30 Videos/30 days CHINA: EP-07/Day 07 "798 Arts and a Hip-hop Battle"

30 Videos/30 days CHINA: EP-07/Day 07 "798 Arts and a Hip-hop Battle" 30 Videos/30 Days:CHINA, was a project I did in collaboration with Parsons New School for Design. Every year for the past three years Parsons organizes a month long trip to China in order to collaborate with a number of different Chinese University’s. The idea of this series was to create one video for every day of the trip that some how represented the experiences of the day in a creative way. For the most part the goal was achieved and actually exceeded, some days were so long and eventful there were multiple videos made and the final amount of episodes exceeded well over 30 videos. I managed to keep up the editing for the first 15 days of the trip while in Beijing, but as the trip moved to E-Arts in Shanghai the days began to get more complex. In order to compensate for these complexities, I had to shoot more video and the shoots got longer and longer. So in the interest of getting the footage, the editing had to take a backseat. The days in China were very unpredictable and I never knew which group was doing what or which group I would be following on what days. Every day was a new challenge to over come and a new test in the endurance of producing a massive amount of content with out an chance for pre-production or planning. The project resulted in a webseries that chronicles the experiences and exploits of 3 groups of students from Parsons School of Design. The New Media group, whose focus was on ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 9m 19s Date Found: Wed, Aug 25 2010 6:49 PM Category: Travel Date Produced: Wed, Aug 25 2010 4:35 PM View Count: 0