WEEK 16 Primary Research of The Work

This time the topic is a question of collection. In the primary research, I proceeded to a simple survey on this topic and a series of pre-shooting.

In this survey, I divided it into two categories. One is the work of artists and my understanding of them, and the reason why I choose them as the research object. The other is the history of my collection of artists I like.

— Artist Research With Feelings

After the shooting assignment in class, I researched this type of art work. How should I collect and use such objects to shoot a group of similar photos?

Classroom shooting works
  • Claude Monet/ RouenNotre-Dame

Combine this natural atmosphere with a creative imagination and turn every second of action into a unique painting. Through this series of paintings, we can feel the mood, temperature and atmosphere of Monet when he painted.

Because of the shooting of the work, I can easily think of the painter Monet. The most memorable is his series on the cathedral of Rouen. Duomo de Rouen is the first time that Monet has developed a series of work on the same object. When Monet painted the Rouen church, he observed the change of light in different time periods. The stone walls of the church refracted with the sunlight to produce different colors. Monet has long been exploring the expressive effect of light, color and air. He is highly sensitive to the changes of light. He often paints multiple pictures of the same object, expressing the instantaneous feeling from the pure light and color changes.

Oscar-Claude Monet
RouenNotre-Dame

Similarly, this style of work is also reflected in artists Suzanne Saroff and Megan Cooper.

  • Suzanne Saroff

The beauty of the perspective, the perfect lighting, the creative imagination comes from New York photographer Suzanne.

Saroff’s group of photographs of abstract perspective photographer and art director Suzanne Saroff was born in Montana in 1993 and lives and works i new york. Her series, perspective, is an interesting study of everyday life that challenges the single identity of mundane objects by distorting vision. Using food, plants and transparent water-filled containers as props. She uses reflection and directional light to adjust the size. Shade and position of the containers to show infinite combinations and wonderful colors.

  • Megan Cooper

“Chead” by Megan Cooper

Blood, lipstick, represents different stories. Having made a few puffs or used the fire excessively. Snuffed out, flattened or printed. Black ink, represents, the dead soul.

Suzanne Saroff
Megan Cooper

  • J.C. Leyendecker

After conducting a series of surveys on artists, I did the same with my favorite illustrators. I collected and edited out his parallel advertising drawings and newspaper designs. Then I typeset them, followed by an introduction and a description of my feelings.

J.C. Leyendecker

Here I’ve put together a collection from Joe and his brother Frank, who started painting, to when he met his life partner.
I have listed and collected a lot of his and Frank’s painting collections. Through sorting out the magazines and periodicals they painted, we can find the similarities between them.

(left, center)He won the cover design competition of the century magazine, the best magazine in America at The Time
(right, top left corner)Joe, 1897, the inland printer, partial cover/ Joe’s cover for <Woman’s Home Companion>
(right, top right corner)These were prawn Frank for early collier magazine cover
(right, center)The joker series appeared on several magazine cover
(right, down)Joe’s first 9 covers for The Saturday Evening Post

Joe, a painter of the golden age of American illustration. He drew his illustration on the public in a fascinating way of life and the foundation of modern advertising illustration.

(left, top left corner)”A Victory” unforeseen illustrated /”A Song of Life” series for the ‘The Magazine”

— Display of Shooting Works

After doing all the research, I made a similar shooting according to the requirements of the assignment. I took a total of nearly 50 photos, but finally according to the requirements of the three groups of photos, I arranged and typeset the following photos of photography and post-shooting. After selecting the things to shoot, I shot them, and then I did some post-processing and draw according to the requirements.

one collection of physical objects
one collection recorded using photography
one collection recorded using drawing

WEEK 13 FINAL Demonstration Project

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

< Illusory Fantasy, Authentic Phantasm >
The picture was taken by interception, so it was deliberately vague

—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.

research on sketchbook and my own feeling

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.

Milk, 1984

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.

research on sketchbook and my own feeling

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.

research on sketchbook and my own feeling

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.

Inhabited Painting, 1976

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.

Inner Improvement, 1977

—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”.

