Video link: https://vimeo.com/468022517   My goal in this assignment is to create an authentic and relatable character, along with a story that demonstrates the character in the most effective and resonating way. Plus, in the making of the film, I aim to deliver a final product which possesses my cinematic vision with least technical issues. […]

I always like creating a character with flaws. I intended to write something ridiculous, humorous, comedic, a bathos with this shadow character. In a way it is like ‘The Katering Show’ we viewed but with less delightful tone and totally different themes. He is an antagonist without a protagonist in the story. A villain is […]

Prompt 1: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/shiyang-wang/2020/08/07/getting-into-character-assignment-1-prompt-1/   Prompt 2: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/shiyang-wang/2020/08/07/getting-into-chrarcter-assignment-1-prompt-2/   Prompt 3: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/shiyang-wang/2020/08/07/getting-into-character-assignment-1-prompt-3/

Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).   ‘TRUE CHARACTER is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to his character’s essential nature.” —— Robert McKee, Story, 1999, pg. 101   What McKee suggests is, each character has a […]

Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).   Ron Woodroof is the hero of the story, there is no debate about that. He was a electrician and a rodeo before HIV discovered on him. Woodroof is first socially separated from his usually group, not because of his ‘ego’ (Vogler, pg.29), but he is forced out […]

Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).   How to describe Ron Woodroof, the leading character of the film? Who is he? He is a man from Texas. What is he? He is a cowboy, an electrician, an alcoholic, a drug addict, and a womanizer. What is he like? He is disrespectful, arrogant, homophobic, somewhat […]

Let’s talking about interpreting a script, time to see how ‘visual’ I am. Ella seems like a perfect role for Anna Kendrick, and Emily Blunt can be a great Juliette. Since this film will never be made, might just dream big. I want to begin the scene with a close up on the books, as […]

This research is really painful to me. My first obstacle was picking a topic, I really have selection difficulties and I highly doubt if that can be cured. My first choices were “Wildness in Film”, “Dutch Angles” and “Legs in Film”. I just thought these would be interesting to talk about, but then I realized […]

There are 6 clips in Part 18, three are from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s film The Kid with a Bike (2011) and the other three are the directors talking about the making of that film. Although I remember someone said musicians making commentary tracks for their own music is the sign of death in music […]

Watching the clip from ll deserto rosso (Red Desert, 1964) reminds me of the time I was watching L’avventura (1960). I did not remember too much from the view experience of L’avventura, I can only remember that it was nothing like the other films I watched before, and certainly nothing like the films people make […]