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. Movies may be composed of imaginary-fictional fabrications, but it also is the vision of filmmakers towards reality. In a 44-second clip, the symbolism of heterotopia, controversial issues, social relations, technological dominance are successful shown. Scenes of PDA couples, verbal communication between people of various genders, age, religion and cultural backgrounds, as well as intense use of electronic devices. Slow motion helps us to reverse the impulse of the capitalist urban environment of Hong Kong, and captures scenes we crave to see when it’s just right beneath our noses.
Isolation/differentiation in speed
Power, assets, strength, wisdom, status fade in the quicksand of time, souls don’t.
Taken at the end of the MTR, it captures the differentiation of speed and movement juxtaposed by interior and external environment. The flashes of advertisements and artificial lighting is in stark contrast with the static and even stationary internal environment.
Camera is placed in a surprising/unexpected location
Some say life is like a train ride. People come and go at different stages of your life; some, however, stays.
Taken at the worm’s eyes view, it captures the movement of people entering and exiting the train. The subject is the density and pace of the population, in that we’re suppressed by constraints of time and our economic mode of production.
Yip Kwan Chi
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You have a set of very good clips. However, without the captions, the clips do not convey your message very clearly. I would suggest that you choose one specific element to focus on. For example, if you are interested in the slow motion shot that exposes the activities of people inside the train car, do multiple of these. It can be office workers in the morning, kids going back home or emptiness at night.