1) The longing to return home is halted as they arrive at the escalator. 2)The constant movement of the walkers…The constant avoidance of pausing. 3)Melancholy, in everyone’s mind. The video attempts to portray pessimism in people’s minds nowadays. Their fear of crowdedness and physical contact as they step foot onto the long arduous escalator, and amplifies as they reach to the top of the footbridge. Like the ocean waves, the herd of people flows in all directions. Their body tackling yours, their stoic masked faces facing towards you and their sharp eyes gleaming at you. Not only does the virus

Continue reading[Field-Homework 2]Melancholy

[Medium shot, cut] Time seems to fly when one finally gets a chance to go for a walk in these times. [Wide angle, stable camera shot] The junction, usually bustling with traffic and pedestrians is at an odd serenity. [First person view] Hanging through the viral outbreak is like walking through a never-ending tunnel, when can people breath freely again? [Over the shoulder, focus shot] The focus shifts from my shoulder to the empty tables of the food stalls, seemingly operated by a skeleton crew as there are few customers. [Zoom out, panning shot] Zooming put from a residential cluster,

Continue reading[Field Homework 2] Quarantine

By capturing the disinfecting procedure on my room door, the bridge between outside and inside, I showed how this procedure transports me into private space from outside.https://youtu.be/9v0PqTlprgI Looking out from the flight, Hong Kong is getting closer. However, the plane is a somewhat confined space from HK because its place of departure is suffering a virus, and everyone on the plane needs to accept self-quarantine. https://youtu.be/dpAiVXNZX-A Strongly affected by the virus, residents are encouraged to stay at home. Thus, there is nearly no car on the highway, and I use the rearview mirror as a frame to show that.  https://youtu.be/1pUv801_D_0

Continue reading[Field-Homework 2] Transportation in crisis

Chongqing — a City Recovering He Yifu This is an empty teaching room in Chongqing Polytech University, it is noon on Friday, yet the building is empty. This is the canteen at the university. Due to the health crisis, they only serve take-out and forbid people to eat in. It seems that the crisis is still severe, yet when looking at other angles of the city, you will notice it is already recovering. This is the city bus, you could see that there are a few masks-wearing people on it. This shows the transport still functions and the city is

Continue reading[Field-Homework 2] Chongqing — a City Recovering

  The neighborhood where I am living in has a lot of bridges, this is one of the busiest and that everyone passed by are wearing masks. (Worm’s angle, static camera, dynamic objects) Here from the same bridge, looking at the biggest crossroads in the neighborhood, which is not busy at all even on a Sunday. (Wide and static camera angle, dynamic objects) From another bridge’s angle of the crossroad, people are rushing as the traffic lights flash, most people are wearing masks. (Static camera angle through framing, dynamic objects) Another angle of the crossroad…from another bridge while there are

Continue reading[Field-Homework 2] Crossed with Bridges

1.Light rails are working as usual, yet it seems that something unusual is happening… 2. Number of people on the platform never decrease, cannot avoid walking between people 3. The train comes as it did for years, yet from drivers to passengers, all wearing a mask 4. Hustling and bustling, can we look selectively and pretend our city is healthy? This video is a combination of 2 parts,  filming the heads and the legs of the passengers respectively. Both only cropping part of the passengers’ body, emphasizing the mask and the bustling of the city under contagion to establish a

Continue reading[Field-Homework 2] Normality in abnormality

[Shot Reverse Shot in Close Up] The brutality, reminds us of prevention: People are stepping aside from the escalator handles.   [One Take Tracking, Gimbal work at worms angle] Brutality in Movement: Passengers are keeping a polite distance to avoid any contact in the escalator [Jump Cuts, Time Remapping, Framing/ Crop] Brutal literally: The interior skin of Central Market is so aged, especially during this period of time, the unclean appearance gives us a sense of insecurity [Overlapping motion, Slow Motion, Difference overlay] Brutal infrastructure: Escalator is as brutal as the virus, there’s always a known start and a (quasi) known end

Continue reading[Field Homework 2] BRUTALITY

Part I: 1. Camera is static, subject/s is/are dynamic This is a normal weekend,but much fewer people appear in this MTR compare to three months ago. People deliberately keeping a distance with one another. 3. Isolation/differentiation of speeds The speed of people entering and leaving the MTR is edited in order to show the contrast that people want to leave crowed spaces as soon as possible and hesitation before stepping into the MTR. 5. Framing Looking at the scenery outside the window of MTR,a nice weather,but still,I dare not go anywhere except my home. 6. Cropping By cropping a girl

Continue reading[Field-Homework 2] Tension

  Part I – A significant urban infrastructure which dissolved into the backdrop of people’s everyday lives – Island Eastern Corridor.   Part II – The infrastructure is barricaded off from the pedestrian space, establishing a prominent spatial conflict.   Part III – In order to access the harbor promenade, pedestrians are displaced off the ground to conquer the obstruction of the highway.   Part IV – Sometimes the infrastructure ‘fights back’. A lion share of the park is dominated by the enormous concrete mass, and the differential speed of motion further contrasts these two spaces’ qualities.   Part V

Continue reading[Field-Homework 2] Highway v.s. Human