Communication Lab_Fall 2021
Project Title: The Seven Ages of Man Team members: Frank Yucheng Bao & Mia Mingyin Xue A. Concept & Story The audio of this video is based on the poem “The seven ages of man” written by famous British poet William Shakespeare. The main idea of the poem is that Shakespeare attempt to describe… Read more Visual Metaphor Documentation Blog Post
Visual Metaphor Proposal I. Project Title: The Seven Ages of Man II. Team Members: Frank Yucheng Bao/ Mia Mingyin Xue III. Concept | Storyline: 1). Who are you going to interview? Or What is the piece (article, poem, story) for the narrative voice-over? The Seven Ages of Man (“All the World’s a stage”) 2).… Read more Visual Metaphor Proposal
You can click the link below to find my storyboard. storyboard_pdf My storyboard is about the video The old record album (《老唱片》) for the advertisement of Apple. I draw the section about the first one minute. the link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpoDNjiMYRI
Concept My memory is one of my unforgettable dream(nightmare): I first was sitting in some peaceful and natural place, with the winding stream. And I heard bell tones from the far away, and it sounded like an ancient Chinese temple. After I found the temple, opening the door, the inside is dark and I couldn’t… Read more Memory Soundscape Post
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? According to Steyerl, the sense of trust gradually disappear from the documentary, because of… Read more Reading Response to The Uncertainty of Documentarism
In the Memory Soundscape assignment, I want to recreate the soundscape of one of my unforgettable dreams when I was a middle school student. Basically, it is nightmare and I was dreaming what I feared and felt uncomfortable. I have a little bit of Claustrophobia which means when I am in some small and close… Read more Memory Post
Name: Yucheng(Frank) Bao Name of Project: Extended World Concept My concept in this project is “Extension” which means using the limited frame to provide more extended visual perception. There are three things I want to emphasize in my project: Distance, Depth, and the contrast between realistic and unrealistic, which are all around reality and imagination.… Read more Diptych Blog Post
What does Ritchin mean with the “fluidity of the digital”? Give an example of digital imaging/digital photography that exemplifies this. “The fluidity of the digital“ means that once the event or reality was recorded by the digitals or pixels, the photograph will lose its objectivity because people can manipulate the evidence shown in the photo.… Read more In Our Own Image Reading Response
Name: Yucheng(Frank) Bao Title of Music: Welcome to Wonderland Artist Name: Anson Seabra Concept and Design The song I chose is Welcome to Wonderland by Anson Seabra, which is the song that shouldered the most of memory of my high school experience. Because of the clean and soft voice for the vocal, this song can… Read more Sound Visualization Blog
After reading the Story of Your Life, we found that the perspective of aliens has huge differences when comparing to human beings’ perspectives, which may cause by the unique physical structure of aliens- seven limbs and seven eyes. The main purpose of our composition which may look somehow odd is to fit the reading-habit of… Read more Pioneer Plaque — GPS — Yucheng(Frank) & Mingyin(Mia)