shot & cut
2022Principal photography on 22 April 2022 in Tainan; forest and school locked in early May, comedy story cut mid-May.
壓力很大 / 落葉也有未來 / Tainan · NCKU
Fallen leaves also have a future.
壓力很大 is HAAM's NCKU dance-film package from Tainan — dance under falling leaves, cut three ways: forest, school, and a comedy Story that still returns to 落葉也有未來.
Forest cutTainan · 2022
finished pieces
3Forest (~1:53), school (~2:37), and comedy (~1:27) — three angles on the same idea: 落葉也有未來.
through-line
落葉落葉也有未來 — fallen leaves also have a future. Dance, campus, and comedy all return to that line.
place
NCKUAn NCKU / Tainan dance-film package — pressure, leaves, and a third cut that laughs.
The premise
落葉也有未來 — told as dance, campus, and comedy.
Most of HAAM's Taiwan story is product research. This package is the other half: a dancer moves through falling leaves until the edit finds three short films — not one hard drive of takes.
Forest and school keep the body and the trees honest. The comedy cut proves the same line can land as a joke without dropping 落葉也有未來. Plant-named field recordings stay attached either way.
- 01Cover the dance
Takes across forest edge and school ground — then a separate comedy Story shoot.
- 02Cut three ways
Forest, school, and comedy — same leaf idea, three registers of pressure and future.
- 03Keep the line
落葉也有未來 holds every cut together, including the one that laughs.
Three cuts
Forest, school, comedy.
Watch all three finished pieces — lyrical, campus, and comic angles on 落葉也有未來.
Frames from the cuts
Same wind, three moods.
Still frames beside the players — forest, school, and comedy coverage held to the same through-line.
Leaves
Canopy
Campus
School
Detail
Comedy
Story
01
Body and canopy
Let the dancer answer the trees instead of explaining them.
壓力很大 is dance film, not a nature documentary. The cut stays with movement while the sound library — paperbark, tung, fern, cricket, blackboard tree — keeps Tainan’s plants audible. Falling leaves are rhythm and partner, not B-roll. The title pressure sits beside the quieter claim: 落葉也有未來.
- Forest and school as two rooms of the same afternoon
- Field recordings named for the plants they came from
- Coverage that follows the body through wind and campus edge
02
Three cuts
Publish forest, school, and comedy instead of one unfinished epic.
The archive splits into forest, school, and a comedy Story cut with its own footage, photos, and sound. Same leaf idea, three registers — lyrical ground, campus ground, and a comic angle that still lands on 落葉也有未來.
- forest.mov for canopy, leaf-fall, and open ground
- school.mov for campus architecture and rehearsal energy
- comedy/Story for the third take — punchline without abandoning the leaves
03
Taiwan film entry
Give HAAM Film a Tainan chapter next to the São Tomé work.
Green Filter already carries the research story of NCKU. 壓力很大 carries the cinematic one — proof that living in Tainan also meant looking through a lens at dance, weather, trees, and the joke that fallen leaves still have a future.
- Film edition lists it beside Mina Kia and Elsa
- Asia and Taiwan place pages claim the geography honestly
- Web encodes of all three cuts ship on HAAM Film; masters stay in the production archive
Project record
A Tainan film entry for HAAM Film.
Masters remain on the production archive as forest.mov, school.mov, and comedy Story-HD.mov. This page publishes web encodes of all three cuts, frames, stills, and the geography of the shoot.
- Film
- 壓力很大
- Through-line
- 落葉也有未來
- Form
- Dance film — forest, school & comedy cuts
- Location
- Tainan / National Cheng Kung University
- Shoot
- 22 April 2022
- Picture lock
- May 2022
- HAAM role
- Camera, editorial, sound gathering, archive
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