We are a group of 5 students researching on film advocacy and ways to market a film successfully.
Name: Andrew Tan (Group Leader)
Age: 15 +
D.O.B.: 21st June 1991
School: Raffles Institution
CCAs: Raffles Institution Military Band, Raffles Institution AV Club
Interests: Music, Movies, Flute, MSN Messenging
Name: Ng Yu Hui
Age: 15+
D.O.B.: 3rd April 1991
School: Raffles Institution
CCAs: Raffles Institution National Police Cadet Corp, Raffles Institution Science Club
Interests: Movies, MSN Messenging, Music
Name: Tek Yong Jian
Age: 15 +
D.O.B.: 26th June 1991
School: Raffles Institution
CCAs: Raffles Institution National Police Cadet Corp, Raffles Institution AV Club
Interests: Music, Movies, MSN Messenging, Soccer
Name: Desmond Kan
Age: 15+
D.O.B.: 21st November 1991
School: Raffles Institution
CCAs: Raffles Institution National Police Cadet Corp, Raffles Institution AV Club, Raffles Institution Maths Club
Interests: Music, Movies, MSN Messenging
Name: Kwah Yi Hao
Age: 16
D.O.B.:
School: Raffles Institution
CCAs: Raffles Institution Chinese Orchestra
Interests: Music, Movies, MSN Messenging
Friday, February 16, 2007 Latent Images
After reading Latent Images, we felt that much could be gleaned from this CD.
Latent Images is largely a record of the film history of Singapore. Although at first glance it was not very helpful towards our project, it was implicitly, and not explicitly where we found our answers.
Much could be deduced from latent images regarding our advocacy project in Singapore. Changing tastes of the new generation, the competition from Hollywood are some examples why local films are not doing well within the country.
Going deeper into the problem of the apathetic attitude of the younger generation towards old local productions, the text argues that it is due to the poor public attitude towards preserving such films, and keeping them for future reference, or for future generations, although these films contain Singaporean heritage.
Moreover, the CD tells us certain solutions that are planned to revive interest in local films, like the proposed building of the "International Film Hub" by Geoffrey Maloney, one of the founders of the Singapore International Film Festival, in 2002.
The text which we have read opened up many farther avenues of questions for us to explore, and humbled us for thinking at such a shallow level before. Hence, though we're moving backwards after reading this CD, the information and depth of questioning this CD offers and allows us to build a more solid foundation to our research.
