A tragic real-life event inspires a television drama with a social message. How do you stay faithful to the real-life protagonists, avoid clichés and tell a dramatic tale? How do you depict an atmosphere − how do you translate inner states into living images for a camera? What are the priorities in storytelling? How does public television with fictional programming examine social and economic class differences in a realistic and authentic way? How can this format contribute to a better way of understanding issues causing social unrest? What are the challenges of using non-professional actors and improvisation? In this session we present a story that started as the newspaper article of a suicide in Hong Kong and ended as a television drama. An innovative public television programme using non-professional actors and improvisation to get more realistic and what the director would argue to be, more effective performances.
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The story started from a suicide case: the unemployed and depressed single father hanged himself at home one shiny morning. His teenage son, who worked as a ragpicker…