F2D project 2: Forrest Gump
My movie quote is from the movie The Chorus, the movie is about how a music teacher influenced his “bad student” with love and music.
Initially I wanted to use the quote ” Those flying paper planes are our respect for you.” However, I realized that paper plane is not going to create good effect for visual image. So I decided to change the quote to “Education is not only to knowledge, love is the fruit.” There are two key words in this quote: “Education” and “fruit”.
In this image, I use “birds” to signify “students”. “fruit” from the movie signifies “love”. Birds flying around fruit tree signifies students’ eagerness to get love from teacher.
The image is inspired from the second half the quote ” love is the fruit”, so it shows a love tree/ fruit tree.
From the movie, the teacher is a music teacher. So we can see a man playing cello in this image. But he is not palying a “cello” but a “pear”. Remember the quote” love is the fruit”. It signifies the teacher is not only sharing knowledge (music), but sharing love (fruit).
The lady (imagine her as a teacher) has a serious face in this image. But inside her head (mind), there are fruits (love).
F3D project 3A: Planar Construction I
F4D project 2: A dream
My story is about how the character explored herself and became mature.
This story is inspired by my friends story. He is afraid of superpower and he hates it. So I wonder whether there are some reasons behind. He is the character setting for the girl, when the girl was at the second and the third stage of exploring herself.
By creating this story, I want to show the audience a problem that most of us will face in real life, that is: the difference between ideal world and reality. For the character in my story, she has superpower in her ideal world. But the reality is she never have superpower. The true color of superpower education centre break and drag her out of the ideal world, her saw the reality. At first she was confused, angry and embrassed. But later she got used to it. She hided her secret, she became those adult who doesn’t believed in superpower. However, her friend and hers conversation inspired her, she rephrase the word “superpower” as “talent”, so she find a way to be a girl with “superpower”. As the saying “Where hills bend, streams and the pathway seems to end. Past dark willows and flowers in bloom lies another village.”(山穷水尽疑无路,柳暗花明又一村).She explored herself in different stage and finally bacame a mature.
Here are several stage in the character’s life.
First stage: be in ideal world. Second stage: out of ideal world. Third stage: be in reality. Final stage: find a balance between ideal world and reality.
I believe that these are the stages that a lot of audience will or have experienced. My purpose is to spread positive energe to the audience. Whether you are confused in the second stage or upset in the third stage, there are always some way for you to move ahead.
Here are some technique I used in the story.
For color, I used color transition to show emotion. This is inspired by “DREAM World” by Hans Bacher.
When the color is bright, it implies that the character has positive attitude.
When the color is dim, it implies the negative mood of the character.
I also used balck and white to implies the flashback of the character.
For pacing, I use lesser photos for some not important part of the story but more photos for emotional and sruggle for the character.
Besides some close up on the character face to show her facial expression, I also used close up for the character clenched her fist to show her anxiety and tense. This is inspired by a Japanese movie” A Short Distance Relationship” by Naoto Kumazawa.
I also inspired from literature. For example, the symbolic image of light in the darkness symbolize the character’s hope. Three repetition of these images showed up in the three transition/turing point in the story.
Moreover, the symbolic image of window and door are inspired by a saying” Life closes a door on openning a window for you,” which encourages people to be optimistic. In my story, the window and door symbolizes different way the character faces the world.
Here are some part of the storyboard of my story before I stared photo taking.
Here are my 90 images.
Here is my narration script. The number in front is the slide number.
- When I was young, I believed that I have superpower.
- For example, sometimes before I open the door, the door just opened automatically. Although now I know that it is because of the wind.
- My imagination world outside the window is much more interesting than the adult’s.
- But no one understands me.
- Until one day, I received a flyer from superpower education center.
- I knew something had changed.
- I found my light.
- Although we did all the weird thing there, I thought that is my world.
- However, something changed after a phone call.
- Hello, mum.
- My mum called me and asked me the reason for using so much money recently. She asked me whether I bought luxuries.
- I started to recall all the things I did recently.
- Then I realized my mistake.
- I went to the center, but failed to get my money back.
- My light was off.
- I called my mum and explained to her. Even she forgot me, I couldn’t forget myself.
- I never talk about superpower and my embarrassing memory anymore.
- My world became the same color as adult’s.
- Until one day, I visited my friend. My joke made her laugh. “ You really have superpower you know.” She said.
- I was really nervous and anxious, all memory comes to my mind.
- How much did she know about my past?
- “You have superpower in telling jokes. It is a power because it makes people happy.” She said.
- I realized that I was wrong. I focused too much on the window such that I forgot there is a door besides.
- My light was on again.
- A few days later, a stranger came to me and told me that I really have superpower. Is it a joke?
