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W4 | Pre-production | A3 Film Structure

The basic storyline of this film I’m about to make is about a girl feels pressured and guilt from accidentally killing her boyfriend by calling him at the wrong time when he was driving. She visited the psychiatrist for some medication. She dreams about the past memories together with abstract imagination. The plotline will not…

A2 | Reflection

I inspired by David Lynch in many ways. One thing can be noticed is that I got a sense of what a horror film should look like. From Darkened Room (2002), I realized how important the lighting is in horror film. (Figure 1 Darkened Room 2002) (Figure 2 Darkened Room 2002) From the above photos (Figure 1 & 2),…

Screen and Sensation | Assignment 1

Light A1/1 | Playing around with light A1/2 | Cat movement A1/3 | Film Review “97%”

A1 | 4 Film Review “Autumn. A short timelapse film”

The movie is a short time-lapse film about natural environment including trees, sky, and dirt etc.

A1/3 | Film Review “97%”

First of all, I love movies without any dialogue, which requires a higher performance skill, editing and cinematography to convey a good movie, and this is one of them. The whole film uses a third person angle, especially in the beginning, to shoot the protagonist, it was either behind the bars, a crane shot or…

A1/2 | Cat movement

I chose my cat as the subject in the video not only because I cannot find anyone else at the moment, also because of cats are a hyperactive animal, it forces me to move around and push myself further to find more angles within the frames creatively. But it also makes me have less control…

A1/1 | Playing around with light

This video is an experimental film that was designed to capture light from various angles and shot to convey different perspective results. I used multiple basic visual literacies to shoot light, including panning, out of focus, depth of field, close up, tracking, the rule of thirds, zoom in and zoom out. Various ways or angles…