Hello everyone, welcome back to another Illumilani video essay. So the topic of this video was in a poll a couple weeks ago and won by an overwhelming majority and was also a topic a ton of people asked me to cover. At the time of making my first Chainsaw Man video essay, I hadn't read the manga yet and didn't have a full scope of every female character, but I am happy to report back.  I couldn't stop reading, it was fantastic and I think Chainsaw Man is easily one of my top 5 anime slash mangas now, and there's a ton to talk about with it, but today we're going to be focusing on two things, Asa, Quan Chi and Riz, the women of the manga, and updated opinions on the women we had already previously talked about since my thoughts have somewhat changed since that video. Of course, this one's gonna have some major manga spoilers, so if you haven't caught up to the manga and are interested in it, I strongly advise you read it before watching this video. Alright, let's begin. I'm gonna be going in chronological order for the manga girlies here since it just makes sense, but Riz is the very next woman to be introduced after the anime leaves off and man am I stoked to see her appear in the anime whenever it returns. Admittedly, when I had first read the manga, I speed read through her part and I liked it, but I didn't love it like everyone else, but after rereading her chapter and gathering more context around her character motives, I absolutely adore her and the tragedy surrounding her character. Riz falls into an anime trope that I see quite often, but I love how different and complex the story plays the trope. Riz is a femme fatale in the story, but I feel like her character digs a little bit deeper. This isn't to say I hate femme fatales, I do think they have their place, but we're talking about subversion here besties, subversion. Sure, Riz uses her flirtation skills to lure denji in, but the manga girl also gives us small pieces of her motives that add more depth to her as well. Riz's backstory is not something that's revealed to us until the end of the arc with denji, and even then we're not given all of it. However, even with the very little we're given, we can deduce a ton about her character. Denji is an orphan who was experimented on and raised to be a spy for the soviet government. It was later on revealed that, despite her initially telling denji otherwise, she'd never been to school just like denji. These moments are integral to understanding the relationship they have with each other. They were both children forced to do a job, cut off from the outside world, and deprived a necessary developmental growth for the sake of their organization. For this, Riz, in... What might seem like either a hard disinterest in denji, or on the other hand, a love for denji, actually ends up being deeper than both At some point after their fight, which we'll get more into later, denji offers to take Riz up on a previous offer she'd made on him to run away. She turns him down, asking if he really thought she was into him. While the extent of interest Riz carries for denji's left intentionally vague, it's implied that she, at the very least, was going to take him up on this offer. She tries to go to the cafe where they said they could meet, but ends up getting taken down by Makima. It's utterly tragic, and never even has to say anything explicitly. We know she didn't like her life as a Russian soldier, since she was about to leave it in favor of a quest for freedom, and might not have been romantically into denji, but she was willing to take this quest with him. I don't think it's a stretch to even say she saw herself in him and personally related to him, but that's also something I want to get into more later. She's also, also, a love interest for denji that is of appropriate age! Woo, yeah! One last thing I want to get into about her character was the big fight scene between her and public safety in chapters 46 through 52. One thing I wanted to get out of the way before we start, I didn't really like that she was naked for a lot of the fight, mostly because she's underage. A couple things to note about this, though. God, I feel like this is gonna sound like such copium. It does have lore reason backing behind it since she spawned her body from the neck down and couldn't get her clothes back after her body was destroyed with them on. She's also not the only female character to do this, or even the only character in general. Both denji and another woman in the manga do this after losing their heads, which makes it pretty consistent across the board and in some aspects, good story writing. However, I would be a hypocrite in regards to how I feel about Momo's outfit from my hero if I just let it pass because it was done for lore reasons. I think lore surrounding women is usually made the way it is so that they can show their body for fanservice. For example, Momo's power to generate objects could come from something entirely different, like, eh, I don't know, literally any other way than skin exposure. Or in this case, the bomb devil could have just had a single moment to put her clothes back on. It's also a little bit funny that she magically spawns underwear and only underwear in the middle of chapter 46.  Uh, but then why didn't she take their pants? Whatever. It's not the biggest deal to me with all the context. I just thought it would bring it up as it's one of my very few small grievances I had with the manga, and I'd like to be consistent with my opinions at least. Aside from the wardrobe choices of this part, though, I think the writing of these chapters is near flawless. The little pieces of this fight give us a lot of context surrounding her feelings about Denji. As mentioned before, Fujimoto intentionally keeps Riz's exact feelings for Denji vague, and for me personally, it was a bit hard to tell if Riz was lying at first when she said she actually liked Denji, or if she was lying when she said she didn't. However, a couple of things have me believing that Riz didn't fact like Denji, just not romantically like Denji hoped. One is the fact that in this battle, she gives him pointers on better fighting techniques and tells him he needs to learn how to hone his skills. I don't think these are words from someone who intends to kill Denji with no remorse. She would have no further purpose for teaching him something new, but she chooses to anyway, kinda like how she taught him how to swim. Denji also points out in this fight that she could have killed him the first time they met. The point isn't revisited until later in the manga where Riz is stopped by Makima, and Riz asks herself why she didn't just kill Denji when they first met, and it's implied that it's because she saw herself in him after she admits she didn't attend school either. These scenes also have me believing that she was being sincere when she offered to run away with Denji, since if her motive was to kill Denji from the start, she would have just done it then and there. Another awesome part of this fight is the actions taken themselves, so for some context, something I see far too often with fights against women is one of three takes.  Before anyone comes to the fact that Sanji's an example in this video, I need you to please please know he's one of my favorite characters from One Piece. I am only using him as an example. I know this one might sound counterintuitive, like, but you can't hit women.  Isn't that women empowerment? And my answer to those are yes, you actually can in a fictional fight, and well, sometimes. Here's the thing, the way I see it, writing any fight with gender in mind is almost always gonna come off as contrived. That goes for both fights where a woman can't win against a man because he's too strong, and for fights where the woman can't lose because women are perfect and never do anything wrong. In the wise words of that man, It's odd to me too, because I think this pitfall would be easily avoided if you just let each character use their power to the best of their ability, then even if the woman loses, it'll feel like she gave it her all and the wind will never feel gendered. And I believe this is exactly what Chainsaw Man did. Rhee's killed hundreds of people. She's a trained assassin, and for the stink I gave her earlier about being half naked during the fight, I think it goes to show just how fast-paced she was fighting, and how much of her was going into this fight.  Dude, that's sick. The only reason she loses this fight, despite having more fighting experience, is because she was fighting against multiple people in public safety trying to kill her, allowing Dungey to trap her and take her underwater where her powers were useless. As I stated in the previous video, a big reason Fujimoto's women are so subversive and real is because he writes them like people. The story managed to avoid all the common pitfalls of a typical femme fatale woman by simply writing her as a person, someone with motives and goals outside of the main character, but also as a compliment to the main character. She's okay, I guess. I'm just kidding, I was trying to be normal, but I can't, I'm so sorry, I thought she's perfect. Sorry you had to see that. I love Quan Chi a lot. As you can tell, I had her appearance tease for me on TikTok, and I knew going into it that she was gay and going to have a harm of women around her, but goddamn, was it everything I expected and more. Admittedly, she was much more of a side character than Riz was and had a smaller part to play, but I adored every bit of it, and I think the fandom did too considering how often I saw the phrase giga-chad lesbian all over Reddit and TikTok. But this is what I think makes her unique to anime. First and most obvious is just how blatant her sexuality is shown in the manga.  