IMG 9698 from Kai-feng Wang on Vimeo.
Great colours I found it when walking along with Sydney Rd. My inspiration comes from the film ‘Chungking Express’ in which the filmmaker use strong colour to create a fancy effect.
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Week10_New media and cultural form: narrative versus database
Narrative is so deeply ingrained as a cultural form that we take for granted the ways in which storytelling engages our interest, curiosity, fear, tensions, expectations, and sense of order:
For we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticise, construct, gossip, learn, hate, and love by narrative. In order really to live, we make up stories about ourselves and others, about the personal as well as the social, past and future
Indeed, narrative is so familiar that it has become naturalised: we are no longer conscious of its significance for the ways in which we live our lives.
http://www.craigbellamy.net/2006/10/26/new-media-and-cultural-form-narrative-versus-database/
Week10_0.21
0.21 seconds….. Could you even recognize one word?
Database is a organized collection of data for a fast and accurate search in hundreds or even thousands of items. People no longer have to read a plenty of stuffs from print-text, a combination of database and internet is a hell of idea to save user’s time from searching. Going into Networked era, the new media more or less highly rely on these kind of database. With a greatly mechanical advantages, user have a large space to operate their research as quick view, investigate and search on a online database. They merely offer a keyword on a searching bar, they are able to nearly immediately obtain relevant material.
People can quickly get information by searching online from DATABSE…Nobody touches paper anymore! However, most users ain’t concerned with the accuracy from online source. Everyone can write on the Wikipedia! Who the hell knows where the materials comes from..
In my personal view, database has a excellent contribution to Google, Yahoo or Wikipedia! Or you can say, they take advantages from database to contribute themselves. Whatever so, database is good foundation for these big hub! In the hubs, imagine that you can search everything you want and takeout without any wasting time. Would you came back?
Week10_Take from Lecture
Today’s lecture focus more on how Korsakow addresses audiences. Korsakow is new emergence of storytelling tool so We still have so much thing to discover.
While audiences are viewing a Korsakow film, audiences might be confused because Korsakow describes in an unconventional way. Hannah considers the relationship between a video and another is more important than others. A good structure is easier for audience to understand the content. Adrian adds that Korsakow it is not about what you are doing right now, but it is about what you are thinking. SHOWING BUT NOT TELLING. You should pay more attention to how to show your idea to viewer rather than telling viewers that is what it is. Telling is killing your work. Sharing your own experience makes your work more interesting because audience would like to know more about the your thought rather than the things.
Adrian also suggests us not to be concerned about how to produce meanings in one single shot. The meanings are generated in the juxtaposition of shots because meanings do not exists internal shots but out of the shots. A montage sequence is constructed by a several of shots and the meanings of a montage is dependent on how filmmaker juxtapose the shots.
Hitchcock illustrates how the meanings are produced. Therefore, while making a Korsakow film, we should build it step by step rather than considering the entire meanings of the project. We make every single shot and bring it altogether for the meanings so I think the structure is very important to express our ideas. How we arrange the videos is influencing the project.
Week9_Points from Shield
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I have a narrative, but you`will be put to it to find it.
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The novel is dead. Long live the anti novel, built from scraps.
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Everything I write, I believe instinctively is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.
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The main question collage artist face: you’ve found some interesting material how do you go about arranging it?
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The very nature of collage demands fragmented materials, or at least materials yanked out of context. Collage is, in a way, only an accentuated act of editing: picking through a options and presenting a new arrangement (albeit one that, due to its varegated material, can’t be edit into smooth, transitional whole that a work of complete fiction could be). The act of editing may be the key postmodern artistic instrument.
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You don’t need a story. The question is how long do you not need a story?
Week9_Melbourne Flyer
Melbourne Flyer from Kai-feng Wang on Vimeo.
Time-lapse is my principal to produce this videos. I realise time-lapse could show the movement of Melbourne Flyers and clouds as I shoot this video. The flyer is placed at one of third on the left because it creates a better composition rather than placing in the centred. Although this composition seems not really extraordinary, it doesn’t look strange. Anyway, this is good experience to make a time-lapse.
Week9_inspiration from readings
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All definitions of montage have a common denominator; they all imply that meaning is not inherent in any one shot but is created by the juxtaposition of shots.
