One of our exercises is related to shooting dialogue. Because there are supposed to have communication between two characters, camera needs to change shots and angles. Thus, it is noted that people should take the imaginary line between two characters into consideration. Normally, when we shoot a dialogue, we don’t cross the imaginary line. If […]

Last week I watched the movie called ‘I killed my mother’, I really like the colour it used and the angle it chose. Here are some of my own understanding and feelings. Firstly, setting an interview of the main character at the start can let the audiences get into the story directly and immediately. However, […]

The first class of box studio is concern to learn getting ready for filming. At the beginning, we wrote a guide of camera and tripod. Besides, we learnt the different function of various buttons. Next, we had a try of setting the technical index. However, I am still confusing about what are the correct parameter […]

I have the impression that filmmaking is a complex process. Film shows story directly by piles of scenes and shots. Audience can feel the emotion immediately. Comparing with reading a book, there is little place for audience to image. Thus, director need to image at first and show his image scenes. It is a challenging […]

This week’s reading is about Tim Wu’s opinion of advertising from his 2016 book called ‘The Attention Merchants’. I read both the introduction and epilogue. He argued that advertising is a avoidable toxin for people and it’s a mistakenly indentation in 20 century. However, I believed that  ‘Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is […]

  As the development of internet, a fresh type of media has been created called self-media. Thus, there is a huge damage to traditional media. How can we solve the conflation between traditional media and self-media? Moreover, what are we supposed to understand self-media? The competition of traditional media is about content and medium. However, […]

Internet meme an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. In nowadays, more and more people like to use internet meme when they communicate with social media. This phenomenon has became a new language(culture). However, why people like to use internet meme? To start with, internet meme is simpler […]

Ice bucket challenge is a activity of raising fund for ALS. It different from other charity activities. It ask people to dumping a bucket of ice water over a person’s head and record the process to update to their social media. This activity had a large number of participants at that time, even some celebrities […]

In this week’s workshop, we first listened to an audio video about lobotomy. It’s a long video, which is about 20 minutes. We distinguished the structure of this video in two aspects, which are story elements and sound elements. Secondly, we start to discuss our PB4 assignment. Base on we already done our research, we […]

In week 10’s lectorial, we first listen some example of audio recoding, which attract me a lot. The spot music also fit the video well. Music usually works well in the audio recoding. It may creat different atmosphere of our audio video. There is a example called “CBC Radio: The Wire ‘intro’” interest me lot. […]