Interview question in Mandrill cafe Beijing

Mandrill Café in Beijing

Interview location：Mandrill café

Interviewee：Ma Lin(Owner of Mandrill café).

Interview time：4^th April 2016

Equipment preparation：2*Canon 5D MARKII, Tripod, Reflector, sound equipment, GoPro.

1.     What’s your name? And your occupation?

2.      Did you have anyone in your past that influenced your passion for riding?  

3.     Do you have only café racer style motorbikes or other types?  

4.     When did you first start riding motorbikes? 

5.     What was first motorcycle you bought? Why?

6.     How many motorcycles do you have? 

7.     Why do you like motorcycle?

8.     What style of motorcycle do you like?

9.     What is your favorite journey by motorcycle?

10. What accident thing in your motorcycle journey?

11. What is your favorite motorbike?

12. What motorcycle is your dream?

13.   Do you have rebuilt or refit your motorbike?

14.   Which part you like to rebuild?

15. What is custom motorbike in your mind? Refit dynamic or appearance?

16. Can you talk how you custom a motorbike?

17. Do you know Ace café London?

18. If know how do you know it and café racer culture?

19. Why do you prefer cafe racer style motorbikes than sport motorcycle?

20. Do you have only café racer style motorbikes or other types?  

21. What is real café racer in your mind?

22. Do you think Chinese motorcycle have some problems?

23. Why did you open to this café?

24. What is special about Ace café? Why do people like to gather here? 

25. Where are you satisfied in Mandrill café?

26. Why the café name mandrill café? What are you intentions behind the name?

27. Beijing has many day has haze day, Do you will still ride motorbike?

COME ON CAFE RACER TRAILER

We went to Ace cafe London last Sunday. We made lots of beautiful footage. I really thanks my mates. They helped get my documentary more better. I will keep going for my shooting plan in BEIJING. About these video I use Color finale to color grading. It is just a small trailer. Please enjoy it. I almost finish my A/V script about my documentary. It is really help me to structure my documentary.

Short film script for Broadway session

In the end of master course, we will shoot a short film, one location, two characters, no death, no high building. I want to shoot a film that inspired by myself and classmate. The story base on a truth thing but I use exaggeration way to make it more tension. The main character 'Forest'(24) has a litter bit social anxiety. He afraid talk to people face to face. Because he is not confident and bashful to  talk with girls. However, he is good at reply the message he taping so fast and message can give he think about how to reply better. One day, he find a goddess in social network. He talk with beautiful  girl, he write lot of flirtation words. The girl feels what a confident and humor man. The romance blossomed, they plan to have a date. Suddenly, Forest feels uncomfortable...

I talk the story to Roger and Paul, they give me lots of help. Such as how to build a character more realistic. A character should have strength, needs and weakness. Forest good at use mobilephone talk to people. He need to find his goddess. His shortage is talk to people face to face, we can say he has a little bit social anxiety. We watched a short film 'The dawn' that rewarded Golden bear. It is talk about a woman prepare to leave the room. She just finish a one night stand. She notice a man drop to branch. The man prepare to suicide because he discover his wife is extramarital sex with other. He feel so shame. The woman not only climb his room to take care of his baby but also to kiss the man revenge his wife. It is a good example to help us set up our story. Thus, according to Roger, a good story has three parts, first part is background and set up. Second part is development. Third part is resolve. I still write my script.

Interview question(continuous update) Revised by Jools

Hi Mark, My English name is Mark as well. I’m a student in Nottingham Trent University. My major is MA film practice. I’m very interested in Ace café and café racer, so I want to make a documentary about Ace café and café racer.

Interview question

About café racer

1.    Did you have anyone in your past that influenced your passion for riding?  (有什么人影响你骑车吗？)

2.   How do you know cafe racer? (Parents or friends...) （你怎么认识咖啡骑士的？ 父母或是朋友）

3.     When did you first start riding motorbikes? （你从什么时候开始骑摩托的？）

4.    What was first motorcycle you bought? （你买第一辆车是什么？）

5.    Why did you buy that one? ( 你为什么买这个？)

6.    Are you a cafe racer in your mind？(你认为你是一个咖啡骑士吗？)

7.    What is a cafe racer in your mind? （什么是咖啡骑士在你心里？）

8.    Why do you like cafe racer? （你为什么喜欢咖啡骑士？）

9.So a Café racer is ton-up boy? Right? (咖啡骑士是风驰电掣的男孩吗？)

10.Wereyou a ton up boy in the past? （你过去是个风驰电掣男孩吗？）

11. if so what motorbike were you on when you first did it?    （第一次开到100mile/英里是什么时候？ ）

12. what's the fastest you’ve driven your motorbike?     (你最快开过多快？)

13. Do you have only café racer style motorbikes or other types?     （你有什么类型的摩托车还是只有咖啡骑士类型的？）

14. Do you have kids and do they like motorbikes?     （你的孩子喜欢摩托车吗？）

15. Are your children interested in café racer lifestyle?  (你的孩子对咖啡骑士感兴趣吗？)

16.How many motorcycles do you have? (你有多少辆摩托车？)

17.If you have more than one which one is your favorite? Why? (你最喜欢哪一辆？为什么？)

18. Why do you prefer cafe racer style motorbikes than sport motorcycle?    （为什么喜欢咖啡骑士不喜欢大排量摩托车？例如Ducati BMW）

19.Do you have rebuilt or refit your motorbike?

20.Which part you like to rebuild?

21.Do you like to rebuild controllability or performance of your motorbike?

22.Can you talk about differences between Norton and Triumph bikes? （你能谈谈诺顿和凯旋的区别吗？）

23.Did your family support you riding a motorcycle? A lot of people think riding a bike is more dangerous than driving a car.（你的家庭支持你汽车吗？ 因为他毕竟很危险）

24.What is your favorite journey by motorcycle?

Did you know this ‘café racer’ subculture is widespread in China? What do you think about that?

About Ace café London

1.When did the Ace cafe first open in London? (什么时间开的王牌咖啡厅？)

2.What is special about Ace café? Why do people like to gather here? (王牌咖啡有什么特点？)

3.Why did you want to open this café? (为什么要开这间咖啡？)

4.As we know, the Ace café ruined in world war II, the café was rebuild it. Can you tell us the story of why it was rebuilt in 1949? （据我们所知，王牌咖啡毁于二战，能告诉我们其中的故事和为什么重建？）

5.Who rebuilt Ace café in 1949?

Why Ace café closed again in 1969?（为什么1969年王牌咖啡厅再一次关了？ ）

6.In 1993, it happen a big event, it was Ace café reunion. (1993年王牌咖啡厅重组，那它是在之前关掉了吗？)

7.What time you open Ace café again?(你什么时间重新开了王牌咖啡厅？).

8.What does Ace café mean to you? (王牌咖啡对你有什么意义？)

9.Did you know there was an Ace Café in Beijing? （如何看待王牌咖啡北京？）

If so any comments about it? （architecture, style）

10. I notice some news on website or newspaper talking about anti-social behavior. Do you think that because café racing happened on the street that is potentially anti-social behavior?

11. Why you want to spread the brand? 

Do you want make Ace cafe become an international brand?