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Chinatowns' avant-garde in Northern Iraq

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Date & Time 8 February 2011, 12:01 pm

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About 500 Chinese people are said to live in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan's second city. Many work in the new Kawa Mall where Chinese flags, lucky cats and paper lanterns present an incongruous scene on the Kurdish landscape. Such immigration and foreign investment is becomming more prominent in the semi-autonomous area run by the Kurdistan Regional Government.

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lisa Mar 13, 2011, 12:57pm

I love the British accent Rhodri and I think as you're obviously in the business you're looking to raise the level of sophistication of your work so here are my thoughts on how you can achieve that. When I was at the BBC I saw many stories executed in just the same way as this was. Lots of wide shots and the narrative driving the piece but for the most part disconnected from the images. You have a very nice story here because you found a character, Ling, but the way it is shot and edited does not create any intimacy with Ling. You need to shoot sequences and in particular many more close-ups. It's the close-ups that will draw your audience in. You are being driven far too much by the narrative and not enough by the video. If you watched this piece without any sound would you know what the story was? Probably not because so much of it is GVs. You obviously know what you're doing but I think you can take your stories to an entirely different level.

Comments

simpleman
5:51 am Saturday
Feb 12, 2011

I agree. Informative and professional. Good job.

jamesERIC
11:44 pm Friday
Feb 11, 2011

I love spending a little under four minutes under the spell of this video, and emerging several hours' more well-informed. Thanks. I'll add that, in my opinion, your narrative, well written and well delivered, still needed more volume to rise above the background soundtrack. 1 :

vacationlifestylemedia
12:43 am Wednesday
Feb 9, 2011

Fantastic video - extremely interesting. Characters bring it to life.

MJBass
1:52 pm Tuesday
Feb 8, 2011

This is so professional I could easily see it on CNN. I have been to some very developing parts of the world and seen flourishing Chinatowns. I would not be surprised if the one in Sulaimaniyah continued to grow. I'd love to see an update to this in 3 years.