Key Words: social issues, problems between or from people, mental illness, remaking, gothic style, black and white, photography, post-retouch, post-painting, PS, artist research, Jeff Wall, Henry Wallis, Helena Almeida

Rework Content: < Seven >, a group of text free pictures improved and sublimated from primary research (Contains 6 pictures)

Work Content: < Illusory Fantasy, Authentic Phantasm >, two series of photographs taken with a text story (Contains 18 pictures)

Because I spent a lot of time in the hospital, and due to the hospital network, most of my finished work and research were on Sketchbook this time.

— Work Preview

—Research And My Feeling About This Artist

The authenticity of photography, the boundary between photography and painting, the boundary between high and low artistic taste.How to choose the Angle to recreate the history, how to use the lens to create the picture.

Exposed Social Problems: violence and a series of problems commonly seen in the streets due to the gap between the rich and the poor, class issues and so on.

• Jeff Wall

Wall’s photographs are called “photographic conceptual art”, and the artist is also the most famous in contemporary art photography, and has even been described as the “Andy Warhol” of photography.

Milk is a derivative of what Jeff Wall saw and heard on the street. In the picture, the Milk in a man’s hand presents a complex organic form, frozen in an unpredictable shape. All the subjects he chooses include violence, poverty, race, class, etc. However, he escapes from the documentary itself and enlarges the social problems behind the pictures by recording a carefully constructed picture.

How to use the existing historical resources as their inspiration, and then use their own skills to “reproduce” the emotions they want to express.

Exposed social problems: artificial external factors to human physical and mental aspects of the great damage.

• Henry Waillis/ Sir John Everett Millais

As you can see, this page is a continuation of Jeff Wall’s research. I investigated more artists who reproduced historical pictures or work of this kind.It is a known fact that Ophelia is one of the characters in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Hamlet. She is ruthlessly abandoned as part of Hamlet’s mad revenge plan, and her father’s death brings her into a delirium, where she slips into the water and dies.

The death of Ophelia has been recreated by many artists since ancient times, like Henry Wallis on the left, who borrowed Thomas, an equally romantic poetry collector and creator who committed suicide by poisoning in his attic at the age of 28, to create similar images.

Not just photography, not thinking about what’s in front of you, learning to use what you know and what you can use. Using paintings to combine photography to achieve a dynamic effect.

Exposed social problems: the stereotype of the past, and the general prejudice of men against women in society.

• Helena Almeida

My body as a drawing, myself as My own work.As Almeida said, in her work, the body is at the same time a sculptural form and the concept of space. Through photography, Helena Almeida has established a strong relationship between expression (the art of painting) and expression (her own body as the “medium” for this act).

At the same time, Almeida’s creations are highly expressive, and photography is both a record of her actions and a carrier of the concept of a mixture of media and body. In her work, canvases, paints and materials become wearable objects for the skin, or the body; In the physical interaction with the artist, the composition elements of painting become a conscious reality and gain real materiality. All this is definitely presented in the form of photography.

The female body in this work is the medium of rubbing blue pigment, which is flattened and superficial. Throughout the course of their actions and in the final product, their subjectivity is erased, leaving only the Klein blue in the shape of their feminine biological characteristics.

Almeida used her work to hit this objectification of the female body by the male gaze. In many of Almeida’s work, she struggles against “Blue”. Blue pigment she uses is close to Klein Blue, and she always opposes Klein’s use of women as the background of her paintings. “Blue Female Art” is a liberating act that marks Almeida’s artistic temperament.

In 1977, Almeida created a series of works “in Inner Improvement”. With the use of superimposed media, she seemed to be eating Klein blue paint or devouring it, which was also Almeida’s release of her Inner heart and resistance to societal sexism. Adding acting elements to represent an active use of feminist and revolutionary positions.

She seems to be asking us to think about how we think about self-portraits: when we try to see the artist as an artist, in revealing the people behind the work, she is never bound by our curtains of expectation or our transcendental ideas about creation, genius or gender.

—Research Summary

Jeff Wall/Henry Wallis: how to make full use of the knowledge you have mastered to interpret a work completely, and how to create it again while retaining the essence of the original work.

Helena Almeida: reasonable and perfect use of painting to describe their photographic work, so that they can really “move” up.

—My Thoughts On Production

This piece is completely step-by-step. Since the topic is about social issues and “Demonstration”, in the initial primary research, I took a group of pictures centered on “double-dealing” called < Mask and Rose >.

