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Musical
Caption Writers Musical

4A Winnie Mak
Arts in Action - Alice in Wonderlandction - Alice in Wonderland
During the show, did you notice there Arts in A
was a tiny little line at the top of the
stage? Those were the subtitles As 2023 is a special year for Pooi To, the celebration of our 135 Anniversary, this year’s Arts in
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controlled by our Caption Writer Action was held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Auditorium, and had an abundance of talent
Team, who had to manually display on show. Boasting a wearable art show, two dance teams and a number of musical performances,
the subtitles as the actresses were Part One allowed students to express themselves through art on stage in front of a large audience.
singing and talking. The accuracy of the Part Two featured our annual Pooi To musical production, and this time we were treated to a top class
subtitles and the intervals of each song performance of Alice in Wonderland. In addition to the actresses, the Orchestra, Backstage Team,
were what we cared about since we had to ensure the correct font of Make-up Team, Costume Team, Sound and Lighting Team, Caption Writers and Photography Team
words were pasted onto the PowerPoint slides and projected at the all played their part in making the show the success that it was. Have a read of what some of our
right beat of the songs. It required countless attempts and practice! unsung heroes from behind the scenes had to say.
As you can imagine, it was so funny when we heard someone
asking if the captions were played automatically by AI. I think we
can take it as a compliment!
Despite our relentless desire to perfect the task, I would say we
were the luckiest audience members as we were working in the
secret control room which had the best view of the performances!

The Design Team

4B Lily Sum
This was my first time helping out at AiA in a non-acting role - this
time as part of the design team. I took great pleasure in drawing
the designs for the show, and it was amazing to see them being
posted and used for AiA. The sensation, fulfillment and sense of
accomplishment was overwhelming. Not being just an audience
member, but being able to take part in the entire production is what I
love doing!
Although we only had two designers, together with our teacher we
enjoyed contributing to the show! Thank you for loving our designs
and the wonderful comments!

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