WEEK 9 Primary Research
< Mask and Rose >
Part of the contact sheet and some work process

· 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.

Location, near hospitals and homes

· 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.

how I choose the brush to draw my work and my thinking process on sketchbook

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)

Inhabited Painting, 1976

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.

the typesetting that is not used
work in sai2
one of the final picture
Impact

— 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.

< Seven >
contact sheet
contact sheet and the final picture

— 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.

Week 11 Present The Conception of The Final Demonstration Product And The Secondary Research With The Practice in Advance

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.

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< Mask and Rose >

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

work on the sketchbook

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.

Installation view at Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2012

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.

Secrets and Lies,2009(video for monitor with sound)

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

work on the sketchbook with my own feeling

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.

One of the ECCE HOMO work
Full of gothic style shooting style

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.

One of the ECCE HOMO work

— 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.

work on the sketchbook

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.

Some photos that were not chosen

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.

Reflections and the contact sheet

WEEK 10 Use Pictures to Describe Words

— 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.

Cameras and light are used as an alternative to today’s anonymous online environment
  • Barrier

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

The black background represents the character’s psychological environment, which is self-enclosed. Do they lack friends when their hands hang in the air and no one holds them? Maybe, because they are the barrier to social interaction themselves
  • 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?

It was obviously a reflection of a man on a glass. The glass is the barrier between the real self (inner self) and the external image.
  • 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.

This is a work of sudden inspiration
  • 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?

It’s still an analogy, a metonymy. I’ve borrowed the word Cover in a different sense as a noun. The usual shadow elements were then shot and changed to black and white to make it more suitable for the cover layer
  • Growth

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

Shot in a duplex street next to my house. The wall and the sky represent two completely different environments. Not only for plants, but also for other living things, they must be in the “sunshine” to really survive
  • Reflection

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

An impromptu street shoot
  • Fog

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

Shoot at home
  • Abstract

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

I finished it when I was shooting the assignment with my classmates. I borrowed the time-lapse photography from the camera
  • 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?

An impromptu shot with precise angle selection

CCS Film Studies in Documentaries

— 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.

Squatparty
Phil Munnoch, 1981

< 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.

Tokyo Techno Tribes
Japanese Cyber Youth 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.

Screenagers
Delaney Ruston, 2016

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.

Siegfried Krakauer, 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.


Krzysztof Kieslowski
Trois couleurs

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.

The golden section makes the picture lively
The central composition makes the picture more composed
The voyeuristic sense of frame composition
Spiral composition leads to visual extension

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

A classic rain fight scene from Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster
In this scene, Wong Kar Wai used a lot of power top light and backlight, which, although separated from the sense of life, formed a strong impact

— 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.

Sergei M. Eisenstein

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.

Letter from Siberia

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.

At the small-town meeting in “Jaws,” the actors turn to look off the screen at a piercing sound; At this time, the scene cut to one of the main characters Quint’s hand scraping on the blackboard scene, also let the audience left a deep impression on his appearance

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.




La Marche de l’Empereur/ March of the Penguins, 2004
  • 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.

WEEK 9 Primary Research

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 >

Part of Finished Products Display

— 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.

Gao Changgong(The king of Lanlinng)
Prajna mask
Mask of Chineses minorties and Africa

· 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.

< Au Revoir La-Haut >
Behind each venetian mask, there is a unique soul

· 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.

Siba Sahabi

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

Bertjian pot turned flat creates into three-dimensional masks.

Tomasz Machnik

· 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.

Rinaldy Yunardi, artist
The meaning of a mask is to conceal one’s identity, or to conceal an imperfect part of oneself
The meaning of the mask is more as a symbol to speak for oneself

— 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.

About props and contact sheet

— < Mask and Rose >

Sketchbook typography and parts of images not used

— 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.

WEEK 6 SWOT Analysis

—What Is SWOT Analysis?

SWOT analysis, which is based on internal and external competitive environment and situation analysis under competitive conditions, refers to various major internal advantages, disadvantages and external opportunities and threats closely related to the research object.