· The first shooting attempt was mainly to evaluate the shooting atmosphere needed for this work and whether it was suitable for off-site shooting and production. However, due to the epidemic situation and the need to return to China for ear treatment later, I chose the more convenient indoor shooting, and summarized the shortcomings in the first shooting, so that I could find the state as soon as possible in the later shooting.
Because this time the shooting is too rough, not only the set but also the props.I was too concerned about the choice of props before, but finally when I received the props, the quality of the props was not satisfactory to me, and when I was waiting for the props, I did not carefully choose the exterior scene, which led to my later choice of props and scenes was very “perfunctory”. Therefore, I decided that, apart from the final shot, I also wanted to remake the research and shooting of the “mask”.

· Social problems I want to embody
Seven negative thoughts of the seven deadly sins.
Human common psychological disease depression to bring harm to people, and may lead to external social factors. (also pyramid schemes/sex trafficking organizations/human trafficking, campus/social violence or isolation/patriarchal, and LGBT)

· I first wrote two short modern poems for my final work before deciding on how to take the pictures. And they both use metonymy to express what I want to express. By the way, all the characters I want to shoot are women, because in contemporary society, the status of women is far less than that of men, and women are the group that most easily causes discussion on social problems.

In the Dark-Purple Onion, I think of the girl as an Onion. She is just like any vegetable in the basket, one day lucky to be picked up by the people “play”, they will “buy” her home will depend on her fresh degree, that is, whether she is attractive enough. But this time she apparently met a picky eater who wanted a fresher version of her, not “fresh” Onions as the mud-coated sellers called them, so they peeled off her shell to enable them to pursue a more perfect meal. At last their aim was achieved, and they had this “instant pleasure”, and then they put her back in the basket as if they had never been there, had done nothing to her, and had not had the “fresh Onions, so delicious that you will never regret them”, as the seller had originally called them.

Obviously, there is a simulated human trafficking/sex trafficking/surrogacy scene. It will makes one wonder why the girls are in such an environment.

In the Azure-Blue Sky, only two main characters appear here, one is the girl, the other seems to be the unpredictable nature. In the beginning, there is a sign that a storm is coming, and all the builders seem to be merciless towards everything at first, but when its rain falls on the girl, she cries out to the girl to run, just because it will get her wet.But the girl chose to stay here, why? Because she loved it, the warmth of its softer side, but also the bad side, because she could always find something better in it, such as the smell of the earth after a storm, such as the rainbow that always rose after the sun.

In this little story, you might think of a mental illness like depression.This girl can be themselves, who yearn to be better when they’re not sick. But this girl can also be someone from the outside who really loves them and encourages them. And the culprit behind all this is the mental illness, the patient himself. The cry in the middle states that they don’t want such a complex mentality either, but they can’t stop themselves from raining. Maybe they canot do anything about it, but they can still make a rainbow after the rain.

· After the conception of the story, I began to shoot around these two stories.I first decided to adopt the cover of my story, which was two “mirror reflection” pictures from different time periods and different places.The reason I choose this set of pictures is that people are convinced whether it’s positive or negative, whether it’s the real world or mirror/water (real self/Internet spread etc.), but the only difference is which side has the loudest argument.

· Besides, after I determined the composition and took the pictures, I made reasonable use of the post processing method of using PS mentioned by the teacher in the course.
And because of the artists I researched, I reproduced and paid tribute to a group of my favorite Helena’s work (ruined Painting/ 1976).Since I had no idea how Helena handled her images, I simply used Photoshop for post-production.In this process, I made judicious use of the knowledge I learned from the artists I researched. I not only successfully reshoot the work I wanted to shoot. But also combined painting and photography very well.

Below are Helena’s works that I chose to study and my finished products. (The order is shuffled, but you can read the correct order in my PDF)

Story 1, Dark-Purple Onion: human trafficking or control for sale and use/patriarchal

I chose red to represent blood, as well as persuasive personality manipulation. The horizontal line on the brick and on the wrist of the final image is the same, representing the end of the girl’s suicide by cutting her wrists.
In the first picture at the beginning of the story, the gun against the girl’s head represents her strong resistance to being trapped in such an environment, and instead of blood, a mouth shoots out from behind, indicating that she has been manipulated or brainwashed by the person who created the environment.
She is elected by the diners, which means that she will betray herself again and her original thoughts. She can only be forced to kill herself again so that her “new self” can forgive her for being low and helpless in this environment.
The reason she was not chosen was because she was a “painted commodity,” like this line, the appearance she presented to the outside world was packaged.
And often, in the intense brainwashing or long-term trapped in this environment and can not escape from the people, they will eventually be completely controlled and unable to extricate themselves, they will even become the next to manipulate others. Their hearts are dead.
But when you peel off her skin layer by layer, in the depths of your heart, in the depths of darkness, they are often eager for affection, for love, for free.
But unless someone can rescue them from such a situation, they end up day after day reconciling with their packaged selves and then sinking  again.