Fujimoto, however, pulled the absolutely chad move of making a two-page scene in the middle of an arc. It's important to note that the women in these scenes are all of legal age, which if you're going to do fan service is the best case scenario, should be the only case scenario, they also constantly refer to these encounters, having them hanging on her as much as they can, and have her call them her girls, making it almost unavoidable and necessary to portray them in the sexuality that they are. No localizable gal pals here ma'am. There are a couple of things I do want to mention about this though, one being that I could also see it if some LGBT women did not like this particular aspect of it and felt it was a bit fetishizing. Obviously this isn't my issue to take, or even to go crazy applauding. I just want to address that while I think it's awesome that Kwanchi's sexuality so blatant, I would also understand people who find it a bit objectifying. I would love to hear opinions from everyone on this though. But outside of that, Kwanchi's lesbian harem does do more than just add LGBT representation. A big genre for anime is harems, whether that be one male all female harems like high school DxD or Nisakoi, or one female all male harems like Orin High School Host Club in Amnesia. With Kwanchi and her girls though, there are three big things that set her apart from the others. One is that they're adults, which just makes for an interesting story for me. I loved high school anime when I was also in high school, but now that I'm no longer part of the demographic, it can get a little bit uncomfortable seeing children and fans serve as heavy roles. The fact that they're adults allows the sexual aspects of it to actually hit the mark and also makes it feel more natural. Two is that Kwanchi shows genuine love for every single one of her girls. In a lot of anime harems, there's a group of people vying for the attention of the head or the main character. The main character usually has to make a choice on who's going to be the one and only for them, and no hate to harems, they definitely have their place in a romance fantasy kind of way, and serve their purpose in getting fandoms to root for best girl or favorite himbo, but I think Kwanchi's relationship with her girls takes it into more of a polyamorous territory in which she never has to choose and loves every single one of her girls. The lines where she asks for her girls to get an education, or where she tells Maki mother she can kill her but spare her girls, it's so so sweet. It shows that while yes, the nature of their relationship is pretty s***, Kwanchi also deeply cares about these girls and is willing to go above and beyond to ensure their happiness. Third and last, by the simple act of making both Kwanchi and her girls women, they've removed any sort of gendered power dynamics to the relationship. Typically with harems, even in reverse harems, there can be a sort of gender expectation at play. I think two things happen between both harems and reverse harems. The man is always doing the saving and having the power, and the women are the weaker ones getting saved, think Kirito saving a bunch of women in sword art and how do he getting saved by Tamaki. Again, I'm not ragging on the genre, I think they know what their audience wants to see and they play it up. However, simply by making Kwanchi a woman along with her harem, Fujimoto has taken out any sort of male power domination that could have happened. In fact, Kwanchi's girls are regularly helping her out in fights and even being a huge reason that she or public safety wins. And then, I mean, you've seen Kwanchi.  Speaking of Kwanchi's strength, her fight scenes also bring to light a couple of other details I'd like to mention. So, a couple months ago, a story analysis YouTuber who's on here as Shni made a video about how Arcane writes women. In that video, he pointed out a scene where Vai gets punched and has spit and blood flying out of her mouth. He points out how most media doesn't give their women a moment like this, a moment where they take a hit and have a scene where they look ugly, so to speak. Again, while this sounds counterintuitive and might make most people pause and think why are they hitting a woman, it's actually essential to the writing and feminism of both Vai and Kwanchi's characters. In chapter 62, we see Kwanchi getting a fight with Yoshida, in which he lands a nasty solid kick on her face. And in Vai fashion, she takes it like a champion and is still standing. Yoshida even remarks right here that if she kicked him in a similar fashion, it would have killed him. This goes to show just how powerful she is, while also being flawed enough to miss shots and take hits in the fight. And I think it's really important character writing to see both of those sides. One last thing I want to point out. Earlier, we mentioned how Reece was naked for some of her fight after spawning from the neck down and that there was another female character who does this as well, and that character's Kwanchi. A couple things I want to get into about this. First off, how f***ing cool was that transformation? A top-down shot of Sugihagi literally holding Kwanchi's head and then dropping it into a pile of bodies where Kwanchi reforms? I just know that's gonna look so good in the anime. Aside from that though, I want to talk about why her specific nudity doesn't really strike me as all that bad. In her fight, she never seems sexualized and is really only posed in cool action shots, save for the singular butt shots. Honorable mentions before we move on to Asa, I want to point out just how f***ing awesome the line of corpses talking is, which was said by one of her fiends before she killed a public safety demon hunter when he was being anti-semitic to her. It's one of the many fantastic lines in this manga. Fujimoto seems to be really great with stuff like that, and in the words of a Redditor, I found while doing research for this video, and then finally, Cosmo the Halloween girl and her bit about being insanely smart and having all the information in the universe but being condemned to only saying Halloween has to be the funniest f***ing sh** I've ever read. Kwanchi's character was so perfect for this manga though, all this to say, she's a super interesting and unique female character and I really hope we get to see more like her in other manga and anime. I absolutely adore Asa, though admittedly my thoughts on her are a little bit more scattered than the other women on this list. Asa is basically the main character of part two, which by itself is a step up from the usual shonen woman, but of course just being the main female of a show does not automatically make you well written. What makes her a well written female character comes from the complexities of her actions and her desires. One of Asa's biggest personality traits is just how awkward she is.  I know all of those sound bad but wait, just hear me out, hear me out.  They're a men that feel and act the same way Asa does in real life, which touches on something I remember hearing a long time ago. I forget where I heard it exactly, but it was something along the lines of, if you wanna write a good female character, just stop trying to write a female and write a character, essentially saying pick the motives and personality first and the gender second. Asa feels like she was written in this regard with more feminine aspects of her character added afterwards.   