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The 1st Odyssey Video-Telling Workshop

We had a party yesterday. Eleven students who had struggled to make a documentary presented their own. To me, instructing was fun but organizing the event was quite overwhelming and demanding. But things seemed to move smoothly. Thanks God. Quite a few mentioned that the jazz concert was also a very nice touch. I appreciated every single note we played. I believe that media consumer's access right can only be accomplished when the consumers become producers or at least possess the potential to be producers. Otherwise, criticizing could be a just pathetic and frustrating process. Even if tools to create their own were given, they might not be able to make their own. Then, we lose games all the time. Through this workshop, I feel that presenting a concept in a visual format requires lots of critical reflection upon the production process and intellectual training. Just like writing. The workshop students had good ideas but those ideas were not clearly conveyed until they verbally exp