The following script has been typed and distributed by Nongnutt from Bangkok, Thailand.To view the film in full, please CLICK HERE!The 'Making of' Script:My name is Daniel Emmerson and I am responsible for learning English Video Project .The learning English Video Project is a series of short films which will be hosted for free on the EnglishClub.com website is a resource learning English Video Project as a foreign language .The idea be hide the project was that we wanted to craft a series of films set in different methods and techniques that people use to learn English and we also want know why people are choosing to learn English as a foreign language why so popular and how people feel about doing like going aboard to study about going to private English lessons about having tutors and about aspect learning the language . I was interested to find out different it . There ‘re in people say in Morocco and Spain to people who want to go and travel around the world to various places like Cambridge and New York and really experience the language .It’s in home setting so the film crew ultimately consisted of myself and my close collaborator and very good friend, Joel Carr. We decided that we were going to work together on the project after working at Mill field Summer school in the UK.I wrote the project originally for English Club as an exclusive sponsor and after working with Joel at the summer school. We decided it would be a good idea to work on the project together. The first part of call on the trip was Cambridge. We went to Cambridge to find out what I’d like for international students coming to learn English in England and Cambridge being a very elaborate setting, we decided that . That would be the best, the best place to go. I got in contact with a Café what’s surprisingly called Michaelhouse’s which is situated right in the centre of Cambridge. And café is essentially a church which is little bit of an odd place to start the project but. The scheme that they had going at Michaelhouse was very interesting in that year after year .They acquire a sort of ,an apprentice if you like ,from Germany who comes to Cambridge and helps with pastoral duties and various other bits and pieces around the café . and I thought that was a brilliant example of how people come to learn English for a specific purpose .We went to Michaelhouse and met the head priest there and he gave us a rundown of all the various bits and pieces that this German apprentice would be doing .We met this young German fellow whose name was Clemens and he told us about how he was finding his experience , about how he would has to be making coffee and serving customer one day and how he would has to be doing readings in the church the next and a really unique they for someone to be doing . So I was really leased that we could document that and speak with both Clemens and his mentor at the church about these different experiences. We stayed in Cambridge from, I think eight days. It was a really nice experience how Cambridge worked. I’d spend much time at before and it was fantastic to see how Cambridge worked as and international environment and how people seemed so sort of, together there was a real essence of community in this rather quaint English town, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience there.Welcome to New York, Joel and I flew to New York and we went to visit LSL School which is at the Metropolitan College in the centre of New York City. This was something that I’d never done myself go to New York and meet people and find out about what happens in New York city. This was really strange experience for both myself and Joel. so we stayed for two nights in Harlem, which was great we got meet some of the international in there and then we moved to the centre of New York stayed very close to Wall Street so we had real access to a lot of international sort of businessmen and various other students who were studying at LSL the staff there were really helpful in providing us with plenty of students from all over the world but we decided to focus on student particularly from Spain, from Austria and from Argentina from South Korea and from Turkey and also from Israel who have come to New York just to learn English .That’s the main focus they really wanted to get involved in New York city life and I went to know meet real American people and go out and really sort of experience English as something more than a language . I’d really go to when Joel and I went over to film for the project ourselves because we also felt like we went, weren’t part of that culture. It was a place that we’d never been to and even though the native language is obviously English, we still felt a little bit perplexed as to what our rule was as a filmmaker .We stayed in Madrid for a couple of days where we met a lovely young lady whom we’re interested in interview her in one at the central parks in Madrid about here experiences, she also is an English teacher which gave a bizarre twist to the set of circumstances in that was still leaning, but she is te4aching young Spanish students, English as a foreign language and then we moved on to Granada which was a beautiful town in Andalucía , in the south of Spain where we collaborated with private language school there and they provided us with students of lots of different ages .so I found myself interviewing intermediate teenager and then elementary students of seven, eight, and nine years old . So which was really quite interesting and then straight up into adult learners talking about experiences that they’d had with English. Why English is important for Spanish people and how methodology has developed has developed in Western Europe over the last few years.I found Morocco to be a particularly interesting place because it was really culturally diverse from what I had experienced in the past. I’d had never been to a North Africa country before, so I wanted to find out how English played a part in everyday life in Morocco. How many Moroccan people spoke English and when they did , how were they learning it ,so our first part of call there was a school in the centre of Casablanca which was basically a standard school setting so that the students had everyday subjects, Science, Mathematics, English and all these subjects were taught in English so they were learning about history, geography and all this sort of stuff in English, so they would theoretically graduate as being tri-lingual which was a really fantastic…. Think to documents. I really enjoyed my time in Morocco because it was just hat much different from everywhere else that we went everything from the climate to the people the environment the markets the beautiful streets the people that we met some of the students took us in their homes and gave us vegetarian food. It was absolutely superb, I felt really welcome in morocco.Now the plan was to go to Belarus, but we found it extremely difficult to mar oeuvre all the bureaucratic elements of getting firstly getting into the country and secondly filming there. We weren’t too sure as to how that was going to work out from what I gather, Belarus is a wonderful place .It’s a beautiful country and I had some contacts in Minsk who were very keen to help out with the project. Unfortunately though we didn’t get around to sorting out the various forms, fees, insurance that we needed in order to get into the country so we made a leap, we were bold decision and I booked some train tickets, to go to Romania.We met several students who were studying at University of Bucharest and also at International House Bucharest so we had a bit of a different angle for Romania in that it was all very sort of thrown together. It was a bit of a chaotic trip but one that I thoroughly enjoyed the people that we met there were so eager to take part in the project full of enthusiasm and I felt that the people we met there were so dynamic and keen to get involved and the level of English there as you may have seen from the video blog, really, really impressed me.I tried to keep in touch with the people of English Club the audience essentially while we were traveling around so that we could identify with want people wanted to find out message boards and forums on the internet are such a positive way of getting information, but to see people and to hear people speaking about these things and to have an idea of what it’s like to be in the environment while they were learning is where the Learning English Video Project comes in because essentially what I want to do is to take the things that we have filmed to take these interviews and all of this stock footage that we got from each of cities that we went to and package it so that people are able to understand .Why these people are learning English how they are doing it and be able to see a bit of the environment and they were learning . I think that’s a very important attribute to learning anything your own personal environment and the way that you’re doing it is ultimately gonna, have massive impact on what your learning and how it’s happening .It’s was obviously quite chaotic trying to capture all of the different footage from different location practically with New York because it’s such a massive , great big place in order to try and contact some sort of real selection of footage fro the project. We needed to really think about where we were going to film from and how we were going to film what we were filming and the weather played a huge part in it believe it or not, and we really had to be quite careful with what we were doing. Luckily we didn’t have nay major setbacks with the project apart from being unable to film in Belarus. We got everything done that we needed to do.The EnglishClub.com blog site is something that started even before. We began production on the film so what we were doing with , while we traveling, was filming various bites and pieces and mixing some footage up and putting that online so that people could really keep up to date with what we were doing and where we were going .The blog archive was really successful. We’ve had thr4ee thousand views on, I think most, four of five video that are online at the moment with communication at the moment in internet is such a splendid tool for really commutating with people and finding out .How people are doing things differently all over the other side of the world and I want the Learning English Video Project to really be a part of that.So far , with the people that we’ve spoken to the place that we’ve seen the school that we’ve visited the experience has been nothing but a positive one . So far, more information on the project please finished English Club or Danielemmerson.com that it my website and we’ll hopefully to able to keep you updated with all the developments regarding the editing of the project and the release dates .
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