Monday 4 November 2024

The Golden Tour of Nantougucheng Shenzhen - video

The full-length video is now here of a tour that very nearly didn't happen. This one was destined to be stopped like the tour of Shanghai but I somehow managed to make it through with a rough video before getting stopped by the guards. They messed up the sound so it's been re-recorded but that doesn't change the basic premise of the tour. Conflicting information from official sources, kitsch music, too much enthusiasm and a place that doesn't really want the tour. 


I have tried to model it on every awful tour you've taken before and then make it worse still, but in a deliberate way. The references will be a bit lost on most people, it helps to know the history of Shenzhen and Hong Kong to read this one, but there's plenty else going on. Not sure where to hot next with a Golden Tour but I do have one or two candidates brewing. The thing that strikes me looking at it now, however, is whether it would be better to dispense with the audience altogether and just make it as a video. It might be easier to do these that way.








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