学生代表林轶民2020届毕业典礼(第一场)致辞中英全文

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西交利物浦大学

2020届毕业典礼(第一场)

学生代表致辞——林轶民

大家好，我叫林轶民，是西交利物浦大学影视艺术学院的大四毕业生。我很荣幸今天有机会和大家一起分享我在西浦四年的经历。

去年我们学院的学生为每个院系拍摄了毕业典礼视频，在那时我幻想着未来我也有机会坐在镜头前，看着新一批学弟学妹被这个毕业视频项目折磨得死去活来。但是我没想到的是，由于疫情的原因，我不得不自己拍摄这个毕业视频，甚至我的朋友现在就在截屏做我的表情包。好了，废话不多说。

很多人觉得影视艺术学院的学生生活都是非常高级的，例如在演播厅里的主播或者坐在折叠椅戴着墨镜扇着扇子的导演。然而，你们如果还记得有时候会看到一群蓬头垢面的人在校园里架着摄影机拍视频，没错那不是野人，是我，是影视学院的学生。

对于每个进入影视艺术学院的学生来说，他们都是怀揣着“伟大抱负和傲慢”的艺术家，而如何让这些人能够平心静气地坐在一起参与小组合作呢？答案是：严格的、要求复杂的、五花八门的作业要求。在我们学院有一个表情包非常出名：一个学生从窗户伸出了一张纸写着——“快逃”。可见我们的学习压力有多大。

大家应该比较好奇，那是什么把我们紧紧的凝聚在了一起呢？第一步就是：叫外卖。在中国有句很常见的口头禅就是“你吃饭没？”每当有人在机房建议要不要点个外卖时，整个教室就热闹得像是一个菜市场。我们开始与对方交谈，分享我们在学习生活中的痛苦，和我们掉落的头发。因此，是饥饿让我们站在了一起。我们很快就成为了彼此的朋友，也逐渐学会了如何与他人一起合作完成学习任务。我很享受每天Adam下班以后，我们一起点餐并在教室狼吞虎咽的日子。有无数个夜晚，我们一起在影视艺术学院一起度过，我们掉落的头发，也可以绕地球一圈。但是每当我看到完成的作品时，就像看到新生儿一般激动。当然，如果她要是难产的话我就死定了。

另外，我希望做完这个演讲以后，系主任不会在教室里装摄像头，爱您。

因为疫情，我们不得不在互联网上结束最后一个学期，我怀念Luciano的实验电影，我怀念每周Jaya组织的放映日，我怀念被编程和Roger折磨的每一天。诚然，SoFTA（影视艺术学院）是刚刚成立的学院，但是正因为如此，我们有着最少的限制和最自由的发挥空间。

我们不单单与本学院内的不同专业互相进行合作，我们也有机会与其他院系的同学一起完成课程。不仅如此，我们每个人的发展方向都没有因为专业而受到限制，在不同的课程中我们尝试了大量不同的职业生活：剪辑师，摄影师，导演，设计师；我们在不同的场景中切换：工作室，片场，演播厅。这对于我而言是意义重大的。

在进入西浦之前，我热爱游戏和CG动画，我一度坚信我未来能成为一个游戏设计师或者插画师，然而，大二的摄影课让我第一次接触到数码相机，我才发现我如此醉心于这个会在你钱包上打个洞，疯狂烧钱的铁疙瘩。

现在我即将前往英国皇家艺术学院深造摄影，但如果没有多样化的课程让我们去进行尝试，我可能就失去了探索自己和我到底喜欢什么的机会。对于影视相关的专业来说，我们没有捷径，没有商业技巧。制作精美的名片，夸张的、自我吹捧的作用是微乎其微的。

当然我们不得不承认总有那么几个浑水摸鱼成功的人，但谁又想成为他们呢？我们唯一能做的就是不断地练习，成为优秀的人，甚至最优秀的那一个。你只需要对你所做的事情非常非常擅长，而这些需要花费你大量的时间。在别人深夜打游戏，和朋友在外面玩的时候，你还在写着几万字的剧本，在插画上填充每一个细节，剪辑一百多个G的素材，修改一错再错的代码。

