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The Colouring Book

Ever wonder what goes on in the mind of a poet? “The Colouring Book”, a collection of poetry and prose exploration of race and identity, was self-published in February 2006. Now writers from the book are putting on the director’s hat and turning their prose and poetry into short videos. Find out about their creative journey as they embark on a one-week intensive digital storytelling workshop to shoot, direct, and edit stories that document their growth, struggles, and power as young adults of colour.

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Reflecting on the journey

Hedy’s interview with Hui-Ling (covering workshops from July 30th-31st):

“Yesterday I was trying to finish all my images – I felt very productive in the morning so I felt really happy – it was just incredible. I don’t think it can come that naturally or easily to me – I think I’m very happy with my final product. There’s always a lot of room to work on it and perfect the details or bring more interesting ideas but I think I’m happy with what I have and I’m very grateful for the mentors – everyone here is so friendly to us and the mentors were never impatient with us and they are very supportive.

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Re-creating the party scene!

Hedy’s interview with Hui-Ling (covering July workshop days 4 & 5):

So I’ve been working on different images and it’s been fun but also a lot of work! I had to consider a lot of things in terms of lighting and how lighting looks different in different parts of the room (in the re-created party scene). I’m actually a bit worried about being able to finish everything on time now!

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Storyboarding, Googling, & a mystery ending

Hedy’s interview with Hui-Ling (covering workshop days 2 & 3):

Yesterday my goal was to finish my storyboard and I think I was almost there…once I had different people go through the story there was always new ideas coming up so I actually had good options for my ending. So I actually had some homework and had to Google a lot of images and I had to take photos of a couple of images for my film. And today I worked on recreating my party scene and taking photos and shooting images. And it went well with everyone’s help and I have the mystery ending solved! We actually recreated the party scene at the reception section of the NFB!

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Party Night

This is my short video, Party Night

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