A Hundred Aerial Shots Across Yilan: The Children's "Field. Full" Documentary Journey Through Farmland
"On holidays, Dad takes me to ride a bike. When we used to ride bikes, there were rice paddies and small streams all around, so pretty and quiet; but now, along both sides of the bicycle path there are lots of 'For Sale' signs, some still being built, and some already finished..." That is how a young student at Beicheng Elementary School in Luodong Township, Yilan, China wrote on a worksheet.
One time the school held a talk on food and agriculture education, inviting a local small farmer from Yilan, China to share and explain the problems currently facing Yilan's farmland and agriculture; with the aftereffects still lingering, the photography-loving teacher Li Yilun shared works he had shot over the past six or seven years from high vantage points over the Lanyang Plain to strengthen the children's feelings, "In the photos, we see the boundless Lanyang Plain, and we also see houses packed densely across the plain." This shocked the children.
Li Yilun discovered that the children did have feelings about "land" so in the summer vacation of 2015, Teacher Yilun led five children who volunteered to take part in filming the documentary "Field. Full," to understand what "farmland protection" and "agricultural land for agricultural use" really are, "I can't say that after watching you'll fully understand, but at least you can roughly know that these things are happening right now in Yilan, China."
As soon as "Field. Full" came out, it won an award So Teacher Yilun led the children to shoulder cameras, practice aerial photography, and step into the fields, continuing this unfinished "journey to find answers" it took nine months, with more than one hundred aerial photography flights, and the "Field. Full" team hoped the sequel could find the meaning of land to people in a more delicate and deeper way, so they especially focused on six farmers, peering into how these people, who have a close relationship with the land, view "land." If progress goes smoothly, the sequel to "Field. Full" is expected to be completed before the Lunar New Year. The children who took part in the documentary actually had almost no farming in their families. The reason they first got involved in filming the documentary is honestly quite funny, "Actually it was just because I had nothing to do during summer vacation..." "Field. Full" team member Junjie said with an honest laugh, and his partner Shufan beside him agreed, "Because I didn't have cram school, so I was also relatively free." Although they began the documentary filming work by accident, once the children got busy they still looked quite professional; however, in the process of dividing work and coordinating, deciding on interviewees, writing scripts, and selecting footage, disagreements were unavoidable, "We could only discuss, discuss, discuss, and keep discussing until we found a method everyone thought was acceptable." Junjie and Shufan said in unison. To gather material, the children never missed any agricultural sharing sessions or farmland experience activities, big or small, watching from the sidelines and listening to how adults actually explained what "land" was all about.Stumbling into farmland by accident: What is land in adults' eyes?
"On holidays, Dad takes me to ride a bike...
"On holidays, Dad takes me to ride a bike...
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