Demo Class Notes (Woojin – Tibo)

Woojin

She works as an advertising / film director.
Currently she cooperates with local brands and talents but wants to have more international opportunities and maybe go to England :

• review numbers
• Learn professional words / jargon about video / advertising (role play / listening to film description)
• Improve confidence in English (more speaking practice + asking quick questions about unfamiliar topics)
• Work on making communication smoother (paraphrasing / filling gaps / practice)
• Email writing with clients (focus on this at the beginning)
• Chit chat (break the ice / talking with clients and talents…)

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F2F: 2

Writing: 2

I am 25 and I am an advertising director.
 I want to go to England.
My profession is film director I want to go to local production house to learn how to filming something.

Not for douyin
I work for media before and it is more about fashion film and little story films.
And filming stars and advertising films. Have a lot of clients filming their products with celebrities.

Maybe they will sponsor us to creative some interesting films.
one is a very commercial film
another is they will give some money to sponsor us to do something creative.

English is very important and my colleagues, they all can speak English and my work needs to communicate with foreigners.

If I want learn something it is from youtube / vimeo…
If I want to improve myself English is the first thing
I want work for an England production house.

If I want to have a project the client has to give me the brief and it is about English .
If I have to email them it is using English.

I don’t want only this. If I want to film foreign celebrities I have to speak English with them and maybe foreign production house …

If it is about professional words it is difficult

if they speak fast I will have a little confused.

My friends their English is very good, they all studied abroad and came back.

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I am 25 and I am an advertising director.
I want to go to England.
My profession is film director / I work as a film director I want to go to a local production house to learn how to film. / to improve my filming skills… / to get more film experience.

I worked for media before and it was more about fashion films and little story telling films / story driven films.
And filming stars and advertising films.
We have a lot of clients filming their products with celebrities. / shooting TV commercials with celebrities

Maybe they will sponsor us to create some interesting films.

We mostly work on 2 kinds of projects :
one is a very commercial film
another is a creative project for which they will give some money to sponsor us to do something creative. / for which they give us a big creative freedom / they give us free rein

English is very important and my colleagues can all speak English and my work needs/requires to communicate with foreigners.

If I want to learn something it is from youtube / vimeo…
If I want to improve myself English is the first thing required / I need English.
I want to work for an England production house.

If I want to have a project the client has to give me the brief and it is in English .
If I have to email them it is using English.

I don’t want only this. If I want to film foreign celebrities I have to speak English with them and maybe foreign production house …

If it is about professional words it is difficult

if they speak fast I will have a little confused.

My friends their English is very good, they all studied abroad and came back.

Writing: 

John Smith from ABC asked for a proposal to shoot a 1m ad
Write an email to him and attach the proposal:

Email structure :

• greeting (Hi Tom… , Dear Mr Smith…)
• a compliment / ice breaker (I was impressed by your work on … / I hope this email finds you well)
• the reason for your email (I am writing to you about …)
• a call to action (Could you …. ? / please ….)
• a closing message (Thank you in advance / I am looking forward to hearing from you…)
• signature (best regards, Wooyin)

Hi John,

I am writing to you about the project proposal.
You will find it attached to this email

Please take the time to read it and let me know what you think about it.
I would appreciate if you could answer before September as I may have other clients asking for this shooting day…

I am looking forward to hearing from you,

Best regards,

WY.

Vocabulary

Film critic (n) someone write film reviews professionally
Critics were very disappointed by the new movie … 

free rein (n) freedom of action
I have free reign for this film the client is backing all my decisions …

to score (v) : to get points
The football player scored a goal
I scored some extra points with the client because I had already prepared everything 

jargon (n) very specific words in one field / industry
People call telephoto lenses long lenses in the photography jargon

Creative (adj)
I need to be creative in my job

create (v)
We create many short films

Pronunciation

Colleague (workmates)
college (university)

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