Topic: To Dream Team Member: Yijing Ling 1. Concept & Story Our visual metaphor project is called " To Dream." The story is about a girl chasing her dream. After farewelling to the past, experiencing solitude, being misunderstood by others, encountering obstacles, the girl is still willing to keep running to fulfill her dream even though she usually covers her goals by telling jokes. We are inspired to create this project because we are now freshmen, just on the way to finding a major and planning for the future path. Also, I feel a little anxious and depressed this semester ...
Communication Lab
Visual Metaphor Proposal
Ⅰ. Project Title: To dream Ⅱ. Team Members: Yijing Ling; Vicky Chen Ⅲ. Concept | Storyline: 1). Who are you going to interview? Or What is the piece (article, poem, story) for the narrative voice over? 我是一个喜欢一直向前跑着的人 有一种感觉 我的宿命就是要我抓住些什么 路过的风没有和我告别 世界上那么多人 我们应该也不会再见面 或许这就是我们缘分的长短 各自以籍籍无名过路人的身份 奔波在各自的不归路 . 我们应该越来越近了吧 是只身一人 一年又一年 是藏在玩笑外壳下的伟大梦想 是蓄谋已久终将实现的未来 是一边哭泣一边热爱 是旁人对我百般解读 却不能构成万分之一 的我 我一边奔跑一边落空 想要停下脚步 却发现要攀过更多的山 他们都不喜欢我的锋利 但这倒刺只是我对抗世界的天赋 不要询问 去奔赴 2). What’s the story about? It is about a person is sitting on a chair in a dull and monotonous ...
Storyboard Assignment
MV: Avicii- Wake Me Up (01:17- 02:02) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrbM1l_BoI&list=RDGMEMYH9CUrFO7CfLJpaD7UR85w&start_radio=1&rv=0zGcUoRlhmw ...
Memory Soundscape Project
For this project, we need to use sound to build a memory scene. Therefore, this requirement recalled night study time in my high school. I wrote a related blog to describe the memory and the feelings. https://wp.nyu.edu/vickychen/2021/10/20/memory-soundscape/ To begin with, I recorded many sounds around my home, mostly focused on street sounds, such as cars, steps, people talking, and so on. Because my high school is on a modern road that even at night, I can still hear a variety of sounds. Later on, I drew a draft to help me decide the composition and found out that there were ...
Reading: The Uncertainty of Documentarism
Steyerl talks about how the “unbroken belief” of the documentary form is challenged. What does Steyerl mean by this? Certain movies and films are based on a true story. How does truth inform the fiction? How might fiction inform the truth? Steyerl means that because documentaries become abstract and do not focus on the incident itself, people no longer fully believe the truth that documentaries show. Therefore, the "unbroken belief" of the documentary form is challenged. In my opinion, truths are sources for creators to represent or adapt in fiction. Fictions based on truth are channels ...
Photo Diptych Project
A. Yunhsuan Chen, "Under the disease" B. Concept During the National Holiday vacation, I saw classmates posting about their hometowns on Wechat. They all smiled happily in the pictures, which remind me of Taiwan, a place that I lived for at least eighteen years. Even though the distance is not very far, due to Covid-19, I can not fly back due to over 28 days of quarantine and expensive hotels and airplane tickets. Therefore, I thought that I can represent the concept of epidemic and the depressed emotion it brings via my Photo Diptych Project. C. Process In ...
Memory Soundscape Proposal
Even though I am a college student now, I often reminisce about my twelfth grade, especially the break between night-self-studying. At that time, most of the students stay at school after school voluntarily and keep studying until half-past nine for the GSAT. I remember that we can only take a break for ten minutes among three hours. Therefore, I am always looking forward to the break time. While running on the playground, I can hear cars and motorcycles running on the faraway roads, passersby walking by, students playing and shouting, and leaves rustling in the wind. Among these diverse ...
Reading: In Our Own Image
1. What does Ritchin mean with the "fluidity of the digital"? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this. According to Richin, In Our Own Image, “... ‘digital photography’ obscures is that by changing the architecture of the image - moving from chemically processed grain to discrete electronic pixels - we are not creating another photography genre, but another medium...”(Ritchin xii) I agree with this statement that digital photography has actually become a new kind of medium rather than a type of photography. With the development of technology, digital ...
Pioneer Plaque Assignment
Hey Heptapods, does your planet have food delivery service? Since human beings consume energy when doing actions, such as walking, jumping, running, or even writing, they need 'food' to help them keep vigorous and cope with daily life activities. Food can be wild animals obtained by hunting, crops in the field, or cooked food made by human beings themselves through roasting, boiling, or heating. Because food contains plenty of nutrition which is a must for humans, accordingly food plays an essential role in humans’ daily life. With the fast development of society, human beings have also ...
Sound Visualization Project
I chose CORSAK, 溯(Reverse) as the song for the sound visualization project. For me, this song is ethereal and comfortable. Whenever I heard this song's piano version, I feel like sometimes I am walking on the wind; sometimes I am floating in cool water. Rain, or music note just dropping from the sky and make sounds like 'di da di da'. Later on, my first version of this project born. It took me a lot of time, but still did not look ethereal. Instead, this work looks a little weird and too simple. After taking the lecture, I found out that I did the project wrong. We can only use ...