In the last picture you can see that the girl’s hands have four characters: her father, her mother, me with a cross drawn, and her brother. Except for me, the other three were all smiling.This represents one of the social problems I want to express. In China, it is a very common phenomenon that sons are preferred over daughters. Due to the imprisonment of some parents by traditional ideas, they generally believe that giving birth to a girl is not as good as giving birth to a boy, so before and after giving birth to a boy, they will abandon or even abuse the girl/girl to varying degrees, even to the extent of torture and murder. You can reintroduce the story from the point of view that I’m speaking about.

Story 2, Azure-Blue Sky: mental disorders such as depression/LGBT issues

Before the story begins, the gigantic shadow projected behind is the pathogen that entangles the depression patients. (You can also learn about the difficult process of trying to find a place in society for LGBT people) Throughout the process, the gray patch acts as the little thing in their head that keeps them going, whether it’s a loved one, a pet, or the few things they like left.
They are just trying to embrace themselves, to embrace who they are as they are, and even to embrace the world that has made them, and you can see, at the same time, the shadows behind them are following them.
Therefore, when they want to hug but finally hugged herself only (what all have no, even a little support herself through the idea of), they how desperate, it’s also one of the reasons why the most depressed patients finally chose to commit suicide, they in this world is no longer something worth as a souvenir.
But at the end of the story, she actually hugged someone, and “it” heard someone say they loved it for the first time. The shadow in the background is now two people, but the shadow no longer looks scary or lonely. To us, it looks like they are even kissing.

· Then, as usual, I used some familiar software for typography and text insertion.
Originally, I planned to format them all into horizontal format and divide the mirror image of the cover, but finally I gave up this idea and made them into vertical format, so that everyone could better understand the meaning and effect of the mirror that I wanted to express on the covers usual, I used some familiar software for typography and text insertion.

— Rework of < Mask and Rose >

This time, I telephotography the investigation works of the mask series based on the light shooting practice I had done in the early stage and the shortcomings of the first shot.In this case, I choose animals as the entry point, because different animals can represent different characters.

Then, because I am not difficult to be proud, I focused on shooting the section of Pride.But in the end you can see the Envy, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Anger, I didn’t shoot the lazy reason is that the “I happen all too lazy to photograph”. Obviously, this is the most fruitful way to interpret this character.

— SWOT in This Time

• Strengths

I have lots of ideas for my project and I can work it both on blog and sketchbook. 
I know how to transform them into art work.
My photography skills are strong, and I know how to use some machine to develop my ideas.
I do things gradually, and know how to extract better things from the previous projects to learn, and also found some shortcomings in this time to do better.

• Weaknesses

I’ve got almost everything done, but I just can’t make a better time schedule to blog ahead of time. Or the next time I need to ask myself not to work so hard in the early stages that I have nothing to do in the later stages.

• Opportunities

So far, there is nothing to improve. I need to keep this reasonable idea of cooperating with classmates and going to the studio to shoot.

• Threats

Just the same thing in weaknesses.
Perhaps one more should be added. I have always been good at writing because I have always loved writing, but I can’t be just proud of that. I need to communicate my ideas with teachers more diligently in class.

Key Words: artist research, Gillian Wearing, Evelyn Bencicova, photography, work conception, work process, reflection, light practice, PS, final idea, gothic style

Work Practice: a series of shooting attempts about movement and light sculptures

— Work Preview

In the shooting, the use of shooting props to achieve the expression of light and sense, in order to improve the feeling of artistic conception brought by shooting pictures.

— My Thoughts on Production

• The Content Contained in This Production

The topic of this time is about the problems existing in the society, and since this topic covers a lot of problems that can be discussed, I chose a common problem that I have been exposed to most and have the greatest self-feeling about —— various problems and influences of people’s thoughts. This time I mainly chose the seven deadly sins and mental illness, two common social factors that are closely related.

• Improvement of work and further action

Because at the beginning, what I wanted to show about this topic is about “double-dealer “.  So after a series of research and preparation, I shot < Mask and Rose >. However, at that time, my choice of shooting site, shooting props and lighting was relatively random, so I went to the formal studio in the final shooting, and then adopted some lighting and added more post-painting effects.

