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[Video Essay] Disappearing City

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Title: Disappearing City Credits: Directed and narrated by YIQUN FANG (Music: White Cloud） Storyboard & Script： The Theme of the Video: In the days of the virus, people were confined to their homes and not allowed to go out. Without human activity, a city breathes feebly, its prosperity vanishes, and its flame vanishes. Suzhou is a beautiful city, which is located in Jiangsu Province. The city was hit with a pause button by the pandemic. All recreational facilities are closed, and all restaurants are closed. Home to 13 million permanent residents, Suzhou has been under a two-month quarantine policy. Almost

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[Video Essay]Slow City

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Video footage:https://youtu.be/kQwCUiDlK6w   Theme and subject matter: Recently, the government published various policies to control the spreading of the virus while gradually forming an invisible block on people’s interactions. Hence, the video’s theme is based on shooting my living complex’s reconstructed gate during the pandemic to reflect its impacts on human life to the feature of a slow city. The theme is presented by a narrative form surrounding the gate’s complex entry procedures, including registration on personal details, visiting purpose and location, showing the individual China mainland’s health code, and testing the temperature. Also, other components such as gate’s extra

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[Video Essay]Control City

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YouTube link: https://youtu.be/9_FRGexkoUg Theme and Subject Matter: I want to show the control city through the playground in two ways. One is pandemic control. On April 7th, there were three new local confirmed COVID cases and one local asymptomatic infection in Guangzhou. Therefore, despite citywide nucleic acid testing and community closure, schools are also on lockdown because of government policy. In this case, students cannot go to school, and there is no one over the playground for weeks. The playground that used to have laughter is now deserted. Even after they can go back to school, students are forced to

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[Video Essay] Control City

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Title: Control City Synopsis: My given site for this video essay was ‘corridor’ and since I am not in Hong Kong, I made the video about Suwon city in South Korea. In Suwon, a new area called Gwanggyo new city was constructed a few years ago, and since it is where I live, I filmed video scenes around Gwanggyo. As mentioned in the video, Gwanggyo has various residential and cultural facilities around a large lake park, and this video shows how our lives have changed and controlled by the influence of COVID-19 in a documentary format. In this video, I defined

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[Video Essay] The Control City

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Speech Radio: The Centre for Health Protection is investigating one-hundred additional confirmed case of COVID-19, taking the number of cases to 209370 in Hong Kong so far. Announcement: Good evening, I must give the Hong Kong people a simple instruction – you must stay at home. You should not be meeting friends. You should not be meeting family members who do not live in your home. Thank you. Announcement: Given that the situation of COVID-19 infection remains severe and that there is a continuous increase in the number of cases reported around the world, you are strongly urged to consume

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[Video Essay] PUBLIC CITY

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In the context of the epidemic, the last thing we want to see is the failure of public space and the obliteration of communication between people.In the process of research, I am very happy to find that the vitality of the city is very strong, public spaces in housing estate is still used in various ways. In the name of security and privacy, newly developed communities in Hong Kong are often closed, with an outer wall. The gate can only be opened with a password or a door card. With the monitoring of security and surveillance cameras, the community has

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[Video Essay] Toilet- Another City

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Description of the theme and subject matter Under the widespread of COVID-19, I have stayed at home for a long period and it becomes my studio and workspace for my coursework. When I am stuck in thinking, I tend to find a quiet and undisturbed space for concentration and brainstorm. And I discovered that there is a private and isolated room at home once I closed the door that I can stay for alone in the toilet. Although it provides a room for thinking straight, I still want to go out and take a breath from being cooped up indoors.

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[Video Essay] Control City

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Under the COVID 19 pandemic, people are now under more control as regulations are imposed on the lives of Hong Kong citizens, such as needing to wear a mask when going out, needing to maintain social distance etc. The surveillance which surrounds the enforcement of these regulations are becoming more and more strict. This situation is present in Hong Kong everywhere, and the MTR passage is no exception, with signs made on the walls and announcements telling people to “fight the virus”. I believe that the city is not only made out of the buildings, but also the people who

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Conjoined City

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https://youtu.be/VLL4LqswE5Q Story Board   Description Parks have long been something of an anomaly in the cityscape, especially in one as densely urbanized as Hong Kong. This park in the heart of Tai Po market is a pretty accurate description of what these pocket parks all over Hong Kong look like-surrounded by buildings, motorways, walkways and the like. So, one might be misled to think that these parks might as well not exist, and that parks in general are simply taking up space that can be instead used build more housing, malls or offices to provide for the population. There was

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[Field-Homework 3] Controlling City

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Apartment in controlling city The implication of Covid-19 regulations on our space and freedom What if one day when you wake up, realizing you are no longer free, confined? What if you can no longer be yourself in our apartments, where we should be the most comfortable? What if our freedom and our space are being taken away a little by little, would you ever notice? Yet, these questions are not hypothetical during the lockdown under the pandemic. Social distancing policies and regulations obligate the people staying in their apartments. As the pandemic goes on, stricter policies are introduced to

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