Blog 4

‘A SHORT GUIDE TO WRITING ABOUT FILM’ is a book introducing and lecturing the very beginning on how to produce a movie. It is a book demonstrates and conducts the audiences on film creating and script writing. As the movies of Patrick Kong that he is not only the director, but also the script writer. It is believe that the book may help me to carify the pre-production progress in a movie production and apply it on his movie.

At the chapter 4 of this book -- ‘Six Approaches to Writing about Film’ help inspiring a direction to me to study on my topic ‘How Do Teenagers Interpret Patrick Kong’s Film’.

It is a chapter that introducing the 6 major approaches or methods which would be used in every writing about film. Those methods are useful on creating and analyzing the writing of film. In other word, it also does a big favor to me on analyzing Patrick Kong’s movie.

Those six approaches are Film History, National Cinemas, Genres, Auteurs, Kinds of Formalism, and Ideology. Due to the informative explanation of those approaches, I would like to, mainly, focus on Genres, Auteurs, Kinds of Formalism, and Ideology to study Patrick's movie.

Patrick Kong has been named as "Mong Kok Woody Allen" in Hong Kong. His movie works always hit the town that become the talk among the teenagers and young adults. The polarization of the comments reflected that Patrick makes used on formalism to his movies. According to the literature book I took, formalism is a matter of structure and style in the movie that the audience would concern to. In my point of view, Patrick would like to show, reflect the darkness between a relationship when he documents the sweet and heart-to-heart moment at the story beginning. It is Patrick's usual storytelling trick.

There is a well said that 'seeing is believing'. It is worth studying that if the audiences’ thought changed after they saw the movie; if the movies only affect the single gender; if the movies changed or not, if the movies boring to see; and so on.

When it comes to the progress of my research, it is just the very beginning that I have arranged the time with an interviewee for the first interview. Unfortunately, it is delayed to next week as the interviewee got some private matter to solve.

The first interviewee is a male that he has just broken up with his girlfriend, who has become his company for 6 years. Patrick’s movies are the very memory between them as their first day of dating was watching his movie. It must be a rueful story between them and one of the important data that to do my research.