Creative Process (diary 004)

After the first week of summer intensive, we had a meeting with Amy and Chad at the weekend. Amy came up with the idea of having a part of pedestrians walking to represent the heart of the city, while adding different movement to project the image of the Macau people, followed by a part of buildings rising up to show how Macau changes with the increasing number of construction projects in different parts of the city. So, we started to talk about the feeling of the Macau people towards all the changes in these few years. We talked about the time around the outburst of SARS when there was economic slump in Macau, that people looked forward to the opening of the gambling industry to boost up the economy of Macau. We also talked about now as many of the Macau people earn their living by working for the gambling industry, they are enjoying from the rise of the economy but on the other hand feeling uncertain about the future. Some of the Macau people may also be afraid that the inner beauty of Macau will gradually diminish.

The content of the above discussion then became the elements to work on for the creative process of the second week of summer intensive.