Date: 13th November, 2022
Mentor: Ashley Cheung Yin Kei
@Incubation 2022
Ashley Cheung Yin Kei, the director of the Fresh Wave short film Life on the Line and the screenwriter of One Second Champion, gave the second storytelling workshop and discussed various genres and scripts with the audience: a story in a story, fiction in a story, how to balance the ebbing and the compatibility of the real world, and how to let the audience tell the real from the fictitious. There are myriad methods of storytelling. The most suitable one can be discovered in the original creative motivation.
In the one-on-one exchange, Cheung mentioned some common problems in the creative process: how to find out what we want to say and how to say it. Behind every film, long or short, might be just a simple conviction. After the introductions in the summary and outline, each scene, each line of the dialog, and each scene transition are linked to what the author tries to express in the story. We have a lot to say and insist on our way of expression. We absorb and transform what we intend for the audience to receive and what each stakeholder thinks and needs. We balance our confidence in our story and heed suggestions from others. These are the common issues in everyone’s creative process.
日期：2022年11月13日
嘉賓：章彥琦
@廠牌計劃 2022
第二場故事發展工作坊，由導演鮮浪潮《命懸一念》，曾經編寫《一秒拳王》等作品的編劇章彥琦（Ashley）與劇情類型的各位遊走於各個劇本之中：戲中戲、戲中小說和真實世界的抽離性與相容性應該怎樣平衡，如何讓觀眾知道真實與虛假？由龍鳳胎、韻律泳、到貓和龜的意象、比擬甚至寓言⋯⋯敘事的方法有無數種，最適合自己的方式，或許可以從最初的創作動機開始發掘。
在一對一面談中，Ashley亦提及到在創作路上，大家都會不斷面對一些共通的問題：知道自己想講的是甚麼，以及如何將它說出來。無論是長片或短片，背後可能只是一個簡單的主題或者道理，在故事摘要和故事大綱點了題之後，每一個場口、每一句對白、場與場之間的過渡，其實都是扣連著作者在整個故事中想表達的東西。無論是想表達的東西太多，或是想要堅持自己的表達方式；將想要觀眾接收到的訊息、各方的看法與需求，消化、轉變、囊括成自己的東西，平衡對自己故事的信心以及接收各方的意見，大概是每個創作人的恆常課題。