Therefore, in the following work, my primary goal is to determine my lighting requirements for the shooting, and then purchase props according to what I want, and then go into the studio with my classmates to shoot.

• Final Work Name

< Seven >, < Illusory Fantasy, Authentic Phantasm >

• What is My Plan For This Production With The Surrounding Resources

Due to the current epidemic situation and the treatment of my ear for about two weeks, it still did not prevent me from using the things around me reasonably to complete this homework. In this assignment, I chose a new way of production — I chose to shoot a series of pictures and attach text to them, rather than continue to choose the short film production I chose for the first time.
At the beginning of the production, I first determined the content of the work I just wanted to make. After determining the content related to human emotions, I contacted my friends in my former school and practiced shooting in the photography studio of my former school.Because what I wanted to express was the Gothic style of shooting, I discussed the lighting requirements for the shooting for many times in the initial time.Shooting equipment I used included Honey Comb, Coloverd Gel, Snoot Spot Flash, Soft Box, Transparent Color-Paper.

— Research And My Feeling About The Artist

Taking pictures through ideas to show normal problems in society, mostly self-problems caused by external factors.

Exposed social problems: about self-affirmation and common street social issues.

· Gillian Wearing

Gillian who live in British now is known for her photographic and videotape approach to document everyday life, involving the discussion of personal identity in the relationship between private and public space, largely blurring the lines between reality and fiction.

[Everything is connected in Life the Point is you know it and understand it]。

To create the series, Gillian randomly selected passers-by, asked them if they would like to write down their thoughts on a piece of paper and held it up so she could photograph it. In contrast to documentary photojournalism, she tried to engage the participants actively and challenge social stereotypes and assumptions.

Through her work, Gillian is providing a platform for individuals in society to express their views, and the work validates her personal concerns about collective belonging.

But one of Gillian’s most compelling — and uncomfortable — projects is a series of photos in which she duplicates other people’s faces. In the photos, Gillian Weying is photographed wearing someone else’s replica face mask, cutting out her eyes, putting them on and pretending to have a different personality.

Such works are really poignant, because the issue of identity is always very responsive and receives a lot of attention in society. However, what Gillian is illustrating is more of a psychological discussion, and she’s thinking more about mortality.

In this way, she successfully allows herself to enter a variety of different characters and experience their identity and background. Just like, everyone has his own way of life and story experience, not everyone can tell others, and this time itself is full of many subjective opinions and disguises.

In this way, getting to know other people can better understand diverse points of view, and Gillian has created a network of relationships within her framework. She lets herself know a lot about other people and also about herself.

The metaphorical method is used to remake certain themes, which has a unique shooting style and reflects certain social problems.

Exposed social problems: violence and potential isolation in society.

· Evelyn Bencicova

German artist Evelyn Bencicova has created “Ecce Homo”, a series of work that recreates the origins of violence and war as described in the Bible, using mass nudity as her material.

Ecce Homo, Latin for “Look, This man,” was originally Pontius. Pilate said this ina very contemptuous tone in front of the Jewish people after the flogging of Jesus. Pontius Pilate was probably sorry for Jesus, but he just wanted to do the people, so he put Jesus to death under the outcry of the people. At the same time,this sentence is also a spiritual meaning of Jesus on the cross with the crown of thorns on his finger.

Evelyn’s work are very distinctive. She uses a group of naked human bodies to interpret places, such as the supposedly beautiful dance room, the fundamental physiology lab, the meeting room, and so on. Nude models are placed on tables, hidden in cabinets, or stacked on the floor, appearing in a strange and twisted way to the audience like lifeless sculptures. But ironically their faces are cleverly obscured.

The tone of the whole series of work is Gothic style, dark, strange and exaggerated. The human body is composed of abstract patterns and symbols in the work, which gives people a strong sense of ritual. Although there is no violent element in the work itself, it is still shrouded in an uneasy stillness and fear, which make the viewer feel an uncomfortable depression. Photographer through such a picture is to show the human suffering naked.

— Research Summary

Gillian Wearing: Gillian’s work puts forward a multidimensional understanding of the interchanging joys and sorrows of everyday life. She uses documentary photography, film and television techniques to construct the worry, words and actions of ordinary people in their daily lives through subtle situational manipulation. This kind of work, which puts the viewer in subtly manipulated situations, makes the audience feel uneasy: in the face of her work, we just have to question some of our own inherent prejudices.

