[Video Essay] ALAMORT

  Text in video: The pandemic started with no signs and is spreading continuously all around the world. Both of our physical and mental health   are being threatened, the distance between people is widened and relationships are being ruined – like our hands getting more crappy after endless housework.    Isolation starts, we seem to have the same life as before, we still have lessons and work, the only difference is all things were finished within a single, repeated area – home. We enjoyed to have such experience at first, we even treated self-isolation as a “present” in a

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[Video Essay] Oversaturation

SCRIPT [updated 14:09 08/05/2020] OST – On-screen text INTRO A red dot grows in size into an approximate visual of a coronavirus particle. Cut to title. Resume coronavirus visual that morphs into a droplet. Cut to red splotches spreading over the world map symbolizing fear brought by the pandemic. END INTRO OST One day in Hong Kong, under the fear and terror of the COVID-19 SCENE 1 Protagonist walking along street, heading to his apartment building. The surroundings appear to be dingy. He walks up a stairwell. Cut to protagonist entering apartment. Protagonist heads towards the fridge. Close shot of

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[ Video Essay ] Breakthrough

How To Life in Corona Quarantine life is very different from the normal lives we once had months ago. As there has been a cut off from the outside physical world, we remain in class as university students but online in Zoom classes. Some may say they are having an easier life without needing to commute to physical locations, but science says commute time to work if physically and psychologically healthier than working from home. With months of bed to working desk life, what can we do to make life less repetitive, finding more meaning in between resting and academics?

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[Video Essay] Advancement

There are changes from the initial mood board but the essential idea remains the same. The video is a documentary that illustrates ‘Advancement’, which reflects the change of urban landscape after the coronavirus. Rather than perceiving forceful changes caused by coronavirus as a compulsion, I perceived as a advancement of urban life. People are more acknowledging the importance of hygiene and changes in our daily life has suggested potential development and change in our life like cyber education or telecommuting. Hence, this video will reflect the changes after the COVID-19.     Floor Plan   Captions: Waking up in the

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[Video Essay]Chongqing — A City Redeemed

He Yifu 3035533836 Originally I wish to make a video about take-out delivery men in the virus crisis, yet when I really get to make this video, I changed my mind. I wish to present how my hometown is coping with this crisis, and I asked myself, what is the most famous thing in Chongqing, the answer is obvious, Hot Pot. So I made a short documentary about hotpot, to be more specific, about people first get to dine in a reopened Hot Pot restaurant just under my apartment. This is the floor plan about my one and only scene

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[Video Essay] Hermit

In such daunting time, this modernised little town sheltered millions of boring souls, hermits, who all hope for this helpless life to come to an end. Haunted by the boredom, the routine, our time is nibbled by the virus. Other than hermiting, what can we do to save the world from covid-19?     Texts: The film documents a day of most of us, or students at least, trying to stay alive within the spread of the virus. We can’t go out, we can’t meet each other’s, the original colourful life turned into darkness and cold. Besides, many of us

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[VIDEO ESSAY] Encounter

  In 2021, the protagonist P recalls the eerie encounter that changed his life. Script link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15-zuDA1WthrJLlomYNBzbRYfa7ekBceu/view?usp=sharing Refrences: Wojcik, P. R. (2018).  What makes the apartment complex? In Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures (pp. 1-20), edited by Wojck, P. R. Durham: Duke University Press. RTHK. (2020). 疫市錄 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOkEeF4NRqY Lemon Tree, Fool’s garden, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2setjvNKcxg Created by: Tam Yan Chi ( Tom Tam) u3035696846  

[Video Essay] IRIDESCENT

When Coronavirus ends in 2021, everything seems to go back to ‘normal’  including our rekindled family relationship. During the outbreak of coronavirus, we spent more time with our family, which contribute a lot to our relationship.  Is spending time together with each other the only way to maintain a good relationship?  ‘I’ had a dream, that my parents were not with me last year… Script    Voice over:  VO On-screen text: OST Text bubble: TB   Scene 1    The main character does not reply to her Mum’s message   Title   Phone light up with the sound, new message

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[VIDEO ESSAY] BASTION

In this documentary, I intended to present how we could protect ourselves by taking precautionary measures like cleaning toilet bowl with bleach and avoid getting in touch with lift button. We have to be attentive to every details like hidden place of toilet like the drainage of pipe line which ought to be hydrated for the sake of not infesting with diseases. After all, we must pay tribute to our mom who had been so dedicated to do whatever it takes to keep our home clean and safe so as to protect us in the wake of this pandemic. Reference:

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