十月 2014

Old is new–Red Rose White Rose

This is my best  film recently, even it has been hold in 1994, still worth to watch today. The screenplay is a famous female writer in 1930s, Zhang Ailing(Eileen Chang).

There is a scene, makes me a very deep impression, is after Zhen Bao see Jiao Rui again, be overcome by one’s feelings crying, whispering a few words:

This is ridiculous

In this meeting, there should be people cry

She should

She should, he should comfort her." Then, the lens glass out of the window at the rain left Jiao Rui flickering back.

After a few years, has repeatedly read Eileen Chang’s novels, have seen some of Stanley Kwan’s other works, and the most important is the change in mood, so when once again to see the film,  the feeling is completely different.

Change is me, let me in the Eileen Chang all works out of a movie, I would choose the red and the white rose. Eileen Chang between the lines have a sober attitude, but she frame stories are sitting on the fence, structure characters have complicated and emotional. So her work into the script is not easy. I like the red and the white rose, because the integrity of the story, the character’s plumpness, especially in the big background of war,a group of highly educated young people, a negative feelingstowards love, a little bit of penetration, to the end of the outbreak, very dramatic sense of conflict.

Samson Raphealson, a creative screenplay

Samson Raphealson a screenplay that had cooperation with Ernst Lubitsch several times, like the shop around the corner 1940, trouble in paradise 1932 and  heaven can wait 1943.  Also, the author made a compare between him and O’Neill, to a certain extent, Lubitsch freed him from the literate playwright’s obligation.

I watched two films was directed by Lubitsch and wrote by Samson Raphealson, one is the shop around the corner and the other is heaven can wait. It can be found, he is a talented writer, in the study of the relationship between men and women and for the society reflects the phenomenon can be reflected in characterization. In heaven can wait the idea is so creative in that time such a rare one.

For example, heaven can wait the opening in a unique way, suppose that after people die, to enter into the kingdom of heaven or hell before trial, then launches the explanation of the protagonist’s life, such ideas is still funny nowadays. On the other hand, the shop around the corner is a romantic comedy. Lines written and turning settings; although the quarrelsome lovers of the plot in the later has become conventional weapons in the love comedy, but Lubitsch in on the details of control and grasp of the whole amazing for depicting the hero and heroine; besides colorful characters is really good.

Heaven Can Wait

The Shop Around the Corner

FANTASY MUSIC FESTIVAL

There are three popular music festival in china, midi, strawberry and morden sky. We are trying to hold a similar music festival in Melbourne at feb 2015, which the them may be wild , young , freedom, mix culture & joyful.

The most popular music festival have to be WOODSTOCK Music Festival.

WOODSTOCK Music Festival, the full name of “Woodstock Rock Festival", is currently the world’s most famous series of rock music festival. The earliestwere held in 1969, the theme is “peace, anti war, humanity, equality". The scale and the lineup There was no parallel in history., a music festival and italso has rare the stink of money, advertised as “the combination of music and art". After numerous music festival held mostly want to practice the spirit of Woodstock, active in organizing public concert, at the same time expressesyoung people crazy about music.

The emergence of Woodstock has a great relationship with the background,60 years later, the post-war thought is fierce, young people have the opinion it is not taken seriously, frustration and masquerade are instantly, they want astand aloof from worldly success, peace, equality of the world, to eliminate thegap between the rich and the poor, anti establishment, Woodstock emerge as the times require, and it lead successful and make young people regain confidence, adding a positive factor in the spirit of Woodstock in.

Internship in AMG 2014.10.06

This week is the first time work in a media company in Melbourne called AMG Media. They started from producing a talk show called AuMyga— the top Chinese Variety Talk Show in Australia. The main services of our company are video productions (commercial video, short films and TV shows) and event planning.They have  just organised the Miss Asia Beauty Pageant in Melbourne,authorised by ATV which is an international TV network through Hong Kong , Taiwan, Malaysia Canada and USA. This year is the first year they are holding a beauty pageant contest in Melbourne.

They arranged me work in tuesday and we all have a meeting in monday evening 5:00-7:00 p.m. I think this may be a good opportunity for me to hold this kind of event, for example the coming event is a music festival will be hold in feb 2015. Also l have been send to production department, hope i can learn some new skills in ps premiere as well.

New Hollywood

When talking about the notion of a ‘New Hollywood.’ And  how it changes in history. Hollywood film history they make different claims for what is important about that period, producing competing accounts of ‘the new’ in relation to Hollywood. Professional critic,David Bordewell and Janet Staiger identify that post 1960 Hollywood, which the classic Hollywood style. It doesn’t changes a lot from late1980s to early 1990s compare with previous forty years with the great change in 1930 to 1945.

