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        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...

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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 ...

Artist Statement Cathy Wang Most babies learn how to walk at the time about 14 or 15 months old, then they will never stop. Movement was one of my biggest subject, but then I realized, why am I capturing about the things that make me feel nervous? Motion is a good element to contain in videos. However, when I see too much movements, such as human legs, cars, trains, airplanes and rolling advertisement screens, that are keep going on and on, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Researchers found out that people will be happier when they spent 2 hours in the nature each week, but living in the city (especially New York City) there is no way to be in the nature for 2 hours each week. For me, the solution for be happier is when I spent my time to observe different types of architectures, which is one of the advantages for living in the New York City. Undoubtedly, New York City has many remarkable buildings and architectures. As a photographer, I want to capture the patterns and shapes thr...