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Week4- class reflection

In the class, we talked about the social distance and sound, Louise mentioned about the social distance in China which is quite different from others. Yes, we do. In China, it is very normal people are sit or stand quite close to each others, on the one hand, it is because there are huge…

Week 4 -Lecture,reading

In the lecture, I was so confused when I was watching the 4’33” from John Cage, I was expecting the artist starts to play the piano, however there was no real music at all, the whole performance was about he was timing using his timer 3 times. It was also kind of interesting,…

PB2 video

PB2 Reflection

A one -minute video is too short to convey lots of information about myself, so I thought I just put the most important information which can represent my life and myself. The video includes that things I love and the life I enjoy, and I want to show my true life in an…

Week 3- Initiative

Social Network (2010) The film depicts the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ‘s transformation from a nerdy collage student to a ruthless businessman, it is a story of friendship and betrayal. After his girlfriend left, he created the website in order to take revenges. He got inspiration from Winklevoss brothers and created Facebook…

Haiku exercise

Haiku is a kind of poem from Japan, it made up of 3 sentences. This exercise requires us to take 5 different 10-15 second videos clips and put them together with Haiku, and edit using premiere. The clips was okay, but premiere … I never use premiere before, it is totally a new world to…

Week 3 – Class

We talked about social media this week. Twitter is more about news, people dont use it that much anymore. Snapchat is more personal, cuz people can see your live, you kinda share your moment with everyone. Almost everyone uses Facebook, and now more and more companies have their own Facebook page, you could always…

week 3 – reading

This week’s reading is from an author David Gauntlett, he talks about his book ‘Making Media Studies’. He outlines a few points about media studies: we need to do something with media and get involved rather than just talk about it, because we should explore something rather than looking back about the history. Therefore creativity…

Initiative post

Goodfellas 1990 Vs Casino 1995 Goodfella is directed by Martin Scorsese, it was one of his best films. Lots of critics regards Goodfella as the best film by Scorsese, and they think after Goodfella, there is no more great film created by Scorsese. When Casino came out, critics compared it with Goodfella, they saw lots…

Week 2 – class reflection

In the class, I have 4 people in my group, we shared our comments about our first assignment. Each of us is in different hat, and mine is green – creative,internegative. I think comments are very useful to me, cuz sometimes I personally think my works are perfect to me, but I do need to…