[Field-Homework 3]Spacious city:Bus station system HongKong

Introduction:

This video is about historic buses and bus stops in Hong Kong. Over the years, as one of the three major international financial centers, Hong Kong has enjoyed a unique financial status in Asia and the world, which has attracted many tourists to visit it. The legendary wonders of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor and the night view from the Peak add a layer of legend to the city.

With the support of such rich elements, Hong Kong inevitably needs a strong public transport hub to maintain the high intensity of the operation of the entire city, among which, Hong Kong has built a MTR line throughout the territory, the Star Ferry ship line, and the extremely complex bus network highlighted in this article.

At the end of the day, people are finally able to go home from work, and because the maintenance cost of private cars in Hong Kong is very high, the cost of use is also increased from time to time, hardworking people will choose public transport for travel. People on Hong Kong Island leave by subway, people in Central head to the ferry pier, while others choose to take the famous bus. The buses in Hong Kong can be roughly divided into three types, double-decker buses, minibuses and minibuses, and among them, minibuses are nicknamed “killing minibuses” by many netizens. They are famous for their extremely fast speed and the superb skills of their drivers.

It is because of the accumulation over the years that Hong Kong has been able to establish such a complex and orderly system of politics, transportation and life in a rather limited area. It still seems so incredible. As the old song goes, “Pearl of the Orient, my love”, its tiny details have made Hong Kong such a glorious place today.

Methodology

 

Lens language

  1. Telephoto lens:

The telephoto lens has a long focal length and a small Angle of view and has a strong sense of compression for the picture. It can pull distant scenes very close, so the imaging of the subject is large, suitable for shooting distant objects, and can also blur the distant background, to effectively highlight the main body and increase the sense of space compression. When photographing objects, because the perspective deformation is small, the objects taken are more real and vivid.

For example, in the film, the picture of the Ding Ding car coming from a distance, if the use of wide-angle lens or ultra-wide-angle lens, will not be able to highlight the main body of the object, the audience may be other buildings as the protagonist. If you use the triple optical zoom lens in the film, you can ensure the picture quality while ensuring the vitality of the picture.

  1. Focus switch:

Photographers are often accompanied by a “focus officer”, which is like every golf will have a caddie, every open force will have a navigator, almost become the standard in the film industry. The focal officer mainly only ensures that the focal point (focal plane) of the lens meets the needs of the director of photography, that is, to ensure that the subject is clear. It sounds like a simple job, but not everyone can be competent, it has high requirements for the speed of focus movement and the accuracy of switching. Without years of accumulation to form muscle memory, it is difficult to reach the point of perfection, and it is difficult to accurately switch between different focal points. The movement of the focus will highlight the object and may also highlight the environment, and the human eye’s instinct is to track the clear subject, and the change of the focus will guide the audience’s attention to shift with the focus, to realize the narrative or atmosphere, which has become a language of the film. For example, in the film, the focus switches from the bus stop sign to the picture behind the bus stop sign, the process of the bus body changing from virtual focus to clear, and the stop sign changing from clear to virtual.

Music

1.Choosing music: The film mainly uses two pieces of classical music as background music, namely the first movement of Bach’s Cello Suite in G Major and “Tchaikovsky – June Barcarolle”. The soundtrack interspersed in the movie can fluctuate people’s mood and describe the feeling of the scene.

For example, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961), composed by Henry Mancini. In the film, the heroine Hepburn sang the theme song “Moon River”, which became very popular and set off a boom in the theme song of the film. Writing theme songs for films became a fad, reaching another climax with Titanic. Although the theme song was started by an earlier film, “High Noon”.

2.Technical: For me, in normal video production, the loudness of background music will be 18db lower than the voice. However, due to the loudness of the score, 21db and 20.9db below the vocals were used respectively

Link: https://youtu.be/j4RiVs5LDGg?si=WcbL6pGO9JC332EE

 

 

 

 

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