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—My Understanding After the Investigation

· S stands for strength, W for weakness, O for opportunity, and T for threat, where S and W are internal factors and O and T are external factors. (What’s good/ what’s bad/ what’s the opportunity/ what’s the threat)

· It helps marketers focus on key issues. The core idea of analysis is to analyze the external environment and internal conditions of an enterprise, identify the opportunities available and the risks it may face, and combine these opportunities and risks with the advantages and disadvantages of the enterprise to form different strategic measures for enterprise cost control.

· SWOT analysis specific steps: Strength – weakness – opportunity – threat

· Basic steps of SWOT analysis:

(1) Analyze the internal strengths and weaknesses of an individual/organization both relative to the individual/organization’s goals and relative to competitors.

(2) Analyze the external opportunities and threats faced by individuals/organizations, which may come from changes in external environmental factors unrelated to competition, changes in competitors’ forces and factors, or both, but the critical external opportunities and threats should be identified.

(3) Match external opportunities and threats with internal strengths and weaknesses of individuals/organizations to form a feasible strategy.

· Four different types of SWOT analysis:

SO strategy is a strategy to develop individual/organization’s internal advantages and take advantage of external opportunities. It is an ideal strategic mode.

WO strategy is a strategy that makes use of external opportunities to make up for internal weaknesses and enables individuals/organizations to change their weaknesses and gain advantages. External opportunities exist but some internal weaknesses of individuals/organizations that prevent them from taking advantage of them may be addressed first.

ST strategy refers to that individuals/organizations use their own advantages to avoid or mitigate the impact caused by external threats.

WT strategy is a defensive technology designed to reduce internal weaknesses and avoid external environmental threats.

—Summary About What I Need To Think and Focus

S

Strength, internal favorable factors. You can make detailed comparisons with competitors in each area where you can capture value.
Focus Points: What advantages do you have? What are you good at? What are you good at? What relevant information is easy for you to obtain? How do others perceive your strengths? What are your strengths in the eyes of others?

W

Weakness, harmful internal factors. The results come from comparison.
Focus Points: What other areas do you need to improve? What else could be done better? What didn’t you do well? What are some areas you should avoid?

O

opportunity, favorable external factors. Changes in the external environment may create new opportunities.
Focus Points: What are the good opportunities facing you right now? What new trends are you aware of at the moment? What are the changes in supply and demand in all aspects of the field that you like or want to pursue? Are there any major social events, changes in forms, or changes in the way people live their lives?

T

Threat, harmful external factors. Changes in the external environment may pose a threat.
Focus Points: What are the obstacles you are facing? What are your competitors doing? Does the market place new requirements on your work standards? Are technological innovations taking place in your society or in your field affecting you? Are there certain weaknesses that have seriously threatened your development?

WEEK 7 FINAL Location Project

Keywords: collage, photography, editing, video making, Screenwriting, music making, PS, process, reflection, rework

Work Content: a 20 second film(The first one total length is 1 minute, the rework one total length is 40 seconds)

Initial video link: https://m.weibo.cn/7490620122/4577213570090056

Rework Video Link: https://m.weibo.cn/7490620122/4577929670952380

— Work Preview

< Remote Hometown >
Font used:
Bebas Nene, LeckerliOne

 —A rough draft of the editing

Contains covers and music beats. The pictures inside are not the final ones.

Part of the video, with a cover design for the opening.

—Research And My Feeling About This Artist

The use of art to depict and illuminate events that have an impact on society.

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature.

Dada artists felt the war called into question every aspect of a society capable of starting and then Prolonging it — including its art. Their aim was to destroy traditional values in art and tocreate a new art to replace the old. As the artist Hans Arp later wrote: In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and had political affinities with the radical left.

The Founder of Dada was a writer, Hugo Ball. In 1916 he started a satirical night-club In Zurich, The Cabaret Voltaire, and a magazine which, wrote Ball, ‘Will bear The name “Dada”. Dada, Dada, Dada,1. This was the first of many Dada publications. Dada became an international movement and eventually formed the basis of surrealism in Paris after the war.

Leading artists associated with it include Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters. Duchamp’s Questioning of the Western art had a profound subsequent influence.

