A static camera placement is given an interesting new perspective by being put on a moving tram. This shot also gives a first person account of the unique intimacy that riding a tram through Hong Kong can bring. Adjacent trams and buses are close enough to touch, and it seems like Hong Kong’s architecture is close enough to touch as well. 2. The upward panning of the camera paired with the horizontal movement of the tram makes Hong Kong’s tall buildings seem even taller. 3. Our focus is shifted to the man on the bicycle, as the tram’s speed is

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Time Lapse “In chaos we find order, in order we find balance, in balance we find harmony. In harmony the forbidden voices will rise and sow the seeds for chaos.” Taken at a first-person perspective as a disabled individual, time lapse is used along the rail for guidance towards blind people. It depicts the vision of the disabled, and how hardware of the city caters equality and the the needs of minorities over the diversity of population. Slow Motion Time doesn’t heal everything, but time proves everything. Taken using the slow motion angle to capture frames of our everyday lives.

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Tracking Filming colors of different MTR Station walls by tracking static objects Differentiation of Speeds Videoing walls of Wong Tai Sin Station inside the running MTR Colors of walls of Wong Tai Sin Station are differ (yellow and brown). As the speed of MTR augmented, it is more difficult to observe the station name on each wall. Observers are only allowed to see colors (white and black) of the characters and their existing background colors, while it is almost impossible to see any details of the pattern of walls. The yellow color seems to attract people’s sights even when MTRs

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Wide Angle Perspective Zoom Seriality Focus Crop Worm’s angle First Person View Contrast Skewed Angle Aerial View Frame The back alleys is such a beautiful view of Hong Kong, it took people from place to place in a faster and crossing way. The don’t have a name, or a signature, but they are a signature of Hong Kong. Back Alleys are unique in Hong Kong, as not all cities would have back alleys, even do they have, the view must be different.   Photographing is filming and framing, We try to find different views of the alleyways, It’s a process

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Wide Angle:   Zoom: We keep zooming in until we can see human figures in this dehumanizing world of skyscrapers.   Focus: With my focus on the roof, the deep abyss seems flat and less horrifying.   Crop: The other two sides of the square are deliberately cut off the frame to create a sense of lack.   Bird’s Eye: Looking down from the rooftop and distancing myself from the fast-paced pedestrians.   Worm’s Eye: Being overwhelmed by the monuments of modernity.   First Person View: The plant out of focus is not merely a foreground element; it is, in

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From Walter Benjamin’s critique “The work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility”, the author speculates on the development of photography and film techniques while judging their credibility to be called “art” by making antithesis and juxtaposition with traditional art forms and lithography. By the quote “The whole sphere of authenticity eludes technological-and of course not only technological- reproduction”, (p21) the mass reproducibility and mass dissemination of film is defining the new landscape of the concept of authenticity, which no longer represents uniqueness, but as a unique mental reception for every audience, any moments, any situations. To me, technology

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Roland Barthes, the author of ‘The Rustle of Language’, depicted the atmosphere and feelings aroused from the theatre in a third person point of view. “He” always feel that the theatre itself has ‘the classic conditions of hypnosis’, of which making the audience to “dream”. The author mentioned the Brechtian alienation-effect, which involves using the theatrical technique to provoke the audience attention. The argument states that there are various elements go in and out of hypnosis, and all those elements have confluences with the arts, culture and history. Here the author investigates how the darkness of the theatre inside has

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