[Video Essay] Control City

Watching on YouTube may be clearer Control City Director&Actor: XIAO Difei; Photographer: CHEUNG Liuyi; Music: The Right Path Film place: Shenzhen subway Storyboard:   Synopsis: Description of the theme and subject matter: After the widely spread of Covid-19 in 2020, the pandemic is gradually under control in Shenzhen this year. Few couple of cases were reported sometimes, there is still a potential danger outside especially public transport. Therefore, this video essay focuses on the element of control in Shenzhen subway such as body temperature, visitors flow rate and mask wearing, and wish to convey that those controls is the reason why Shenzhen is

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[Field-Homework 3] Control City: Rooftop

Theme and Subject Matter Because of the COVID-19, the government has distributed many quarantine policies in the past year, and movements of people are strictly controlled. In this case, the rooftop became an uncontrolled place where people could take off their masks and breathe fresh air when there is no other person. Unfortunately, however, in order to ensure people’s safety, the rooftops of many residential buildings are inaccessible. When I shot the video, I was on the rooftop of the Shanghai International Financial Center, one of the tallest buildings in Shanghai. I looked down on the rooftops of other buildings from over

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[Video Essay] Control City

Transcript Have you ever been to any malls in hong kong after the Covid-19 pandemics broke out? Malls faced various difficulties at the peak of the breakout. But nowadays, malls are not so different compared to pre-COVID situations and still have many visitors. Except, there are some changes. Malls now “control” their visitors to control the situation. At IFC mall, one of Hong Kong’s most iconic malls, you can easily find signs like this along with a hand sanitizer near each entrance. Throughout the mall, there are also signs to wear masks or avoid crowdedness. The mall also makes visitors

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[Video Essay] Construction City

Hong Kong is a well-developed city as it is one of the world’s financial centers. The urban areas of Hong Kong are filled with all kinds of construction included residential building, institutional, institutional building, specialized industrial construction, infrastructure construction. These constructions all working together seamlessly to keep the city alive. Campus, one of the most important institutional buildings in all cities where almost all university activities take place. Providing a high-quality learning environment for all student, it helps to build the intelligent, self-directed learners that are independent and confident to create a better society. As a university student, I would

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[VIDEO ESSAY] Subdivided City

    Script [Text on black] The Covid-19 pandemic has forcefully separated us yet brought us together in a collective fight against the perils of disease and desolation… But who is us? [Interview] “I’m Lurylyn, I came from the Philippines in Mindanao part, and I stay here for almost three months only. It’s like our one day rest. I have never experienced Hong Kong without pandemic. Some helpers, they’re not allowed to go in the park, their employers just say, ‘Stay at home and take a rest, take your day off in your room.’ But it’s not fine, not fine

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[Video Essay] Control City- Shopping Mall

Research and Making Of This video essay aims to explore how shopping malls may entice and ‘control’ its visitors into staying and spending on its shops through its interior design- even during 2021, where the pandemic is still ongoing. Using Langham Place as the case study, some of its most notable features (the expresscalator and Spiral) are compared with known strategies used in malls. The video essay takes a more documentary-esque approach and captures how the typical shopper may experience the mall.   The floor plan of Langham Place’s 8th to 12th floor (The Spiral) (seen in 1:44 – 2:10) is

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[Video Essay] Stranded City

Overhead bridge – Stranded City Synopsis, method of research, documentation As one of the most densely populated cities in the world, the fast-paced lifestyle and urbanized hustle and bustle flood the city in a 3D way, not only the daily commuting on the street but “lifted up” in the air travelling through myriads of overhead bridges. There are more than 700 hundred overhead footbridges in Hong Kong. In fact, these extensive and anfractuous labyrinths of elevated pedestrian walkways connect MTR stations, business centres, harbours, dwelling houses into a massive, stranded maze. It has become commonplace for citizens to walk a

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[Video Essay] Mobile City

Title: Mobile City Credits: Directed and narrated by Song Yang (Music: on the road) Description of the theme: There are many ways to define and describe a city like Hong Kong. When it is related to the covid-19 pandemic and MTR passage, the first word coming to my mind is “mobile”. The MTR, or Mass Transit Railway, is the railway transportation system of Hong Kong. It is a municipal rail transit system in Hong Kong referring to 10 lines that can be passed through an MTR-way ticket. Although Hong Kong is not so big, there are a plenty of MTR

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[Video Essay] Control City

Title: Control City Synopsis: My given site for this video essay was ‘corridor’ and since I am not in Hong Kong, I made the video about Suwon city in South Korea. In Suwon, a new area called Gwanggyo new city was constructed a few years ago, and since it is where I live, I filmed video scenes around Gwanggyo. As mentioned in the video, Gwanggyo has various residential and cultural facilities around a large lake park, and this video shows how our lives have changed and controlled by the influence of COVID-19 in a documentary format. In this video, I defined

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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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