· Raoul Hausmann

Hausmann, a founder member of the Berlin Dada group, developed photomontage as a tool of satire and political protest. Although the ‘art critic’ is identified by a stamp as George Grosz, another member of the group, the image was probably an anonymous figure cut from a magazine. The fragment of a German banknote behind the critic’s neck suggests that he is controlled by capitalist forces. The words in the background are part of a poem poster made by Hausmann to be pasted on the walls of Berlin.

The Art Critic 1919-20
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery’s Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.355-6, reproduced p.355

Take advantage of street art and the ever-changing landscape and how to take a picture to tell a story.

· Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier is taciturn, secretive and sensitive. Her use of the top of the lu to double shot, so that people can not be noticed.In her street shots, the subjects are in a state of extreme “trance” or “trance”.

And this decidedly up-close snap, with a dagger to the raw emotion of humanity, upsets all previous masters of street photography. Unlike the “vicious” male street photography masters, her street photography focuses more on the subtle expression of the characters and the human landscape.

In addition, because of her own background, Vivian Maier has photographed people on the margins of society. This made her one of the greatest documentary artists of the 1950s and 1960s.

Subversion street master nanny photographer in American

· Martin Parr

His works are humorous on a daily basis, reflecting the ordinary mediocrity and absurdity of the consumer society. His colorful photos satirize the empty games of the capital world and represent a new direction of contemporary subjective documentary.

And this seemingly gentle but actually rather “toxic” old man has been dedicated to using the camera for more than 30 years, brutally puncture the truth of life.He disdains tenderness and divides society into three parts, while entertainment, consumption and dissemination are the subjects he has been photographing for many years. He likes to create fictions out of life, and his photography is to explore various prejudices of society itself.Then, put them all together in a photograph.

His works are colorful and colorful, exaggerated and absurd at first sight, but in the end they have a dense and unexplainable impact, which can be great joy, great emptiness and occasionally the desolation of the world.

He took his shots at car shows, airplane fairs, art fairs, jewelry shows and horse races, where attendees tried to dress up and were beguiled by champagne and flowers. But in Martin Parr’s lens, there are too many cracks beneath these costumed lives, sometimes a small fly perched on the brim of a lady’s bonnet, sometimes a speck of dirt on a gorgeous gown.

Luxury

—Research Summary

Raoul Hausmann: Through the discovery and search of the surrounding social factors that may have an impact on the society, whether positive or negative, from which useful information can be extracted for artistic creation.

Vivian Maier: There is no limit to where and what kind of things you can photograph. Take advantage of everything around you and look for angles and composition to create demand.

Martin Parr: Take pictures to create a story or to reflect a social phenomenon.Use the meaning of color to contrast or express the meaning it represents.

—My Thoughts On Production

Because novel Coronavirus is attacking the world, this virus has greatly restricted human activities around the world, the once active community is no longer the same as usual.In order not to be threatened by this virus, many of the things that could be done in the past could only be done under control and on demand.

As a student in The UK, far from my family, two continents apart, we were cut off by a virus that was attacking the world.But I took advantage of that, and I reconnected that broken bond over the Internet.

In my family, I have the most contact with my little sister, and she has a certain interest in photography. So I designed and specified the plan about the Location project this time.

· The inspiration for the production was mainly the assignment about the production of Street View in the third week. At that time, I used < la La Land > and a Street scene in the film to create the story. In addition, due to the impact of COVID-19, Facing the concerns of my family, I determined the final production direction and content.
Because it is also about the creation of the location, I came up with such a production method when making the final work of this time. But this time, I just took advantage of the splicing again, and all the images were created independently.

