Our Online Life

UBC’s Chinese Language Program Presents:

Are you curious about how the faculty members of the Chinese Language Program are spending their days? Also, our wonderful TAs have shared what it’s REALLY like to juggle work and school online. → Tap on our stories to spend a day with the Chinese Language Program, and make sure to check out the full reel on our Highlights after the day is over!

Guidelines for Participants

• Deadline:

The last day for submissions is November 15th, 11:59 pm PST.

• Submissions:

Please email your videos to chinese.event@ubc.ca with the subject line “Our Online Life — Video Submission”.

If you are emailing from a non-UBC email address, please send your video to wayd1999@student.ubc.ca

PURPOSE:

“Our Online Life” is an Instagram event held by the Chinese Language Program! We want to showcase what our students and faculty members have been up to as we go through our day-by-day online.

Maybe you attend your Zoom classes and meetings still wearing pyjamas where they can’t be seen on camera — heck, maybe you don’t even leave your bed when it’s time for your morning lectures. We’ve all been there!

Whether you’ve been clocking in your daily cardio with Chloe Ting’s workout videos, or whether you’re just getting out of bed at 12:00 pm, we want to see it all! In the spirit of uplifting our fellow students and faculty members, we will be showcasing a series of videos in the spirit of “expectations vs. reality”. Check out our sample video for an example, and keep scrolling for all the details.

The final event will be a series of videos showcasing a complete day-in-the-life of CLP faculty members and students, which will be displayed on our Instagram story.

GUIDELINES:

• Content:

We would like you to choose 1 out of these 6 time slots (9:00 A.M., 12:00 P.M., 17:00 P.M., 21:00 P.M, 23:00 P.M, 12:00 A.M.) and film a short video at ONE of these time points, about what your day is like at that time.

For example, in the sample video, our TA chose the time slot of 9:00 am, so he filmed the “expectations” of him attending his morning class, and the “reality” of him still getting out of bed behind the scenes.

Check out our sample video →

We want to see an interesting contrast between the expectations of your daily life (attending meetings, going to class) and the reality of it (sitting in your pyjamas, etc).

Here is a detailed guideline sheet: “Our Daily Life”

• Format:

Please film 2 short videos, with a maximum time limit of 15 seconds for each video. The first video should show the “expectations” side of your daily life, while the second video should show the “reality” side (please check out the sample video!). We hope that you can (honestly 😉 ) show the gap between the different sides of you.

• Filming:

Please film your videos vertically!

• File format:

.mp4 or .mov files.

• Naming conventions:

Name_CLPVideo_1, Name_CLPVideo_2, etc.