What Do Students Have to Say to Olympic Winter Games 2022?
Dec 20, 2021
Peking University, December 20, 2021: The Olympic Winter Games 2022 will begin in Beijing within 2 months.
Students from PKU School of Journalism and Communication conducted a
street interview on campus, asking fellow students from both Peking
University and Tsinghua University about their favorite Winter Olympic
sports/athletes and feelings towards the Olympics, and created their
version of the games' theme song. Let's sing along!
Production Background
On October 26 this year, as a group of students from the PKU School of
Journalism and Communication (PKUSJC) was going to set the theme for the
video, an exhibition to celebrate the 100-day countdown to the Winter
Olympics was concurrently in the Centennial Lecture Hall by PKU's Youth
League Committee and many volunteers took pictures in front of the
exhibition board. Inspired by the volunteers' overflowing enthusiasm,
the group felt that PKU students have been resonating with the pulse of
national construction and social development, being the trendsetters of
the times. As students of PKUSJC, they also wanted to offer their
blessings to the Winter Olympics, thus deciding to shoot under the theme
of the Winter Olympics.
Introduction to the Team
The video shoot was supervised by Professor He Shu, who gave the team
valuable advice on topic selection, filming and post-production.
Meanwhile, four members of the team – Peng Chengzhi, Chen Qian, Li Lv
and Wu Jiani, worked together to complete the parts from video idea to
video shooting (including video editing).
They also invited PKUSJC freshman Clea Jin (South Korea) as well as
international students from Tsinghua – Light January Li (Canada),
Thouvenin Katherin (France), Kravchenko Kristina (Russia), JiaYi Larissa
(Brazil) to participate in this filming, responsible for being featured
for the interview and singing in the video.
Additionally, Cai Dian from Communication University of China also helped with the filming.
Reason behind the Theme
From 2008 to 2022, from Beijing to Beijing, the five Olympic rings have
witnessed the realisation of the dream of the five continents. As
university students, it is a great honor in itself to express the
blessings and visions for the Winter Olympics in the form of video
production.
In the post-epidemic era, they, as journalism and communication
students, think about the resonance of young people's destiny with their
country from the perspective of international communication, and want
to use more cross-cultural voices to convey young people's aspirations
for unity and friendship. Telling the world the real story of China and
deliver the real voice of China!
Messages to the Audience
From the theme of "Together for a Shared Future", they invited
international students from different countries to sing the song of the
Winter Olympics and send their expectations and wishes for the 2022
Beijing Winter Olympics in many languages. Through this warm winter
song, they hope to let all those who are interested in the Beijing
Winter Olympics at home and abroad feel the power of unity across
countries and races conveyed by sports, and from the perspective of
international students, feel the dedication of China in preparing for
the Winter Olympics and the friendliness of the Chinese. The video was
filmed at Peking University, whose traditional spirit of "inclusiveness"
has also injected more history and youthful energy into the video.
Writer: Vissly Chan Shun Ling
Editor: Pu Hairui
Supervisor: He Shu
Designer: Lean Zhi Xuan
