[Field-Homework 2] BUS STOP

1. The traffic gradually recovered in the city. Bus stop is waiting for its comers. I try to record a slow-down moment in glasses.

 

2.  Street trees start to turn green and a dog runs on the road like it went out for the first time since the crisis breakout.

 

3. A sprinkler is cleaning the surface of the road at in the evening. Lights coming from and moving to the various directions make the night bright within the relative still frame.

4. The old man in rags with mask appeared in the frame. It is hard to imagine how difficult the poor people go through the cold and challenging time.

 

5. The frame combines two similar views, but from different distance, of the same bus stop. The latter part is a moving shot taken in the car, approaching and then leaving the bus stop, imitating the visual experience of being in a bus.

Most part of the shot is at eye level. Combining tilt and pan shots, it shows the concept of the bus stop from my  first personal view. It consists of two parts.  In the first part, the place of camera is first fixed with the lens going up, which I would like to express a what the bus stop currently look likes from an observation view, as if a pedestrian walked by it and seemed to have little relationship with it. The second part of it was shot on a moving car. Thus, the place of the camera became a moving one as to the ground. At the same time, I try to share my experience  as a passenger in the bus. The two roles and views in terms of the bus stop are to represent two different situation of people in the crisis: some are in bus, others seem not, but they both have relationship with the crisis in fact, either directly or indirectly. The crisis  just likes a bus stop in the way that world facing, an objective existence.

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1 thought on “[Field-Homework 2] BUS STOP

  1. Ina Wu says:

    Good attempt at testing the camera techniques and even sounds. The tonality of the collection conveys the hopeful side of this pandemic. Particularly, your first and second clip, opening with plants, introduce nature in the city that is often overlooked by the bypassers before but appreciated now. It also appears that you are trying to experiment with compositions (keep doing that!) Cropping and focusing mainly on plants next to the bus stop helps heighten the sense of hope. The videos are also well curated starting with hopeful emotions with skillful video editing, then zoomed into the reality (the garbage picker), then peaked in the last one. with blunt and dull color accompanying with an isolated view from the inside.
    To further improve, while testing with different editing techniques consider what elements or emotion you would like to convey. For example, the slow-motion introduced by the glasses in clip one, it would be fantastic if the theme was continued to the other clips. A possible narrative would be focused on how the superpowered glasses filters only hopeful messages of the world while worn.

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