对我来说，摄影并不是一个很浪漫的职业，它需要你不断地磨练技巧，做大量的文献综述来支撑你的作品。它更像一门手艺活，而不是随随便便拿起相机按下快门就能被叫做摄影。我们创作出引起共鸣的作品的能力，与我们的生活经历是不可分割的。我们将过去痛苦的经历，自我迷恋，一次次失败的伤疤和泪水，成功的喜悦带入我们的作品，至少我们应该要这样做。

就像其他的父母一样，我的父母时常也会担心我，因为这是他们第一次感受到那种无力感。面对一个新兴的艺术专业和新开设的学院，对于我的父母来说是闻所未闻。他们本可以把我送到传统大学去念书，或是让我选择看似更加“保险”的专业。然而，他们没有选择这样做，并且一路支持我直到现在。我依旧还记得高考前我父亲对我说的那句话：“无论你想做什么，爸爸会永远支持你，哪怕你未来赚不到钱，吃不起饭，我们家里也永远有你的位置。而你唯一要答应我的事情就是，对你所做的事情保持绝对的热忱。只要你健康幸福，就是爸爸妈妈最好的礼物。”

有的同学在自己不擅长也不喜欢的专业挣扎了整整四年甚至更久，还有的同学手握自己梦想大学和专业的录取通知书，却因为世界排名不够靠前，被父母一口回绝。我身边最好的两个朋友，在自己不喜欢的专业痛苦地度过了两年，而他们父母不允许他们选择影视学院的理由是他们觉得这些专业很难挣到大钱。我也曾迷茫过，如果未来没有功成名就会不会受到别人的嘲笑？自己是否能出人头地证明自己？如果最后我后悔了应该怎么办？然而，他们在去年毅然决然地转身面对自己的梦想。尽管他们本应该像在座的各位一样在今天毕业，但是他们选择再花两年回头拥抱自己的未来。

我相信时间永远不会是击败我们的最大的敌人，只有我们自己才是。我很高兴他们找到了新的道路，我也认为我们今天同样应该把掌声献给像他们一样的人，因为在我心中，他们也“毕业”了。这让我清楚地明白，在今后的人生中，每一个决定都应该由自己去把握，要自己成就自己，自己承担责任。也希望SoFTA（影视艺术学院）的每位学生都能够破除万难，不要在乎他人的质疑，直面自己的未来。

Graduate representative's address- Yimin Lin, School of Film and TV Arts

Hello everyone, myname is Lin Yimin, afinal year student from School of Film and TV Arts (SoFTA). It is an honour that today I have the opportunity to share my perspective of 4 years experience at XJTLU.

Last year, we shot the graduation video for each school/department. At that time, I imagined that when I graduated, maybe I will have the opportunity to sit in front of camera, and see a bunch of lovely junior tortured by this work again. But what I didn't realise is that today, due to the coronavirus I have to record the graduation video by myself. And Maybe some of my friends aretaking the screenshots for making the meme. OKjokes aside.

Many people think that the daily life of SoFTA students, such as anchoring a programmein the studio or a director sitting in a folding chair with sunglasses and holding a fan. However, if you remember that sometimes there werea bunch of unkempt people holding the video cameras and running on campus, that's not barbarian, it'sme, and SoFTA students.

For every student who enters SoFTA, all of them are the people who carry the great ambition. Therefore, how to make these "great artist" sit together peacefully and participate in a teamwork? Rigorous, complex, and multifarious assessments requirements.

