Coronavirus has deadly disrupted the world, and, at the same time, pushed the development of technologies, as well as the understanding of self sufficiency. On the left of the mood board, cold and empty streets, as presented in Bladerunner 2049 and Ghost in the Shell, may become the reality in 2021, when people fear of physical contacts. At the same time, physical barriers are replaced by more immersive consumer gadgets, to foster a more intimate connection between people. Food companies may finally focus on producing merchants to plant vegetables or other types food at home. Perhaps, in 2021, the lifestyle

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My video-essay will be the in the form of a documentary, showing fragments of my life under the virus outbreak, especially how the outbreak will affect my lifestyle. Because I will be the one filming this video-essay, I am using a wooden model as a ‘stand-in’ who will be the protagonist of the video. I will place the model around my house, with it standing in front of different objects, hence I can have a new view on changes on my life and how it relates with the environment of my home. Included in the MoodBoard are some scenes and

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  During the time of quarantine,we seem to have extra time to be spent at home.It is supposed that we should have more self-quality time.However,the fact is that we are more likely to spend those spare time on social media,electronic devices and the Internet as the only entertainment.Therefore,most of our time is wasted in a meaningless way…….The video essay will be conducted in the form of allegory.The theme is going to reveal the current situation of addiction to electronic devices is getting more severe during the quarantine time through recording the life of a university student.This mood board can show

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My idea for the video essay is to make a documentary about take-out food delivery man’s routine. Under this health crisis, nobody is willing to dine-in and take-out business is the only thing keeping the food industry alive. I hope the documentary could show the importance of those delivery men, and by shooting there working routine, I could also show the overall status of the city. In order to highlight the importance of take-out business, I hope to include news and google searching results regarding the coronavirus and food industry. For the purpose of showing the work routine and city

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I plan to tell the story of a girl who lost a friend to coronavirus, and I want to visualize the emptiness she feels through the space of her apartment and an MTR station. The mood board contains both photographs I took and inspirations from other videos. The spaces are somewhat empty, messy, dark and they feel foreign. I would say that they symbolize the feelings this person went through after her friend passed away from contracting covid-19.   Duan Yipeng 3035660146

Please click this if the animated gif does not work The video essay will be conducted in the form of allegory, which argues the relationship (mainly Family) is not solely spending time together but truly care about each other. The video hypothesize that  in 2021, family relationships were rekindled during the outbreak of coronavirus returns to how it was like before the outbreak. The main character of the video is a girl dream back in 2020 longing for accompanying from her parents who stayed in the USA, a girl she draws (Papergirl) symbolizes the love from her parents come to

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This film aims to project the society after the outbreak of the virus though vision of a delivery man. Despite majority of people were stuck in their houses or workplaces, delivery men were one of the group who were able to roam around from flats to flat. This enables to widen the range of what audiences could see. The setting, the apartment has an exposed corridor to show the audience as much as possible. The key items has a visual contrast with the background. Each of the item serves a different purpose in each scene, and the contrast enables to

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