Evelyn Bencicova: Her works have a plain Gothic style, mostly dark, strange and exaggerated as the main melody, the human body is composed of abstract patterns and symbols, giving people a strong sense of ritual. Although the work itself has no vicious elements, it makes people feel enveloped in an uneasy stillness and fear, which makes people feel depressed. As a young artist, Evelyn’s work has strong quality. The background elements are simple, the colors are subtle and dark, and regardless of the fact that there is no violence in the work itself, it can somehow put the viewer in a kind of uncomfortable repression. The static fear factor is enough to take your breath away.

— Flash Setting and Light Sculptures Movement

I used different colored paper to try to achieve unusual effects of environment expression, and then tried to make my classmates move continuously in front of the camera. Then I used the camera for motion capture, so that the picture was blurred.Here are some of the more successful images I tried to catch.

In the following images, I mainly used the camera’s time-lapse photography.

I used a luminescent object, and move it quickly and use a camera to capture its path. Then I learned one thing from this attempt, I need to turn on the flash when I don’t need a black background.

But as you can see, the tracking of the light wasn’t particularly good, and because of the increased movement, most of the time my subjects were blurred. This is one of the examples I’ve listed off some of the effects of reflection, the other common examples are over-lighting, or under-lighting.
As I am not professional. I did not fully master the lighting skills. When using the colored background board and colored light, I could not let the light and shadow completely cover the whole background board, which is also the fundamental reason why I chose the black and white background board and white light in my final work.

— The Ten Words

Anonymity, Barrier, Concealment, Layer ( taken the pictures at home when i’m in class )

Contrast, Reflection, Cover, Fog, Growth, Abstract ( taken the pictures during the weekend )

• Anonymity

All of our communication takes place in an anonymous manner. Cameras represent software for communication, and behind beautiful photos is often an elaborate disguise.

• Barrier

Obstacles are not limited to physical ones; they affect us more emotionally than any other kind.

• Concealment

In social life, we are all so eager to hide our original selves, our weaknesses and all of our shortcomings. But do we really want that in our hearts? Will they struggle behind their hidden backs?

• Layer

Our lives are like rings in that tree.  Our lives are based on the world around us, and if its life is gone, so will ours.

• Cover

This is not just a journey that needs to be completed. But the true self that people hide when they walk outside. Look, the shadow in the light, isn’t that what people really are?

• Growth

Trying to grow, get rid of the original living environment. Come, come. Going into the light.

• Reflection

What kind of light is this? Which angel is looking in the mirror on the cloud?

• Fog

This proves that I live in a mountain town, which is a wet environment all year round.

• Abstract

Can you see what I’m trying to say about life? If not, it calls abstraction.

• Contrast

For this telephone pole, he prefers the life of a building full of fireworks, or glide with the birds through the clouds of freedom?

— Documentary Introduction

< Squatparty >

Female punks have fun boozing, smoking and talking in this fascinating film by London lifestyle chronicler Captain Zip.

Female punks have a good time talking, smoking and getting drunk with their friends in this sparky, spontaneous short film. Revealing their everyday lives, it also features fascinating footage of punks hanging out on the London streets. Elvis Costello and The Clash provide evocative audio for this splendid slice of no-frills documentary, with sequences shot at London punk epicentres Portobello Road and King’s Road.

< Tokyo Techno Tribes >

The report is a candid interview with Japan’s new wave of reactionary “personalised” factions.

These first-person narratives cut through the mask of unity.It tells the story of the lives of a group of Japanese people who are trying to find a new identity, not just the salaries of the “Company.” In their quest to redefine identity, some speak of a “New Age Romanticism” that stems from a reconnection with Buddhist teachings and Early Japanese shamanism. Others show how they reshaped Asian traditions from the full influence of postwar American culture.

< Screenager >

The story revolves around Delaney Ruston and her children, who became interested in how much screen time there was when her child began to crave a smart phone. She delves into the science behind screen time to figure out how it affects the minds and development of young people.

Through personal stories and the input of leading researchers, Screen Teens reveal the impact of screen time on children. Explore how online learning, gaming, and socializing affect adolescents’ developing attention spans, fragile self-esteem, and moral instincts.

For these three films, I will summarize the similarities between them from the four aspects of Scene Capture type, shooting techniques, the role of sound and the reality and fiction of film and television creation, and then analogy their differences.

— Shooting Style
These three documentaries are all very typical street movies, and they all adopt the classic film making styles: naturalism and realism.

