Category: Commlab

Visual Metaphor Documentation By: Mia   Date: 12/12/2020 Concept & Story The film covers the content of the last hour of a worker – Ruolan Wang, who is striving for life and a job. This story happened one hour before the new year at Ruolan’s office in Lujiazui. During this last hour, the ferryman who is … Continue reading Visual Metaphor Documentation

Visual Metaphor Proposal By Mia&Angy   Date:11/26/2020 I.   Project Title 《老王，老王》  <Yongjin Wang> II.  Team Members:      Angy, Mia   III.  Concept | Storyline:  时间背景设定：大年三十，公司有双倍加班费 TIme and Background Setting: On New Year’s Eve of the lunar calendar. Double paid.   角色 Characters:  1）阴间使者（Ferry Man): Mark 2）老王(Wang): Kevin or Pika  3）老王他妈( Mother of  Mr. Wang):  保洁阿姨       人物设定 … Continue reading Visual Metaphor Proposal

A Different Way of Storytelling By Mia  Date: 11/10/2020 After reading the article of Narrative Structures for New Media: Towards a New Definition from Pamela Jennings, I came up with a new kind of form to have storytelling called the immersive theater, which has been popular among people in recent years, such as the works … Continue reading A Different Way of Storytelling

Memory Soundscape Blog Post By Mia   Date: 11/8/2020 Concept My memory soundscape actually came from my personal experience which had a great impact on my life. This is my first journey as a volunteer teacher. When I went there, the floods had just ended, but there was still going to be heavy rain. And unfortunately, … Continue reading Memory Soundscape Blog Post

Diptych Blogpost By Mia    Date: 10/27/2020 Name of the Project: Virtual and Reality Concept: There’s an old saying that seeing is believing, which means we should trust all the things that we have seen in person, but not always trust the word heard from others. It may be applied to people in the past … Continue reading Diptych Blogpost

Memory Soundscape By Mia   Date: 10/25/2020 It was my personal experience that I went to Jiangxi to go on my first journey as a volunteer teacher. When I went there, the floods had just ended, but there was still going to be heavy rain. And unfortunately, this just happened to me. It was morning, and … Continue reading Memory Soundscape

Responses to In Our Own Image By Mia Cai      Date:10/13/2020 Recently, I have finished my reading of the book In Our Own Image, which left a great impression on me that it offered a new kind of angle for me to treat the photography. The core of this article is the fluidity of … Continue reading Responses to In Our Own Image

Pioneer Plaque –emopod  By Mia & Orriz   Date：10/11/2020 Ever since we read the book “Story of your life”, we’ve been longing to impart a piece of human history back to the Aliens. To make it more convenient for them to understand, we decided to create a new form of a written communication system called Emopods. … Continue reading Pioneer Plaque

Story of Your Life: Reading Notes    BY Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)     Date: 10/03/2020 Summary: Louis, a professor of linguistics, changed her thinking into a totally different way because of the arrival of heptapods (aliens). She deciphered their languages and even learned them. During this process, she gained the knowledge of how heptaods thought, instead … Continue reading Story of Your Life: Reading Notes

MUSIC POSTER BY Xiaoyi Cai (Mia)        DATE: October 2, 2020 This music poster is designed to represent the song “Aimahuo” by Jun Zheng solely through the use of typography. The song and poster are attached below: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xt4y1X7SS?from=search&seid=15635178593988143277 PDF File:Mia Cai poster CONCEPT and DESIGN: With the help of Gestalt theory, the figure/ground … Continue reading Music Poster