Miming...[To be or not to be]

Assalamualaikum…hi!

How are you today? Is everything fine? Hope so and wish your today is BETTER than yesterday.

During this week, our class has been asked by our English for Language Teacher’s lecturer to make a short mime of a situation of our choice.

Actually, according to the “original” instruction, we were asked to perform the short mime in the class. But, as every one of my classmates is “shy”, so our dear lecturer considers us. Thus, we don’t have to perform anymore, but we have to create a video of our short mime and present it.

As usual and I admit it, I am not a creative person or a good actor. But this time, by hook or by crook, I really need to be a creative person and a good actor. Our same group had been discussed and we decided to create a video about healthy lifestyle, entitled “To be or not to be”.

The making of “To be or not to be”

First, to create a video, we must create the story line first. So, our story line is like this….

Once upon a time…

There are four girl, named Naja, Inn, Ju and Liza. (me)….

They live together in a lovely house in Ocean Park.

Naja and Ju likes to eat junk food, EVERYDAY….

They don’t like to eat vegetables and rice.

So, from day to day, they get fatter and FATTER…

At one night, Inn and Liza saw Naja and Ju is eating junk food again.

They eat ice-cream, chips, cakes, instant noodle, candies, chocolates and …..

They eat non-stop.

So, Inn and Liza advise them and tell them that junk food is not good for health.

At first, they don’t want to listen to their friends’ advises.

But, after Inn and Liza feed Naja and Ju with the vegetables and rice which they cook, they begin to fell in love with the food!

From that day on, Naja and Ju eats starts to eat healthy food and exercisely regularly.

They also lose their weight and feel BETTER and HEALTHIER than before.

[The End ]

After we have the story line, next, roll the camera!

1...2....3...Action!

We set up the place and position of camera and then we begin to record our short mime.

After recording session, we edited the video; add in word text and suitable sound effect of it.

The result is…this is our video! Wish you enjoy watching the video!

From the whole process of making this “to be or not to be” video, I had learned to be more creative and confident to act. As an English teacher, we must be a good actor as we need to “act” in front of the class for the beloved students, everyday!

Besides that, this precious experience also taught me on how to make a video as may be in the future, we have to make an our own video as teaching aids for the students.

In conclusion, in order to become a good teacher who can teach well and attract students’ attention to learn in the class, we must master all these kind of skills.

So, to be or not to be, the choice is yours.

Assalamualaikum…

With love,

Liza Tiong~