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[Field-Homework 3] Escalator – Control City

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Title: Control City Minrui Zhao 3036101020   Creditcs: The Script, Director and Voiceover: Minrui Zhao Actors: Muqun Zhang, Hao Zheng, Yiqing Zhang, Minrui Zhao   Theme and Subject: This video used the heroine’s eyes as clues to shoot on the escalators of Hong Kong’s subway stations. It was taken from the first-person perspective of a female university student, recorded and evaluated a common social phenomenon in Hong Kong: “People always walk left and stand right on escalators.” It is well known that the escalator is created as a convenient and efficient space for citizens’ daily travel. However, almost everyone in

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[Final Video Essay] Park：Info City

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3035983756 Jasmine Zhang Ziqi Park (particularly promenade areas in western and central district) – Info city Research question: how does the space of promenade serve as the production of ideology in a capitalist society? https://youtu.be/r-69nEhyXEc Research method – By referring to the central arguments of Lefebvre Henri in his book The Production of Space, “Every social space is the outcome of a process with many aspects and many contributing currents……,” in other words, we can understand that city is a production of ideology, culture, and history. I attempt to employ this idea to examine the living environment of Hong Kong,

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[Video Essay] Sharing City

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Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE_roSa4PCM&list=PL5PP0NHM6bT9jRFk-t90BPpcJU1zEm2pH&index=18 Plot Summary: The film focuses on the streets of Hong Kong, opening with questions “What is Hong Kong” and “Where to represent Hong Kong”, and then taking the audience through the different streets of the city. The film documents the streets from Sai Ying Pun all the way to Sham Shui Po, reflecting the different characteristics of the blocks and streets in different areas, some vintage, some busy, some bustling, and some relaxed. This section has only background music and no narration, which is meant to immerse the audience in the characteristics and differences of Hong Kong’s

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[Video Essay] Construction City: Langham Place

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https://yTheme Hong Kong is “a shopper’s paradise,” and its shopping malls are flooded with customers every day (Lam, 2023). Malls in Hong Kong have always been part of the daily lives of its citizens as they provide a wide range of retail shops and restaurants. Not to mention that they also contain elements of entertainment, ranging from cinemas to game centers. Malls in Hong Kong symbolize the city’s unique mix of diverse cultures, including the countless fashion brands from international designers. Their architectural designs are also unique as they pursue maximum mobility, allowing citizens to move from one to another

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[Video Essay] Stairwell- Public City_3036075130

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  Stairwell—Public City Directed and narrated by Zhu Runze Leon 3036075130 Theme and aim: The theme of the video essay is “Stairwell—-Public City ” and I aim to investigate the role of stairwells in daily lives, particularly in buildings or apartments in Hong Kong. I did not put much of my focus on stairwells seen in public sites and spaces, as exterior public functions such as MTR passages and emergency evacuation sites. However, I focus on how buildings and apartments serve as semi-public places that are public to private residents but at the same time private to public citizens. Hence,

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[Video Essay]: Narrative in the City: Tram As A Hypnotic Dynamic Cinema 

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  The theme of the video is ‘Narrative in the City’ and I am interested in how can trams become a dynamic hypnotic theatre. The tram stops’ spatial quality best captures how dynamic and vibrant our city is. The change of space, people and time can create a sequence of scenes and settings. I would like to argue that with an aesthetic lens, the process of riding a tram in Hong Kong can be seen as a hypnotic experience of going to a cinema.  The video is divided into 4 simple chapters, each representing a specific scene of a particular

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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City

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http://https://youtu.be/E9U8fIs-mRc Park Junseo UID: 3035859929   夢伴：Dream Lover – Duddell street 煤氣燈街 (Gas Lamp Street) Duddell street, also known as Gas Lamp street, is one of the last four remaining gas lamps in Hong Kong, still lighting the way. Among the highly developed metropolis of Central, Hong Kong, the street maintains its unique atmosphere from 20th century, with its combination of modern buildings and vintage gas lamps. It is also the location from music video of Dream Lover by Anita Mui (夢伴). I wanted the video to capture the contrasting image of once-popular cultural spot standing in the middle of the city’s

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[Video Essay] Diverse City: Multicultural Diversity in MTR

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Diverse City Hong Kong is one of the biggest modern cities in the world, containing 7.5 million people from all different cultures and races. The city is comprised of a variety of global influences, from its ideals to its cross-cultural encounters and fusion of food. This is what has always made Hong Kong a genuinely international metropolis. However, Hong Kong’s space is too small compared to its flow of people, narrow alleys, the subway, streets, and everywhere is crowded. When I am talking about people, I am talking about people from the local, mainland, Japan and Korea, Asians, Europeans, Africans,

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[VIDEO ESSAY] Rainbow in Choi Hung

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  Choi Hung Estate is one of the early public housing estates in Hong Kong. Its painted exterior walls reflect the “rainbow” theme and have made the place popular on social media, with the basketball court on the roof of the parking lot becoming a popular spot for many visitors to hit the streets. The names of the buildings and roads in the estate also contain elements of color. For its unique design, Choi Hung Estate received a Silver Medal at the 1965 Hong Kong Institute of Architects Annual Awards, in 1965. Starting with Choi Hung Estate as a gateway,

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[Video Essay] Hybrid City

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Title: Hybrid City Video’s name: New Mall Link to video: https://youtu.be/yWx_vBtYEPU Theme:    The theme is exploring unique characteristics and diverse types of shops of malls. The focus will put on the fourth and fifth floor of Metroplaza in Kwai fong. There are a small farm, children’s playground, shops and resting place. The video have taken the pathway to walk around these locations.   Metroplaza has over 230 shops in total for 7 floors. The design of malls is similar to traditional malls, with stores as the main point. But on the fourth and fifth floor, it has a large area to

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