WEEK 3 Street View
< Story in Story >
Part of the contact sheet

· The location will be set in The location of both of us and my previous residence in China.
Chongqing, Beijing and London

· The location is chosen from around us. Due to The limitation of my stay in The UK, I chose some elements that would be more convenient to shoot on both sides as the source of my pictures. The process took about three weeks and took about 96 pictures. There were 24 eventually used.
A picture with characteristics of street view / A picture contains architectural / A picture about transportation / A picture with a bright color /A picture taken from the window of home / A picture in the subway / A pictures of the sky / A picture taken inside from the bus / A picture with cool tone / A picture with food / A picture has white color / A picture with night town / A picture with light / A picture with flower / A picture with wild / A picture shoot near the road

· After shooting, use the knowledge learned in the previous weeks in school to make the production. The main use of knowledge is collage, and font design and use.
I put together the pictures I finished with my sister to make a comparison between her free activity in China and me, who is still limited abroad. I made a collage on the cover, cut out the main part of the picture with PS, and then collaged it on another picture which was used as the background. The dark-haired twin girls are from Ukiyoshi drawings in Japan, representing my sister and me respectively. The layout is based on the drawings of Alphonse Maria Mucha and the film <your name >. The idea is the same as the idea in the movie, because the connection between two people links two people who are at the same time but in different places.

Font used:
Raleway Regular, Raleway Bold, Caveat, Caveat bold, Roboto Light, Abril Fatface
Cut and paste the three sets of images above
Font used:
Cambria
Drawings and movie scenes

I studied and referred to the composition of Mucha, so I chose three more representative pictures as the background. 

Picture 1: The house was taken in a residential area in Chongqing. The picture was post-processed to deepen the lights and add color on the same floor. Then I cut out the window.This picture is mainly to express the bizarre world of the present that everything is possible.
Picture 2: The picture of the window was taken in a deserted house in Beijing. The other picture was taken at the moment I met when I was watching an exhibition in Beijing. This picture is mainly to express the situation of people in the present situation, people who stay at home for a long time without contact with the world gradually become dark, because they cannot contact with the colorful outside world, the outstretched hand is the yearning for the outside world.
Picture 3: The picture of Goose was taken by my sister in the countryside of Chongqing, and the flower shop was the shop I passed in the streets of London. This image is meant to show that people are no longer as free as they used to be under the influence of COVID-19, but this restricted activity has revived animals that were scarce or never seen before. It is a question worth pondering. Humans are confined to the fear of death, but in the quiet city, the control of nature is back in the hands of the animals.

Then I put the twins, who represent me and my sister, put it in the center of the picture. This design was inspired by the poster and movie clip of Your Name. Four people in different directions are like the stars shining in the picture. The segmented light represents COVID-19, and the segmented two images represent two worlds, and this light is opposite the person within reach. And in my picture, the twins happen to be split in two by the line.

· In the process of production, I tried a lot of collages and made a painting design for the cover. Later, I composed a piano piece for the video for about 25 seconds.

Draft ideas before starting work
A little bit about the editing process
A abandoned cover production

· And I also wrote a little short story for the video about me and my sister, which happened during our filming.

The Parts interspersed with subtitles focus on The opening title of The video and when The music is played.

The subtitles inserted in the opening credits were intended to express the impact of the epidemic on us and how we tried to resolve it.

Picture 1: This equation represents the novel Coronavirus’s impact on people’s social life. Because of this virus, none of us can return home. The following sentence expresses exactly this idea. It’s just my body in a foreign land. It’s my soul. I’m here. My soul stays in my hometown all the time.
Picture 2: The distance from Chongqing in China to London in the UK is 9967.6 km, which indicates the distance between me and my sister. The following dialogue is about how we feel about each other, because we both care about each other, so we can understand each other’s feelings.
Picture 3: As the following dialogue says, we use pictures to communicate. In this era of advanced technology, we can still see each other even though we are in a foreign land, even if it is only on the screen of the mobile phone.We made a plan to take at least one picture of the specified content every day, through which we could communicate and exchange our surroundings, hometown and life situation.

Subtitles for the music section, the story is mainly about the conversation between the two of us, and some interesting topics in general when we made the pictures.

