Synopsis : The coronavirus started to spread in Hong Kong seriously since the beginning of 2020, the news continuous to report the update of health-related arrangements and the number of confirmed cases – which creates great anxiety among people. We have no school, no work, and no social activities, we stay at home 24/7, under this situation, music is a great tool to enrich people’s lives and it is effective to relieve stress – as mentioned in some mental illness report. In this documentary, I would like to point out that music benefit overall well-being, help regulate emotions, and create

Continue reading[Field-Homework 3] Harmonies – Daily Routine

  Coronavirus, an uninvited guest, has changed our daily life in the past two months. We spent most of the time in our home. Having online lectures, watching TV programmes and observing the pedestrian with masks become part of our daily life. Besides, the cityscape of Hong Kong changed under the hygiene crisis. MTR stations underground are filled with passengers wearing masks while most of the street stores were closed under the poor economic atmosphere. The escalator system packed with crowds commuting in Mid-levels of Central, however, is less busy than usual working days. Under the trend of home-office, just

Continue reading[Field-Homework 3] HONGKONGUNDER-COVID-1920

Synopsis: Architecture is the protection and shelter for citizens. If an architect is told to design buildings to cope with the environmental crisis, will architecture guard me against the coronavirus? Notice I am going out every day during the peak of the crisis, my trajectories from my place, the apartment plot, to spaces like transportation infrastructures and populous streets, do not seem to protect me from the coronavirus. These structures are not even more protective than the masks. This video tells my trajectory story between places and spaces, portraying how I take this extra step to get masks in my

Continue reading[Field-Homework 3] My Spatial Story for Masks

  Synopsis: This is a documentary of a student’s journey, starting from his room to the outside and ending in Langham Place. As he walk passes different locations, different virus aftermath is revealed in the surroundings. From masked pedestrians to crowded taxi stands, hardworking grassroots to exorbitant businessmen, frames relate and contrast with each other. With numerous shots, angles variety and colour tunings, the picture delivered is more all-rounded, at the same time more visually enhanced. The documentary ends in a Langham Place with no shoppers, echoing with the ‘infected’ Hong Kong vividly depicted earlier, opening up to unlimited imaginations

Continue reading[Field-Homework 3] Corona: Hong Kong