Voyeur

I started making short films when I was in kindergarten. I started with a recording style in which I liked to speak and introduce things in front of cameras or hold the camera up to film. I started making some travel films using iMovie when I was 6 and 7 years old. I didn't attend primary school and travelled to about 10 countries with my parents. I enjoyed watching my film projects and wanted to create a movie company. After being a primary school student, I only travelled in summer and winter vacations, and I only made a few films. Still, after COVID-19, I went to 20 countries with a long movie, a school spy film, filmed in more than 7 countries all over Asia and Europe. However, I couldn't finish it mainly because many actors were study-transferred elsewhere. I then started to make more films, but most were short films in which I focused on the impression instead of long with every single lasting scene.

I made films when travelling mainly because of my first experience in East Europe to film my first long film, so I made short films (travel films, music videos, social media type films, funny films, etc.) Most of my films were acted by my twin sister, who is always the first choice between her and my dad. Making short travel videos is not only fun for me or posting my moment as the overall trip instead of many photos, but it also makes me want to make more films and try more styles.

One of the type of films I made less in my films are the music videos. My favourite music video was shot in Vietnam for our school trip, and our principal asked me to make a short film for my sister and her friend because they bought the local dress in the market, which looked cool. However, putting the local music with their dance performance could be light and flat when watching. Then I found that I could use the popular Korean song Gangnam Style as the background music and created a cool video because there were many Korean stores in Hoi An, which shaped modern culture, and that was how my favourite music video was done.

I shoot most of the films on my small camera and phone because shooting on phones is the easiest and quickest way. I can shoot many times quickly, change the colour balances, lenses, etc. and edit them immediately on my phone. I found myself more likely to use phones because of the convenience of carrying and editing anytime. Using cameras is also easy because I don't have professional cameras or equipment used in huge shooting, but I use the camera that was my sister's birthday gift to shoot some of the films, such as some school films. I like using cameras because the quality is clearer than that of phones, especially with long lenses. It is more cinematic than many phones, and I can edit on a computer, which I believe is more precise than editing on a phone.

I used storyboards and related professional pre-production materials in some of my started films. Still, I stopped using them because most of my films, especially travel-related, were my immediate thoughts, and I usually directly shot them or wrote the outline story first. I like the whole process of filmmaking, not a specific part. I enjoy filmmaking and watching more and more films, I make, although most are short films. However, I like watching my projects or sharing them with my family as life experiences. I planned to make more long films, but it required a lot of shooting, so I couldn't achieve that. I just edited all the clips from hours to minutes; that's the main reason why many of my films were planned to be long but resulted in short. I like quick results films to find which area I am familiar with or want to try in the future. I have many ideas in my mind, and I like to write down some of them and combine them into a story outline. I may not be able to film most of them, but I hope to break through these films and start making long films and practising to be better.

I am a person who is filled with dreams, not only when I get older but since I was little. I don't know if I want to be a director as the main thing for all my life, because I love many things, not just a specific interest and I am still discovering more and more areas, but I would make films for the rest of my life. I like filmmaking as a part of my life, as it allows me to record memories and my personal growth through my own projects. Not only because it's the best way to collect all the parts of an event, which I like making one film as the overall, instead of 99 photos and deleting the rest of the videos for my storage, but I am engaging in filmmaking more than interests but more to know what I want to do through all the pieces.