美語情景對話 第249期:Making a Film 拍攝影片

Jeff: My brothers and I just did a really fun and difficult journey across India in a rickshaw. It's, a rickshaw is a three-wheeled, a little three-wheeled vehicle. It's a cross between a car and a motorcycle. It has no doors and it has no trunk to put luggage in, and it has a little, it has a little steering bar like a motorcycle and it doesn't go very fast, and we drove this all the way across the country from Bangladesh to Pakistan, and it was a crazy journey, it was crazy, very dangerous and full of surprises and very hard of your body and your mind and I did this, with my two brothers in a rickshaw. My brothers and I filmed the entire journey in the rickshaw with a professional video camera. One of my dreams in life is to make a documentary for TV and we decided to make a documentary of our trip across India and it was very difficult. We thought it would be easy, but when we started to do this it was very, very tough. They make it look easy on television and when you have the camera and you're trying to video people it's very difficult. They don't do what you want to do and the weather doesn't cooperate with you, and maybe the camera breaks down and you're tired and you can't get the video shots that you want and it becomes like a game, or struggle, trying to get the best shots, trying to get the most interesting shots, and it is like a game, a fun, and frustrating game, but by the end of the trip, we managed to get all of the video, and we put together a very interesting three minute video, and a couple of Indian video producers helped us put this together, and you can see the short video on the web , and I think you'll like it. It's full of surprises and full of funny and strange sites and full of action, so, it's pretty good. I think you'll like it.

傑夫：我哥哥和我剛剛完成了一次有趣又艱難的旅行，我們乘坐人力車遊覽了印度。人力車就是一種有三個輪子的交通工具。結合了汽車和摩托車兩者的屬性。人力車沒有門，也沒有放行李的後備箱，它有一個類似摩托車的把手，這種工具的速度不會太快，所以我們坐着這種車遊覽了孟加拉國和巴基斯坦，這真是一趟瘋狂的旅行，瘋狂、危險、又充滿驚喜，對身心都是種考驗，而我和我哥哥用人力車完成了這趟旅行。我哥哥和我用專業攝像機拍攝了整個人力車之旅。我的其中一個夢想就是拍攝電視紀錄片，所以我們決定將我們在印度的旅行拍成紀錄片，這非常難。我們本以爲這會很容易，但是我們開始做的時候便發現這非常非常難。在電視上看起來這麼做很容易，不過用攝像機拍攝人們的生活非常難。他們並不會做你希望他們做的事情，而且天氣也不配合，可能攝像機還會損壞，你會非常累，但是卻拍不到你想要的鏡頭，這變成了一種遊戲，或者說是鬥爭，試圖拍到最好的鏡頭，最有意思的鏡頭，這就像一場遊戲，一場有趣又令人沮喪的遊戲，不過在旅行結束的時候，我們成功地把所有的鏡頭合到了一起，我們完成了一段非常有意思的三分鐘視頻，一些印度視頻製作者幫助我們完成了這段視頻，你可以在這個網站上看到這段短視頻，我想你會喜歡它的。這段視頻充滿了驚喜，裏面的地點有趣又奇怪，而且還有冒險情節，非常不錯的一段視頻。我想你們會喜歡它的。

重點講解：
1. cooperate with
合作；協作；配合；
eg. The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees...
聯合國一直都在與美國國務院合作推進一項計劃，尋找願意接納難民的國家。
eg. He agreed to co-operate with the police investigation...
他同意配合警方的調查。
2. break down
（機器或車輛）出毛病，損壞；
eg. Their car broke down.
他們的車子出故障了。
eg. The virus caused the computer to break down.
病毒使得計算機出故障了。
3. put together
設計，創造，制訂（協議、計劃或產品）；
eg. We wouldn't have time to put together an agreement.
我們沒有時間來制訂出一個協議。
eg. We got to work on putting the book together.
我們得努力編成這本書。