Asa is truly alone at the beginning of her arc, but instead of pining for friends, she's decided it's easier to stay distant and feel internal contempt or jealousy for people who do have friends and love. The whole reason she hates Bucky the Chicken at the beginning of the arc is because she's jealous of the attention he gets. However, it's made clear that despite what comes out as outward disdain for people with friendships, Asa loves positive attention from people and is willing to change her mind on things just to be their friend. For example, the disdain she showed for Bucky was gone instantly the moment Bucky asked her to be on their team and the rest of the class agreed, or when she lied about liking Chainsaw Man because Yuko said she liked him. Asa puts up walls and shows disdain for other people when they don't directly and outwardly like her, but the moment someone does show any positivity towards her, she tries her hardest to keep them. It's the kind of nature that can come off as hot and cold to readers, especially towards Denji, but it's so perfectly indicative of not only the nature of a teenager, but also someone who's guarded and afraid of getting hurt. A good scene to highlight this is the one where she goes to Denji's apartment after being invited over. It's right after Asa finds out she's unable to make a sword at a Denji's spine, essentially saying Denji doesn't like her enough for her to do that. She had previously thought that he did, however, and so when her prediction is supposedly proven wrong, Asa becomes insecure and tells Denji in his apartment that she would never make out with him and that she doesn't like him, despite inviting him out on the date. This confuses Denji, of course, but shows she's careful with the feelings she shows, lest she be the one that people disagree with. What makes her a good female character, though, is the mosaic that her personality is, which takes character traits that might seem annoying to some, and instead makes them endearing when we're able to relate them to ourselves. So like I mentioned before, I wanted to do a quick revisiting of the characters from part one of the subversive women video I'd covered, and just give a little bit of an update on what I think of them now. None of the opinions have really changed that drastically, so this is going to be a little bit shorter than the other girls, but there are certainly some things I want to talk about. And the last part, I mentioned just how foreboding and terrifying Makima is, and I think that perception absolutely still stands. She was such a well-written villain and so perfectly hateable, despite having a somewhat tragic backstory with the whole wanting to be hugged and loved thing. I thought the line Makima is listening, and her repeating a corpse is talking back to Quan Chi and her fiend before killing them, implying she was indeed listening to the entire fight was super cool. I think this is something I've missed a lot in recent American media, a good, genuinely terrifying villain with a tragic backstory that's still just a remarkably terrible person. The scene where the American government made a contract with the gun devil to kill Makima, and every single subsequent death was named in the search for her was so absolutely chilling.  And also slightly off topic, but I thought the part where the American president was like, I'm sorry to my people, we're taking your life spans, it had me laughing a little bit. I remember scoffing and telling my boyfriend there is no way the American president would actually care about all of our lives like that. I feel like the conversation would sound more like, Homie, those lives are yours, we'll kill Makima. I also thought it was really cool how after Makima died and Naita became the control devil, it kind of brought up this topic of nature versus nurture, and is trying to show that with a better home life, Naita can be different, and I'm really really excited to see where her character goes. I could cry just thinking about her. I knew it was coming, since it got spoiled for me before the anime even came out, but god, I could not have prepared for the straight gut punch that all of the context brought with it. The next day was Denji's birthday dude, it's f***ing birthday! I was pretty happy though that after she died, she still had a moment with him, and I think after Denji had that snowball fight with Aki, I'm in denial, thanks for asking. He really needed something like that, or he would have ended up being a lot more like Asa in the whole apathy for living thing. I was also really happy to see her save him, and it really drove home just how much she cared about her best friend, and how much growth she'd experienced in terms of how selfish she started out when she was ready to sacrifice Denji for her cat. I also thought the scenes where she was traumatized from the darkness devil were really well written. I was a little bit sus at first when she and Denji were taking baths together, but seeing them finally could see that this would always be a platonic relationship, and that they were just so incredibly close that they could do this for each other, was actually really touching. Also the fact that Aki slept next to her too, and helped take care of her, that was sweet. My favorite part though is how she stayed calling Denji her buddy till the very end, and it was so wholesome for her character who was kind of anything but. Ultimately I love that she got to keep her unhinged personality, while learning to trust and love, and I can't wait to see if Denji will actually find the blood devil, and bring her back to life like she asked him to. So obviously Himuno wasn't in the manga after chapter 39, which is where I started reading, but there was a couple of comments left on my last video that were super interesting regarding her role in the story, and I thought I'd like to point that out here. First and foremost I'd like to say that I still think her actions towards the younger boys were very questionable at best, but I think she was more integral to the story than I said in part one. I think upon reading those comments and seeing what everyone else had to say about her, the nice people, not the people just straight up saying she did nothing wrong. Guys come on, that was a little bit weird. I've kind of come to a slightly different conclusion about her character. There was a comment left by this person right here that I thought was really interesting, pointing out that she served to deepen the world building of Chainsaw Men, and kind of really highlight how dark the world was, and how public safety was filled with not good people, since they didn't bat an eye at Himuno taking Denji home. And then this comment right here that was pointing out Himuno's perception of death and how she feared no one would remember her after, as represented by the ghost devil she made a contract with. They basically said that the ghost devil represented her fear of being forgotten and of course dying, and that it was a really fitting contract for her to make. Another comment I can't find right now pointed out how Himuno was not so much intentionally going after Denji, but going after people who desired Makima because she felt insecure that Makima had taken Aki, for lack of a better word. On this last one though, I think it still doesn't make her a good person and doesn't erase that she almost had s*** with a minor, but I believe that's all intentional and really hits home on the darkness of public safety and the people working there as a whole. There were a ton of very insightful comments on my last video though, and I'm really really happy you guys enjoyed it. I hope that this one at least somewhat lived up to your expectations since you guys had been asking for a part two. After finishing the manga, Chainsaw Men moved its way up to my top five favorite stories ever, and I absolutely admire the world building going on here. There's actually still a ton of content I want to go over about it, and I've been holding back on gushing about how interesting Denji's character is, so I'm excited to get more into his time passes. But anyways, thank you guys for watching, and I hope you guys will come back for the next video. Bye!


Our speaker is a camera developer and also a film director. We're looking to have a cinematic camera development. He'll describe to us how this project was started. It was self-made. And the goal was to have a cinematic effect. For example, this limited range film effect. It started in 2006 and he came in in 2008 and he can explain more. We're in the central film archives of Austria. There's over 500,000 films here. There's many millions of meters of film here. It's a great place to have this talk here. Online, of course, it's different this year, but we're doing the best we can with what we have. It's nice to sit here.  This is a chance to come out of the crisis this way. After the talk, there's a live question-answer period. It's online. And let's go back to the old ages. It's back in 2001. And it was clear that everything in a cinema was filmed in analog at this time. There was a lot of post-processing that was happening. And more and more films were going into digital production. But in the middle time, there was still the normal lead filmed on analog. It was very slowly, it was changing. What actually is analog film? It's going to be a sensor that's light sensitive on the film. With light contact, the base will have a chemical reaction and it will develop and it will fix the base. And then when you film through it or you can cut it and then stick it back together. In the end, every copied film roll will be sent to one cinema and then that one will be projected. This was a standard technical process for over 100 years. And so this was for over many generations. And then there was a new revolution happening, the 2000s. It was a big change. It was a disruption technology. There was a pressure that the film should be all digital all of a sudden. Why? Well, you save a lot of money. This analog film was very expensive. So development was really expensive. So to produce it is expensive. Everything is expensive. Digital world to save everything is very cheap. And then to edit a computer is cheaper. This is another dimension in terms of cost. And then you have different possibilities. The acquisition. There's a period here where the tour story was the first animated digital film. And this is still is already pretty old for us. At this point, it was Once Upon a Time in Mexico with Rod Riegrish. George Lucas with