· Street movie
Street films are some German films on the street as the main action background under the influence of chamber drama films. Siegfried Krakauer coined the term in his book From Regary to Hitler.

· Naturalistic style
It can also be called documentary style. The most distinctive feature of the naturalistic style is the lack of light. Naturalist photography looks like it was shot with cheap cameras, CCTV cameras or other equipment, in order to make the subject look more realistic.
A good example is the remaster-style horror film. In the non-horror genre, The Office is a good example of a naturalistic style that takes advantage of the audience’s internal beliefs and makes it look like it was shot with a camera, which makes it more realistic.
· Realistic style
Realism is to try to restore the original appearance of the work, but it is expressed in the way of film making. 99% of movies belong to this style of film making, in order to reduce the audience’s attention to cinematography or cinematography techniques.
Photographers just have to use natural light, but the point of the film itself is to make every shot have a meaning. Along with the realistic style, the director will focus on using composition and lighting in the traditional cinematic sense.
However, the crux of the matter is that the importance of lighting is obviously magnified, which makes it difficult to define this style of realism.

— Production Skill

• How to use scenery

·Vision
This is usually employed to set the mood.
It occupies a small proportion of the picture when shooting the characters. At this time, our picture mainly explains the environment and movement track of the characters. You usually need to go to a small aperture when you’re shooting a picture like this.
· A panoramic view.
The panoramic view helps to show the movement of the character.
When shooting such pictures, the characters in the picture must be permitted to oppose the sky, but to leave a certain space. The light on the personality should strive for accuracy, reality and unity. Do not allow others to see the light that is obviously contrary to the light source on site.
· Close shot.
In order to get a good expression of the individuality, you can use close shots.
Close-shot in a movie refers to the scene where the character occupies more than 1/2 of the height of the picture. At this time, the expression of the individuality, the head, especially the eyes, becomes the focus of expression. When photographing, pay attention to the composition to leave the appropriate space for the range of gestures.
· Close-up.
Close-ups allow you to pay complete attention to the details of the character and are the best way to show details.
Close-up usually shows the person’s head entirely. In photography, we should pay attention to the eyes of the characters. The direction of the eyes will guide others to feel the psychological state and personality of the characters. It doesn’t have to be horizontal when composing a picture. It can be tilted to make the picture more lively.

• Learn to use depth of field

Depth of field The distance at which the nearest point of a subject to be photographed can produce a sharper image. When the lens is concentrated on a certain point in the subject, the image is clear.

Depth of field gives a clear distinction between the subject and the environment. Shallow depth of field highlights the subject and enables you to focus your attention on the person. 
The large depth-of-field of the larger scene plays the role of metasomatism environment.
So we have to pay attention to composition, color, and lighting under the huge depth-of-field.
The light and color of the environment should be consistent with the characters, and the composition should not be random to let the characters appear in the picture.
Even with a considerable depth-of-field, the composition of the picture should be paid attention to. The diagonal line and golden section composition show the movement direction of the figure. Even if you are shooting a shallow depth-of-field, don’t blindly open the aperture at full width.

• Color, Composition, Light

Color in film art is subjective application on the basis of objectivity, reproducing objectivity and applying subjectivity. Reproduction is realistic. Use is freehand.

The composition of a film picture will arrange and combine the dynamic and static subjects in the scene space in a focused and orderly manner depending on the time and space positions.

Light is the soul of photographic picture creation. In the film, the so-called real “natural light effect” is not available.

— Sound In the Cinema

Many people would argue that what really constitutes a film is the change of the image, and the sound is only a supplementary role. They believe that the sounds they hear in movies are made by people or things shown on the screen. But we know that in the process of film production, the recording of sound and video can not just take separated, but also processed separately. In fact, sound is as flexible and varied as any other cinematic technique.

• Items or skills need to be mastered in sound production

Sync Sound/ Non-Sync Sound, Sound Mixing, Dubbing/ Synchronous mouth recording ADR, Sound Effect, Synchronous Sound, Voice-over, ATMOS, DOLBY, Stereo, Foley, Diegetic Sound / Non-diegetic Sound, Score, Theme Song

• The power of sound

First, it involves a sensory category: in addition to visual perception, there are auditory sensations. 
Even before recording technology was adopted in 1926, the virtues of sound were demonstrated in the “silent” films of the time, accompanied by bands, organs or pianos. At least the music fills the silent space and increases the overall experience of the audience. More significantly, the addition of hearing opened up the possibility of what the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein called “synchronization of the senses” — the creation of mono rhythms or expressive features that integrate hearing and sight.

