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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City: Old Gates, Man Wah Sun Chuen, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon

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Subtitle: Disappearing City: Old Gates, Man Wah Sun Chuen, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon Hypothesis: All the traditional gates with craved patterns in Hong Kong will be replaced by new, electronic gates in 10 years. Description: This video essay mainly focuses on the disappearance of the old Hong Kong gates located in the Man Wah Sun Chuen. As there will be a redevelopment at the estate, the gates that were installed would also be demolished, especially for the traditional Hong Kong-style metal gates. First, the history of the gates will be explored from the original form of the gates to its

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 8: Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response 2] Migratory Cities

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I think when the cities can move, they are not ‘city’ anymore. Instead, they should be called transportation tools. There are many transportation can move people from place to place while they can work, entertain, and live on machines such as aircraft carriers, trains, airships, and rockets. Similar stories can be told by changing the ‘city’ to other carriers such as pirate ships, then the story becomes “One Piece”, stronger pirates engulf weaker pirates. The main character trying to defect the strong pirates to get treasure. In the idea of moving to a residential place, I think of the vehicle

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Workshop 3: Designing the Video Essay

[Mood Board]

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  The theme of my video is traditional gates which are in silver color and made of metal usually. Therefore, I put the picture of shiny metal to show the shininess. I put the Marvel character – silver surfer cause when I work with silver metal, I would think of him. Also, the color tone of the character provides a greater color gradient of silver showed in the picture at the bottom left corner. For the picture at the bottom middle, I want to focus on the grey sky which also matches the color theme. Finally, the last photo at

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Cat Links Workshop 2: Dreamland Film Screening + Director's Chat

Question for Director Chen

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I really like the way that you used the mirrors or glasses to reflect the face of the characters or the image of buildings in the newly constructed city. May I know how did you discover these angles or objects to do such effects? Did you actually went to the sites and jot down the ways that the camera should be placed before filming the scenes? Or, you just simply improvised the film?

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 1: Architecture, Film & The Modern City

[Reading Response] Roland Barthes: Leaving the Movie Theater

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The writer talks about the importance of the place where you watch the moving images in this article. In one of the sections, he suggests that cinema provides an unfamiliar, dark, and anonymous place for the audience to focus only on the movie. Although I have the same idea as him, things are different. In my experiences of watching a movie in the theatre, people always forgot to switch their phones into silent mode, talked loudly, kicked my chair, etc. The bad feeling was the only thing I could get after watching the movie. Besides these annoying behaviours, there was

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