PB 2 Reflection
During these weeks, we discuss ‘What is documentary?’ and ‘How to make a documentary?’. Actually, classmates have some good examples. Also, I had already read the Week 1 readings. From the Week 1 tutorial, Joey was my partner. We thought about a topic for our documentary. Because of more and more Chinese students go to […]
Week 4 Documentary Blog
Well, this week, we continue to study how to make a documentary. Of course, we have a class exercise. Unfortunately, we made an short interview, but it cannot open. So I choose to show the most popular documentary in China. That is ‘A bite of China’. It is a gourmet documentary produced by China’s CCTV. […]
Week 3 Documentary Blog
This week, I have seen a documentary that showed a Chinese village has a big change and become a city. It is talking about a social problem–urbanization. Some people think urbanization is good for them. They will have many opportunities to earn more money. However, some people do not like urbanization. They do not think […]
Week 2 Documentary as action
First, we discussed the ‘Poetic Documentary’. To be honest, I am not understand all the reading first. I researched some informations from Internet. This type of documentary does not emphasize narrative, does not pay more attention to the creation of a particular time and space, and does not emphasize coherent editing. It focuses on the […]

Documentary PB 1 Reflection
Well, we finished Week 1 classes and then we have an activity. First, I think documentary not only express a truth, but also seem like a story that educational and fantastic. So I chose the pedestrians cross the road. Because in my opinion, documentary need to recording. We can record everything in our daily lives. […]
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Week 4 Hero
Monday, we watch the new Chinese movie–Hero. Compared with such Hollywood traditional drama films, heroes can be regarded as maverick. It uses a lot of rare ancient Chinese concepts in previous films. For example, duel with ideas, and some special views in movies. Fencing is not only interlinked with music, but also hidden in words. […]
Week 3 Crouching tiger hidden dragon
This week we looked famous Chinese action movie–Crouching tiger hidden dragon. Ang Lee’s “Crouching.Tiger,Hidden.Dragon”, talk about a place that called ‘jianghu’ and talk about a story. In this movie, Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian are up the face, is want to sue Jen inside the soul. The ‘Crouching’ and the ‘Hidden’ are deep in the […]
Week 1 Yojimbo
This week, we watched the film–Yojimbo. It is a Japanese film that I have never ever seen it. Usually I watch some Japanese animation, like ‘Slam dunk’, ‘Naruto’ and so on. In my opinion, filmmaker hopes to express a sense of positive spirit from the film. Warrior belongs to a part of Japanese traditional culture. […]

Week 2 Om Shanti Om
This week, I saw the Indian movie, ‘Om Shanti Om’. I really enjoyed it. This film not only has a reincarnation of the plot and a good storyline, but also has a fantastic scene and dance. To be honest, I thought it is a musical film firstly, like ‘The Wizard of OZ’. However, this is […]
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