- Then I realized that it was not a joke!
- It was a dream! I mean, everything was a dream.
F3D project 2: Curvilinear Volumes
F3D Fire and Ice
Gloria and I wanted to portray the emotional part vs the logical part of what we thought the poem meant. “From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire”. We felt like this showed passion which shows the author choosing emotions.
Hence, the hand in this photo represents emotion and the protaganist being dragged along by her emotions.
“I think I know enough of hate, to say that for destruction is also great”. We thought that this shows the logical part of the poem and the hate in this is in a cold kind of hate, which is why ice is used. We chose to portray logic with machine because it symbolises cold and rigid. Hence, the picture below shows the struggle of the protagonist choosing between logic or emotions and in the end going with emotions.
Poem: Fire and Ice
by Robert Frost
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate,
To say that for destruction ice,
And would suffice.
F4D props as signifier
part 1.images of the object as an icon, a literal representation, its physical quality.
part 2: images of the object connotes a new meaning.
I put an apple under the mask to signify eye , as “you are the apple of my eye”.
The bus stop signifies “travel”, an apple in Chinese signifies” safety”, combine them together it signifies” have a safe trip”.
Here, the apple signifies the absence of the officer
The apple signifies the experimenter.
F4D project 1: picture story-curating self
Introduction:
We say that camerists are often behind the camera. Though we are not camerists yet, this time we are in front of the camera. I feel like the three tasks is not only about task, but a process for us to explore ourself. It is the process of self-realization and reflection. Make us to think about some questions that we might ingore in daily life, but really need to consider. I am really appreciate this chance to share.
In this task, I used to think about use items to represent me. For example, I can play instrument, so I may use instrument to represent me. However, I realized that those are part my experience, but not my all. Then I started to think about other aspect how do I gain my experience? In other words, how do I connect to this world? Since there is saying that “No man is an island, entire itself “John.Donn. I have the inspiration to use my 3 out of my 5 senses as a media to explain the relationship between this world and me.
I used close up in this series of photos because I want to give more details of my senses, to let the audience focus to my sences but not other things. Firstly, I used my eyes to look at this world, my eyes receive imformation then send it to my brain to analyze. This is how I observe this world and my first impression about this world. Secondly, I use my ears to listen to this world, that means how I listen to people, how I gain ideas and suggestions, and different opinions, this is my second impression about this world. Lastly, I use my mouth to speak, to share my ideas and talk to people, and this is how I communicate to this world.
Task 2: Object and representation of self
My object is a water bottle. It is important to me because my water bottle stay with me for many years. As a personal belonging, I will always bring it whenever and wherever I go, so it is like a watcher to watch me all the time. My most unforgettable experience was that I went for some marathons with it. Sometimes as volunteer, sometimes as participant. Only at that moments I realize that how important my water bottle is and I much I need it.
For the first and second photos, I used full figure shot to give a overview of my action of doing sports. For the last photo, I use medium shot, so that I can not only show my action, but show my facial expression, capture my emotion and feelings about the water bottle. I arranged my photos in chronological order as: before the sports, during the sports and after the sports. For this series of photos I try to show that how thirsty I felt after doing sports and I was eager to drink water and need my water bottle.
I would like to say that my school is the place that is significant to me. I woud say that I am a indecisive person. I had not even made up my mind to major in art untill high school. To be honest, I used to consider more about how to make a living than how to enjoy myself. Though I changed my mind later on because I do not want to regret when I become old. That’s why school is so important to me. Because choosing course is one of the hardest decision to make in my life, and where I stay now is the result of my decision.
I used long shot in this series of photo to give a overview view of the place. I chose to take series photos of different staircases in my school as a signifier to signify my journey in my life. The view of back walking on the staircase signifies the start of my journey, and the process of my journey, it signifies the process of my self-actualization and how I am going to achieve my dream. For photo 3 and photo 4 the direction of staircase is different, it signifies that in foundation year I am exploring different areas though I am going to choose a major next year. I arranged my photos in chronological order as outside the school building, inside the school building and outside the school building again. In order to signify the process of start of my study journey, in process of my study journey and the end of my study journey in school. The last photo is my figure walking out of school, it signifes that: one day we will graduate, leave our school and step into the society. My figure signifies how our school build me up and makes us different.
F2D project 1: My line is emo
line2- enthrallement
line3-neglect
line4-affection
line5-longing
line7- rage
line8-zest
line9-surprise
line10-sympathy
line11-sadness
line12-rage
line13-contentment
line14-lust
line15-cheerfulness
line16-longing
line17-irritation
line19-disppointment
line20-envy
line21-shame
line22-nervousness
Raw Pieces for 20 Lines Above