http://www.schoolofwok.co.uk/cookery-classes-london/cookery-class-london/fri-19th-apr-2013-free-demonstration-6pm-7pmcookery-classes-london
Chinese cuisine it sounds easy and looks good when it's cooked and served on the table by someone in any busy restaurant but it's not so easy to imagine to do the same in my eyes. I've seen a lot of people like myself who is british born chinese that refuse or too lazy to cook everyday common, simple Chinese dishes and sticking to pre-packaged food or ordering fast food takeaways.
Something that has been bothering me since I started this documentary project personally for me it was the fact that every place I look up had there own insecurities about not letting anyone film and it's only a few are willing to let you film inside. I wanted to make this documentary film not only about self discovering my own culture but also show the things which I lack and share with like minded individuals who may had the same experience at the same time it's a learning growth as the more I got into it, the more bizarre it got at the same time learning something from meeting those people. Staffs can only try to reason with us as that is their only way because they can't physically remove us by law unless otherwise stated by officials. It's in my nature to see this documentary film production through to the end.
This eventful trip all started off meeting up with Paul outside Waterloo station and then we made our way towards what meant to be meeting up with a group of British Chinese people up in South bank centre nearby ping pong restaurant, I met Amy and a few friends I recognize from a previous event to play mahjong, back to the point I came unprepared as my camera is too lame that requires a dvd record-able plus so I got side track to my objective and if that didn't made things any worse I would've e-mailed the company that I wanted to film on that very day, lucky the security guard women outside let us off as she stated on a sunday they weren't doing any business. the day escalated to almost having my plans foiled but I had a comrade and lucky met these two genuinely nice girls chatting away and so I invited them to particapte in my documentary film project and get to know them spent eventually spent midnight in the Feng sushi restaurant until 9pm.
Further researching into Chinese events that most likely take place within London. I stumbled across this wonderful event that allow me to carefully chose which to attend and what would be suitable for my Documentary film project.
This is a meetup with a few people that were interested in the Chinese culture and language and we got together rather late at 18:30pm as the show didn't start until 19:00pm. We introduce ourselves and got to know some of each other in this event as we got into groups the first item on the menu we made were ..dumplings and got to learn how to fold it the northern hk style and prepare other common dishes what I found a bit of a let down was the fact we had to use electric stoves instead of the using proper chopping cleaver, raw fire and a wok other then that overall, I enjoy the atmosphere and so did everyone who attend winnie's event.
Thanks to Winnie for posting these photos up :)
http://www.meetup.com/ChineseViewfindersClub/photos/12945472/201580612/?a=pu3.2_l
I found this group to be the only one out of all the various meetup Chinese group within London. It matches to what I needed to film my documentary, reasonable and priceless the only thing I would have to spend on is my travel expenses and the event taking place. Every once in a while there will be someone who gets my name wrong one way or the other but that not the point. It's good that I took this option rather then my money fall to my indecisiveness of choosing to do a Chinese course.
Direct link - http://www.meetup.com/ChineseViewfindingClub/
My research had took me to a particular blog from BBCZeitgeist blogspot page where I carefully selected what seems appropriate and relative to my research as it is real and pure to what it is written in the links provided below:
http://bbczeitgeist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/asiaphile-asian-fetish-asiaphilia.html
http://bbczeitgeist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/british-born-chinese.html
http://bbczeitgeist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/does-age-affect-our-potential-to.html
As of late I have been e-mailing, ringing up people back and forth on a occasional basis to discuss about my documentary film project and I'm gradually getting the agreement across some of those Chinese institution that is willing to help and be involved but here another message that they don't seem to comprehend is that I don't want to take up their course as I did my research and I came across a list of Chinese courses within London, are expensive but, I look at one which seems convenient and reasonable to me at a really cheap price as I spoke to her by phone but I have yet to meet her in person. http://courses.vivastreet.co.uk/language+london-se1/chinese-mandarin-class-/48438700 her details amongst the list. so now I got a few options to choose from the contacts that I call up and they agree to discuss the topic even further in person. I found her information through this list: http://www.emagister.co.uk/chinese_courses-et29_9.htm
If possible I like to avoid paying at all cost because I rather not pay for such a course at this time but it bugs me to think of a solution in my current situation that i'm in and to foresee a light at the end of the tunnel.
3 types of how documentary are made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEP_CugxZCI
I decided before Christmas that I'm going to do a participatory type documentary film and this video reassured me of my decision as I want to create one that is appealing and not doll from the feedback I had in uni workshop before the holidays were set in stone.
life as a mixed race child documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0302-Ld5KA
I was browsing on youtube looking for 'in search for identity documentary and other videos that might inspire me to develop my documentary in the process and I came across this video by Garolenmedia which made me realized one thing or more about how I'm going to approach my work and where I was going with it.
December had taken it's toll on me ever since I got deep into researching as I fight against the time as the days passes by but I'm no doubt getting somewhere with my project.
I recently went to attend a meeting with the head teacher as well as the admin at the Chinese international studies institution located ridgmount street, London WC1E 7AH. As I discuss briefly my project in the interview it started off pretty well with me saying my part as I got into asking about if, by chance that I can take a free class as the more I got into it the more mess up it got as they gave me a full explanation of their beginner class price tag and omg they expected me to participate in their course which I had to decline but on the other hand, the good news was that the head teacher said he can ask one of his bbc students to be in my documentary film and to top it off he even offer to introduce me to a chairman who has experience in doing documentary film based on BBCs in the uk and furthermore the conversation got interesting from that point onward but what really put me off was the price tag on the beginner course coming roughly near £1000 so it was either still negotiate with them to my terms or look elsewhere. I'm still looking for a crew member who is willing to help me on the project if they are free from work...
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