Although filmmaker are unable to control viewer’s interpretation, filmmaker can create a limited range of content by juxtaposition images. Montage is a juxtaposed sequence by the author to produce meanings. It is constraints rather than loose. Kuleshov effect is the excellent example. Lev Kuleshov, an early Russian filmmaker, intercut images of an actor’s expressionless face with images of a bowl of soup, a woman in a coffin, and a child with a toy. Viewers of the film praised the actors’s performance; they saw in his face (emotionless as it was) hunger grief, and affection. They saw, in other words, what was not really there in the separate images. Meanings and emotion were created not by the content of the individual images but by the relationship of the images to one another.
Serige Eisenstein is the master of montage as produce marvellous images affecting viewers. Eisenstein highly employs Kuleshov effect in his film Strike (1925), especially in Slaughter scene.
Eisenstein combine two different images which are the slaughtering and the people running in order to visualise the massacres scenario onscreen. The slaughtering is really evocative of murdering and painful. Eisenstein makes a great impact on audience’s mental level. The Soviet soldiers don’t kill the people but we do. In our imagination between two images, we conceive of a massacre is happening but actually it isn’t.
Week9_Readings
Shields is a creative nonfiction writer, and this is a fantastic book. Why are we reading this? Because it is all about what in film is called editing, and in Korsakow might be thought of as linking via keywords. What Shields thinks of as collage. Could have been written for this subject.
While I was reading this book, I was able to comprehend Shields’s idea very well. Shields highly employ the notion of list as he divides the entire book into small pieces of fragment with numbers. It is a list of things that Shield’s idea about collage. 
Obviously, this is a non-fiction book but it seems like a notes by Shield himself. He has a variety of thoughts, short or long, in his book to explain his perception of collage. Shield appears to write down everything in his book as he has something come up in his mind. Therefore, Shield, as a nonfiction writer, is not concerned about the narrative as story structure might confused viewer. All his done is merely clarify the thoughts into a list so that viewer can easily read it.
It is plain and easy-understanding because of the list. The number is the signs that ensure audiences in the right track. Viewer wouldn’t be confused by the non-narrative things as Shield arrange it in an appropriate way. At least, personally, Shield explains the notion of collage very well.
Week9_Shield of collage
Shield affirms “I’m interested in collage as an evolution beyond narrative.” He believes in collage would bring him out of the conventions.
Story seems to say everything for a reason, and I want to say , No, it doesn’t.
Shield mentions the very nature of collage demands fragmented materials, or at least materials yanked out of context. Collage is, in a way, only an accentuated act of editing: picking through options and presenting a new arrangement. The act of editing may be the key postmodern artistic instrument. Shield’s idea makes me think of the Korsakow. I find some similar place between collage and Korsakow. While doing korsaow we hardly have the same editing as conventional narrative story does because the structure of Korsakow is loose. The editing of Korsakow is to design your interface arranging appropriate fragmented materials. We have more space to achieve creativity as we don’t nearly have any constraint like narrative does.
The problem of scale is interesting. How long will the reader stay engaged? I don’t mean stay dutifully but stay charmed, seduced and beguiled. The key thing is how we arrange on Korsakow film. We can’t control viewers’ interpretation because everyone would interpret the same thing in different way. Korsakow is even harder. How could we address viewer? Perhaps, we shouldn’t think it as overall but separated. I mean if you cannot manipulate generally but why not try it step by step and piece by piece. If we found something interesting, we just go recording it because there does not really have a reason. To be honest, sometimes, we like a thing because we just like it. It is kind of pain in an ass like we really have to dedicate for the reason why we like it. It drives people crazy. For Korsakow, whatever it is, if we like it and we just capture it by Phones or camera. Moment is never the same moment.
Week8_Bright Splinters (Korsakow)
Bright Splinters is a project in which find out the light in Melbourne City. This Korsakow consists of multifarious videos about lights. Bright Splinter is to discover the world of light which we do not really notice is so important and meaningful. Lights exist in every moment of this world and humans are really rely on lights to be alive. The intention of Bright Splinters shows the small details moments of the world so that we are able to perceive this world in a new perspective.
Bright Splinters: http://vogmae.net.au/classworks/media/2012/kfilms/brightsplinters