2019 Blog – Page 10 – Architecture and film

Field Trip Two: The Tram

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Sophia

A static camera placement is given an interesting new perspective by being put on a moving tram. This shot also gives a first person account of the unique intimacy that riding a tram through Hong Kong can bring. Adjacent trams and buses are close enough to touch, and it seems like Hong Kong’s architecture is close enough to touch as well. 2. The upward panning of the camera paired with the horizontal movement of the tram makes Hong Kong’s tall buildings seem even taller. 3. Our focus is shifted to the man on the bicycle, as the tram’s speed is

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Architecture, Film + The Modern City

Fieldwork 2: Behind the Yellow Line

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Casey Yip

Time Lapse “In chaos we find order, in order we find balance, in balance we find harmony. In harmony the forbidden voices will rise and sow the seeds for chaos.” Taken at a first-person perspective as a disabled individual, time lapse is used along the rail for guidance towards blind people. It depicts the vision of the disabled, and how hardware of the city caters equality and the the needs of minorities over the diversity of population. Slow Motion Time doesn’t heal everything, but time proves everything. Taken using the slow motion angle to capture frames of our everyday lives.

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Everyday Spaces as Narrative, Global Space, Time + The City, Urban Infrastructure as Event

Field trip 2: Central Escalator

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Lan

The central escalator is full of visual additions, including decorations, signs, advertisements and so on. It shows a complex but amazing mixture of escalator, visual additions and thousands of users. 1. . No-Smoking Sign /Isolation/differentiation of speeds differentiations of speed The no-smoking signs are in different forms and everywhere. However, once these signs became a part of the environment, passengers would always choose to ignore them. Using the close up shots can help to signify the existence of these signs, since the amounts of them is not match for the attention people paid on it. And the differentiation of speeds between

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Urban Infrastructure as Event

[Field Trip II] Travelling by Tram

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Saima

One. Filmed in black and white, this video pans from an otherwise ordinary shot of a tram in transit to a crowd of people halting its path. Two. By employing the use of bird’s eye, I was able to frame the shot using the entrance doors to the tram. This video follows a passenger walking through the doors in just a sliver of the frame. As the tram passes through a road, we can see the yellow-box junction reflected on the tram’s surface, creating a symmetrical pattern of the crosses. As the video comes to an end, we can see the tram

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Urban Infrastructure as Event

Field trip 2: Central Escalator

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Yuqi

Cropped view: Glasses frame The visible phenomenon with respect to the glasses frame is a rewind of human activities outside the crop. The mirroring effect of the glasses lens creates a scene inside a scene. De-Escalator: Eye-level The eccentric moment of up-and-down in the escalator journey: the central escalator, supposedly a sloped public infrastructure, comprises a sudden downward moment in the journey. This particular junction is a double-lane while the rest of the escalator is single-lane. Framed view: Rear Window The nostalgia that the policeman 633 derives from watching his flight attendant girlfriend leaving through the rear window

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Urban Infrastructure as Event

Field Trip Two – Central Escalators

March 4, 2019 Dongni

Activities under the escalator All: https://youtu.be/N7KRY6hVJiE Camera is static, subjects are dynamic As the central escalator is elevated from the road, the influences of it are not only to the buildings or malls beside but also to space under it. This series of films are trying to show the daily activities that happened under the escalator. The area under the escalator could be divided into three parts: a ramp on the left side for most of the people going up and down, a terrace on the right and a “garden” that could let people sit and have

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Urban Infrastructure as Event

Field Trip Two: Central Escalators

March 4, 2019 Tin Wing Alvina

In the following 5 videos, the motion of people at the Central escalators was captured as the subject. Tracking The camera was placed in the middle to track the upward movement of the escalator, contrasting the downward movement of people walking down from the staircase. Through tracking the journey on the escalator, the people on the escalator is relatively static comparing to the ones walking down from the staircase, which is interesting since actually they are all dynamic but through tracking such relative sense was formed. And by placing the camera in the middle, it also contrasts the speed, direction,

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Architecture, Film + The Modern City, Urban Infrastructure as Event

Field Trip 2: Silent Observer on Central Escalators

March 4, 2019 Anahita

“The journey is more important than the destination” Static camera moving subject The first shot introduces the main attribute of the Escalators that I have chosen, which might not be so clear now, but will become so as the shots progress. Time Lapse The subject makes its way on the busy Escalators, and the shot from behind shows the endless commute that thousands of people make between Central and Mid-Levels everyday. Slow Motion The technique is used to highlight my main focus on the escalators. The pillars also naturally frames the subject and shows first person view. In my opinion,

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Architecture, Film + The Modern City

Field trip II Escalator in Central: People

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Jieming

The escalator is a space full of people. People who are going up, people who are strolling down, people who…… Nevertheless, the mundane presence of people makes them absent and invisible. In such a transportation space where people constantly pass by each other, we usually don’t look at people, but just see them briefly. The subject of these five videos shot in Central, then, is nothing else but the overlooked figure of people. Camera is static; subject is dynamic There are two kinds of subjects in this video; the obvious dynamic subject (the moving vehicles), and the hidden subject

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Urban Infrastructure as Event

Fieldtrip 2 The Tram: How the tram engages with others on the street

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Wenjun

The first video shows a wide angle of view from the window of the tram, and it is also where the most visitors would pay attention. The second video shows how the tram passes through others on the street. The Third video shows how people interact with the tram, for example, what people passing by/getting on/off the tram look like. The fourth video is a record from first person view, showing the way to get off the tram, and the situation inside the tram can be directly seen. The fifth video is in the view of a passer-by. As

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