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[FIELDWORK REPORT] Dohyun Kim & Ez Kim

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Dohyun Kim:3036192536  Ez Kim:3036030788 Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYx5DTLCbZM Transcript:  Hello everyone and welcome to our video podcast! We are Dohyun Kim and EZ Kim from the University of Hong Kong. Okay so we’re going to dive right into our topic for today: vanishing neon signs. Let’s turn it over to Ez who’s broadcasting live outside. Part 1: What are Neon Signs? E: Wow, it’s so nice to be here. We are currently on Shanghai street at night time. The city is so vibrant, maybe it’s because of the vibrant atmosphere created by the neon signs.  I feel like Neon lighting mainly

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[Reading Response] Cuts Through Hong Kong, Seng, E. (2021)

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3036237831 Wong Chun Fung “Cuts through Hong Kong” uses Wong Kar Wai’s film “In the Mood for Love.” as a springboard to explore the theme of change and inevitability of the transient cityscape of Hong Kong in the 1960s and brings out the idea that our landscapes can be preserved through films. This reading depicts the transition of Hong Kong in the past, when it was a British colony. The film captures the mood of Hong Kong in the 60s, where “private spaces felt like public spaces” with the intimate relationships between one and other that will be gone soon

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[Reading Response] Noirs: The City, the Woman and Other Spaces

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The most impressive prospective for me about this article was the discussion of distinctive style of female characters in films set in the social context of Hong Kong during the 1960s. One shocking fact mentioned is that as early as 1962, influenced by James Bond, the Hong Kong noir thriller was already dominated by female protagonists, far before the emergence of similar films in Hollywood, USA. It has been my belief that such topics as female character dominance related to gender equality or affirmative action in films first appeared in the western film world led by Europe and the United

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[Field-Homework 3] Ongoing City

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https://youtu.be/CdyECnE0YDw Theme: Architecture exists not only above the surface of ground but also underground. Some networks are hidden but also a crucial and busy network to be reckoned with. There are over 330 pedestrian subways distributed in districts throughout Hong Kong. (1)These tunnels are crowded with passengers everyday. People come and go, except those who are lost. The impression I had on the epidemic is about “hopelessness”, “age of darkness” and “uncertainty”. However, we eventually evolved from this virus and developed a new way to live our lives these days. Suddenly, the news about the expulsion of the homeless from

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Parallel City: Footbridge and Skywalker

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Project Background Elevation and suspension has been core ideas of Hong Kong’s urban spaces, as the tried-and-true way for the dense, populated, hilly city to go is going ‘up’. Multitude and multi-altitude urban planning accustomed city dwellers to live their day at different pace, different direction, with the merits of encountering less congestions and fewer conflicts between brushing shoulders and stepping feet. The skyway systems created possibility for commuters to transverse from their public transport stops to work or home without any relationship to ground level. I chose the theme of Parallel City On one aspect, footbridges ensure safety and walkability

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VIDEO ESSAY COMMENTS

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Wilson Lam： The organization of the footage in this video is very coherent. The path from the stairs up to the top floor serves as a clue to the coherence of the footage, and then connects the footage taken on the top floor in different directions, and then connects them with each other using a single sentence as text, making the whole video very well organized. Lydia Liu： The video smoothly connects the screen to the text in an off-screen format, with content that fits the screen and an appropriate off-screen speed. It also uses a variable-speed visual design to

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Vedio Essay Hybrid city

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edie    Hybrid city Hong Kong was a charming name in the old days, and there are many distinctive or historically significant buildings in this city. A long time ago, I vaguely watched the movie “Chongqing Forest” directed by Wong Kar wai. In addition to being attracted by the ambiguous story and romance, I also noticed the building where a part of the story happened – the Chongqing Building. The strange and chaotic appearance of this building attracted me to constantly explore it. Mongkok Nathan Road, its location. When I saw it for the first time, its old building body didn’t

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[Video Essay]: Slow City

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Description of the video Hong Kong is a bustling metropolis with more than 7.3 million city dwellers (Department, 2023). Being considered as one of the most stressful cities in the world (Augustin, 2021), Hong Kong has always been criticized for its lack of work-life balance. Apart from venues for leisure and entertainment such as shopping malls, parks, and sports centers, where can these fast-paced lifestyle adopters temporarily escape from the hustle and bustle? From my point of view, housing estates in Hong Kong play a crucial role in alleviating our stress by providing us a peaceful living environment. The green spaces and

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[Field-Homework 3] Information City

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https://youtu.be/bmT7y2gsZkc Directed & Produced by Amanda Cai   The theme that I have chosen is Information City: Hong Kong’s Shared Knowledge, focusing on Hong Kong’s MTR (Mass Transit Railway) passageways and trains. Specifically, I focus on the vast amount of information available through and regarding the MTR. On the one hand, Hong Kong MTRs are essentially a gold mine of information, from the multitude of signs denoting exits A, B, C, all the way to N or P, to the several help counters posted throughout every station, to the live signs indicating the number of minutes till the next train.

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[Video Essay] Fast City

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https://youtu.be/WYLp64IRSMU Fast City The video aims to show Hong Kong as a fast-paced, crowded city. Though people may focus on various jobs each day during day time, most people would inevitably need to commute between places and travel among numerous regions in the morning when they go to work or when they go back to home in the evening. Being a commuter, it is not hard to picture how busy the city could get during peak time with tons of people chocking up carriages and vehicles. The video was shot primarily in MTR stations and connection tunnels in the most

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