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Final Project
"TERRIFREEY" https://vimeo.com/378967764 password: 123 (There are some scared sound effect in the film, so you might want to LOWER YOUR VOLUME WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING it) For this project, I tried to create continuity from a series of discontinuity actions in the dream within a dream. In the beginning, I just wanted to make something that is more casual and straightforward but then, I changed my original story completely and created a totally different story with a different theme. When I was telling my friend Jing, I am going to create a very short film and I will be filming her, at that time, she was assigned to make a presentation on HongKong, for her journalism class. She did a lot of research on it, and she found out she couldn't find any videos about the fact that how the terrorists are damaging the city but only the videos about how the HongKong polices are against "the people who are purs...
Blog #4:Kirsten Johnson
Response to Kirsten Johnson's Presentation The first thing that makes me feel impressed with Kirsten Johnson is her body movements when she was giving the presentation. She moves around in the whole auditorium, talks to different students and interacts with them, which keeps me have my full attention towards her. Sometimes she asks questions to some students and has some short interviews with them. During these interviews, she keeps thinking questions that can make them feel comfortable to talks with her in a close distance, and at the same time, she asks questions to other students (the audience) based on what she got from these short interviews. She said that she is “interested in perception,” and I can feel it throughout her presentation because she continually interacting with people and trying to know their opinions and thoughts, which is another thing that makes me feel impressed. The second thing that makes me feel impressed...
Blog #3 Editing Analysis
The film that I chose to analysis is called The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(2013). The scene that I chose is one of my favorite scenes in this film, it is the beginning scene of the downhill longboard at Iceland. At the beginning of the screen, the camera is following the running protagonist in a medium shot. Then, there is a cut into a super-wide shot by the drone where the protagonist sees the boundless landscape, which also makes the viewer see how tiny he is when he compares with the landscape. The next shot is an eye-level, medium shot that shows the top half of the protagonist’s body with his confused eyes. After that, there is a low angle, long shot from the distance left, the backside of the protagonist, which shows the loneliness of the protagonist, and the question of how could he go to the place he wants. Then, the shot cuts back to the eye-level, medium shot of the protagonist. The next shot shows the protagonist’s point of view of the...
"What I Hear"
Blog Assignment 2: "What I Hear" Fall is coming to New York City, so I decided to go to central park to find some fall colors while I was doing a soundwalk. It was a windy day at 5 pm. I started on fifth Avenue, where is full of traffic noise. There were not many people walking at the park, but there were a few photographers photographing people and the landscape, which made me hear the sound of releasing the shutter, from their cameras and their phones. As I walked inside the park, I heard less traffic noise and more natural sound- wind, water, and birds. I heard the sound from the wind by hearing the swaying trees. I heard the sound from water when I was walking around the Wood Chip Vantage Point, where there was some running water next to the walkway. I heard the sound from the birds most of the time. Sometimes, there will have sound from the ambulance but with a much lower frequency than what I normally hearing on the street. When I was walking next to ...