu (The Taming Power of the Small)

This divinatory symbol means of a husband and wife looking on each other with averted eyes. They don’t love each other anymore. They hate each other!!

3. 姤　Gou (Coming to Meet)

This symbol suggests a female who is bold and strong. It will not be good to marry (such) a female. If this kind of women gets married, the husband will be doomed to die early.

Ok, now, let’s see what’s going on next.

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﹡方昭凱/Court Guard [in the end of scene 6]
Do you know the 8 Trigrams(八卦)The concept of it first comes from the book of changes. Originally the book was used by Chinese for divination, that is, to predict future and one’s fate. The book is also used to communicate with the ancient gods from another world.
The book has become the central structure of many Chinese philosophies and ideas. It is said that Confucius loved reading the Book of Changes in his late years. Well, the thoughts of Ying and Yang also came to Japan and even influenced their mythologies, such as describing the gods created the world as three gods and two of them could be considered the polar opposite of the other…… OK, I may go too far, but as a person who is desperate to prove the existence of gods, maybe the book of changes can help me achieve the goal?

﹡Tina [after Ken]

OK, stop murmuring, Ken. Do you know who the real murderer is? [Waiting his answer.] Well, I have no idea. Let’s keep on!

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﹡Caller 1 [scene 7, after the phone rings]

When the story line starts on this line

  “Ring ring ring”

  I will broadcast four short sound effects and ask international students which sound effect is right.

  After their guessing, I will give them the right answer. It’s the fourth sound effects coming from the movie “One Missed Call”, and explain why the ring is true.

  Why? Because Hang Over was dead before this scene. When Caller got the phone call, it was very strange and irrational. A dead cannot use their phone to call another living people. The only possibility is the phone call comes from the Hell. And the movie “One missed Call” is a story which is about a phone call coming from the Hell to revenge its addressee.

﹡Caller 2 [scene 7, the conversation between Caller and Always Powerful(Before Smart Bao say “Silence”)]

I will ask international students “Is Hang Over dead or not?” And point that the painting behind Smart Bao is a hint. (Because it suddenly changs when I ask the question). And then they can guess and I will explain after Hang Over coming in the court.

  In that painting is an Eastern flower whose name is Frangipani in English. Chinese name is緬梔花（學名：Plumeria obtusa）. The language of this flower is hope and rebirth or born again. So it implies that Hang Over isn’t dead; he is alive.

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﹡Hang Over [after the video is over]

Now I’m going to ask you a Chinese riddle
閻王爺寫作文 Yamaraja writes an essay
Yamaraja is a God who handle all the death
The answer is related to the evidence told by the witnesses
They all told lies, so we can say their evidence are nonsense.

No translation available

[THE END]

Character Description: Hang Over

Character Description: Hang Over
991001031 鄭尹茜/ Pauline

     Hang Over is hit by a horse at the beginning of the story, is he still alive? His wife, Seven Love, thinks Always Powerful rides the horse and hits him in purpose. She believes Hang Over loves her, but is it true? The only thing we can make sure is that he loves alcohol. Hang Over once made a chocolate by himself to pursue Seven Love when he was a child. 

Character Description: Always Powerful

Character Description: Always Powerful
991002056 蕭閔駿/Allen

    Always Powerful is one of the main characters in Hail The Judge, he is rich, tall but ugly. Riding horse and fool around is Always Powerful's hobbit, and the photo I show you is Always powerful's childhood, he's Bruce Lee's fan at that time. Always Powerful loved Seven Love once, nevertheless after he's rejected, something has changed in his mind.

What I've learned in the gaming project／Vicky

Making a video is not easy because most of us are not good at playing second life, so our first problem is that we cannot upload the picture successfully. At first, Karen posts her question on FB and we try to solve it. We indeed figure out the way to solve some problems but not all of it. Finally, we are helped by the people not in the class. Although we encounter many difficulties during the process, we learn how to help each other. Eleven people in one group is my first time. Generally, too many people in one group will cause inefficiency. As a team, we create the story line, build the scenes and make the video together successfully. Most important of all, we have a good time doing the project, especially dubbing. I think all of the classmates are very creative, it makes the film making  more interesting. I am inspired by their innovative ideas. Learning from each other is what I have learned  in the project.

Interior Decoration: Horizontal Inscribed Board and Painting

 Interior Decoration: Horizontal Inscribed Board and Painting

100102008 吳宜謙／Vicky

    According to the picture of government office in feudal China,I create a horizontal inscribed board and an a painting. There are four words on the board, from right to left are 明鏡高懸. It means the trail is impartial and perspicacious. The board implies that Smart Bao is a righteous judge. 
The sun of painting represents  that officers are brighter than the sun. The sea water represents  that officers are clearer then the water. The painting is the warning sign for Smart Bao and it shows people's expectation of the judge.   

Character Description: Seven Love

Character Description: Seven Love

100102008 吳宜謙/Vicky 

Seven Love is the wife of Hang Over and they are the childhood sweetheart . She is addicted to chocolate. She always wears Chinese dress. Besides, she always wears her hair in a bun. She is sentimental and the sense of justice makes her against the unjust things. When she is sad or angry, she will cry to express her feeling.

In "Hail the Judge," she is going to accuse Always Powerful for hitting her husband, Hang Over purposely. She wants the murderer to get punishment. However, she faces some difficulties in court because Always Powerful say something against her. Will she win the case in the end? 

Interior Decoration: Separated Line

Interior Decoration: Separated Line

100102013 劉孟欣／Evelyn

This is what I made the separated line in the court. It's used for separating two groups of people. I use the color and meaning of the French flag: freedom, equality, and fraternity on the line. Everyone on the each side has freedom to state their testimonies, keeps the same equality in the court, and possesses fraternity to each other if they don't cross the line.

Character Description: Sugar Mirror

Character Description: Sugar Mirror
100102013 劉孟欣／Evelyn Liu

In "Hail the Judge", I play the role named Sugar Mirror. I am a Taoist priest, that is, a fortune teller. I use Bagua mirror which is taken on my hand to predict others' fortune. In the play, I predict whether Seven Love is harmful to Hangover or not, influencing the result of the trial. 

What I've learned in the gaming project／Tina

100102033 王信婷／Tina Wang

       First, I have to thank everybody! Thanks for your helping and cooperation. I know I am somewhat annoying to ask you guys to do this and do that. But, all of you indeed did a perfect job! I appreciate so much! 

       When I was writing this reflection, the day of our final project is also coming soon for few days. I believe that day will be a good end of this semester. In my college life, this was the first time I had to prepare lots of things to host a program. Many details had to be done. But, no matter what, I will do my best to finish! 

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After the presentation day:

       I was somewhat nervous on that day. As a host, I still had to prepare more to present. By the way, I was glad that students liked those bean soups I cooked. 

       During the presentation time, in the beginning, international students seldom discussed, commented, or questioned to us. But, we had more conversions gradually.  I remembered when we were discussing the culture of fortune tellers, one of the Korean student, May, said that in Korea the young liked to meet a fortune teller in a group. It is popular with fun. They often ask questions to a romantic love. Then, after the meeting, they will discuss with each other. They may not believe what a fortune teller says completely. The most important is for fum with peers. I know it is easier to see this kind of situation in Japanese animation, but same in Korea! I never meet a fortune teller  by myself or with friends. It seems our culture may be somewhat different.

      

       In the end, still and again, thanks for everybody's cooperation. I was enjoying. Hope others were as well.