The Conservancy Association (CA) and Youth College (Kwai Fong) co-organised the ‘Hillfire adventure tour & videography apps for smartphone workshop’ on 9-10 October. Thanks every eco-ranger joining our workshop! We would like to give special thanks to Mandy from SLCO Community Resources, who provided our deaf friends real-time sign language interpretation; and the teachers and students form Youth College (Kwai Fong), who set the venue and provided technical support.
To know more about Hong Kong country parks from ‘Hillfire adventure tour’
Kami, CA Conservation Manager, was the speaker of ‘Hillfire adventure tour’. At the talk, she shared the video she took the day right after Tam Lam hillfire, which records terrible scenes at the hillfire site. The talk introduced the AFCD-launched Country Park Plantation Enrichment Programme organised by CA, and Kami also shared Hong Kong wildlife photos and videos taken by infrared night vision devices.
Tips for shooting better video with your smartphone
To assist participants preparing for the Eco-Rangers video shooting contest, the representatives from Youth College (Kwai Fong) shared tips for selecting devices and Apps for editing videos on smartphones. At the talk, students from Youth College (Kwai Fong) shared their experience and demonstrated how to edit a good video using mobile Apps. At the same time, to encourage more children joining the Family Team, they also introduce simple methods to prepare little props for better video shooting. Green Messengers can navigate to our website to download the notes and video recordings of the workshop.
This workshop is one of the free and open-to public programmes of Hang Seng – CA Eco Rangers 2020, the annual fund-raising project of CA. This year, under pandemic, Eco-Rangers 2020 launches many new missions for participants, including the on-going video shooting contest. The deadline of the contest has been postponed to 6 November and is welcome to all people, including people who did not join the workshop. For details, please go to: https://www.cahk.org.hk/ecorangers
Contest participants can get an exquisitely designed, environmentally friendly reusable drinking straw from LEXNGO, and the finalists will receive a commemorative certificate. For the most outstanding ones, we have prepared fabulous prizes, including HK$500 cash prize and a commemorative certificate. The outstanding works will be published on SNS platforms of CA and Rapper Heyo.
