Screen Project 2: Research & Learning Honestly, I lost count of the number of animation tutorials I watched. It took me a lot more time than expected because I followed too many YouTubers/artists. The list below consisted of the lessons and channel I consider worth bookmarking. Animating With Ease in Adobe After Effects: This course Read More…

Screen Project 2: Research I have always liked watching cartoons and anime ever since I can remember, but it was not a specific film that got me interested in learning animation. It was when I knew about all the steps involved in the traditional animation process. It made me genuinely respect and admire anyone who Read More…

  Reflection on the process and outcome for Screen Project 1 Not in a million years would I have thought that I will create an experimental video. I enjoy seeing avant-garde works but I have always shied away from making anything deemed experimental simply because I don’t think I am creative enough. Hence, Screen Project Read More…

Movement About a week ago, my neighborhood was marked as one of Hanoi’s green zones. In the beginning, the zone was separated from the outer world with only a green ribbon. My house is next to the borderline, so watching the activities that were happening between the so-called green zone and red zone naturally became Read More…

Screen Project 1 – Progress update In this blog post, I want to share an update on the progress of the project. Everything has been on schedule, but nothing is definite yet since I am still in the filming stage. However, it makes sense to write this post now because I reckon things will get Read More…

Light I have been wanting to do another workshop activity because I had such a fun time making the ‘Word’ video. The idea for the video responding to ‘light’ came after I got my sunset light projector. I was scared that this light projector might be completely useless for Screen Project 1. I need to Read More…

Screen Project 1 – Brainstorming It was announced a few days ago that Hanoi will extend the lockdown until August 22. Thus, I had to alter some of my initial ideas to make them obtainable in the current situation. Footage of Minh Since I can’t come to Minh’s house, I asked him to take videos Read More…

This week, I am brainstorming ideas on composition, angle, editing – basically the technical aspect of Screen project 1. That is my first step toward developing a video script and storyboard. To recap, I will divide the footage into 3 categories: Minh playing the piano, Trang creating a music-inspired painting, and a set of videos Read More…

The second activity of Week 2 is to shoot a set of 8 videos responding to ‘word’. This activity reminded me of a survey I did a few days ago about Vietnamese youths’ attitudes towards English loanwords use in Vietnamese. Hence, I immediately associated ‘word’ with ‘language’. Although I have no problem with young people Read More…

After getting inspired by my sister and her partner’s work, I did some further research on the relation between our sensory nervous system and imaginations. Luckily, I found ‘The arts and the creation of mind’ by Elliot Eisner has a lot of answers to my questions. While I and Trang both used the sense of Read More…