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Concept & Story Circles have long been perceived as an intuitive metaphor in Chinese culture, representing completeness, perfection, moderation, so on and so forth. We aim to visualize this particular shape through various objects, demonstrating its extensibility and conveying its spirits. The entire story consists of three stages. The first part can be understood as … Continue reading Visual Metaphor Documentation

I. Project Title: 「圆」 II. Team Members: Shelia, Emily III. Concept | Storyline: 1). What is the piece (article, poem, story) for the narrative voice over? Or who are you going to interview? The script for narration will be written according to the theme that we intend to convey. 2). What’s the story about? Circles … Continue reading Visual Metaphor Proposal

Reverse Storyboard_Emily  ← click here to review An excerpt of the film— Leon: The Professional  

Concept The memory I intended to capture was the experience of scuba-diving in Indonesia. As I dived into the water, where gravity seems to lose its grip and time slows down, the entire marine realm unfolded before me, revealing crystal-clear aqua blue water and shimmering schools of fish.The silence of this submerged world was punctuated … Continue reading Memory Soundscape Documentation

obstruction1: no single edit may be longer than 12 frames (answers, Cuba, no set) obstruction2: a miserable place, don’t show it (failed to do so), Jorgen Leth is the man, the meal obstruction3: complete freedom (make a film with no rules from Lars Von Trier), or back to Bombay obstruction4: cartoon obstruction5: Lars Von Trier … Continue reading The Five Obstructions (2004) by Jorgen Leth & Lars von Trier

According to Steyerl, “Unbroken belief” refers to the fact that it is self-evident for documentaries to reflect the reality. In other words, there is an objective criteria to judge whether a composition is authentic. However, Steyerl claimed that in the age of digital reproduction, increasingly abstract and out-of focus documentary images emerge, inflaming certain emotions without demonstrating … Continue reading The Uncertainty of Documentation Reading Response

Emily Cui_The Uncontaminated Concept Wandering on the intricate streets of Beijing, I made an unintentional turn and found myself in a narrow and extended hutong. I thereby made up my mind to look into the uncontaminated. Hu tongs and courtyards are neighborhoods where local residents in the city center of Beijing used to live. Yet … Continue reading Photo Diptych Documentation

Overall Concept Wandering on the intricate streets of Beijing, I made an unintentional turn and found myself in a narrow and extended hutong. I thereby made up my mind to seek for my childhood memory. Yet things have been shifting at a rapid speed, and now that the tradition and contemporary are co-existing in this … Continue reading Diptych Concept

1.What does Ritchin mean with the “fluidity of the digital”? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this. According to Ritchin, ‘fluidity of the digital’ means that as we are entering the post-photographic age, the architecture of images is shifted from chemically processed grain to discrete electronic pixels in order to make it … Continue reading In Our Own Image Reading Response