Transcript: This is the Asia’s World city, where the domestic helpers from the Philippines and Indonesia enjoy their Sunday in the most iconic and busy districts of Hong Kong. Is that the complete truth? The locals and domestic helpers never seem to cross-path, not even when they are on the same sidewalk. There is an invisible wall between them, a line seldom crossed. And when the locals do interact with them, it’s like this. Sidewalk is where they are guarded against. This is not their home Sidewalk is where they voice out their discontent Where is their home. Their

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  Definition of the park: Park is a place where people can gather and have fun. Before the pandemic outbreak, we usually deem the park as an outdoor “place”, including theme parks, conventional playgrounds (the park has a more general and broader definition than the playground, in which playground is one of the examples of the park). From time to time, especially due to pandemic outbreaks, a park is no longer just a physical “place” but also a mobile “space” where people gather and have fun (i.e. online platform) The main idea of the film: Currently, more than one year

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  Synopsis This video is trying to convey a message that COVID is putting a lot of stress or causing a lot of changes to people and the city, because I am arranged to convey this message through the MTR passage I figured I would use the MTR station and passage that are near my home as I am more familiar to this place and I truly know what impacts have this pandemic brought to the place that I have a lot of memories in it. So I decided to film this place and try to show the audience by

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Title: Disappearing City DaEun Lee BGM: Everywhere at the end of time Floor Plan: Transcript: a) Theme The main theme of the video is disappearing meaning of campus/classroom. In the time of pandemic, majority of universities are forced to be closed and e-learning is the main source of university experiences for students. However, due to the lengthening period of shutdown, students start to forget their experiences at the campus. Especially for freshmen there are numerous things that they have never experienced or even never been to the campus yet. While we are provided with full time online lectures, the true

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  Description of the theme and subject matter Hong Kong, a subdivided city with serious social cleavage in wealth, political stance, and even flats. The city has been divided into several pieces by the steep hillside terrain. And the overhead bridge is the one that connected this subdivided city and those subdivided areas: “a multilevel city with elevated public spaces connecting housing, businesses, offices, and parking in a single megastructure elevated above a mass 18 transit line.” In the meantime, the overhead bridge can somehow subdivide the city. And the space on the bridge can also be subdivided by the

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Synopsis This video shows the current state of sidewalks in Hong Kong as the city is starting to cope with the coronavirus. It is an informative video about the roles that sidewalks play in the spread of COVID and how not only Hong Kong but other countries have been affected by it. Hong Kong is a very small city with a lot of narrow sidewalks. The video shows how the coronavirus has changed the lifestyle of Hong Kong and uses sidewalks as evidence to show the changes. With people being forced to stay home, sidewalks have become emptier than ever.

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