ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
"Young people are restless and unstable since they are left in the middle of the fog without the guidance. There is no other way to secure their love than share each other's identities.
WHO ARE YOU? is made with 916 cuts in total and I used Camera P which can move very much. I try to avoid the static feeling using handheld camera, and use the camera movement drives toward the character or from believing to help the audiences to identify themselves with the characters. I used the light with the strong contrast to describe the energy which the youth has.
I want the music to be used to emphasize the concrete actions of the characters of turning on and off the music not just as the background for the characters. The reason for this is that listening to the music for the young generations is just a part of their lives.
The reflected images of Hyungtae in cafe Titicaca ironically emphasizes the loneliness of Inju. Inju often stays in frame alone. When Hyungtae tells Inju that he is Mello in Titicaca, Hyungtae came out of the reflected images stands straight in front of Inju. And this moment is emphasized by the camera movement and reverse shot.
I used the lights, movements, noises, music to lift up the characters' emotions and energy of the youth for the ending sequence. Especially the shots by HD (Hyungtae and Inju walking in the crowd) is the essence of those images."
Born in 1967, Choi Ho studied film in Chungang University and went to France to study the directing. Choi Ho's first feature debut, BYE JUNE, is shot mostly in Apgujung streets. Because of the poor lighting equipments, Choi had to shoot the film using glittering neon signs on the street. After continuous questions and experiments about the youth in BYE JUNE, Choi Ho is asking the questions of the youth of 2002 now. It took him one and a half year of making the script and 6 months of pre-production to catch the real face of the youth in WHO ARE YOU?. For him, liveliness of youth is not an answer but a theme. |