[Video Essay] Information City

link:https://youtu.be/q4lZ5PykKos This video and essay focused on specific cite lobby, in Yichang, Hubei province, to reflect that the city Yichang is full of information and its own beauty. Me, Zhekai Zhang, as the director, wants to thank my friends who gave me the chance to research these different lobbies in the communities at this specific pandemic period, and some of them even joined in the filming process. At the start of the video there is a list including this part. In every city, there are many communities that people live in, and most of the communities have a lobby, where

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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

In the reading piece migartory city,the most significant difference between city in real life and the scifi-city is that the migartory cities are not considering enough real life problems. A city in real life needs to consider energy, water and other problems, as a stationary city it is quite easy to get consistent souces. But in the passage, the migartory city can move with huge legs, wheels, and even monsters leading the city. Therefore in conclusion, real life city needs to consider many aspects, city in scifi-novels ignores many physical principals and other problems. It only focus on maybe one

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Reading Response: Darrell William Davis AND William M. Tsutsui

In the reading Oh No, There Goes Tokyo, we get to know that why Japanese people are really keen on creating films that having giant monsters such as Godzilla or King kong destroying the city or featured architecture of the city, for example the Tokyo Tower. And in the second reading Technology and (Chinese) Ethnicity, the reason for them to make anime is quite similar. We all know that Japan is a country that has miserable history, as typical example: the earthquake, nuclear boom. All of these disasters gave unimaginable damage to Japan, not only to people, also the government,

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[FIELDWORK] Under the Hawthorn Tree, Baili Desert and 809 Primary School

UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE; Yimou Zhang,2010 Baili Desert and 809 Primary School Under the Hawthorn Tree was a movie by director Yimou Zhang and acted by Xiao Dou and Dongyu Zhou, it was an adaptation of the novel of the same name, the story during the “Great Cultural Revolution” and the movie showed how Jingqiu and Laosan get to know each other, fall in love and finally end with LaoSan’s death, which is a Poignant love story. The sites used in this movie are located at my hometown, Yilin District Township Baili Desert Scenic Area of Yichang City (where hawthorn

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Reading Response: Pamela Robertson Wojcik

The second reading of lecture 6 is actually an introduction of a book, it has mentioned the word genre really often during the chapter, which is the type of art that maybe used in the movie. In my opinion, it is able to give viewer a first sight of the movie, and can give some idea of what the director wants to present. A genre or architecture can somehow represent the film, characters, etc. For example, as the chapter mentioned, people living in penthouse are often strange, therefore sometimes the personality can be shown through the architecture, which is a

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Reading Response: Nezar AlSayyad

After the reading of of Nezar AISayyad, I would like to talk about the extent and aspects in which cinema and film are influencing our lives. The story in the reading is quite interesting and wired, the main character Jeff uses his binocle to observe his neighbors everyday, and accidently discover the clues of a murder. It is a story that we are not quite familiar with because we usually do not see anybody spying cause it is kind of illegal, but the story help us to think in director’s view, and the view of characters, that can help us,

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Reading Response: Giuliano Bruno

The reading 2 states two interesting phrases, reel time and real time. Actually it is quite normal to think of these two words when we come into a movie, cause real time is the real timeline that is occurring outside the movie while the reel time is the time running inside the movie, which means: reel time must be shown by some of the features, sometimes represented by title saying that “two years later” or the alternation of the days and nights, it also could be related to architecture. Just as Giuliano said, architecture could be sensitive to the atmosphere.

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