[Field-Homework 3]

The rough layout:

In my setting, I tried to apply the concept of the relationship between place and space into time, make the physically linear time more flexible and mobile. When people become the subject, time is relatively passive for us, because we define the time( we divide the time as  year, day, hour and minute) whereas when time is endowed with active, the human form becomes passive and we then have a new perspective toward everything- It’s similar with the concept of four-dimensional space while time has become a three-dimensional, touchable form. The character – who have been infected with coronavirus- transformed from victim to offender, through the different descriptive form of time, space as well as shooting angle.  

My purpose is to explore the relationship between inflecting and being inflected(from virus/people with virus), individual and society as well as cause and effect( the Causality by Buddhism)(Running on Karma, 2003) from the devices of sequence and flashback order by time.

plot: 

I am a coronavirus patient, and the virus infects my brain (memory system) so I couldn’t hold a valid memory for over 20 seconds, and thus unable to form a long term memory, as Anterograde Amnesia( Squire & Stark, 2004). Due to the dysfunctional working memory, I still go to the street without a mask, and infecting many people, whereas I one day witnessed a man’s sneezing without a mask, and worrying whether he infecting this virus to me, appear the delusion of persecution as well as mild Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Devices /techniques:

I am gonna split the plot into 24 phases, while 12 phases is ordering with time and 12 phase is in flashback. (pay a tribute to Nolan’s Memento) 

Reference:

1.“Memento”. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved June 10, 2013. https://youtu.be/0vS0E9bBSL0

2.”Following”. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 21 December 2014. https://youtu.be/RHRnYeZL5Pc 

3. “Accident “. Lam, Perry (October 2009). “Hollow man and useless beauty”. Muse (33): 97. https://youtu.be/yfwD1s3LYM8 

4.Squire LR, Stark CE, Clark RE. The medial temporal lobe. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2004;27:279-306.

5. “Running on Karma (2003) – LoveHKFilm”.

6. “Rear Window (1954)”. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved August 13, 2019.

5 frames

Zoomed water, Fluorescent lamp – as to depict the depressive atmosphere for my room-> my anxiety disorder/ Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Chaotic trash can- discarded memo -> my Amnesia; the packing of AQ -> the virus issue

The movie by Kubrick( replace it to A Clockwork Orange） -> Depression, delusion of persecution

Bird’s eye-> implication of the thrilling, tragedy ending

5 plots

1. I sit on the minibus to go out -> I am in HK( spacial city background) -> the rush rhythm of hk 
2. Walking on the street -> depict the virus issue, everyone wearing mask -> I was one of the society( the relationship with me and society is tight)
3. When I put myself inside the society -> I observe ppl ->the alienated relationship ; I was independent, isolated -> start to suspend that whether someone infected me that I start feeling sick( flu symptom)
4. I suspect a lady who stand inside the road
5. The sneezing man triggered my longterm memory back/ god’s perspective as to depict the fact in time’s order. -> I was the one who have been infected and continuously infecting ppl.

Iris Yeung

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