ok i’ve got another question/enquiry. as you’ve just said you go to school and reading other comments (kozo said you go to film school etc), can you enlighten me on that course?

i’ve currently a third year at uni and about to finish (hopefully i’ll graduate of course!) a ba honours film and television course. tbh if i was harsh i can say i wasted 3 years; in those 3 years, the course was pretty much 85% theory with very little practical work.

put it this way i don’t even know how to work a camera properly. even on the theory side, it wasn’t as intensive as i hoped and seriously, considering the potential (facilities, lecturers etc), it was a joke of a course.

anyways i’m looking at several options and one of those is studying in hong kong doing a ‘proper’ film course.

so other details that may help my understand my situation:

1) i’m chinese (can speak alright, read little-ish, crap writing knowledge) but hold a british passport and a hk identity card - not sure if i qualify as overseas student i.e fees?

2) i’m not a dreamer (looking for the glitzy showbiz) but i wouldn’t say i’m 100% commited atm - i’m just putting out some feelers.

3) film is something i definitely want to get into. what aspect i’m not sure as frankly i don’t believe i have enough ’skills’ or qualifications to go into any specific area.

ok i’ve probably got more to say but i don’t want to babble on.

i’ve included my real email if you can see it, so if you don’t wanna disclose anything publicly, you can reply to that if you want.

i’m ‘hard’ at work on finishing my dissertation so i’m in no hurry, you can take your time and if you do, i’ll really appreciate it.

i’m planning to go to hk in june, who knows, maybe we could hook up even?

but yeah cheers man.

I watched a total of 25 movies over about 27 days, so that makes it about a movie a day. But some days, I would have two movies at two different places with 2-3 hour gaps (one day I had 3 at 3 pm, 6pm, and 9pm), so I would have to spend the entire day away from home and traveling to several places.

The worst were the 9:30 pm movies, especially on school days, which meant spending 9-5 at school, then hitting dinner, then lining up about half an hour for the movie, and not getting home until midnight. I was ultimately tired not only because of the movies, but all the work I was balancing. Plus, I fall asleep easily at movies, which doesn’t make me a very good critic.

But no, the times were more late than early. I did miss one of the two 10:30am tickets I had (I bought 27 tickets), but there were other factors.

can you just give us an idea of er how exhausting the time schedules are? the reason i ask is because yourself and kozo always seem to mention ‘fell asleep during that one’ (sarky or not)?!

do you watch films from the crack of dawn up to midnight? or other factors like you have work in the morning etc?

of course i can understand it’s probably quite mentally draining sitting through so many 2 hour pieces in one day..