The Environmental Protection Department of the Executive Yuan recently held the “Let’s Get Close to the Mountains and Keep them” Microfilm Competition. The winners were announced, and the microfilm works of the creative team of the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, stood out among many teams and won the Special Gold Award (First Place). This competition used the concept "Clean the Green Mountains and Keep Its Nature State" to encourage people to embrace the natural mountains and forests, hoping that people could understand the environmental conditions of Taiwan's mountains and forests through micro-films, thereby feeling the pollution of Taiwan's forests and realizing the importance of environmental protection and love for the earth. Furthermore, it also promoted the continuous clean-up operation and made people realize that the beautiful mountains and forests need to be protected by everyone in Taiwan.
[STUST's creative micro-film team (from left to right): Yu-Chi Gu, Tsai-Pei Pan, Pin-Chi Chen, Yu-Kun Hu, and Pei-Rong Yang won the Special Gold Award (First Place) in the “Let’s Get Close to the Mountains and Keep them” Microfilm Competition held by the Department of Environmental Protection of the Executive Yuan.]
This time, it stood out among many teams and won the Special Gold Award (First Place). The micro-film work "Happy Forest Living Without Traces of You and I" from the creative team of the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, focuses on the promotion of the Traceless Mountain Movement. By visiting the advocates of environmental protection, the team could point out the current problems caused by tourists in the mountains and forests, and share years of pro-mountain activities and experiences, so that the pro-mountain people could absorb relevant knowledge. It is hoped that their effort could transform the consciousness of people in maintaining the mountains and forests. With practical actions, people would jointly maintain the environment between nature and people. The award-winning work is presented in a news framework, adding the scene of the host and the tourists being close to the mountain to increase the interaction and resonance. At the end of the film, the seven steps of the Traceless Mountain Movement are used to enhance the audience’s memory. The background is matched with relaxing music, so that the overall film does not appear too serious and the audience would feel interested.
[The award-winning work of the Department of Information and Communication, STUST--"Happy Forest Living Without Traces of You and I" has such a scene of a large number of tourists walking close to the mountain to create a sense of interest and resonance for the audience.]
Pin-Chi Chen, leader of the creative team, said that although there were some obstacles during the shooting process. The team members are supported each other, well guided by Prof. Dan-Ching Liang, and lucky enough to meet Mr. Ching-Yuan Huang. He shared many years of experience in the mountain, thanks to Mr. Ching-Yuan Huang, who accepted the interview patiently and led the team to get to know the forest better. This award not only lays a good foundation for graduation production in the next year, but also brings the team a key to boosting confidence. The team was very grateful to Prof. Dan-Ching Liang for his guidance for her advice that made the work better presented and the team members able to display their teamwork and get affirmed by the judges.
[STUST's award-winning work "Happy Forest Living Without Traces of You and I" interviewed the environmental protectionist Ching-Yuan Huang as he was shooting for a talk about caring for the mountains and forests.]
Team instructor Prof. Dan-Ching Liang said that the "Digital Communication Practice Media" internship program of STUST cultivates students' all-round communication skills. Students used the lively way of digital storytelling from the media to hone their planning, interviewing, and writing skills, improve their cross-media communication design and production skills, and training students to have integrated thinking. The competition was fierce. Since most of the contestants were students from departments related to entertainment science, students of the Department of Information and Communication needed to have cross-field learning ability and become half an expert in a short period of time. They needed to create a good communication content, while they had to go up to the mountain for many times to shoot interviews. In the process, the team also fell in love with the mountains and forests. Through the screens, the concept of maintaining environmental resources and pursuing environmentally sustainable development was presented. The micro-film work also successfully attracted the audience to get close to the mountains and forests, leaving the green mountains and paying tribute to the mountains and forests.
[The STUST team from the Department of Information and Communication was interviewing environmental protectionist Ching-Yuan Huang for their award-winning work "Happy Forest Living Without Traces of You and I."]
As Deng-Maw Lu, President of STUST, pointed out, students will cultivate their cross-field thinking and problem-solving skills through competition and study, implement the lifeforce of practical application of technical and vocational education, and carry out the idea of applying what they have learned. She hoped that the student team would produce more wonderful works in the future and that young students who are interested in media production can come to the STUST to study together and realize their dreams.
[At the photographing situation where student Pan Tsai-Pei from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST, served as the host in the award-winning work.]
[The STUST team was capturing a large amount of natural scenery of mountains and forests at the shooting site for their award-winning work "Happy Forest Living Without Traces of You and I."]
[As pointed out by Assistant Professor Dan-Ching Liang from the Department of Information can Communication, STUST, the student creative team successfully presented the concept of maintaining environmental resources and pursuing sustainable environmental development through their work.]