Star Wars Episode II was the first big production in Hollywood. A big project. The first films that was completely made digitally. And it was done through a television camera. This was the only possibility to do it in high definition. And do it in 24 frames per second. The cinema camera was still in kindergarten at this point in comparison to the television cameras. It was only in the beginning. It wasn't good enough yet. In the cinema it had to develop over a 10 year period. You had to consider how do you bring about the cinematic aesthetic? How do you produce this picture quality? How do you actually produce this cinematic aesthetic? There's a typical film process that you see flicker that comes through the 24 frames per second. In comparison to the television then it's coming faster. It's coming fluidly. Cinema is then slower in comparison. As it's going through the projector it's being pushed through and then the light is also pushing through the film. And then there's a pulse that happens because of this. And then it's different in the end what the aesthetic comes out from it. Then you have a high frame rate. And then it's going to be higher in comparison. So you have a big project. In 2012 you have the Hobbit. And then you have a very high frame rate for all the very fast action that was happening. For some time there was a similar trend for TV technology. Smart TVs were creating intelligent intermediate pictures to upscale 24 images per second to 48 and more. So they were marketed as clear motion estimation and stuff like that. And the result was the Hollywood pictures that were produced very expensively were looking suddenly like a cheap soap opera. It was completely flopped. HFR is no longer something that people produce with. So it kind of disappeared. The film grain results from the random distribution on the negative. And as opposed to the digital image sensor which has always the same distances. So every image has this random distribution. So you can see from the negative or from the film the random distribution dissolves into the motion. So it looks like it is more defined has a higher resolution. There was a vendor for cinema cameras and they had an image sensor where they were vibrating the sensor moving the sensor for every image less than one pixel. So this worked but it was way too expensive and way too difficult to do. And now the shallow depth of field which is something that most people probably associate with the cinema aesthetic. And that depends on the projection or on the sensor or the negative. And the size of an APS-C sensor corresponds about the size of a super 35 negative. The difference to a photo camera 35mm film is positioned on the left and then moves to the right. Which means it is a bit larger than the film that is moved horizontally for cinema cameras. Which can use only a slightly smaller opening. And 35mm has about two thirds only comparable to 60mm film. Which means the TV image has a lot more sharpness in the depth of field. And then there is also the dynamic range which is the ratio of the darkest and brightest spots in the image. Which is in TV you see clipped highlights. That is white areas that are over saturated clipped. And we know that from audio recordings when it's too much gain then you hear some sort of noise. And that is comparable to digital images that don't have any more information because they have too much brightness. And that is the result of a dynamic range that is too low. And one of the very typical things that happen with EV recordings. The film negative Kodak has set has about 13 f-stops dynamic range. And TV cameras have been below that. But currently cinema cameras are in the same range. But in TV and you can see it with live TV there is often clippings. So back to the year 2001. Change from camera TV technology to cinema can't be stopped anymore. So as I said it's a lot cheaper. So this is where technology is going. Storage is cheap. Camera technology is being replaced by or is being caught up by computer technology. So in 2005 there is still no real camera that is comparable to an analog negative. And it's obvious that when this technology has arrived it will be first available for Hollywood studios because they have the money. But the potential has been recognized. So they're using tricks to approach this cinema aesthetic. And one of these tricks was an optical 35mm adapter which is essentially a matte screen where the matte screen is semi-transparent. And then you project the image onto this matte screen which is then recorded using a cheap camcorder. So you kind of get the cinema aesthetic for cheap. The problem with that matte screen of course is the surface structure of this matte screen. Which means that if it isn't moving the matte screen you will see this structure after some time. So people started to think how do we move this matte screen so it blurs in a way. There were rotating adapters or vibrating adapters where the matte screen was losing the structure due to this motion. But that meant you have a motor with energy supply and it also causes noise. So that wasn't successful as soon as larger sensors became available. There's a mixture then of the film and the television technology. And this time in the online form there was a Dutch filmmaker. They were exchanging information about how to adapt this technology to a film camera. There was an America film manufacturer. They produced something but this is the first one that was all open source with software and hardware together. And it's good for film. And the first one I was 600, 800 dollars. It was relatively affordable. And it also had relatively high resolution. It was standard HD. HD was relatively one of the kind at the time. In this moment in 2006 this was the birthplace, birth time and the beginning of this project. There were Anis online forums. They were discussing these problems from people from all over the world. There was development. There was a community that was available to everyone. And this was the core first part of the project. Open source cinema and the development of this open source film camera. So there are many projects that were adapted to 35mm cinema cameras. For example there's this theme world force. It's not just the camera that's open source but also the entire film process would be open source. So the challenge of this room is the camera okay. Sequence take one. The first big processors were from Canon for example. They are compact cameras with the video. They are SLDR cameras that had this function for a symbol for an ND camera. For example the Canon 5D Mark II was a staple in this community. They had difficulties. They needed to have a new open source project that they could go to. In 2009 the Canon camera was reverse engineered. And then this was called the Magic Lantern project. There are also other mirror reflex cameras. There are many effects here. And Canon didn't want others to be able to do this. These SLDRs didn't have video capabilities often. Many manufacturers had different cameras available for cinema production on the market. In 2012 Eastman Kodak was one of the biggest camera negative producers in the world. They were then considering how much film production was left. And actually this market was broken. It became a niche in the future. There was a handful of 35mm cameras that were used for project. A lot of times these were rented instead of owned. All of the technology was becoming digital. This had effect on the market. There was a paradox in the situation. How do you actually afford all of this? And then they weren't accessible. So there was competition from every part of production, every part of the market. On the one hand they were blocking the production. And then they had their own particular production. They had a black box of proprietary software and hardware. And then they can't open it and they can't repair it, for example. Only licensed partners or their own company were allowed to do maintenance. So the possibilities were actually decreasing, even though possibilities were increasing. And also the lifetime of a product was decreasing by a lot. Because new products were coming out all the time, which meant that support was no longer as interesting. So Magic Lantern became a radicalization pole of this new trend. So they wanted to create a new camera, which should be changeable, modular, compatible to all the standards that were already existing, which is the birth of the Axiom. So everything is being developed under GPL for software and they sell open hardware license for hardware. And the further developments are being shared with the public and the community. The first prototype proof of concept is being presented in MetaLab, the Vienna Hacker Space. MetaLab runs Linux and all the image processing happens in an FPGA in real time. There is no proprietary PCORs. Everything is open source. The team is very diverse. There are software developers, hardware developers, mechanics for filmmakers, artists, and all are walking towards the same goal to create tools that you can change, understand and extend. And this doesn't only concern being able to repair, but also many other facets. Filmmakers often talk about the look of a movie. That means all the elements for image composition, the film stock