電視電影 《三朵花純理髮》創作論述

Abstract

The Barbershop is a story about confession and understanding among family members that interpreted by the relationship between an elder brother and his younger sister. The elder brother, Lin Sang, and his younger sister, Mei Mei, are raised by their mother who owned a barbershop where the place they grew up. Lin Sang has the talent from his mother and he is the candidate to inherit the barber shop. Twenty-five years ago, all of a sudden, Lin Sang left the place he grew up and went to Japan for an advanced training in haircuts. After such a long time disappearance, Ling Sang comes back to the barbershop unexpectedly just like the day he left. In the meanwhile, this man exposes the secret why he left for so long. The reunion of the families inspires Mei Mei who is facing the bottleneck both in her marriage and career to redefine the meaning of the happiness. The collaboration of the production of the Barber shop began from an acquaintance who was looking for potential film talents for a production house. He came for recommendations. Due to the wonderful experiences worked with the director and scriptwriter of a Public Television Service (PTS) drama Reflection, based on the good understandings, 3 of us decided to join the production house that referred by the acquaintance as a team. At the same time, PTS was recruiting proposals for PTS Life Story. Finally, the team decided to start the cooperation with the production house from sending the proposal of The Barber shop to PTS. The theme of the Barber Shop is conforming to the standard of “HD Film of PTS Life Story” with the subject of “WANT” for entering PTS’ public bidding of 2012. Based on it, the team developed the story about family relationships of “want to confess” and “want to understand”. Centered in “Evaporate the enmities and regain the happiness” to create the script. This project was supervised by the Graduate School instructor, Mr. Chine Sung Liao, who gave valuable advices. According to his instruction, the proposal was approved by the board of examination and get fund for filming from PTS. The Barber shop broadcasted had on January 13, 2012 via PTS. By comparing and analyzing three film productions of a documentary, Go Grandriders, and two dramas, the Beginners and Permanent Nobara, the study reveals that it is not only state the background of the stories, the sexual orientation of the male characters and the transition of female roles as the reference of character setting, but also elaborate each stages of the pre-production, filming, post-production, promotion and broadcasting from the angle of a producer in the article. This is my first full-length drama production with participating from the beginning of brain-storming, production and broadcasting that spent almost 12 months to join it. There will be discussions and sharing about each stage of this production in the thesis in the next stage.