This article discussed the relations between time and technology development. About a hundred years ago, economist John Maynard believed that people will relieve themselves from the heavy work and people can enjoy more leisure time. Especially in the digital time, people can be more productivity and higher efficiency because the work can be done by […]
The reading from this week is interested me and made me falls into the ponder that how should I treat my future career. In this article, Cal Newport presented two entirely different ways to people think about their working life: the craftsman mindset and the passion mindset. The craftsman mindset focuses on what you can […]
Reference:Ying, Xing. Looking Back at the 1998. Chinese Film MarketChinese Sociology & Anthropology, Fall 1999, Vol.32(1), p.12-15 This article mainly discusses and analyses the Chinese market in the year 1998. In the year 1998, Titanic was like a ‘dazzling rainbow’ swallowing up 350 million RMB at the box office. After the screening of Titanic, three large […]
Reference Zhu, Y., & Rosen, S. 2010. Art, politics, and commerce in Chinese cinema. Hong Kong University Press, vol.1. pp:1-156. In this book: Art, politics, and commerce in Chinese cinema, part 1, the authors mainly discuss the Chinese cinema’s international market, one of the most heated topic nowadays, they explore the Chinese film market’s characteristics […]
Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas’s The informal Media Economy is a very relevant article for me, and all will be graduate students work in the media industry. This week reading made me deeply think my career in the future. Lobato and Thomas point out how ‘a lot of money can be made in media work’ […]
The article A World of Differences written by Chris Lederer analysis the opportunities and trends in the global entertainment industries outlook on 2016 to 2020. Chris points out five dimensions will be roiling the global E&M landscape: demography, competition, consumption, geography, and business models. (p10) Two aspects of the shifts attract me, demography and geography. […]
Klaus Schwab in his book indicate the fourth industrial revolution is coming, and he lists three clusters will drive the technological megatrends: physical, digital and biological. Three of them technologies interrelated and they benefit from each other. He lists four main physical manifestations of technological megatrends: autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, advanced robotics and new material. […]
I watched a cat documentary World’s cat walk filmed by a Japanese filmmaker Mitsuaki Iwago before I chose this course. At that time, I got a goal that make a cat documentary. During this semester, inspired by the shooting style of Mitsuaki Iwago, I made a documentary focused absolutely on the daily life of domestic […]
Collaboration is an important part while a filmmaker doing a film with a team. It’s very familiar for me collaborate with a team working a film, same as last semester. In film 3, I am appreciate each member has their own ideas, but to be honest, not all people accurate knows how to work […]
After I done the voice over with my friend, I add them into my project. I am very excited because the whole style of my film changed, it’s more warm and lovely. The cadence and poetry of which informs the project’s overall rhythm, tone and sympathy with my subject’s “otherness”. I got two versions that […]