In the production process, I mainly investigated three people, Tony Oursler, Jan Svankmajer and Mary Ellen Mark.

• Tony Oursler

For the research of the shooting presentation.To project a photograph onto a real object, usually a person’s features or head.

Reference: I wanted to film the final character’s head separately. However, considering the difficulty in finding reference objects and the inability to borrow such work props, the way of projection was changed to let the head be shot.alone, and then the whole background board was made of black cloth.

Tony, a multimedia artist born in the 1950s, was not destined to be a victim of the technological explosion. On the contrary, his achievements in the field of multimedia have provided a new outlet for the second generation of multimedia artists. Tony’s creations include videos, installations, sculptures and paintings.

Tony’s early videos absorbed The popular pop art of The time in The United States and developed a strong personal style (The Lenner (1980) and Evol (1984)). In the 1980s, he began to liberate video from television and other instruments, and then projected it on sculpture, mirrors, park trees and other media, creating a new art form, so he is also known as the “father of video sculpture”.

Feeling: Tony’s work explores the paradoxes of normal human behavior and the relationship between technology and humans, as a series of erratic images emerge from the video, roaring or twittering, like a ghost channel on television.

At first his narrative approach was unique: he was describing a metaphorical dream rather than trying to tell a story. He covers a wide range of subjects, including political and cultural violence, moral standards, life and death, and adolescent mental illness. “The images in the video interact, and so do the ideas that are poetically attached to them. Each work is my reflection on the relationship between people and the existential struggle that it implies. The Shouting and whispering in the video show the relationship between people, and I invite the audience to come into my mind.”

The theme of the creation was always in Tony’s mind, but he found that the video framed on the TV was not quite what he wanted. He has been reflecting on his relationship with television. His goal was to mimic a technology so that it could be viewed directly as an extension of the mental state.” Therefore, he chose to project his video works into video installations.

At the same time, the artist wondered whether this was the result of abnormal human relations in the United States. Or is it a product of a society that is so exposed in the media and energized by pop culture? Since then, Tony began to use projection device transformation to tell a dream. He began to try more forms of expression. In the installation of Reflection in 1996, he used mirrors, a medium that was ambiguous in both practical and symbolic meanings, which brought a stronger sense of weirdness to the work. He constantly changed the materials and shapes of the projectiles to make them more suitable for the subject. In 2009’s “Cigarettes Searches,” he shows Cigarettes burning on a bar background. In recent years, he has even removed the actor’s face from his videos, leaving only a pair of eyes, or a mouth. Big eyes have become the most visible symbol of Tony’s work, as the eyes flicker uneasily Or sediously from the grotesquely shaped sculptures in Metro Pictures (2003) and Super Pop Or Not (2010).

• Jan Svankmajer

Research is used for shooting styles.Black humorous clay animation in absurd style.

Reference: I wanted to use this quirky but thought-provoking production style for my short film. From a seemingly simple and funny film, goes deep into some social issues

Jan Svankmajer is a director and screenwriter. When he was a student, he was fond of surrealism art, studied traditional European puppet shows, and dabred in stage, poetry creation, film and other artistic fields. There is no limit to the forms and materials: bread, wood, pottery and even actors can also be used as animation materials and elements.

Feelings: Watching his animated films is nothing but “direct” and “naked” interest.The so-called directness, which comes from the ubiquitous mysticism and surrealism in his animations, is expressed in the simplest and most economical way, completely abandoning the tricks and routines of Hollywood. It is called naked because Schneider’s animations often take the animality of human beings as the object, showing the unconscious desires of the human soul world — sexual desire, fetishism, oral syndromes. Looking coldly on the artificial traces of modern film language or narrative skills and the implicit, introverted and delicate expression, Jan is more creative to restore the original form of film with farce.

• Mary Ellen Mark

Investigate the sense of story used in the shots. Visit and take pictures of each character with a sort of photos which are full of story.

Reference: Through the works of such artists I can practice my ability of reading pictures and writing stories, so as to make more preparation for later script writing

part of the story, the first two pictures

I don’t know how to judge my life, it is called

Beautiful? Miserable?

Perhaps ordinary is more appropriate, ordinary

Mary Ellen Mark is a photographer from Pennsylvania, USA. She is an exceptional still-photographer, taking thousands of behind-the-scenes shots. In addition, she also works on the streets, documentary, portrait photography. Speaking of photography, she has said that she prefers “clean and clear” images, clear, direct and real, without gimmicks, complexity and post-production. Even the image has no post-production, everything is done by light.

As a documentary female photographer, truth and clarity are always the standards of Ellen Mark. Prostitutes, psychopaths, circus workers, many marginal characters and subjects are always her concern, with extraordinary courage to witness the shocking social and human nature. “I rely more on intuition and instinct… I always want to shoot great works that are real and powerful.”

• Ibarionex Perello

Investigate the sense of story used in the shots. Visit and take pictures of each character with a sort of photos which are full of story.

Reference: Through the works of such artists I can practice my ability of reading pictures and writing stories, so as to make more preparation for later script writing.

Ibarionex Perello, is a photographer, writer, educator, and host of the Photography Book Photography Podcast. He has over 25 years of experience in the photography industry. In his role as host and director, he has provided candid and insightful interviews with some of the industry’s top and emerging photographers.

part of the story

Former lover, put on the white suit

Because I remember the previous agreement

But then, it was obscured by too much noise

You were must mesmerized by the sound

I’m sorry my love, I lost you

Somehow, we will always miss something

No taxi stopped, last lunch, stry cat gone, removed shop, lost someone

• Eugene Smith

Investigate the sense of story used in the shots. War recorder with a sort of photos which are full of story.

Reference: Through the works of such artists I can practice my ability of reading pictures and writing stories, so as to make more preparation for later script writing.

part of the story on the right without the picture

Children’s eyes a plane soaring in the sky

That supposed to be their toy

Until the inner candy ball fell down

They saw that light

The Delicious aroma of the fruit

Turned into a chocking smoke

Fell on me, then I disappeared

W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) was a famous American photographer. His works are both highly artistic and documentary, deeply depicting human birth, death, compassion, suffering, hope and other themes. He created some of the most solemn and powerful pictures of war in the history of photography. Smith pioneered the “photo essay,” a series of photographs that focus on a social issue to draw attention to it.He was also one of the first photographers to use this form of narrative.

What it feels like: Smith’s photographs are intensely dramatic and human. He is one of those desperate, single-minded artists who are truly crazy. He works like crazy and can go without sleep for 48 hours. He always wanted to arouse human compassion through his works and prevent suffering from happening again. Through photography, he was seeking the ideal of reality in human society.

· I also researched and did more story shooting and writing, which I will post in the next blog.

— Summary

I will learn to imitate the shooting method of Tony. He likes to project the head or facial features of the subject on some objects after shooting. So I would change the way in which I used to shoot the projection, and would shoot the actors’ heads individually and put them on a black background board.

Then I combined Jan’s shooting style and used this quirky but thought-provoking production style in my short film. Let a seemingly simple and funny movie go deep into some social issues that need to be discussed.

Mary, on the other hand, trained my ability to write stories by looking at pictures from the side, which made me more prepared for future script writing.