[Video Essay] CONTROL CITY

SITE: DORMITORY Director: LIN Mengfei SCENE: LIN Mengfei SUBTITLE: LIN Mengfei 1. Introduction Inspiration This video is a visual presentation of my real life experiences and reflections to the built environment. The initial inspiration mainly comes from a long period self-quarantine in a small bedroom with a huge window on one wall. After having an interview with my classmates, we shared the feeling of having quarantine in the dormitory. It is slightly lonely and we both realised that we were born to love the outdoors. During the quarantine, we tells the time naturally by looking through windows. Pink morning light shines

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Video essay The influence of epidemic

Director: Liu Yitong scriptwriter: Liu Yitong Footage and photography: Liu Yitong vocals: Liu Yitong Link:https://youtu.be/uVRG3GWfAbQ Different places will have different attitudes to deal with the covid-19 epidemic. Mainland China chose to both prevent foreign imports and rebound in local, in order to reach dynamic zero. For me, a student who back from Hong Kong to the mainland when the epidemic in Hong Kong was serious, choose to use this video to show the relationship between people and architecture during the epidemic. I choose the Changfeng business district as a filming location for three reasons. First, this is the place where

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[Video Essay]Hybrid City

  [Video essay]Hybrid City Site:Sidewalk What is hybrid city There are some definitions on hybrid city,suggesting hybrid city is a city in village or a village in city,in short it means hybrid city is a mix of urban and rural, I agree that I believe whether a city is hybrid or not is not just based on the type of land use.Hybrid means a mix of things, and hybrid city is definitely more than just a mix of  rural and urban area , it can be a mix of how people live,and the images of different places in the city.

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[Video Essay] The Control City

Speech Radio: The Centre for Health Protection is investigating one-hundred additional confirmed case of COVID-19, taking the number of cases to 209370 in Hong Kong so far. Announcement: Good evening, I must give the Hong Kong people a simple instruction – you must stay at home. You should not be meeting friends. You should not be meeting family members who do not live in your home. Thank you. Announcement: Given that the situation of COVID-19 infection remains severe and that there is a continuous increase in the number of cases reported around the world, you are strongly urged to consume

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[Video Essay] Toilet- Another City

Description of the theme and subject matter Under the widespread of COVID-19, I have stayed at home for a long period and it becomes my studio and workspace for my coursework. When I am stuck in thinking, I tend to find a quiet and undisturbed space for concentration and brainstorm. And I discovered that there is a private and isolated room at home once I closed the door that I can stay for alone in the toilet. Although it provides a room for thinking straight, I still want to go out and take a breath from being cooped up indoors.

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[Video Essay] Unstable City

Video Credits: Directed and narrated by Chan Sum Kie Dorcas Sound effects from All Sounds (Youtube) Special thanks to securities guards for the interviews Synopsis: The pandemic has forced our routines to be changed.  Working from home and learning from home have already become the norm.  However, as our institutions and living styles seemed to have stabilized, our inner core is still crumbling.  Hong Kong’s mental health crisis is nothing new, yet the introduction of a neverending pandemic has worsened the already devastating situation.  People have become increasingly depressed and anxious which has led to certain rather interesting concerns.  Namely,

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Conjoined City

https://youtu.be/VLL4LqswE5Q Story Board   Description Parks have long been something of an anomaly in the cityscape, especially in one as densely urbanized as Hong Kong. This park in the heart of Tai Po market is a pretty accurate description of what these pocket parks all over Hong Kong look like-surrounded by buildings, motorways, walkways and the like. So, one might be misled to think that these parks might as well not exist, and that parks in general are simply taking up space that can be instead used build more housing, malls or offices to provide for the population. There was

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[video essay] clean city

I have chosen the clean city as my topic for the project and my assigned place is the dormitory. The first thing come to my mind for this video essay is how the pandemic affects the relationship between the hallmates and how the pandemic affects the cleaning awareness of students who live in the dormitory. Therefore, I want to create a video that contains some drama to imitate daily hall life. It can increase the empathy of the audience. First of all, I think that the Hong Kong polytechnic university is the most characteristic university in Hong Kong since it

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[Field-Homework 3] [Video Essay]Apartment Quarantine City

Apartment Quarantine City To investigate how the COVID-19 epidemic affect the apartment set up. For example, more mask, alcohol pad and alcohol hand rub appear in everyone apartment.   Script Ah finally wake up. Haven’t hang out for a while because of the COVID-19. Such a good day, maybe just hang out for a while.   Oh, my leg numbness.   Oh, is run out of hand wash. I will just buy it on the way.   New cloth is needed since every time the cloth will be contaminated when we go out.   Na, no alcohol pad is needed

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[Video Essay] Subdivided City

Title: [Field-Homwork]Subdivided City Director:Huang Xin 3035771294 Theme and Subject matter The alleyways are spaces that are hidden inside or buildings. Such short and narrow worlds are not easy to notice. Apart from those well-known apartments in Hong Kong, alleyways also reflect the subdivided feature of Hong Kong. It divided a small block into different parts, and it exists as a hidden world in the block. Inside the alleyways, Hong Kong is not as international and developed as it looks like from the outside since it is incredibly crowded and filled with wasted oil and garbage. What’s more, under the pandemic,

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