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[Field- Homework 3] Hybrid city: Promenade, Shing Sai Street, Kennedy Town

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This is a promenade which has gained its attention in tourists in Hong Kong recently, It is famous for its sunset seaview at dusk. But at nighttime, after the sun has set. The view is completely different from regular seaside promenades in other places.Here is The Belcher Bay Promenade, located at Shing Sai Road, Kennedy Town, As you stroll along the promenade, you’ll be captivated by how crowded and yet organized in a perfect way. How does it do it? Let me break it all down. There are three parts divided along the promenade. On the sea side, there are

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Cat Links Workshop 1: Building Sets, Spaces & the City + Costumes, Characters & Urban Situations, Workshop 2: Dreamland Film Screening + Director's Chat

Workshop 2 exercise

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the first one  will be shot in black and white and the rains will be black as ink that raining on him/her. Wide shot and slowly zooming out. the second one is about a frustrating man killing himself with the smoke. Will be shot by focusing the tension on the rain and smoke getting bigger and eventually the man died.   Kwok Ka Shing 3036072762

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Fieldwork

[Fieldwork Report] Vanishing City- Graffiti Street, Luen Wan Street

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5 Stills from the video: Student name: Kwok Ka Shing 3036072762 Tse Tak Chi 3036065783   [Transcript] Talking about graffiti, what would you think of it? Probably some scrawling or, otherwise, some sketches with special styles. In Hong Kong, of course, there is graffiti. However, it is everywhere, but also nowhere. To be precise, graffiti only exists in some alleys or some iron gates outside the stores. They are not like those commercial advertisements that usually appear in our eyes, but like treasures that are probably hiding inside every alley. In this field report, we went to “Graffiti Street,” located

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 3: The Post-war Asian City as Set

[Reading Response] : Urban Cinema and the Cultural Identity of Hong Kong by Leung Ping-Kwan

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On the “Urban Cinema and the Cultural Identity of Hong Kong” by Leung Ping-Kwan, this book introduced how cultural identity of Hong Kong has shifted and shaped from the 1950s to the 1990s and how it is portrayed into various art forms, especially in films. Throughout  the reading, I think the author is trying to point out both the Western and Chinese cultural influence to Hong Kong at the same time. Based on the changing political backgrounds in different periods of time, in my opinion, Hong Kong has not only become more distinct from its identity of ‘Chinese’ or ‘Western’

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