Blog 3
What is the refined research question that you are setting out to answer?
How do Hong Kong teenagers interpret Patrick Kong's movies?
How does this develop themes and debates explored within the lectures of this module?
Patrick Kong is a famous romance movie director in Hong Kong who has been produced more than 10 romance movies. The feature of his works is he usually makes use of the teen idols such as Stephy Tang and Alex Fong, as the main actress and actor, since his the first directed movies. Hence, his movies always became the focus of the youth in the past ten years of Hong Kong.
2016, the tenth anniversary of Patrick Kong’s romance movie, Patrick has produced a new romance movie. That movie, Anniversary that starring by Stephy Tang and Alex Fong, be the talk of town again.
However, the comment of Patrick’s works are usually polarized. While the teen would feel that the movie is thought-provoking, a group of mature people would feel that Patrick only makes use of the former idea to movie.
Actually, in Patrick’s romance movies always include the same concept: there must be the existence of the other woman or man in a pair of couple, scene is a must in the movie, the stage dialog is meaningless but can be the motto of the teen, and so on. Also, with the time flies, Stephy and Alex are no more idols between the new generation. Maybe it is the feeling of nostalgia more than a movie to the audience.
Thus, it is interested to study that how the teenagers interpret Patrick Kong’s movies in Hong Kong.
What critical methodologies are you going to use? How are you going to produce the evidence you’ll need to answer your research question?
I am going to do in-depth interviews. I would like to interview 4 to 5 people who have watched Patrick’s romance films. They are young teenagers (around 12-16) and late stage teenagers (around 18-23) with or without a companion.
I will ask the question to probe how the value different in those interviewee. For example, I will ask the comment or meaning of the films from those interviewee at first. Following, I will ask them the stages on love so that I can compare the thought and real situation of those interviewee. Compare with all the interview, I can find out in how the interviewee comprehend the movie and investigate and analyize what concept would be included from the audience’s behavior.
Now you should have some references in mind. If so, please put down a short reference list at the end of this blog so that you have a better plan of what articles that you are go to read for the project.
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Hong Kong newspaper report of Patrick Kong and his movies:
Film review: Anniversary – Alex Fong, Stephy Tang back for Patrick Kong romance. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/film-tv/article/1896002/film-review-anniversary-alex-fong-stephy-tang-back-patrick-kong
Patrick Kong. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.timeout.com.hk/film/features/54176/patrick-kong.html
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What physical resources (e.g. camera) will this primary research require?
No
Self-assessment of risk:
Is this research exercise likely to expose you to any health and safety risks or any risk to property?
No
Name: Lo Hing Lun
HKU SPACE Student Number: 10586773
How do Hong Kong teenagers interpret Patrick Kong's movies?
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Patrick Kong is a famous romance movie director in Hong Kong who has been produced more than 10 romance movies. The feature of his works is he usually makes use of the teen idols such as Stephy Tang and Alex Fong, as the main actress and actor, since his the first directed movies. Hence, his movies always became the focus of the youth in the past ten years of Hong Kong.
2016, the tenth anniversary of Patrick Kong’s romance movie, Patrick has produced a new romance movie. That movie, Anniversary that starring by Stephy Tang and Alex Fong, be the talk of town again.
However, the comment of Patrick’s works are usually polarized. While the teen would feel that the movie is thought-provoking, a group of mature people would feel that Patrick only makes use of the former idea to movie.
Actually, in Patrick’s romance movies always include the same concept: there must be the existence of the other woman or man in a pair of couple, scene is a must in the movie, the stage dialog is meaningless but can be the motto of the teen, and so on. Also, with the time flies, Stephy and Alex are no more idols between the new generation. Maybe it is the feeling of nostalgia more than a movie to the audience.
Thus, it is interested to study that how the teenagers interpret Patrick Kong’s movies in Hong Kong.
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I am going to do in-depth interviews. I would like to interview 4 to 5 people who have watched Patrick’s romance films. They are young teenagers (around 12-16) and late stage teenagers (around 18-23) with or without a companion.
I will ask the question to probe how the value different in those interviewee. For example, I will ask the comment or meaning of the films from those interviewee at first. Following, I will ask them the stages on love so that I can compare the thought and real situation of those interviewee. Compare with all the interview, I can find out in how the interviewee comprehend the movie and investigate and analyize what concept would be included from the audience’s behavior.
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Dear Hing Lun, No problem. Please start doing the interview. What you need to do now is to read articles related to 'auteur theory' for the part of discussion of Patrick Kong's movies. Then you also need to review Stuart Hall's 'encoding/decoding' model for the part of interviews. It's time for you to start formulating the thesis and theoretical framework.
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