There is a meme quitepopular in our school that someone who holdsa paper outside the window with the words: run away. So we can see how hard it is. You might be wondering how could we bound to each other under this tough situation? The first step is: order food. One of the most popular pick-up lines in China is "have you eaten yet?" Everytime when someone suggeststo order food, the studiowill soon get lively like food market. We start to talk to each other, sharing the pain and hair we lost when we fight with the assessment. Therefore, it is starvationthatbondseveryone together. We quickly became friends, and gradually knowhow to collaborate with others. I enjoy the time after our Dean - Adam gets off his work, and then, we startedorder food and enjoy the delicious food. We spent countless nights together at SoFTA, and the hair we lost could have gone all around the world. But seeing the work I've created is as exciting as seeing a newborn baby, and of course I'd be dead if she didn't come out.And, after I gave this presentation, I hope our Deanwill not set a camera in the studio,please.

Due to the pandemic, we had to finish the last semester on the Internet. I miss Luciano's experimental film; I miss the screening days organised by Jaya, and I miss the days tortured by programming and Roger.

It's true that SoFTA is a newly established school, but because of this, we have the least limitation and the most freedom to create. We not only cooperate with different majors, but also complete the assessment together with other departments. Moreover, most of us have different future directions. In our courses, everyone hasthe opportunity to experience different roles, including editors, photographers, directors, designers. We switched between different scenes, editing studio, television hall and post production studio. It means a lot for me.

Before I entered XJTLU, I loved video games and CG animation. I once believed that I could become a game designer or illustrator in the future. However, in the second year, it wasthe first time I touched the digital camera, and I found that I was so obsessed with this heavy thing, which will tap a hole in your wallet and suck your money. Now I am going to study photography at the Royal College of Art(UK), but without diversified courses I learned before, I may lose the opportunity to explore myself and what I truly want.

For SoFTA students, we have no shortcut, no business skills. A beautiful title and exaggerated self-display is useless. Of course, it is hard to deny that there are always a few successful people fishing in troubled waters, but who wants to be them? The only thing we can do is to practice,practice, andpractice, to be the best person, even the best of best. You just need to be very, very good at what you do, which takes a lot of your personal time. When other people play video games late at night and hang out with friends, you are still writing tens of thousands of words of scripts, filling in every detail in the illustration, editing more than 100 gigabyte footage, and modifying the wrong code again and again.

For my personal experience, photography is not a very romantic career actually. It requires you to constantly improve your skills and do a lot of literature reviews to support your art works. It's more like a craftman than just picking up the camera and pressing the shutter. Our capacity to create resonant work is inseparable from our life experience. We bring the past painful experiences, self infatuation, scars and tears of failure, the joy of success into our works, at least we should do so.

Just like other parents, my parents were also very worried about my future, and this is the first time they feel powerless. As amerchants' family, they have to face an unfamiliar major and a new department, everything is brand new. They could have sent me to a traditional university, or command me to choose a major that seems more "stable". However, they did not choose to do so and supported me all the way up to now. I still remember that one day before the college entrance examination,my father said,"No matter what you want, I will always be there and support you. I don't care how much money you makein the future, our family will always have your place, and the only thing you need to promise is that be passionate about what you do. Your lifeand healthy is the best gift for me and your mom. "

Some students have been struggling for four years in a major that they are not interestedin. They are required by parents to choose the university that has a high ranking, instead of choosing the school or major they truly want. Two of my best friends struggled for almost two years in the major they totally dislike. They cannot choose SoFTA because their parents thought it's hard to earn big money in the future. I used to be lost, and keptthinking these questionslike my friends: if I won't succeedin the future, will I be laughed at by others? Can I really prove myself? What if I regret in the end? However, finally, in the final-year, they chose to start overand pursuittheir dreams. Although we should have graduated together today, they chose to spend another two years atXJTLU to embrace their future.

Time will never be the biggest rivaldefeat us, only ourselves will, and I am glad that they find the new path. I think today, we should also give an applause to these people, in my heart, they also "graduated". These experience makes me clearly know that every decision we make should be taken by ourselves. We should make our own achievements and take responsibility. As astudent of SoFTA, we need to overcome all the difficulties, don't care about other people's doubts and facing your own future.

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