Second, sound can positively influence our interpretation of images.
In “Letter from Siberia,” Chris Marker uses the power of sound to change our perception of images. Audiences will interpret the same image differently being dependent on the content of the sound.

A third advantage is the case that the sound of a film can direct our attention to a particular image. 
For example, when the narrator describes a “blood-red bus,” We’re looking at the bus, not the car. These are very examples of using sound to direct our attention to certain things.

Fourth advantage, build expectations.
If you get a door open, you guess someone has entered the house, and in the next shot, that person will appear. Horror and suspense movies often use an invisible voice-over source to pique the audience’s interest, but films of all genres can take benefit of this sound.

In addition, sound gives silence a new value. Silent passages in a film can create an almost intolerable tension that forces the viewer to concentrate on the screen and anticipate any sounds that might appear. Just as color films present black and white scales, the use of sound in films will incorporate all mute possibilities.

Another advantage of sound says there are so many possibilities for editing creativity. Through editing, the shots in the two spaces can be connected, forming a very meaningful relationship. In the same way, filmmakers can mix any sound phenomenon into one. With the advent of sound films, the infinite possibilities of auditory situations expanded the limitless possibilities of visual images.

— Fusion of Truth and Fiction in Film and Television Creation

In recent years, combining the “real” and “fiction” technique has become the world trend of film and television creation, some experts described: in the 20th century, most of the time, documentary and fictional narrative movie keeps clear boundaries of traditional documentary and commercially successful feature to develop side by side, only the former to the latter often aura.However, in the later part of this century, the two forms have often become blurred, and Docudrama (fiction in the form of fiction) and monuments (fiction in the form of documentary) have become a phenomenon in the field of film and television.

• Docudrama, a fact-based work presented as fiction

Documentary fiction is also commonly referred to as dramatic doc or fact-fiction. With Docudrama being the most popular expression.In the words of Janet Stetson, “Documentary, as his name suggests, is a resentment that mixes documentary” with melodrama.

Janet Steig, an American film scholar, believes that “most feature films use the standard dramatic model of mainstream film and television to fully reconstruct history. These techniques include: one who has a purpose orientation of the role of motivation in, several (2-3) the prominent character in the character of three-dimensional, some by individuals rather than the system (usually a system of psychological trauma rather than harm) caused by the reason, a programme throughout the entire length of the drama structure, and a very touching.”

Of course, in reality, not all “documentary film” must have the above factors completely, and it is impossible to fully conform to the above models. All individual artistic creations will pursue individuality and avoid the mire of stereotype. Therefore, I think the understanding of the characteristics of “documentary film” should be inclined to focus on its innovation in “concept”, that is, its breakthrough on traditional documentary film.

A Thorough Investigation of The Mask (History/ Social culture/ Artists/ Film)
An Extension of The Social Issue Work Theme

Key Words: mask, research, history, Siba Sahabi, Tomasz Machnik, double-dealer, psychological problems, photography, photoshop

— < Mask and Rose >

— The Idea of Making This Project

Since the topic this time is about discussing the problems existing in the society, I plan to make this topic according to some common and accessible ones around me.

In the first moment after I knew this topic, I thought about “double-dealer “. Such people are not uncommon in today’s society, and for these people, the most common thing they do in their daily life is to put on their “mask”.

Therefore, in this primary research, I first conducted a thorough research on masks.

—Research on Masks in History/ Artists/ Films

· History in Ancient Time

Because I need to understand the reasons why people make and wear masks, I choose to investigate masks in all aspects instead of simply describing them.

In the course of history, I have chosen to focus on China, Japan and Africa. Like the first mask in the history of the world, They were created to protect themselves by hiding their identity from attack.

According to legend, the world’s first mask in the Neolithic Age was a ceramic mask,which appeared in the Neolithic age.It is currently housed in the French Museum collection.

· History in World War Two Period and Victorian Age

Because of the war, Edward, who had lost half his face, could not accept the deformity of his face, so he chose “death” to change his identity. As an artist, he made grotesque masks to hide the scars on his face and his true self. Due to the serious injury and unclear pronunciation, Edward seldom spoke, so the mask became his vocal cylinder, and different shapes of masks represented different identities and different moods.

Venetian masks are handmade by professional artists, they are genuine works of art and have special collectors. And most masks of the Victorian era were used in operas or films, and each mask represented different meanings, such as “Gatto” and “Bauta” in my research.