that has a specific characteristic, the colors, the lighting, the visual character, which is kind of the handwriting of a director. Which means that they can use it to make their movies easily recognizable. So in the past people chose their specific film stock. Now they are choosing their specific camera. This is the result of proprietary image manipulation. And it's a secret what happens inside these cameras. So the Axiom with all these ways to have an influence on this process, there's a lot more possibilities both in terms of technology and creativity to influence that. The Axiom Beta is the second generation hardware. It's a lot smaller than the prototype. It's a lot more modular and is being produced for developers in a small series production. It used to be a manual process. And for a few years, this year, since 2021, it's being produced industrially. It's a second generation of metal housing prototype. And now, very fresh, it's possible to write uncompressed media to Solid State. Solid State media. So the technology has evolved. It's more powerful, but it's less accessible. And that doesn't improve. So the mission of the Axiom project is relevant and exciting as it was on the first day. Thank you very much. The internet has some questions. First question is how much is it in use? The next step to the development kit or production camera. What everyone wants from a camera, a house, a development phase. That's the actual stand. So we were talking about proprietary cameras before. The question was that normally also refers to the data. So the data is proprietary as well. So isn't that a problem for archiving in 20 to 100 years? So there's tools coming from different manufacturers that can be manipulating just like the acquisition. The data structure, the metadata is all proprietary. So of course, that's difficult. Thank you. There's a question. Is everything open source? Is this also the schematics, the very lock, the source code, everything? Actually, everything is open source. This is open hardware, the schematics, the materials. Of course, the firmware and software is also open source. Very cool. Next question, what kind of optics can you use with a camera? That's a big theme right now. So we don't want to bring it to where the manufacturers have brought it to. There's an E-mount. There's a distance, a sensor surface in between the lenses. And then there's a mechanical adapter. It's an 18 millimeter focal distance. This is usually longer for an SLDR camera. So then usually you can mount any lens on top of this. Thank you. There was a question regarding HFR. Why can't you add motion blur in post production as a digital effect? One of the largest arguments against HFR was supposed to be dead. So this is an argument for it. It's intensified, this argument. Normally, when you film with a hybrid setup, the frame rates will have motion blur. And this is maybe the most comfortable rate. We don't know right now a natural feeling effect from a digital-encured motion blur. I've never heard of it at least. I would like to try it if there is one. I would like to see if it actually does work if it's digital for a motion blur. And see can you actually film it this way? And you're asked to explain how a typical post production flow on open source bars is might look like. Fundamentally, the first part is acquisition. So acquired and then backed up. And then you make a daily from this footage. So quickly put together something from. Then see if it's good enough or then edit it further. So this is the classical version of post. Or if you need something, you can go back to the original and see if you can find something else. There's also computer techniques and digital copy of the place. It's then not a typical workflow. You look at what the state of management actually needs at this point. So people are interested in is on-the-fly encryption implemented. From the video data? Yes. I would think fundamentally it's not a problem. Maybe a problem if it's working with excessive amounts of data. Maybe it doesn't make sense to encrypt it. But in principle, you could encrypt it. In Recorder, in Linux, you could have it on board. It's one of the tools that's possible to implement. Thank you. The next question is about image stabilization. Is an excess stabilization in camera? Some vendors do this in body, some vendors do this in the lenses. There's no active picture stabilization with this. And the last question is mass production planned. That's interesting question. What is the mass production for us? For us, it has a other definition. What amounts are actually being produced? The dream is when we are producing it in a factory. But then it's a question of finances right now. What volume is possible? If there were 100 of these produced for us, that would be mass production. And then it would be profitable to produce. So there's some more questions. Can we continue? Are there sequences in XR? There's a viewer raw format. Maybe Yawiki's the wrong word. There's a picture sensor. There's a 12-bit per pixel format. It's not really a data structure. So it's the per pixel and then saved to the file. That's the data for the raw data. Or if you're putting it into a different file is a different question. This will be the next step that should happen. Thank you. Can the Axiom Beta Compact be used without infrared filter for infrared recordings? Yes. Either on the developer kit or compact in between the lens and the sensor. Is it infrared filter or UV filter? So we can take that. So it's like putting together legos. Do you want to remind us of the resolution of the camera? It's 12 megapixels. It's a 12-bit depth of field at full resolution. And then 8 to 12-bit is a little bit slower. And then people are asking if it's possible to combine two cameras for a stereocopic picture. We haven't done that yet. But all the hardware is there fundamentally. It might be interesting to try to synchronize the data coming in from the two different sensors. Then what do we need in terms of the accuracy coming from this? But fundamentally you could, if you built the communication between them you could combine them. It's interesting questions if you need to alter this at all. So you're doing the most questions. Thank you for your great talk. You're very welcome.


We saw from the recent release from the CEO of the regional CPL body that Saint Lucia benefited hugely from the hosting of CPL last time around and we will continue to do just that. Saint Lucia is one of the premier grounds in the region. St. Crofton continues to do good work in preparing the Darren-Sami cricket grounds and especially the pitch for the Batting Paradise that it is and of course bowlers who bowl in the right areas could also enjoy success in Saint Lucia. So we always look forward to it developing more and more coming over COVID, COVID I think the numbers don't lie, I mean millions watched Saint Lucia during CPL especially in the Indian market and we are expecting a lot more to continue to watch Saint Lucia. The British market is another one that we do very well with when it comes to cricket development and sport really is the biggest catalyst to advertising Saint Lucia in the world. Julian Alfred, the name is synonymous with females sprinting success and so you can try any measure and if you speak to the Minister of Tourism and he is honest to you, he will tell you the best way, the absolute best way to market Saint Lucia right now is through the exploits of our young men and women and sports is really the direction that will ensure that Saint Lucia continues to enjoy economic benefits and really do what we need to do to you know create employment in our tourism market and industry for our young people. Definitely, but how do we go about admiring it to the whole aspect of sports and tourism? How we learn enough to really so if we are putting in enough sports stories and to publish? Well, there's never enough, we need to continue to explore all aspects and this is why I've been having a lot of conversation with the cycling association because we know in a French territory in the region, in Guadeloupe, there's a huge cycling culture and we truly want to see a cycling take off to where it needs to be to really tap into that sports tourism niche. The problem with cycling in Saint Lucia and its development, there was no sort of collaboration between infrastructural development and cycling and so you find that cyclists do not have a safe haven to practice their trade and so we are looking at the option of developing a velodrome for cyclists in Saint Lucia and thereafter ensuring that we can have some regional tournaments and we know in Martinique they travel by droves hundreds for cycling. Also in terms of long distance running marathons it's another area where we can collaborate with the Ministry of Tourism to get some half marathons, some marathons during our weekend calendars and bring in some more persons to the beautiful shores of Saint Lucia. Well the Ministry of Sports have been very excited about our school sports program. You will be seeing on the 31st of May the inter-schools of finals taking place at the Soufrem Ministerium. There were a lot of things that needed to be cleared up. First of all on behalf of my ministry I will say that we did our