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[Field-Homework3]-Colourful Hong Kong, Neon Signs

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I don’t think reminiscence films should be mixed with voices and background sounds, so I use pure video and background music to express what I convey. My theme is colorful Hong Kong, mainly through Hong Kong’s unique neon signs to reflect my theme. My shooting location is Mong Kok, Hong Kong, starting from the Mong Kok Flyover. My shooting method is from far to near, starting with the big picture of the whole shooting site, and then gradually narrowing the shooting to focus on a specific light sign. I have invited Ms. Zhang Lingge to play a friendly role to

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

[Reading Response 2]-Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City(Katarzyna Ancuta)

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Review of Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City-Katarzyna Ancuta Urban cities have been equated with the development and progress of a person which leads people in rural areas to migrate into big cities. The rapid growth of the cities highlighted the themes of loneliness and alienation for the newly migrated people, offering fertile grounds for horror movie makers to use stories merging with ghosts. The horror movies made in the Asian regions including Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and China mostly rely on the use of a contiguous community where humans and ghosts co-habitat. Additionally, isolation and loneliness themes act

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[MOOD BOARD]-Colorful City

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Theme: Colorful City（Hong Kong’s special colors – Hong Kong’s Neon lights） Location: Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong We can see in Hong Kong there are a lot of eye-catching fluorescent signs（Neon signs） in front of every restaurant. This kind of light plate also often appears in Hong Kong’s ancient movies. Over time, this has become a major feature of Hong Kong. However, these types of signs started to disappear. I wanna record the remaining lights, let people remember that there has been this touch of color, and figure out why the lights gradually disappear. In contrast to the large number of neon

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Class Exercise-Moving house reflection

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This film records the Singaporean families moving house for their dead family. Remove the bodies of ancestors from the grave wash them and change their positions, because Singaporeans believe that people need to put their bodies in a place with good feng shui to absorb reiki after death, so the big brother refused to move their ancestor’s corpses at the begin, but there is no land in Singapore, it needs to be cremated in a box after considering many factors. Finally big Brother finalized the “move” this matter.All the original graves were demolished and the gravestone signs were smashed. Shan Yiyi 3036267886

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Fieldwork

[FIELDWORK REPORT] Shan Yiyi & Zhang Lingge

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The erase of past Video link: https://youtu.be/xQEHGwX3MHc?feature=shared Transcript: This expedition started from Shanghai Street and finally came to Langhao place, witnessing the transformation from the early Hong Kong society to the modern prosperous metropolis. During the investigation, we saw many slightly older buildings and were sure that they would disappear in ten years. Q1. What is the space/place/artefact/building that is vanishing?  The building we chose to explain which will disappear within ten years is an old-fashioned Tang building located in Argyle Street. The institutions inside the building include the construction pharmaceutical trade union and the hometown association, which have now been abandoned. Several shops on the ground floor

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

[READING RESPONSE]The Rustle of language

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Response to “Leaving the Movie Theater” Movie is the use of sight, sound and space to create a unique artistic conception that not only satisfies people’s response to leisure and laziness, but also has hypnotic properties. From a visual point of view, the movie is like a beam of light breaking through the darkness and bringing a shock to the audiences’ soul. The audiences can experience the unique charm of the movie from the visual and text, whether it is the magnificent scenes or the vivid characters. In particular, combined with the unique auditory experience, the movie brings the perfect audio-visual experience. The sound of the movie provides an

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