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Name: Emily Cui Title of Music: City Of Stars Artist Name: Justin Hurwitz Concept and Design This song is a soundtrack from the movie ‘LaLaLand’, which tells the story of two youngsters who were pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. They fell in love with each other but parted eventually. The song ‘City Of Stars’ … Continue reading Sound Visualization Documentation

Pioneer Plaque Shelia and I chose to introduce the magnifying glass to heptapods. Considering the huge difference in body structure and linguistic feature, we drew two images in comparison in order to demonstrate the principle of magnifying glass to aliens more intuitively. To start off, since heptapods have little knowledge of any objects used by … Continue reading Pioneer Plaque

Q1: How do the aliens’ language and communication styles in the story differ from human language? The oral speech of aliens was considered as fluttering sounds with patterns that the human vocal tract could not reproduce.  Additionally, in the primary stages of research and observation, the aliens’ pictographs were defined as the term “logogram”, and … Continue reading Story Of Your Life Reading Response