part in the consultative process of ensuring that the Ministry of Education was finished with the venue, the date and time for our tournaments. I've heard some of the massinations in the public domain that the Ministry of Sports did not consult. It falls under the remit of the Ministry of Education who had a representative at every venture on the development committee and the strategic committee for school sports as part of the organization towards Intersect to provide and furnish that information to the teachers, the principals and the athletes. Of course the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports is responsible for the technical aspect of the inter-schools, the venue, the transportation and ensuring that the event runs smoothly. Similar to CPL on those events the Ministry of Tourism is one who negotiates packages for CPL and regional tournaments in Saint Lucia because it's tourism centered and then the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports deals with the technical aspects of the venue preparation and the dynamics on the ground for the events. And so I want to make it abundantly clear that I'm very proud of my ministry's exploits in trying to as much as possible have the inter-secondary school sports competition held on the weekend as was discussed more than a year ago. But we had some issues with the Chief Education Officer not being present at our meetings because of some resignations under the Ministry of Education which did not allow the communication process to be smooth. I'm very proud of my ministry's exploits and we are certainly hoping to have a very good event on the 31st of May at the Souffre Mini Stadium. In the budget we will be discussing the semi-professionalization of football. People are very excited that for the first time in Saint Lucia's history footballers will be paid to play football. I am jealous because I'm the Minister along with the Prime Minister pushing the agenda and I would look back at my times waking up very early in the morning to get my 40-minute jog and then ball drills with coaches like Francis Barbalastic and of course later on at the end of the 17th level is Stuart Charles and training so very hard and never been paid a dime. And I'm very excited that in the budget this year you will hear the Prime Minister's pronouncements for the semi-professionalization of football in Saint Lucia. It's a step in the right direction and I think our young people can benefit from knowing that they don't have to be on the blocks. They can come play some football and get some compensation and of course eventually you would see the physiotherapists those who want to get involved in videography and the other aspects of sport entertainment could definitely benefit from that commercial activity. Also in the budget we'll be seeing a lot more competitions. You should be seeing basketball having a Prime Minister's Cup and of course there'll be some player compensation. I think player compensation is where the Prime Minister really wants to go with the youth economy and netball is going to get an injection as well and so I'm excited about about those activities. Along with the traditional cricket competitions we expect an SPL to come back in a big way and cricket has been compensated for their activities and so we'll also be talking about venues and the development of venues this year. Almost 10 playing fields will be emacked for lighting and sitting programs so that we can bring the fans in the stadium. The Mendephale Park and Darren's Army as we know are two very very critical aspects of venues for development along with the gardens and VG playing field and Wendt playing field in the south and so we'll be seeing a lot in the budget to really continue to develop sports and I think we all here are confident that when we look back 10-20 years from now we will know when sports really took off in this country. Simpsons Carriage and Delegation will be off for long from now. What kind of role will your ministry play in ensuring that our best will be... our best will represent the Ireland at the upcoming competition and your words to the team that will be off in a few weeks time? Naomi London, Naomi London, Naomi London. The Viewfort native has been under our trading program for the better part of a year now under the elite program. We've ensured that we as much as possible provide as much support for her to excel. We see her as one of the huge prospects going forward as you would know her times at the age of 14 and 15 are actually faster than what we saw from Julian Alfred which says to us that we have a huge prospect in Naomi London and we certainly hoping that she will bring home the bacon this time. She had a very good show in last year along with some of the other athletes that we see coming on stream. The ministry continues to provide training for coaching, the coaching development program in collaboration with the Cubans to try to prepare our athletes the best we can. I just received the invitation it's the 50th Carrefter Games and so I'm putting it out there in the public domain that was invited to attend the 50th Carrefter Games and the other ministers in the region will be in attendance to really lend our support to Carrefter, the Carrefter movement and the athletes that they've developed so we really expecting our athletes to come out to trumps this time around. Let me put you on the spot. One of your staffers, recently a couple of weeks ago, was officially recognized by the country for his role in terms of nurturing signature athletes over the decades. I'm speaking of more than one. Your response to his commendation and the my response is that I mean every St. Lucian who's called me on this has said how shocked they are that this was not done before. Cofbert Twatidemodes was the national coach when I first represented St. Lucian at the age of nine. He was the actual national coach. So every athlete including the likes of Darren, Sami, Levone, Spencer, they would have had some councilor interaction or interface with Cofbert Twatidemodes and when this government came in and we looked at the vestige and we realized that Cofbert Modes had not been commended for his work towards the development of our athletes including Julian Alfred McKibber, Al Schafer. I mean we said as a government that we had to correct a wrong and we ensured that he was given that honor. And so congratulations to Twatidemodes as I know him very strict individual. We certainly hope that his work continues in the central castries and the St. Lucia area in Convent as a P coach, as a coach. We know about his commitment and we just want to as a ministry say that the other individuals that have been developing sports in St. Lucia will be given their time to shine as well. Okay, just looking at the board, what challenges do you see with this adventure? I think there's a chronic lack of professional referees but the St. Lucia Football Association through their licensing program, I know they've trained over a hundred de-licensed coaches and they are available in St. Lucia right now. They've trained a cadre of C licensed coaches as well and I see the semi-professionalization of football actually helping with further getting B licensed and even A licensed coaches that could pretty much be on an international level from St. Lucia. And so of course you know when you're doing something for the first time you will have glitches. I'm expecting and anticipating some, it's like a pilot for the first year, some challenges but I'm very confident that the semi-pro league will be something that as time goes by people will gravitate towards more and more. I think coaching is good, I think physiotherapists will be needing some more of that in St. Lucia. I think it just opens the door for anybody who wants to get involved in sports and you have a talent and a desire to really come to the fore right now. I'm not worried about coaching. I would say as a minister the level of refereeing and of course the crowd response to refereeing is something that we've always had challenges with and I certainly hope that we as a nation we would come together to really see the benefit of what we are doing right now in sports. Yes we've been having some challenges with the app simply because you know you have the different platforms, the Apple store and the Play Store and that has been rectified and so we're expecting more and more persons to go to the app and provide the information that will form part of a database to ensure that we provide the skills, the training and more opportunities for our young people. The unemployment issue is something I take very seriously as the minister of youth and I know the prime minister as the minister for youth economy as well and we certainly hoping within the two year period that we can see a huge turn in events that will allow our young people to be more confident in the system and they decide to go towards employment rather than the guns that we see developing throughout our country. So Jason Nair is from the EAS. With the recent passing of legislation just to help you guys in the world I guess crime fighting efforts. Just tell us how has this bolstered the efforts and including the RSS being here on Island and just crime fighting on a war. Just tell us about your efforts and initiatives on the what the government has done to really help you guys. How has this affected your crime fighting strategies and the lead in the crime law. Sorry sorry no because I'm confused. So for the record my name is Ronald Phillip deputy commissioner of police in charge of strategic operations. RUNALDPHILLIP. Just in terms of the government's efforts in helping you in your crime fighting strategies how has this affected you guys? You referring to the legislation? The legislation and everything that they've done including the RSS here and everything that they've done to support the crime fighting initiative. Okay just for the record Senutia is part of the original security system. We have the we have officers from friendly governments down Nica, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada. I'm during tandem with our local police officers so we have officers on the ground in terms of trying to help de-escalate the crime situation that has happened especially over the last few weeks. So far I can see that the operations seem to be moving smoothly. Residents are very pleased especially residents of you for the very happy with what you're seeing. The police we have intensified our efforts with intensified patrols we have engaged in more searches so so far the operations are going on smoothly. And the legislation that the government has enacted how does this help your efforts? Well we're very happy with the legislation because it gives the police more powers to operate now that the area is declared an escalated crime area police officers can once police officers are operating in good faith it is important to note that the legislation speaks to good faith. So once police officers are operating in good faith it gives police officers more search powers in terms of the arrests how long somebody can be detained for. So this is good for law enforcement. There have been questions about the trampling of human rights with this legislation as well. How is this affecting you in terms of trying not to trample on these rights and enacting your duties as a legislator? Well as I know we are a professional police organization and during our briefing we always speak we always speak to officers in terms of respecting the rights of others. Again the legislation does not speak to violence in human rights. It's specifically that officers who act in good faith and acting in good faith for want to act in good faith they must they must uphold the values of the police officers which speaks to professionalism. So again we're not our again if persons have any complaints if they think that their rights have been trampled on there are mechanisms in place there is the police complaints unit if you figure that the police officer do something wrong you can't take your grievances to a lawyer so these mechanisms have always been in place but the the issue we're dealing with is not one where we're going to antagonize everybody but the point is we persons have human rights activists have their job to play and the police have their role so this is not going to deter our efforts we employ our police officers to act professionally but we are not going to we are not going to be too perturbed by the complaints again we respect we respect persons human rights the officers are encouraged to be professional but that is not going to deter our efforts if there is if we have reason to believe that something is good is happening or taking place we are going to act. Okay, can you just give us some update in relation to arrest? We know that we had a release where a number of individuals was detained. Can you tell us what has happened since? Have they arrested or charged anybody in relation to the shooting? Yes so far police we have arrested and charged a 22-year-old Arinato Sume for the for the murder of Lauren Sievery that occurred on the 9th of March 20th so one person has been arrested for one of the murders and being charged. We are again we are working on several leads we require some of our investigation we require some level of DNA but we are actively pursuing those cases and individuals. So so far from the operation but yes I mean one person has been charged for hunting drugs they know there are about seven homicides so what about the like I said to you the investigations are active investigations the police police is called we are currently coming out investigations from the operations is not just for the homicide we have also arrested individuals of FIAM we have arrested individuals of ammunition possession of ammunition we have arrested individuals of drugs. But in terms of the makeup of the team I will not give it up for the police how does it work do you all have a team do they reside in V-fort is there calm is there how do you do this? Well what I can tell you we are adopting a blended approach so we have an infusion of local police officers along with the original officers you may see them primarily in V-fort but they are operating island-wide they based in Sanusha. Okay it's the 555 it's a new hotline where persons members of the public could give information to assist the police in crime fighting and of course the the identity will remain unknown we have put in place some code a special code so when you give the information once we mention giving you some compensation if you give volunteer information there is a particular code in place we have it a way where persons will not know who are the who are the ones volunteering the information there is a code in place so when you give the information you'll be given a code and you could determine whether it's a priest or whether it's somebody involved in citizens security like Mr. Dr. King could give you your compensation not necessarily the police we have not we are not involved in you know giving you the compensation where it is so designed that without you will know your identity will not be known you will decide how you collect your compensation as it relates to the code that you'll be given of course if we get information of course that's what we want to assist us in crime fighting we are determined to make St. Lucia a better place and whatever information we can get to do that we are going to welcome it is Jerry were you asking something Jerry that will be determined based on the information received we cannot tell you right now what amount will be given it will be determined based on the information received and of course how how how good this information is I think one of the main concerns from citizens of the public is that when the police publish let's say a wanted poster for an individual his or her image is not attached to it and so the question is is that something deliberate or is it something we're looking into or or just attaching an image of something that's wanted by the police it is something we have we're going to discuss we want to we have started this question in that regard and as soon as we have decided what we're going to do is regard will give you an update from me just in terms of the RSS being here we understand that it is an escalated crime situation what happens with the departure of the RSS in the following weeks what mechanisms are in place to ensure that strategy remains as deputy philip indicated before the motive for the motive the objective of RSS is for RSS states to work together to fight crime anything that threats national security that will be that'll be threatening national security that RSS of course believes that together unity when we are strengthened when they're together we have strength bringing our resistance in lucha does not mean that the men and women in the police force they're not capable of doing their work it gives us the opportunity especially now with the escalation of crime we will have more numbers in the ground so officers will be involved in patrolling doing operations to deal with the threats of national security whilst we can and remember in as much as they we are concerned about viewport right now we are concerned about st lucha its entirety so with the increasing numbers we can focus on viewport and as well focus in during this time on other areas in st lucha so it is a good thing that we have RSS to assist us in what is happening now at the same time it enables us to to return normalcy to the citizens of st lucha especially in the southern part of the island of course i don't think corruption is unique to any one organization um i've said before if i am aware of any matters dealing with corruption within the organization i have zero tolerance for it and i'll be dealing with it so we have nothing has been brought to my attention and of course if anything is brought to my attention rest to show i'll be dealt i'll be dealing with it we are we are ways there are ways of dealing with corruption within any organization and the police force is not unique you can do your investigations and of course we have the you can do internal and you can of course take it to another level there's also been the issue of like jason mentioned corruption etc generally um even with instances like this where we're sitting here and we're having a press briefing any plans as part of the strategy to strengthen the relationship with the police and the press as it relates to more press briefing or interactions of keeping persons in the loop as much as it is strategically feasible of course we are ever ready to to work with the press of course how can we inform st lucha what we are doing if we don't work in the press we have we have not in any way shown any indication that we are not willing to go to the press we will continue having our press conference as a matter of fact we might be having one soon so there's no way that we are not going to work in the press we are determined to go to the press as long as there's a need to pass on the information to put on st lucha there's nothing to indicate that we are not willing to go to the press i don't think we have done anything is there anything we have done to indicate that madams yeah but do you think but one more thing i think too um sometimes when it comes to the press as well do you do you think there's anything you could do better to work with us in terms of the relations the information we give you sometimes absolutely i like that we're switching absolutely i also think there is um some details i remember having a conversation sometimes with the director of gender relations and she was making reference to it was around the time violence against women and she said that they'd seen a marked increase in some of the violence cases based on some of the stories that were portrayed in the news i do think that um the angle of certain stories and how we report certain stories may or may not have a positive or negative impact and that is directly related that is in commission that we would be able to talk to you from the police in terms of um i'm not always but um i think there has to be closer dialogue not just what we see but what it is that we want to set in terms of what areas that they focus is um there is the i wouldn't say um it's popular but it is the tendency for sensationalization in the press there is but i think more than anything while we don't need your strategy but we also need to be in the know us you know what is happening what is happening and then it might be you call the arrest yeah oftentimes we it's not feasible um we don't get a command only hey i'll call you back and that doesn't happen sometimes we have to go on the facebook page you know it's okay well it's often times yeah so it there there is effort on part but it is not always it's not always feasible to okay well we're hoping that moving forward we could we could work together and of course of course when you do get the information we are hoping that the way it is so it could be so it could be both ways but we're looking forward to better of course better dialogue with the press yes it's in a lot more activity in the substitution because people have complained yeah but as as we've said before i mean you don't expect the police to be everywhere every time we try our utmost best to respond to the calls when we get it with the um rss teams being here it doesn't mean that there'll be less activities at the various substation as i've indicated before with rss you have we have there's just trend friend us and put them on numbers on the ground so we're hoping to continue to address the issues of crime in this country whether it's in the south where we have the issues at all levels at substations on a national basis because we want better first inclusion we are not in any way happy with what is happening in this country we are not we want to of course um ensure the public that we're doing our utmost best and we are determined to make a difference we are determined to bring this country back we are determined to take our country back from the criminals we are determined and we'll do everything our power lovefully to take back this country and our and i can guarantee you that our officers are competent enough to do that and i want at this time to really thank them so much our officers have worked very hard and we as a citizen must show some more appreciation to our officers we and some more respect our officers are doing very working very hard to ensure that our country is a better place st lucia is a better it's a very beautiful place it is not fair what's happened how do you feel as a st lucia and doing something to disrupt us happening in this country if we did not have if we do not if we don't stop this issue of crime we will not get the put the the health centers that we want we'll not get the hospitals that we want we'll not get better roads because if the we we depend heavily on on on tourism there are other countries who are doing well in in terms of tourism and if we if we continue in this vein it is not maybe our officers won't get paid as well we need to take back our country everyone and it is not the responsibility of the police we need the efforts of everyone very often they ask what is the police doing what the officers are doing if your teacher asks yourself what are you doing if your nurse asks yourself what are you doing if your citizen of the country asks yourself what are you doing if your mother asks yourself what are you doing we all can play a role to make st lucia better it is our responsibility yes we are law enforcers we've been paid for a job but to keep st lucia better in the better state is all of our responsibility we can do better than that and we ought to do it let us be some more patriotic let us take back our country sons and daughters of st lucia st lucia is beautiful but we can do better than that to take our country are you satisfied with what was what is going on right now within the force and and trying to get the assistance from general public the the level of of cooperation i'm satisfied with what we were going now internal with the the support from all levels from all around from the executive from the from the reserve officers to the executive we all are playing our role to make st lucia better i'm also satisfied this we get of course don't get me wrong we get support from other agencies but i'm just saying that to make st lucia a better place we all must work together and we have to ask ourselves are we satisfied can we do better than that can we do better than that so we all must work together to get st lucia better i'm determined my team we are determined to make st lucia a better place i know you mentioned that there is strength in working together but how do you propose that we first or build a better relationship between the police and the community and the rest of the cities it's just a matter you see you look at what you have and you review there's always room for improvement you look at the strategy you have now we have now and of course right now as we speak we are reviewing our community relations um um strategy we need to work more with the police and the public working together we need to work more together hand in hand so if we are doing one thing say the ministry of education and the police let us review what we are doing now to see how we can make it better to deal with the youth if we work in the teacher the the nurses does work together to see what we can do the community teachers the parents we can work together to see what we can do parents need help in raising their children so what can we do to assist the parents or what can be done in a holistic manner not just with the police rather but generally to assist the parents in how they raise the children so it's something we need to take seriously this is our country this is our country people we need to take back our country the people who are committing the crime they're not the large number it's a very small number are we going to turn our backs on St. Lucia we can do better than that and we need to take our country back because the prime minister mentioned um the first of these recent binaries are major interests i just have to get this one but i'm happy you're saying that but though they are challenges we are determined and of course the government the prime minister many sort of cabinet they have come prime minister has given us the assurance that the areas that are beyond our control they will give all the assistance to make it make our challenges easier holding facilities holding facilities CCTV cameras you know everything to make our work easier and of course i have no reason to doubt that he will give us the assistance because we are already getting the assistance to make our work easier yes yes my commissioner you mentioned the importance of the tourism sector to service yeah and lately i've noticed that the grizzly street party is having a you know patrol with officers in green but what about the um the arrangements with the i know there has been some moving around from the grizzly to the Rodney Bay in terms of the original how how smooth is that working out what i'm happy that you've seen the difference at the Rodney Bay street so the other areas we are discussing how we can make it easier how we can have more officers police in these areas we are looking at the beaches uh you know police more rangers in place so there are different things we are doing as it relates to making the different areas safer for citizens and for visitors as well because at the end of the day even if i know that we are heavily dependent on tourism we are not making state literature safer only for visitors we are making state literature safer for citizens and visitors as well