Category: Communication Lab

  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

 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)

How do aliens in the story language and communication style different from the human language (oral, pictographic, phonetic, etc.)? For the aliens’ oral language(Heptapod A), there is no such fixed word order, and even there is no preferred order for the clauses in a conditional statement. But for the human language, we have the regular… Read more Reading Notes for Story of Your Life

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