In 1980, Kael stated that “the real power in the new conglomerate Hollywood rested with the advertising and marketing people who not only determine which movies get financed but which movies they are going to sell”.

In all,  “new Hollywood” refer to the Hollywood film after the influence of the rise of Italy new realism movies, meanwhile in the aftermath of the French new wave of shock, experienced in itself from 50’s to 60’s commercial film and television after the recession of movie making impact production in a period of time 1967 to 1976, began to the type of film from the form to the theme of reflection. On the other hand, American social unrest and political crisis; the old film system have become the main background of this period film revolution and evolution.

In 1960s, American society in a series of harsh reality: murder events , the Vietnam war , the civil rights movement starting, economic recession, political crisis. The domestic economic and cultural reasons new Hollywood film generated, seems to be mainly attributed to the film and TV competition.

Audience as commodity

Audiences as commodity  in TV industry is a quite interesting opinion  in this semester course -Histories & Technologies.

TV programs as a culture commodity, reflected in two different economic systems,financial economy and culture economy.

Look at the below  picture, it shows the interactive economic system pattern. I will only talk about the financial economy.

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The authoritative mass culture critic,John Fiske explains that studio as a producer to present TV show to retailer, it’s like normal finance exchange. However, we cannot simply understand like that, because TV programs as a culture commodity, is quite different from material commodity. The TV program economical function is still works and it becomes to a producer. It produce a group of audiences, after that, the group of audiences is sold to advertisers. Obviously, the audiences is treated like commodity and advertises play the role of customer.

On the surface, the advertise seems to fright for CM time,actually they purchase the audiences. More number of audiences the higher price of advertisement will be. In one word, the popular TV program can attractive more advertises.

The challenge between China Netizens and Government

Chinese government forbid people to use Youtube,Facebook,Google and Twitter, recently even Instagram, This caused widespread public discontent.

With the Great Wall ancient China, by twenty-first Centurythe Republic makes fire the Great Wall China’s GreatFirewall— official name is Golden Shield Project the international horror Golden Shield project.

The ancient the Great Wall to keep the northern nomads,the Great Wall is now information network monitoring toolsis blocked, let netizens do not see should not look at things. So these should not look at things covers theworld’s most common most popular websites.

On the other hand, besides the view from Angry netizens,  this kind of forbidden ,To promote the domestic media development, manysimilar sites emerge in an endless stream, of course, if notin imitation of the premise is better.

 

Book Review -The edge of the attitude

The author  used  our daily life familiar things as elements — such asmarriage, sex, women between the “war" — into the edge of Qinghai to describe, this process will be something familiar defamiliarization, thus enabling readers toreconsider their own life, feel the coexistence of “he"culture. Works concise text funny, full of “vigorous force",but the author can better integration of material, with the main characters will string together, the main line can berevolved around space (Dao Guan), also can be thehistorical change of Qinghai, can also be a religious or other. In a word, the text characters are fresh, but the lack of relevance, seemed a bit scattered.

Related to final essay- Social Media Platforms

The rapid development in the information age, emerge in endlessly medium comes out. People have many choices to propose their opinion, for example Facebook, twitter, YouTube, and so on.

Firstly the definition of social media, Social media is allowing people to write, share, evaluation, discussion, mutual communication and technology website. Social media should be a large number of netizens spontaneously contribution, extraction, the creation of news and information, process and communication. Produce of social media is dependent on the development of web.

Talking about the popular social media platforms between the folks  in china have to be wechat and weibo. It  take the place of  Renren which is quite similar with Facebook and  Kaixin, a  network community.

The huge change needed thinking.

 

Reading feedback

This weekly reading talked about “Database as Symbolic Form”. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow.” -the recombinant poetics and related database aesthetics. It relay on the basic setup," at a number of  human processes–memory, thought, association, cataloging, categorizing, framing, contextualising, decontextualizing, and recontextualizing ,as well as grouping."

Technology as a help hand is the notion of combinatorics in the processes, servicing of human expression. Many ways of expression , like  imagistic, musical, textually sonic, visually textual, sculptural, environmental, or interface-realted.

Database interactive exploration aesthetic make coreform element meaning production is our work.It has become the development of new technology /poetry system be imperative explores emergingproduction and the significance of the new strategy by theaesthetic potential case database enabled recombinantpoetry works better “point" of the meaning of production.