Workshop2 Exercise

When I saw the title, I immediately thought of the movie – The Shawshank Redemption. The scene where the main character finally breaks out of prison and stands in the rain matches the pouring rain scene described in that text. Four hours earlier, he had just accomplished the most important event in his life; he had regained his freedom. Compared to freedom, the rain is more like it is falling for him, and this rain is nothing to him anymore.

Question for Director Chen

I really like the way that you used the mirrors or glasses to reflect the face of the characters or the image of buildings in the newly constructed city. May I know how did you discover these angles or objects to do such effects? Did you actually went to the sites and jot down the ways that the camera should be placed before filming the scenes? Or, you just simply improvised the film?