Pressure Project 3 – The Story of Mulan – Min Liu

In this project, I retold the story of Mulan, a woman hero in Chinese history who disguised herself as a man and fought on the battlefield instead of his father. As a Chinese, I found it hard to tell a cultural story in English. The language itself affords meanings and I am not a good translator. That’s the main reason why I chose the story of Mulan. I knew there were several versions of movie about this story and two of them are in English, which could be good resources for me. I chose the Disney version. I reorganized the story to different parts (start, development, climax, end) based on the poem, the ballad of Mulan, an old poem that almost everyone can recite in China. Then I found audio resources (background sound, music, dialogues) for each part and tried to make the music transform smoothly between each session. As a totally new hand in compiling audio and video files, it’s not easy. Alex asked about the choice of the Disney version. I admitted that some of the scenarios and dialogues in the movie was funny and awkward. Actually, the short poem is more vivid and inspiring, and that’s why I added the poem in the video. I am learning to be a good storyteller of my culture. I am also happy that this project gave me an opportunity to learn about Au and Pr. I will incorporate audios in the following projects because sound is so powerful. Here is the final work: