BXAI - Summer Program 2025 - Tokyo - Video Documentary

Video documentary work for Bai Xian Asia Institute - recapping their 2025 summer program in Tokyo, Japan. Created by Derry Ainsworth and Harry Salter August 2025.

BXAI Summer Program 2025 Highlight Video by Derry Ainsworth and Harry Salter.

Client: Bai Xian Asia Institute Project Aims and Overview:

The goal of this video campaign was to capture and document the experiences and moments of scholars participating in the summer program. This program featured excursions, lectures, and workshops centered on academic and leadership skills.

Working with a two-person video team, I collaborated with videographer Harry Salter to cover the extensive array of activities throughout the program during the 17-day filming period. Our objective was to produce a memorable video of the scholars' experiences. We employed a blend of cinematic shots, timelapses, gimbal motion shots, aerial footage, and sound design to achieve our final result.

The video highlights the empowering community and rich experiences offered by BXAI, emphasizing education as well as fostering belonging and support among like-minded students. By engaging with students and capturing their daily lives, the video authentically reflects their enjoyable journey.

Viewers witness vibrant student interactions, showcasing friendships and collaboration in a supportive environment. The footage reveals teamwork and mutual support, essential to their educational journey.

The video also explores BXAI's activities and events that enhance students' experiences, from skill-building workshops to social gatherings. These moments of laughter and achievement reflect the joy of being part of a dynamic community.

Individual stories highlight BXAI's positive impact on students' lives, illustrating the community's transformative power and inspiring others to join. These narratives reinforce BXAI as a nurturing space for academic and personal growth.

In conclusion, the video encapsulates BXAI's spirit, showcasing the empowering community and life-changing experiences it offers. Through students' journeys, it conveys hope, resilience, and the importance of community in achieving goals, celebrating both individual and collective accomplishments.

About the Summer Program:

BXAI Summer Program 2025

About the Summer Program

The BXAI Summer Program is an important component of the Asian Future Leaders Scholarship Program (AFLSP).  Designed to extend learning beyond the classroom, the summer program aims to provide scholars with a unique opportunity to explore important topics, build community, and develop 21st-century skills in an immersive and engaging setting.  Through exchanges with influential global leaders, panel presentations, debates, and skill-building workshops, scholars are encouraged to broaden their perspectives, develop a greater understanding of important issues that relate to Asia, and explore the various leadership roles in the changing global landscape.  In addition, field trips, workshops, and special tours allow scholars to experience the local culture and customs of the host country, whereas experiential activities provide opportunities for scholars to form friendships and memories that will last a lifetime.

The Tokyo Summer Program Kicks Off

In collaboration with the Hitotsubashi University Business School, School of International Corporate Strategy (Hitotsubashi ICS), the BXAI Summer Program 2025 (the “Summer Program”) successfully fulfilled immersive cross-cultural education, interpersonal development, and leadership training for Bai Xian Scholars over two weeks from 6^th August to 19^th August, in Tokyo, Japan.  The Summer Program fostered meaningful relationships and equipped Bai Xian Scholars with insights for both personal and professional growth.

Under the banner of the “Aging in Society” theme, this year’s program explored Japan’s demographic shifts and related broader implications across East and Southeast Asia in its academic sessions.  “The quality is superb and very informative,” according to one scholar, while another appreciated the help he got for him to “plan strategically” for his future, as aging became relevant to almost all fields of study.

Beyond academic sessions, through a series of panel discussions, workshops, excursions, and community activities, participants had many precious opportunities to hear and interact with leaders and experts from various fields around the globe.  The Summer Program enabled students to be more self-aware as they develop their soft skills while building meaningful connections and lifelong friendships with peers from diverse cultures and backgrounds, as well as learning the history, culture, and beauty of Japan.

Throughout the Summer Program, Bai Xian Scholars were encouraged to delve deeper into current issues and global challenges, from both individual and collective perspectives.

Campaign Deliverables: 1 x Main 5-6 minute full documentary video edit 1 x 4-5 minute on site edit for showing at the Final Ceremony Presentation 1 x Short teaser reel for social media to showcase the weekend of excursions For more information please see the full BXAI press release https://www.bxai.org/sp25-press-release/

To work together or find out more about my video services please drop me an email: derryainsworth@googlemail.com