Camp RE:ACT! 2012 (I) [OVERDUE]

This is way overdue.

3 weeks ago, on the 7th to 9th of November, i went for Camp RE:ACT! 2012 organized by HCI ELDDFS. The theme for this year was The Human That Could.

RE:ACT! 2012 was built around a series of workshops organized by the four wings of ELDDFS - Literature, Drama, Debate and Film, and it allowed the participants to be exposed to many artistic forms.

My group was really awkward at the start of the camp and we barely talked. Honestly, i thought that if there was a prize for the Most Awkward Group it would go to us, but we really came through on the second and third day ^^

One reason for the awkwardness was probably because we didn't play much icebreaker games while the other groups were. We just walked around and......talked. It wasn't a very good icebreaking method to be honest, and i think out facilitator(s) felt quite bad about it after that.

Our first workshop of the camp was Film. We learnt film analysis, different types of shot and the general basics of filming, all of which I've learn before because of Infocomm. I wanted to edit so bad but we didn't do any editng :( my skills were quite rusty though, and i forgot how to use a tripod. Or maybe it was because in primary school we used those huge video cameras (with mics and all attached) but this time we only used the handheld ones? I really don't like storyboarding i'm sorry. Anyway, it was kind of fun, but because of the lack of icebreakers, we didn't discuss very much at first. We finally settled on the plot which the facils for the film workshop called "The Adventures Of Chairgirl" after a lot of prompting.

We had lunch, and then it was time for our second workshop, Literature. Two of our group's facils, Sam and Nic were the F-I-C for it, so we headed to the room pretty early where Nic tried to get us to read some poetry books. Their passion for Lit is admirable... i guess. It isn't everyday where you get to see 17-year-old BOYS proclaiming their love for Lit. We had a few activites like free-writing on a piece of blank paper, and other random ones like drawing/writing random things as a group and seeing what it comes out as. We then made a mind-map for the theme of the year - The Human That Could.

We wrote poems too, and mine was so... emo. Angst is my thing hahaha.

Had a break before heading to our respective rooms where we started discussion for our performance for the finale. We weren't talking at all, just staring at our facils awkwardly. I don't know how it started, but yes, we did start talking eventually ^~^

It was awkward, but it was the first day, what was I supposed to expect? To be honest, I didn't quite agree with my seniors that it was an awesome camp at first, but the last two days were so amazing, i had withdrawals for quite a while after that.

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