Picture 1: This caption is accompanied by a picture of we exchanged houses in both locations and picture taken from inside the house. The subtitle represents the period when I came to the UK by plane, which is the initial period of learning, so this paragraph is about flying.
Picture 2: This caption refers to the time when I was quarantined in the UK. Since I was in a special period, so we both just took pictures of things that were easy to get to know. In this set of pictures, we chose the yellow that we both liked as the theme, and then we shared the situation of today by taking pictures of things on the street. It was during this exchange period that my sister in China told me that it was snowing in our hometown one day.
Picture 3-4: This section of subtitle refers to the time when I had been in the UK for several weeks, before the confirmed patient appeared in my dormitory. For this reason, I was restricted to go out later, so I selected some works that had been filmed in Beijing in the past as exchange content. The inspiration for writing this caption comes from the time when I came to Britain to study and play. I walked alone in the streets of Britain in summer from day to night, for me, has that kind of power.

—Reflection

· What was successful?

I finished my homework within the required production time, and had certain quality and results. And there’s still plenty of time for a second revision.
I controlled the time to about 20 seconds and skillfully used the knowledge I had learned in school to finish the homework this time. I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. 
Moreover, my mind is quite detached. I am not confined to the place around me, but broaden my mind and vision to the whole place that I know and can accomplish. 

· What could be Improved and how?

Since I was isolated in the dormitory in the third week, I almost had no time to go out for a long shooting, which was a great pity. Therefore, I should try to shoot a story directly if the next shooting time allows. 
Video post-editing needs to be honed, and sound recording needs to be replaced with a better device, rather than just using mobile phones for recording, because this will produce certain noise, which will affect the quality of post-production video. 
And I also need to change a typesetting method on the cover.
The time is too long, the word pause time may be extended, because too fast causes the browsing time seems not enough.

—Rework after reflection

Not reset. Just on the basis of the original feasible refinement, to solve the problems such as too long time and subtitles read unclear.

· Modified and refined the opening text screening to reduce the time taken up by the opening pieces.
· The subtitle inserted in the middle of the picture was modified, selected slower effects and increased subtitle insertion time and the size of them so that people could see more clearly.
· Some font effects have been modified to avoid too much repetition with the first video.
· Some sound effects were added in order to fill in the gaps and make the interaction more interesting.
· Sound replaces verbose text to compress video time.
· The original bilingual subtitles were removed and the English and Chinese versions were produced separately.

A lot of changes were made in the opening part
The font of subtitles has also been modified
Vampiro One

— A description about the title of the video has been modified and sorted

In the whole modification, the title part of the modification is the most.In the initial production, there were a lot of text descriptions and white space in the opening title, which not only lengthened the number of videos, not to mention increased the amount of reading in the videos with limited time, which might also cause more confusion to viewers.

Initial video opening clip
Too messy

So I changed my opening.I deleted some unimportant text descriptions and used onomatopoeia to replace them, which not only effectively saved time, but also could still roughly express what I wanted to express. For example, I originally expressed through words, and my sister and I exchanged lives through photography. In the modified video, I used the shutter sound of the camera to replace this paragraph of words.

Secondly, in the original video, I basically had no sound in the opening credits, only single text effects. Therefore, in the modification, I wrote pieces of music for the special part of the cut text and made special effects sound. For example, use the sound of turning the pages of a book to express the beginning of a movie.

The revised version is more organized and interactive

WEEK 5 Sequences and Storyboards, Eight-Frame Comic

Sequence: a sequence of events or things is a number of events or things that come one after another in a particular order.

Storyboard: a storyboard is a set of pictures which show what will happen in something such as a movie or advertisement that is being planned. 

—What is Storyboard in art?

A storyboard is an illustrated, step-by-step presentation describing how people will perform a target activity using your new product concepts. Storyboards are guided by user data, addressing the issues and situations the data reveals. Each storyboard follows a single thread, so the team draws a different storyboard for each part of the activity and each situation the user will find themselves in.

A storyboard is a sequence of visual “frames” illustrating the interplay between a user and an envisioned ecology or device. Storyboards bring the design to life in graphical “clips,” freeze-frame sketches of stories of how people will work with the system. This narrative description can come in many forms and at different levels of detail.

—My Feelings

Storyboards for representing interaction sequence designs are like visual scenario sketches, depicting envisioned interaction design solutions. A storyboard might be thought of as a “comic-book” style illustration of a scenario, with actors, screens, interaction, and dialogue showing sequences of flow from frame to frame.

