我是Oliver Jones，一个已经在成都生活了3年的英国人，目前正在苦学中文，视频创作是今年开发的一个新爱好。
I am Oliver Jones, an Englishman who has lived in Chengdu for 3 years and is currently studying Chinese.
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在疫情爆发后居家隔离的时期，因为不能回国和亲人团聚，我开始用镜头记录自己在中国的生活。在这个过程中却意外地发现自己非常享受拍摄剪辑的过程。就这样，我开启了自己的Vlogger生涯，定期在社交平台上更新视频，偶尔也会找几个好朋一起拍摄中外文化相关的内容和中西口味趣味测评。虽然还是一个业余视频爱好者，但是随着大半年来持之以恒的更新，视频创作水平的确提高了。
Video creation is a new hobby that I developed in the past year . At that time, it was during the period of home isolation after the outbreak, and there was no way to reunite with relatives. I started to record my life in China with a camera, but unexpectedly found that I really enjoyed the process of shooting and editing videos.
So, I started my own Youtube Channel, regularly updated my life through VLOGS and shoot some video related to culture exchange. Up to now, I can only call myself an amateur video enthusiast, but with constant updates over the past year, my skill has indeed improved visibly.
采访视频
在朋友圈看到关于短视频创赛的消息后我立马决定参加。这场比赛会成为我未来创作的灵感源泉，也将证明自己这一年来的辛苦学习和练习。朋友们都痛快地答应了我的合作邀请。
After seeing this tweet about the short video creation competition , I made a decisive decision to participate.
This competition will not only become a source of inspiration for future creation, but also prove that my hard studies and practice this year has not been in vain.I was determined to do this and asked my friends to join - everyone happily agreed to my invitation.
就这样，“We love Chengdu is much”战队正式成立了。（Oliver在接受采访的时候吐槽：直到接受采访的时候才发现我们的队名有一个语法错误，这么久了居然没有一个人来提醒我这个错误？我的队友们都是糊弄学十级大师！）
In this way, the " We love Chengdu is much " team was formally established.（Oliver: The name of my team features a typo that I hadn't noticed until the time of writing. Why did no one in my team tell me about this?）
视频的主题立足于“国际化的成都”。作为国际化中一部分的我们，我开始追问身边的外国朋友——“成都给你带来了什么？”这个问题让我的队友Jared回想起了他无法离开马桶的那段噩梦……
"Internationalization of the city affected ......" Hey, what a coincidence, as foreigners who have lived in Chengdu for many years, don't we happen to be part of the internationalization of this city?
But what has chengdu given us? I continue to ask this to people around. We got different answers which made this whole process fun and unique.
有了想法，有了框架，一切看似在井然有序地进行——直到我们团队成员聚集在一起开始正式的拍摄时，我才意识到“团队合作”这四个字对一直以来单打独斗的我来说是一个多大的挑战。
With inspiration, with ideas, with the frame, everything seems to be in an orderly manner – But there is one thing that makes it difficult. This competition requires teamwork to complete, and my previous video creations were all done by myself.
朋友们，你们能够想象两个英国人、一个南非人和一个美国人抱着啤酒坐在一起疯狂“吐槽”的场景吗？显然我的朋友们对于“安静地坐下来拍视频”这件事的理解有误，大家都没有太多的拍摄经验，常常要花费一段时间才能够找到稳定的拍摄状态，有时大家会在完成自己的部分后继续尴尬地盯着摄影机，影响到原本效果还不错的素材。
Guys, can you imagine two British guys, a South African and an American sitting together drinking bottles of beer?
Obviously, my friends have different understandings of "sitting quietly and shooting videos". Everyone does not have much shooting experience. It often takes a while to find a stable shooting state. Sometimes everyone will continue to stare at the camera awkwardly after their part, which affected the original material.
我的队友们进入状态之后还会时不时不按照剧本操作，自己来一段即兴表演！还记得美国人Jared把薯片吐得满地都是的那个情节吗？（精彩详情戳文末视频）这一幕本来是剧本里没有的，作为导演的我当时快被他气死了，但是剪片子的时候发现很多即兴表演真的对整个视频增添了许多笑料，呈现效果比我预想的要好很多。
Sometimes people don’t follow the script and do an impromptu performance. Remember the part where the American Jared vomited chips all over the floor? This scene was originally not in the script. As the director, I was almost pissed off at him, but when I was editing the film, I found that many improvisations really added a lot of humor to the video , and the presentation effect was much better than I expected in many ways.
和我同为英国人的Tom为团队提供了拍摄场地，视频中主要的场景都是在他家完成的。在视频开拍前，Tom针对我的想法写了一首俏皮的歌曲，我们甚至花了一晚上的时间填好了词。
Tom provided the venue for the shooting, so the main scenes are done in his home. He even wrote lyrics for a parody song for the video.
如果这次比赛的时间足够充裕，我想我真的会把这首歌曲作为视频内容呈现出来。它的旋律简单轻快，甚至有点洗脑，歌词也非常有趣，但是因为涉及到大量的拍摄和内容剪辑，很难在两周时间内完成，最终我们不得不放弃了这个想法。但是歌词其中的很多亮点都被沿用到了视频正片的对话中，最终得以呈现给大家。
If there was more time, I think I will really present this song. Its melody is simple and lively, even a bit brainwashed, and the lyrics are very interesting, but it involves a lot of shooting and content editing, which is difficult to complete in two weeks, so we finally had to give up this idea. However, many of the highlights of the lyrics have been used in the dialogue of the video.
最近的我非常迷恋蒙太奇，所以在拍摄的最后我和南非人Brosnan花了两天的时间骑自行车走遍了成都的大街小巷，最终用蒙太奇的手法呈现出了这个城市美丽的“卡卡角角”。
I also have an especially strong affection for a well crafted montage so I obviously had to include one in our video. Brosnan (who played 'South African') and I spent a couple afternoons cycling around Chengdu looking for the most picturesque sights. What we imsteqd came across were Japanese restaurants and coffee shops.
These took more of our time than I would have liked so instead of showcasing the hidden nooks and crannies of the city we settled for Chunxi road and called it a day. We tried a few different dance moves in front of the big panda on the IFS building. The people around us stopped taking photos of the panda in awe of the majestic sight of two white boys attempting the the art of dance.
对于团队中的每一个人来说，这支视频包含了我们生活的方方面面，其中有平淡的日常、有文化的磨合、有悲伤的故事、有意外的收获、有感动的时刻、有病痛的折磨……尽管在视频里我们插科打诨，风趣幽默，这非常符合我喜欢用搞笑的方式去表达严肃话题的风格，但不能否认的是这一切都已经对我们的人生造成了弥足深远的影响。
For everyone in the team, this video contains all aspects of our lives, including ordinary daily life, cultural run-ins, sad stories, unexpected gains, moving moments, and painful torture. ……Although the effect of the whole video is funny, it cannot be denied that all of this has had a profound impact on our lives.
Oliver团队作品
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