NCKU Students Produced a High-Impact Film, "The Key", with a Limited Budget

TAINAN, Taiwan--(Business Wire)--
Two students, Chi-Yu Lin of Department of Foreign Languages and Hsuan-Ming Yang
of Department of Mechanical Engineering in National Cheng Kung University
(NCKU), Taiwan, produced a film called "The Key" after one-and-a-half-year work
with a limited budget. Their film, "The Key", has received an overwhelming
response from the viewers.

Without the support from film or media related companies, they gathered more
than 20 NCKU students and prepared all the shooting equipments to create an
independent student movie. The director and producer were responsible for the
scripts, props, shoot, music, post-production as well as distribution. The
product cost was less than NT$10,000.

Director Chi-Yu Lin and Producer Hsuan-Ming Yang have produced a 68-minute film
on the theory of creativity, hoping to remind people of the importance of
creative thinking. The film was released in March after half a year of shooting
and 8 months of post-production. The shooting scale followed the example of an
official film. Director Lin was solely responsible for the music, film editing
and post-production. Shooting scenes included the campus, Confucius temple in
Tainan, Hai-an Road, Jue Jiang in Kaohsiung and Cambridge Teacher Center.

The story revolves around four young students. Their life perspectives have
influenced one another during the process of the mysterious Purple Key Tryouts.
Chi-Yu Lin expressed, "Key is not only a tool to open locks. The students in the
film are trapped by invisible and thinking locks and they need to find the
legendary Purple Key to acquire creative and independent thinking. The key they
are trying to find is actually creativity, meaning the insight and attitude of
life."

The premier of "The Key" was held on March 29th, in the International Conference
Hall, Kuang-Fu Campus, NCKU, attracting more than 100 students. In addition to
movie playback, there was a one-hour movie symposium. The symposium received
more than one hundred feedback surveys, indicating that the film has
successfully captured the students` attention.

"The Key" undertakes a unique approach to describe the future perplexity and
realistic anxiety of modern university students. Inspired by the book "Creative
Studies of Lai Sheng Chuan," Director Chi-Yu Lin hoped to transform creative
theories into film subjects, producing a student movie unlike any other.

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