{"id":12677,"date":"2018-04-27T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=12677"},"modified":"2018-04-30T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T05:55:05","slug":"telling-human-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2018\/04\/telling-human-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Human Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\">F<\/span>or our 25th birthday, some alumni have sent in video greetings along with some <em>Varsity<\/em> memories and recent updates. It&#8217;s exciting to see how everyone has developed after their time at <em>Varsity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rene, art director of the 2013 Spring Board, is now a filmmaker and he recalls how working as a reporter for Varsity helped prepare him for telling human stories, something that he is doing now as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12840\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12840\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n-1024x510.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n-324x160.jpg 324w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n-696x347.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n-1068x532.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/31369721_10160412146565644_4176814274695397376_n-843x420.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rene (fourth from the left) with stars Kara Hui (third from left) and Philip Keung (fifth from right) and other cast members from the film &#8220;Tracey&#8221; , which he directed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact Rene&#8217;s first feature film as a director <em>Tracey\u00a0<\/em>is about a transgender woman. His first multimedia story for <a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/transsexual-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Varsity<\/em><\/a> also happened to be about a transgender woman!<\/p>\n<p>Listen to what Rene has to say about his <em>Varsity<\/em> days:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-12677-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Rene-Sequence-02.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Rene-Sequence-02.mp4\">http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Rene-Sequence-02.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rene, art director of the 2013 Spring Board, is now a filmmaker and he recalls how working as a reporter for Varsity helped prepare him for telling human stories, something that he is doing now as a filmmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversary-alumni-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}