· Artists

German persona series mask art design—— Siba Sahabi

Designer Siba was fascinated by the relationship between images and reality and created this wooden mask called Persona.

The nature of individualism is explored in nine giant masks that resemble wearable sculptures that cover only part of the face. After it wearing people can keep their distance and communicate with each other at the same time.

My Feeling: profound, concise style, different architectural models, different expressive meanings.

Paragraph 21 unique imaginative creation mask, he made she make gallery photographer, Tomasz Machnik

Bertjian pot turned flat creates into three-dimensional masks.

· Film or music drama with masks

In the history of film, people who wear masks are very polarized, and masks have certain unique meanings in their eyes.

In Movies and TV Series, good people wear masks to hide their identity in the public or as a symbol to be familiar to everyone. Just like the Superheroes in Marvel or DC, they wear a mask to protect themselves as ordinary people under the mask, or as a symbol to let everyone know who is coming.

On the other hand, just like the first film In the history of the film, <Halloween>, which adopted masks throughout the whole process. Most of the masks worn by bad people have become a symbol with unique meanings, and the masks have become their spokesmen. They wear masks for the same reasons that decent people do, because they have experienced something that happened to them.

— The Production After The Research

· The psychological significance of the mask includes the understanding of “two-faced man”

The psychological significance of the mask includes the understanding of “double-dealer”.

Nietzsche once said, “Man always likes to wear a mask that is more beautiful than himself.”
The concept of a mask of personality comes from Greek rites and plays, in which a person wearing a mask identifies with and performs the functions of the role he or she plays.

Jung think in psychology, personality is not negative implications, because the personality mask is the essential means to perform social function, social function of any position requires a certain social expectation of image match, in fact, for a healthy mind, often can according to different situations demand different personality mask role successfully.
In this sense, the personality mask is public, but the overly formulated personality mask will excessively suppress the self, which will not only have the possibility of losing personality, serious cases will make the self after taking off the personality mask, find the sense of self fragile to the degree of crisis.
The intense anxiety of not knowing what to play without a personality mask is, for some souls, an opportunity to reorient their lives and even turn to deeper experiences. That is, from the defensive mask to the face of the shadow of the process of growth.

My Understanding: A mask is a false self-subject, a way of dealing with real life with a false and unreal feeling. Use your masked self to interact with the world around you, while your real self will be watching from behind.
Just like people with inflated egos, who often do bad things, are hiding their inner insecurities and low self-esteem. Those who are overconfident and narcissistic are using an exaggerated mask to cover up their weak ego.

· The reason why I chose to use masks as the production medium

When I first came into contact with this subject, I was thinking about extracting and making projects from the phenomena I had or the bad habits I had but now abandoned. I chose the common social phenomenon of “double-dealer” as my topic because I have become such a person at certain times, and this phenomenon also happens around me from time to time.

· Content concept of the work

As a victim of this “mask”, no matter whether the intention is good or not, there is no denying that it has brought me varying degrees of influence. I chose different masks to try to embody different meanings. In terms of costume, I chose the representative Victorian costume, because people in that era used to wear robes and various masks at parties. The rose represents anything good that people want to get from the society. Therefore, they will abandon the real themselves and wear masks to cover up their shortcomings, so that they can get the identity and get the rose.

Among this group of pictures, I did not reveal the face from beginning to end, he reason for this is because here the “mask” represents the face of them, they need plays a different role in different times, so they also will require a different mask. They will render this mask into white again after they got what they want. This face is everything to them, a part of them that has grown on top of their flesh.

Throughout the shoot, I used black and white colors and some simple post-processing. So you can see in this series of images, the rose is always red, and the rest of the image is black and white. The person in the mask is “we,” in whose eyes nothing else matters, except the rose, which represents power, interest, wealth and all that is good.

· Some ideas discarded in the production process

Among the many masks purchased, I only chose a plain white mask in the end. Because I think the mask that is too pompous may not achieve the final effect. People who really have this kind of thought are single-minded at that particular time and focus on one thing, and they will have different ideas at different times. Like a rainbow wheel turning white at a certain speed, I chose an all-white mask to express the idea that it covers all categories.

In terms of clothing, the first costume I bought was a female Victorian costume, because my model was a female, but later I chose a gender-neutral cloak again. In order not to deliberately distinguish between the sexes, I wanted to express the idea that it could be a male or a female.

— < Mask and Rose >

— Want to improve the work and how to implement

Choose a shooting site with more representative meaning and concentration. The props purchased can be made by hand in the later stage to make the photos more refined.