Nil Sine Labore: Nothing without labour

Victorian Challenge is round the corner, and it’s a once every 4 years event that even appears in the papers. I remember I was only sec 1 when we first did it. My class did a collage of the old school, using torn bits of magazines. The objective is to complete the task that we wanted to do within 24 hours, meaning we have to stay in school overnight. I cant remember the theme of 2003 but I think it has got something to do with the old school campus, because Victoria moved from Geylang Bahru to Siglap Link that year.

Anyways, this year’s theme is ‘Victoria I give to you’, I THINK. I cant remember because I don’t care about the theme. I’m just going back to do as an Art Elective Alumni.

I intend to do a short film, a video of the AEP dudes, with the theme of Band of Brothers, yeah I know I watch too much of BoB already but incorporating this 2 things together to create a short film, would be something cool to watch. I shall not disclose anymore of what I am going to do for the video but all I can say is that, I’m doing this so that I can get the gang together and do something together. Because I felt that our secondary 4 years were rather dull. Our whole year, we were busy rushing our coursework for art that we don’t have time to do funny things. Its funny to see how other schools have their own videos done by their students when you search in youtube. However, I realized that the quality was pretty bad, and decided to do something more ‘professional’.

Then again, this video doesn’t really fit the theme of this year’s challenge, so I decided to add on: to do a wall painting with the last scene of my video just outside the media lab in Victoria School. A painting that would represent us, the first batch of AEP students who used the media lab. I want the juniors to know that there is a group of AEP students who were proud to be an AEP student despite all the shit we’ve been through. Theory, coursework, and those long afternoons.

So really looking forward to the 2 week break, so that I can start shooting the video. And I really hope that everything turns out well, as I don’t wish to disappoint any of the teachers. Now that I’ve posted what I’m going to do, its like a commitment, something to push me to complete what I’m going to do, because if I give up halfway, I will lose all my face. Haha.

Although I don’t really love my school that much, it has been fun studying there and I really would like to contribute to the school. Nil Sine Labore.

~ by sianzationalisticallism on June 1, 2007.