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Filming Experience

Filming

I use to really hate editing videos and other stuff. But this year I’ve given myself a lot of challenge. I started to learn to edit and started to like it and get use to it. I start of with Audacity, which is working on podcast. Then I bring it to another level, which is filming. My first official film is the Sibling Love Story, short film. This film is suppose to be compete in the film festival, but unfortunately my film can’t make it in the Phnom Penh Youth Film Festival (PPYFF). It was a big fail for me. I was so upset and frustrated that time. But I said to my self that this time I fail but I will not fail in the future anymore . So, I started to push myself to make videos and short films. I started to have a lot of interesting ideas. I’m also a really big fan of YouTube I always watch interesting videos and short film and whenever I watch those videos, there’s always different ideas coming into my head. I’ve already made 8 videos and short films so far. Each videos and short film there’s always a story behind it.

There’s always challenge and frustration when ever I produce the videos.
Here are my challenges:
1. Writing Script: Writing script is a lot of frustration and confusion. For me, it’s very easy to start a story but it’s really hard to end because the ending always need to relate to the beginning.
2. Actors: It’s so hard for me to pick actors and actresses. I’m shooting at school so I have to use my friends as the actors and actress. Also, My friends are not the expert of acting so sometime it’s really hard for them to act. Some of them are shy, some are overreacting and I just can’t control them.
3. Editing: I’m currently a basic editor. All of my films that I created are all basic editing. I really want my video to be a good quality video but it’s hard and it take a ton of time.

All of my films that I created, I put them in my YouTube channel call That’sMeSoliday. I’m not really interesting to get subscriber on my channel but all I want is viewers because I want people around the world to see all of my creative films. Another channel that I created is to put the lip sync videos that I made with the students. The lip sync videos was defenietly the funniest videos I made.

What I hope in the future is that, I want at least one of my films to be live to my whole Country. It can be on TV. I just want everyone to see my films and also to teach them. I want to create films that teach people and to get them to know new things. By that I mean not just films, it can be a creative video, a funny video, a DIY, or it can be a music video.

Watch all the films that I made

That’sMeSoliday

The Lips Sync.

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LigerCast Episode 4

Episode 4 is finally here. This is the closing episode for our 1st Season of LigerCast. We are going to have Summer holiday and we will be making more episode when we are back.

So this episode is talking about Marine Conservation in Cambodia. My role is the producer for this episode. This have been my favorite episode so far.

We went on adventure to an Koh Seh island to study about marine creatures and get to know about an organization that is trying to preserve the marine life in Cambodia. Marine Conservation Cambodia (MCC) is an organization located in Kep. While living on the island, we also get to do a lot of fun stuff.

To know what MCC does and what we have learn from them, please have a listen to Episode 4.

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Sharation Exploration Round 4

On the 30th March from 9:00 am to 11:00 am we have sharation round 4. There are 6 group. My group is the Spiritualism in Cambodia. Luckily we have finished our podcast in time so we can let other people listen to our podcast. There’s a lot of high school teacher came from Phnom Penh and they really impressed on our project. Some of them share ideas and there opinion and some of them have a lot of questions to ask. It was a really great time to share.

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Reading Group – Cabin Fever

In class we have a reading group reading different book in each group. I’m reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (book by Jeff Kinney). There are a total of 4 people in my group reading this book. When we read this book, we read together with literacy teacher (Caroline). We do this reading group because it can improve our pronunciation, understanding of the story, and get to learn new vocabulary. Before we read together we always do a pre-read individually because we need to find new vocabulary then we put it in the group document (says and means). When we come and read together, our literacy teacher always make sure that we all understand the story so she would always ask us question about the book and also she explain new us new vocab. We always have quiz for every chapter or pages.

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Click here to look at all the new vocab that I learn!

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Unusual Spiritualism in Cambodia

This is a Create Your Own Exploration (CYOE). This exploration we decided to research on the spiritualism in Cambodia like the belief about the superstition and others. We went on trip to four different provinces, interviewed people about their belief. We went to Kampong Cham, Kampong Speu, Kampot, and Kep. Some of them share about their ghost story that they have meet spirits before.

In this exploration we have created a podcast (episode 3) talking about spiritual in Cambodia. This is the topic that I find fascinating because Cambodia have a lot of beliefs about spirits and ghost.

There are three segment in this podcast. The first segment talked about the history of the belief, the second segment talked about ghost story that we collected from our interviewee and the third segment talked about the future of the belief.

Listen to the podcast to know more about the belief in Cambodia.
Click here to go to our blog!

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Marine Conservation in Cambodia

Exploration: Marine Conservation
Facilitator: Karen Krieger
Students: 12

In this exploration, I’d learn a lot about marine ecosystem. My group went to Koh Seh (Kep) to study about marine ecosystem and marine conservation. This trip was the best trip I’ve ever taken before. I got to live on an island for five days with all of the friendly people on the island. When the first time I got on the boat I felt kind of not comfortable because I’ve heard from Karen that we needed to travel about nearly an hour to get to the island. But after a few minutes, I felt so great because I was so excited to go to the island. When I first got to the island I felt so fresh and I met a lot of great people and kids over there. We had a very delicious meal and great place to sleep (bangalo). However, we went to the island not just to have fun we also learn a lot too.

