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Week 8 – Radio lab- The living room

http://www.radiolab.org/story/living-room/ In the audio, Diane was talking about a story of her neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, she and her family could see every personal things the couple did including sex. And she watched their story for a long time and get her herself involved just like…

Week 8 – workshop

We listened an audio essay called ‘Sleep’ from Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91528-sleep/ It discovered the sleep pattern of animals. The entire audio was in slow pace with soft and gentle music, which made me feel so sleepy. When the narrator was talking, there were too much background noise which was kinda annoying. In an audio…

Week 8 – Reading for annoted bibliography

One of my reading is from Peason ‘Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media’. The article explores the mode of using social media among higher education faculty by doing survey to collect the participants’ usage of social media .The survey included social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…

Week 7 – Behind the scene

I like to watch behind the scene of films, to see how they film the scene, what angle they use, what camera movement they use, how they shoot such a good scene ect. It is a good way to learn skill and knowledge. Especially for media students, understanding the process…

Week 7 – Filmstudie

Filmstudie (1926) by Hans Richter, it is a traditional abstract film of mixing styles, it has shifting of shapes, people, eyeballs, animals, shadows. Although the eyeballs are creep, the transition between each element is quite interesting. It shows a different word by looking into eyeballs, and from the point of view…

Week 7 – Reading

The reading is from Film Art : an introduction by Bordwell and Thompson, it listed two types of form in documentary films: categorical form and rhetorical form. The film Gap is an example of categorial form, it is about interviewing lots of women all has a gap between their tooth. The film…

week 7 – Class reflection

We had a small screening in class, which was extremely excited and nervous to me. (You know that feel when your project was on the big screen, and everyone gonna watched it. ) Everyone did a good job. We had all different themes and angles. And after screening, we need to give feedback to people…

Week 7- Lecture

In the lecture, Racheal Wilson mentioned about both negative and positive collaboration. I think collaboration is very important in group works, it could directly influenced the final work. I had lot of experience of negative collaboration when I was in the previous course. I had a group with three girls and one guy, that…

Week6- PB3-refelction

The PB3 is quite stressful to me, it is no long a one-minute video, it needs 2-3 minutes long which means I need to take more footage; and it is a portrait about someone else which is a big challenge to me, although I have done lots of photo shoot for many…

Week6-EXERCISE – NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN PB3

What is the ‘controlling idea’ (Robert McKee) of your portrait? How does a designer produce his works? How is your portrait film structured? The first part of film gives a introduction of my interviewee, and then it raises a problem he met, at last , it shows how he deals with the problem….