Public Screening

We have produced a ten mini-documents about "Recapture" for our final project. Actually "Recapture" is a short story about Khmer Rouge. It deals with people's memory about Khmer Rouge Regime. After we finished shotting and editing the video, we started our trip to do the public screening. Doing the public screening for our video production was unforgettable time for me and other classmates.

To disclose our production to the public, all the team producers as well as our lecturer have been to 4 provinces, such as Battambang, Odor Meanchey, Siem Reap and Kratie. Through out our screening, we have encounter a few problems. The initial difficulty was the location to do the screening. We had to decide which places that can attract more audience. Second, it was about the technical problem. In Battambang, when we started to screen the video, there was no sound come out. Finally, it was about the weather. Because it was a raining season, we were afraid there were no audience. What we were concerned come out to be truth. Before we lauched the screening at the Pagodat (Wat) at Odor Meanchey, there was a rain like cats and dogs. There were alot of thunder and lightening. There were only few monks and elder people for the beginning. Surprisingly, when the rain stopped, there were more and more people come to see our screening.

Even though there were a few problems occured in our screening, we were so happy and excited because there were many people interested in our document.

By HIM Sokunthea

DMC student