Marine Conservation Cambodia (MCC) has taught us a lot of about what they are doing there and what they are trying to do to protect marine ecosystem in Cambodia. I’ve learn about illegal fishing in Cambodia (ex: trawling). This was my first time that I know how bad is illegal fishing destroy marine life and ecosystem. Trawling is really really bad because it’s not just taken fish, but it’s also destroying everything under water (ex: coral reef). I feel kind of sad for the ocean. I feel like , Cambodian should stop fishing illegally. Beside learning about illegal fishing we’ve learn about life under water. We’ve learn about coral reef. Why do we need to learn about coral reef? Well, coral reef is a habitat for marine life. It’s provide food to the organism. Also we’ve learn about seahorse, one of the cute organism underwater. MCC is trying to protect seahorse because in Cambodia, seahorse is in a great danger. We’ve learn how to measure seahorse and also learn why seahorse is important to protect.

We also did some activities that help the world like beach clean up. Liger and MCC collect about 130 kg of trash in an hour. We put the data that we collect and put it in the world form data (Ocean Conservancy). We use the trash that we collect and we did some recycled materials.
At night we watched 2 documentary, coconut man, seahorse man. Staying at Koh Seh has been one of my powerful experience ever.

At school we as a group writes a proposal for students next year, so they get to go to the island and learn about marine ecosystem too. Everyone is pounding the pavement really hard to work on the proposal and get really serious. This proposal, we will present to Dom (country director at Liger) and Mr. Jeff (coordinator) then they will prove the proposal that students will do this project next year. In the proposal, my job is to writed about Next Year Plan Feasibility Study. In the proposal we also include problem and solution about marine ecosystem in Cambodia.

Have a look at our proposal!

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Musics Inspired Me!

Hello world! As you all know my name is Soliday! I like to sing and find out new songs when I’m free. Before I know english songs I really liked to listen to Korean songs (pop songs). Now I know a lot of english and I really like to sing english songs. First time I sing english songs my pronunciation is so bad and sometimes I don’t know what the words or the meaning means. I really like pop songs at first but now I like to sings all of the songs. The first song that I know is “The day you went away”, which is not my favorite. But now my favorite song is “lean on”.

Sometimes my mother blame me because when I’m free I’m not helping, but instead I sing a song.

Whenever I listen to any songs I feel like I’m at heaven. Some music is really interesting and it’s really connected to () background of the songs. I don’t know how to play musics, but I do know how () match my voice and the songs to different kinds of musics.

Talking about singing english songs but really, I’m not American, I’m Cambodian. So I also sing my country’s songs too! Mostly I don’t like Cambodian pop songs, I like to listen and sing Cambodian traditional songs. The reason I said traditional songs (is) because I don’t want the old songs from the sanctuary to () lost. I want my country to listen and sing those old song back. For real, the songs now are popular only () a couple of month and then it () not popular anymore, but for Cambodian old songs it last a long time and () not boring.

My voice is not that good as a famous singer. Honestly, I want my voice to be like the famous singer. But it’s not that easy to do because we have our own voice and we should use them as your voice to show that it’s you.

I would love to learn more about singing and different songs using different voice.

I love Musics!

Listen to my song cover! Unstoppable – Soliday

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Khmer Interior Design

In this exploration, I’ve learn about interior design. This exploration is special because this is a “chose your own exploration”. We choose this topics because we want to learn about interior design, although we thought being an interior designer is fun and easy. Another reason is my sister in law is an interior designer so I can contact her and ask her question.

We also have the greatest opportunity ever because Liger has a construction going on, so we ask Dom (country director) to design that apartment. Our group has divide into three groups, kitchen and living room, two bedrooms, and a bathroom. I was working on bathroom with my partner, Menghouth. We were working so hard to get everything done. We’ve been shopping for furniture, light, and others.

Being interior designer is not easy. Everyone that doesn’t know about interior design always said “interior design is super easy. If you have money you can just go buy furniture and put it in your house”. We’ve been doing this for 7 weeks and we found out that it’s not as easy as we think.

We also having fun while we doing this.

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Hidden Voices Description

Name: Hidden Voices
Facilitator: Rich, Sophorn, and Trish
Students: 13

In this exploration, we are studying about songs that are endangered, that Cambodian never heard it before. So to find the songs that are endangered we been to 2 provinces to interview people from difference places. We been to Kampong Speu and Mondulkiri. We not just went outside to interview people, but we also interview people by calling them and asking about there favorite songs and so on.

(Hidden Voices Trip)

In class we been studying about Podcasting. We also made a podcast that talk about our Hidden Voices group. To make this podcast, we been working really hard to edit, writing script and so on.
I was working on editing too, and it was not that easy to do. The program that we use to edit the podcast is Audacity.

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I feel like, this exploration made me learned a lot of things.
I can improve my interviewing skills when I went to interview people.
I learned how to edit in Audacity.
Communicator (being brave)
Being Proactive
Try to challenge my self

My favorite songs that my interviewee told me is មន្ដស្នេហ៍ខ្លុយ​(mon snea kloy teb)

We also made a blog for our group to share to other people about the endangered songs in Cambodia. This blog is full of songs that we found. Also, If you want to listen to the Podcast that we made, please go to our blog!
Visit our blog! Hidden Voices

(Hidden Voices Group Pictures)