—Draw eight frames of animation in 45 minutes with a storyboard

I modified it again based on the previous work I drew a draft, revised and refined the contents, and also wrote a short story for this story.

< Running in winter ⅱ >
The serial number corresponds to the storyline. Only basic sketches are drawn

Here’s the story 1-7

< Running in winter ⅱ >

I remember that winter day,
You put on my thick hat and said to me as I just got out of bed,
“Good morning little slacker, good morning dear my love.”
The scenery along the way is particularly beautiful,
It was a winter morning and snow piece by piece falling from the stars.
Early risers, school children, and frolicking lovers.
We ended up at the dessert shop we passed every morning.
I remember you smiling at me, knife and fork in hand, mouth still taste of syrup,
Crepes don’t make me fat in the winter!
What a lovely person.
And, and, I still remember that winter day,
As good as this morning,
The birds were singing in the branches and the snow was falling slowly to the windowsill,
But, but, no one ever holds my face and says to me,
“Good morning little slacker, good morning dear my love.”
“Oh, my dear, I know my nagging, I just miss you too much.”

WEEK 4 Editorial Design

—Research

The artist is from China, and the fonts Luckytype (喜鹊造字)he and his team have created are used almost all over the world. The name of this person is called TianYu Ye (叶天宇)

· Luckytype

Simple and Complex version of magpie signature body 喜鹊招牌体简繁版

We have added a simplified version of the magpie signboard.We have traditional Chinese.

Font introduction: The signboard style is created by referring to the ancient Chinese characters of Kuiben in jiajing Period. The design pursues a simple, sincere, intimate and stylish calligraphy style of modern font.
Suitable for: Chinese style flavor of retro logo title and other text needs, such as Chinese restaurant, cultural and creative brands, milk tea food, Chinese style film subtitles, etc.

Magpie Plain (Simplified + traditional) version 9600 characters Large font Library 喜鹊直率体(简+繁体)版9600字大字库

Font introduction: regardless of, bold and bold to use lines and dough figurines to construct a large area of Chinese characters strokes, generous accumulation brings people a pleasant feeling, straightforward impression. And in the conclusion of the word when the frank and for, express the chest. Hence the name “forthright”. Each word, like a figure, leaves more room for imagination. The overall contrast is strong and simple. Words stand out and can be tasted. The combination of words is interesting and playable.
Suitable for: this font is suitable for posters, modern variety style title text requirements, suitable for animation and game titles, simple product packaging and brand image as well as retro brands, advertising titles, creative product display, etc.

Magpie Yan Calligraphy (Simplified + traditional) version 9600 characters Large font Library 喜鹊燕书体(简+繁体)版9600字大字库

Font introduction: This regular script to the Qing Dynasty five classics written ancient books for the blueprint. Is a digital tablet and iPad with computer software designed and produced by the “electronic calligraphy”. When writing with a relaxed degree of pen, stroke thick and fine transition natural, intended to retain the characteristics of regular writing, and let the font has a beautiful handwriting, curve smooth and stretch aesthetic.
Suitable for: This glyph is very suitable for all kinds of Chinese style text or title scenes, such as Chinese food, national fashion, domestic cultural creation, traditional culture related film and television derivatives, and so on.

Ten Thousand People Create 喜鹊万人造字体

It was the author’s willful idea when he was in college that thousands of people would write or doodle a different character together to complete a complete set of strange characters.

They have prepared 8000 non-repetition character CARDS, including all Chinese characters and some traditional characters, as well as English and numerical punctuation. At the scene,visitors to play randomly draw a word card and write it out. Every day, people bring with them questions like “What is a font?Curiosity came and left a stroke.

—Page Layout Design

Layout analysis of poster, magazine and film cover screenshots.

Artist: Bauhaus, Matt Willey, Pentagram (Circular 19), Hassan Rahim (Shabazz Projects)

Killing Eve’s title
The page layout of the magazine

—Font Design

Cut and paste with printed words. After hand painting, using a printer to color fonts.

Web: Fontsruct

Font design for names
Font design for names